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Saturday, April 30, 2011
A Blundering Incompetent Runs Our Country
In the last 2+ years, Americans have witnessed a president who is doing everything in his power to destroy all that is good about our nation. It's almost as if a wrecking ball was being taken to our economy. Hope and change has become hopeless with little more than change in our pockets.
If someone were to ask for Obama's top ten missteps, we would have a difficult time trying to get the list down to a mere ten.
Human Events gives it a shot:
Top 10 Barack Obama Blunderings
"Even beyond his disastrous policies, President Obama is turning out to be a terrible politician. The great orator and master campaigner of 2008 is stumbling through his presidency, piling up gaffes and making odd political moves. Here are the Top 10 Barack Obama Blunderings:
1. Tone-deaf priorities: When the American people were desperate for jobs, President Obama used all his political capital to jam health care reform down their throats. Then, when voters spoke loud and clear in the midterm elections that they wanted government to live within its means, Obama put out a budget with increased spending. Do we really need an expensive high-speed rail system when the deficit is spiraling out of control?
2. Doesn’t know when to shut up: Obama has fallen in love with his own words so much that he doesn’t realize that sometimes it is best just to say nothing. For example, when he disparaged the Cambridge, Mass., police officer in the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest. Or when he needlessly inserted himself into the Ground Zero mosque controversy. And did he have to go from country to country apologizing for America’s misdeeds?
3. Slow to react: It took Obama more a month before addressing the American people on the BP oil spill and he diddled for weeks without a clear policy as the Middle East erupted. His moves on the Bush tax-cut extension and on deficit reduction were made only after Republicans forced his hand and as a deadline neared.
4. Partisan rants: His speech in March ripping into Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal is symptomatic of Obama taking highly partisan positions on critical issues. As someone who ran for President promising to transcend partisanship, Obama has done anything but, as he continues to demagogue rather than lead.
5. Leisure-time overkill: Every President needs some rest and relaxation to unwind, but Barack Obama takes downtime to a new level. With his frequent golf outings and pickup basketball games, his many vacations, and the numerous concerts and ball games, Obama sends a message that having fun takes priority.
6. Campaign missteps: As masterful as his presidential campaign was run, Obama’s campaigning for Democratic candidates in the 2010 midterm elections was a disaster. His attempt to link the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to foreign campaigns donors fell flat and he created a needless controversy when he urged Latinos to 'punish' their enemies.
7. Can’t communicate: The great orator of 2008 was easily mocked when it became apparent how much he relied on a teleprompter, even setting up the machine in an elementary school classroom. But as his presidency progressed, even the teleprompter failed to help, as most of his speeches began falling flat.
8. Out of touch: At a time when Americans are suffering due to the poor economy, Obama seems to relish every glitzy trapping of the White House. From black-tie galas to Kennedy center concerts, from New York date nights to expensive vacations in Spain, Vail, and Martha’s Vineyard, President and First Lady Obama are living like royalty.
9. Protocol gaffes: Obama showed he knew little about diplomatic protocol when he gave the back of his hand to the 'special relationship' between the U.S. and England, returning a bust of Winston Churchill to the British, and then giving gifts of an iPod to the Queen of England and a DVD of American movie classics to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. And Mr. President, bowing to Saudi kings sends a message of subservience to the world.
10. Insensitive to Middle America: How is it that the President can release special greetings in the last year to Muslims for their Ramadan, Eid ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid al-Adha holidays, yet fail to issue an Easter or a Good Friday message to the nation? Perhaps the answer is that he views many of his fellow countrymen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion."
If someone were to ask for Obama's top ten missteps, we would have a difficult time trying to get the list down to a mere ten.
Human Events gives it a shot:
Top 10 Barack Obama Blunderings
"Even beyond his disastrous policies, President Obama is turning out to be a terrible politician. The great orator and master campaigner of 2008 is stumbling through his presidency, piling up gaffes and making odd political moves. Here are the Top 10 Barack Obama Blunderings:
1. Tone-deaf priorities: When the American people were desperate for jobs, President Obama used all his political capital to jam health care reform down their throats. Then, when voters spoke loud and clear in the midterm elections that they wanted government to live within its means, Obama put out a budget with increased spending. Do we really need an expensive high-speed rail system when the deficit is spiraling out of control?
2. Doesn’t know when to shut up: Obama has fallen in love with his own words so much that he doesn’t realize that sometimes it is best just to say nothing. For example, when he disparaged the Cambridge, Mass., police officer in the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest. Or when he needlessly inserted himself into the Ground Zero mosque controversy. And did he have to go from country to country apologizing for America’s misdeeds?
3. Slow to react: It took Obama more a month before addressing the American people on the BP oil spill and he diddled for weeks without a clear policy as the Middle East erupted. His moves on the Bush tax-cut extension and on deficit reduction were made only after Republicans forced his hand and as a deadline neared.
4. Partisan rants: His speech in March ripping into Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal is symptomatic of Obama taking highly partisan positions on critical issues. As someone who ran for President promising to transcend partisanship, Obama has done anything but, as he continues to demagogue rather than lead.
5. Leisure-time overkill: Every President needs some rest and relaxation to unwind, but Barack Obama takes downtime to a new level. With his frequent golf outings and pickup basketball games, his many vacations, and the numerous concerts and ball games, Obama sends a message that having fun takes priority.
6. Campaign missteps: As masterful as his presidential campaign was run, Obama’s campaigning for Democratic candidates in the 2010 midterm elections was a disaster. His attempt to link the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to foreign campaigns donors fell flat and he created a needless controversy when he urged Latinos to 'punish' their enemies.
7. Can’t communicate: The great orator of 2008 was easily mocked when it became apparent how much he relied on a teleprompter, even setting up the machine in an elementary school classroom. But as his presidency progressed, even the teleprompter failed to help, as most of his speeches began falling flat.
8. Out of touch: At a time when Americans are suffering due to the poor economy, Obama seems to relish every glitzy trapping of the White House. From black-tie galas to Kennedy center concerts, from New York date nights to expensive vacations in Spain, Vail, and Martha’s Vineyard, President and First Lady Obama are living like royalty.
9. Protocol gaffes: Obama showed he knew little about diplomatic protocol when he gave the back of his hand to the 'special relationship' between the U.S. and England, returning a bust of Winston Churchill to the British, and then giving gifts of an iPod to the Queen of England and a DVD of American movie classics to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. And Mr. President, bowing to Saudi kings sends a message of subservience to the world.
10. Insensitive to Middle America: How is it that the President can release special greetings in the last year to Muslims for their Ramadan, Eid ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid al-Adha holidays, yet fail to issue an Easter or a Good Friday message to the nation? Perhaps the answer is that he views many of his fellow countrymen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion."
Obama to Protect Sharia?
Americans should be deeply concerned about the policies of President Barack Obama and his Justice Department who show no interest in justice. Instead, they use their power to benefit favored groups such as blacks, illegals, homosexuals, and Muslims.
First, we saw Eric Holder refuse to prosecute the New Black Panthers for their intimidation of white voters in a Philadelphia voting precinct on Election Day 2008. We wouldn't want to prosecute our black brothers, now would we?
Next, we have witnessed the Justice Department, which takes its orders from King Barack, interfere with an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship for anyone who has already been stopped by the police for another offense. With Obama's poll numbers dropping like lead weights, he needs the Hispanic vote to swindle Americans into a second term of all that "hope and change".
Recently, we were outraged that Eric Holder refuses to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, a ruling passed during the Clinton years. Who authorized him to begin interpreting the law? His job is to enforce it.
Now, even more outrageous, is another kiss-up to the Muslims, almost a daily event in the age of Obama. As more and more states attempt to ban Sharia law, the Justice Department may interfere in this matter by suing the individual states so they cannot enforce their ban of this Islamic law.
Elections surely do have consequences, especially when someone as radical as Obama is elected to office.
Read from Weasel Zippers:
Justice Dept. Attorney: Obama Administration May Sue States to Stop Them From Banning Sharia Law…
"Red meat.
(RFT) — 'U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Richard Callahan visited the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis last night to address the fears and frustrations of Muslim Americans who worry they are being racially profiled and wiretapped — and to assure them that the Missouri Legislature’s attempts to ban Sharia law from being considered in state courts here could face Constitutional challenges.
Seated in front of a large Muslim audience during a town hall-style meeting at the Ballwin mosque, Callahan anchored a panel that included fellow federal attorneys (one of whom was Muslim American), as well as three members of the FBI.
“There is a worse kind of Muslim hatred recently,” said Adil Imdad, one of the event’s organizers. “Especially in the last two years, Islamophobia and fear-mongering have been spreading like wildfire, and it’s causing a lot of stress for our youth.”
The problem is now hitting a little closer to home, said Imdad, pointing to three bills currently circulating through the state legislature that seek to limit Sharia law (Islamic law) in Missouri courts. Sharia law could come into play in rulings considering child custody or prisoner rights for Muslims. As we’ve reported, the bills have become a source of controversy.
Callahan responded by hinting that, should anti-Sharia legislation get passed by the Missouri Legislature, it could be overturned by the federal courts. “The Department of Justice has a good history of challenging laws passed by state legislatures,” he said. “If some laws are passed, I think you will see challenges by the federal government on the constitutionality of them.”'"
First, we saw Eric Holder refuse to prosecute the New Black Panthers for their intimidation of white voters in a Philadelphia voting precinct on Election Day 2008. We wouldn't want to prosecute our black brothers, now would we?
Next, we have witnessed the Justice Department, which takes its orders from King Barack, interfere with an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship for anyone who has already been stopped by the police for another offense. With Obama's poll numbers dropping like lead weights, he needs the Hispanic vote to swindle Americans into a second term of all that "hope and change".
Recently, we were outraged that Eric Holder refuses to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, a ruling passed during the Clinton years. Who authorized him to begin interpreting the law? His job is to enforce it.
Now, even more outrageous, is another kiss-up to the Muslims, almost a daily event in the age of Obama. As more and more states attempt to ban Sharia law, the Justice Department may interfere in this matter by suing the individual states so they cannot enforce their ban of this Islamic law.
Elections surely do have consequences, especially when someone as radical as Obama is elected to office.
Read from Weasel Zippers:
Justice Dept. Attorney: Obama Administration May Sue States to Stop Them From Banning Sharia Law…
"Red meat.
(RFT) — 'U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Richard Callahan visited the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis last night to address the fears and frustrations of Muslim Americans who worry they are being racially profiled and wiretapped — and to assure them that the Missouri Legislature’s attempts to ban Sharia law from being considered in state courts here could face Constitutional challenges.
Seated in front of a large Muslim audience during a town hall-style meeting at the Ballwin mosque, Callahan anchored a panel that included fellow federal attorneys (one of whom was Muslim American), as well as three members of the FBI.
“There is a worse kind of Muslim hatred recently,” said Adil Imdad, one of the event’s organizers. “Especially in the last two years, Islamophobia and fear-mongering have been spreading like wildfire, and it’s causing a lot of stress for our youth.”
The problem is now hitting a little closer to home, said Imdad, pointing to three bills currently circulating through the state legislature that seek to limit Sharia law (Islamic law) in Missouri courts. Sharia law could come into play in rulings considering child custody or prisoner rights for Muslims. As we’ve reported, the bills have become a source of controversy.
Callahan responded by hinting that, should anti-Sharia legislation get passed by the Missouri Legislature, it could be overturned by the federal courts. “The Department of Justice has a good history of challenging laws passed by state legislatures,” he said. “If some laws are passed, I think you will see challenges by the federal government on the constitutionality of them.”'"
Why Is Obama Regime Granting Citizenship to Terrorists?
Does anybody ever get tired of hearing about how President Obama is aiding and abetting our enemies? I certainly do. He gets away with it because there is no press that will hold him accountable. Therefore, he does as he pleases, knowing full well that the American Pravda will cover for him.
Though most Americans have woken up to the fact that Obama's "hope and change" was a fraud, they are clueless to what this man is doing behind the scenes.
Please read the latest act of sabotage against our nation from a president who should be impeached, via Atlas Shrugs:
Obama Grants Terrorists US Citizenship
"Note that the accomplice-media is silent on the systemic treason of the Obama administration. Granting citizenship to terror-tied convicts. Oh and yes, let's put extremist Muslims in the general prison population, knowing what we know about the radicalization of our prisons.
Three Convicted in Terror-Related Cases Later Granted U.S. Citizenship by Obama Administration CNS
(CNSNews.com) --' Three people convicted of crimes as a result of a terrorism-related investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) were later naturalized as U.S. citizens by the Obama administration, according to federal auditors.
Staff members of GAO's Homeland Security and Justice team who worked on the audit told CNSNews.com in an e-mail that the three individuals were naturalized as U.S. citizens under President Barack Obama.
“One of the individuals was naturalized in late 2009. The other two were naturalized in 2010,” says the e-mail from the GAO.
[...]
“Based upon our analysis of USCIS and DOJ data, three of the individuals on the DOJ list received U.S. citizenship after their convictions,” stated the GAO audit report. “Two were convicted of unlawful production of an identity document and one was convicted of transferring funds out of the country in violation of U.S. sanctions.”
“An individual applying for naturalization must demonstrate good moral character for a statutory period of time--from 5 years preceding the application up to admission to citizenship,” added the GAO. “This includes not having been convicted of crimes, such as murder, rape, drug trafficking, or other aggravated felonies prior to or during that period, as well as not having been convicted of other crimes during that period, such as certain drug offenses or convictions that led to 180 days or more of prison time.”'"
Though most Americans have woken up to the fact that Obama's "hope and change" was a fraud, they are clueless to what this man is doing behind the scenes.
Please read the latest act of sabotage against our nation from a president who should be impeached, via Atlas Shrugs:
Obama Grants Terrorists US Citizenship
"Note that the accomplice-media is silent on the systemic treason of the Obama administration. Granting citizenship to terror-tied convicts. Oh and yes, let's put extremist Muslims in the general prison population, knowing what we know about the radicalization of our prisons.
Three Convicted in Terror-Related Cases Later Granted U.S. Citizenship by Obama Administration CNS
(CNSNews.com) --' Three people convicted of crimes as a result of a terrorism-related investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) were later naturalized as U.S. citizens by the Obama administration, according to federal auditors.
Staff members of GAO's Homeland Security and Justice team who worked on the audit told CNSNews.com in an e-mail that the three individuals were naturalized as U.S. citizens under President Barack Obama.
“One of the individuals was naturalized in late 2009. The other two were naturalized in 2010,” says the e-mail from the GAO.
[...]
“Based upon our analysis of USCIS and DOJ data, three of the individuals on the DOJ list received U.S. citizenship after their convictions,” stated the GAO audit report. “Two were convicted of unlawful production of an identity document and one was convicted of transferring funds out of the country in violation of U.S. sanctions.”
“An individual applying for naturalization must demonstrate good moral character for a statutory period of time--from 5 years preceding the application up to admission to citizenship,” added the GAO. “This includes not having been convicted of crimes, such as murder, rape, drug trafficking, or other aggravated felonies prior to or during that period, as well as not having been convicted of other crimes during that period, such as certain drug offenses or convictions that led to 180 days or more of prison time.”'"
Friday, April 29, 2011
Cut Off Funding to the Savages
I've been promoting both Allen West and Herman Cain, but there is one other man who has yet to disappoint--another awesome Floridian: Marco Rubio.
Hamas and Fatah have now agreed to work together to achieve a Palestinian state. Now, how long can this reconciliation last? Both groups are using the other to achieve their real goal -- the destruction of Israel. What is that saying? The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The savages will work with anyone who shares their bloodthirsty rage against Israel.
But back to Rubio, who suggests that we end all funding for the savage Palestinians. Sounds like a great idea to me. Who wants to fund a bunch of terrorists anyway? I know someone who would -- our president.
Abortion may be the crown jewel of the liberal's agenda, but when it comes to foreign policy, the Palestinian cause is numero uno on their radar screen.
Read from Israel Matzav:
Rubio calls for aid cutoff to 'Palestinian Authority'
Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fl) has called on the Obama administration to cut off aid to the 'Palestinian Authority' in light of the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement.
'The announced agreement, if it becomes reality, would be a major setback for peace efforts in the Middle East and is not in the best interest of the Palestinian people. Participation in a Palestinian government of any organization, such as Hamas, that fails to renounce their calls for the destruction of Israel and the use of violence should prompt the withdrawal of our assistance. No American taxpayer money should fund a government that includes a terrorist organization dedicated to the murder of innocent civilians.'
Jennifer Rubin reports that the Obama administration has very little wiggle room, and may not only have to cut off aid to the 'Palestinian Authority,' but also, if Hamas joins the PLO (as they have declared their intention to do), the US may be required to expel the recently upgraded PLO representation from the US.
'Since fiscal year 2005, annual foreign operations appropriations bills have included a prohibition on funding Hamas and the PLO, the relevant language being:
PROHIBITION TO HAMAS AND THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION.— (1) None of the funds appropriated in titles III through VI of this Act may be obligated for salaries of personnel of the Palestinian Authority located in Gaza or may be obligated or expended for assistance to Hamas or any entity effectively controlled by Hamas or any power-sharing government of which Hamas is a member.
An expert on sanctions tells me the exception to this ban is limited: “In terms of U.S. aid, assistance may only be provided to a power-sharing government if the president certifies that such government, including all of its ministers or such equivalent, has publicly acknowledged the Jewish state of Israel’s right to exist; and committed itself and is adhering to all previous agreements and understandings with the United States Government, with the Government of Israel, and with the international community, including agreements and understandings pursuant to the Roadmap.” (The president alternatively can make a limited national security certification if it is in our national interest to provide assistance to the PA president’s security and administration, to help enforce border security and to assist the PA’s judiciary.)
Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told me in a phone interview this morning, “There is precedent for this.” Schanzer explained that in April 2006 the United States cut off all aid to the PA after Hamas won elections. Only when Hamas staged a coup and Mahmoud Abbas set up a separate governing entity for the West Bank did we resume aid.
In the case of the current Fatah-Hamas merger, Schanzer argues that there is an immediate problem for the PA. Press reports suggest that Hamas is melding its operation into the PLO, the entity that does business and has offices in the United States. (In fact the Obama administration recently forked over more funds to upgrade these in anticipation of a peace agreement.) If this is correct, the offices would have to be closed and its representatives ejected from the country.'
My question: If Hamas becomes part of the 'Palestinian Authority,' is the US required to allow Hamas representatives to be in the United States as part of the 'Palestinian Authority' observer mission? I would think not - as far as I know, the UN treaty only requires the US to admit representatives of 'states' (which is why Ahmadinejad and Gadhafi have been allowed to travel to the UN) and not representatives of terror organizations. And if the UN declares a state of 'Palestine'? I would argue that for the time being, at least, even if the UN declares it, a state of 'Palestine' would not have the required indicia under the Montevideo Convention."
Hamas and Fatah have now agreed to work together to achieve a Palestinian state. Now, how long can this reconciliation last? Both groups are using the other to achieve their real goal -- the destruction of Israel. What is that saying? The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The savages will work with anyone who shares their bloodthirsty rage against Israel.
But back to Rubio, who suggests that we end all funding for the savage Palestinians. Sounds like a great idea to me. Who wants to fund a bunch of terrorists anyway? I know someone who would -- our president.
Abortion may be the crown jewel of the liberal's agenda, but when it comes to foreign policy, the Palestinian cause is numero uno on their radar screen.
Read from Israel Matzav:
Rubio calls for aid cutoff to 'Palestinian Authority'
Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fl) has called on the Obama administration to cut off aid to the 'Palestinian Authority' in light of the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement.
'The announced agreement, if it becomes reality, would be a major setback for peace efforts in the Middle East and is not in the best interest of the Palestinian people. Participation in a Palestinian government of any organization, such as Hamas, that fails to renounce their calls for the destruction of Israel and the use of violence should prompt the withdrawal of our assistance. No American taxpayer money should fund a government that includes a terrorist organization dedicated to the murder of innocent civilians.'
Jennifer Rubin reports that the Obama administration has very little wiggle room, and may not only have to cut off aid to the 'Palestinian Authority,' but also, if Hamas joins the PLO (as they have declared their intention to do), the US may be required to expel the recently upgraded PLO representation from the US.
'Since fiscal year 2005, annual foreign operations appropriations bills have included a prohibition on funding Hamas and the PLO, the relevant language being:
PROHIBITION TO HAMAS AND THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION.— (1) None of the funds appropriated in titles III through VI of this Act may be obligated for salaries of personnel of the Palestinian Authority located in Gaza or may be obligated or expended for assistance to Hamas or any entity effectively controlled by Hamas or any power-sharing government of which Hamas is a member.
An expert on sanctions tells me the exception to this ban is limited: “In terms of U.S. aid, assistance may only be provided to a power-sharing government if the president certifies that such government, including all of its ministers or such equivalent, has publicly acknowledged the Jewish state of Israel’s right to exist; and committed itself and is adhering to all previous agreements and understandings with the United States Government, with the Government of Israel, and with the international community, including agreements and understandings pursuant to the Roadmap.” (The president alternatively can make a limited national security certification if it is in our national interest to provide assistance to the PA president’s security and administration, to help enforce border security and to assist the PA’s judiciary.)
Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told me in a phone interview this morning, “There is precedent for this.” Schanzer explained that in April 2006 the United States cut off all aid to the PA after Hamas won elections. Only when Hamas staged a coup and Mahmoud Abbas set up a separate governing entity for the West Bank did we resume aid.
In the case of the current Fatah-Hamas merger, Schanzer argues that there is an immediate problem for the PA. Press reports suggest that Hamas is melding its operation into the PLO, the entity that does business and has offices in the United States. (In fact the Obama administration recently forked over more funds to upgrade these in anticipation of a peace agreement.) If this is correct, the offices would have to be closed and its representatives ejected from the country.'
My question: If Hamas becomes part of the 'Palestinian Authority,' is the US required to allow Hamas representatives to be in the United States as part of the 'Palestinian Authority' observer mission? I would think not - as far as I know, the UN treaty only requires the US to admit representatives of 'states' (which is why Ahmadinejad and Gadhafi have been allowed to travel to the UN) and not representatives of terror organizations. And if the UN declares a state of 'Palestine'? I would argue that for the time being, at least, even if the UN declares it, a state of 'Palestine' would not have the required indicia under the Montevideo Convention."
Oh Lord, Please Make Him Run
America needs Allen West. I used to think that he was the future of the Republican Party, but I don't know if America can survive another four years unless we raise up a strong leader with character and principle who will have the courage to do what is necessary to save this country.
Allen West is that man. If you don't believe me, just watch the way the Left reacts to him. They despise West because they recognize the threat he presents.
I agree with a few of the commenters at Weasel Zippers when they say that the ideal presidential ticket for 2012 would be Cain/Herman or Herman/Cain. Now, that would be something to get excited about.
Plus, the race card would no longer be a tool to use against conservatives. Isn't it interesting that we "racists" who dislike Obama are chomping at the bit to vote for a Herman Cain or an Allen West? Yeah, we're racists alright.
Take a listen to the awesome Allen West:
Allen West is that man. If you don't believe me, just watch the way the Left reacts to him. They despise West because they recognize the threat he presents.
I agree with a few of the commenters at Weasel Zippers when they say that the ideal presidential ticket for 2012 would be Cain/Herman or Herman/Cain. Now, that would be something to get excited about.
Plus, the race card would no longer be a tool to use against conservatives. Isn't it interesting that we "racists" who dislike Obama are chomping at the bit to vote for a Herman Cain or an Allen West? Yeah, we're racists alright.
Take a listen to the awesome Allen West:
The Brotherhood Stirs Up Syrian Protests
During the early stages of the Arab unrest, the Muslim Brotherhood chose to stay a little on the discreet side, though they were most assuredly operating behind the scenes. But, now they are becoming more emboldened.
When it comes to Syria, the people are suffering at the hands of their evil dictator, Bashar Assad. Yet, I suspect if the Muslim Brotherhood has its way, the Syrian people will be far worse off if they come to power, especially the women.
Read from The Blaze:
AP: Muslim Brotherhood Behind Syria‘s New ’Day of Rage’
BEIRUT (AP) — "The banned Muslim Brotherhood urged Syrians to take to the streets on Friday as activists called for a 'Day of Rage' against President Bashar Assad’s regime, which has stepped up its deadly crackdown on protesters by unleashing the army along with snipers and tanks.
The government warned against holding any demonstrations. Syrian state television said the Interior Ministry has not approved any 'march, demonstration or sit-in' and that such rallies seek only to harm Syria’s security and stability.
Activists in Syria are planning nationwide protests following Muslim prayers in solidarity with more than 50 people killed in the last week alone in Daraa, a southern city at the heart of the revolt.
Since the uprising in Syria began in mid-March, inspired by revolts across the Arab world, more than 450 people have been killed nationwide, activists say.
Friday’s statement by the Muslim Brotherhood was the first time the outlawed group has openly encouraged the protests in Syria. The Brotherhood was crushed by Assad’s father, Hafez, after staging an uprising against his regime in 1982.
'You were born free so don’t let a tyrant enslave you,' said the statement, issued by the Brotherhood’s exiled leadership.
Assad has said the protests — the gravest challenge to his family’s 40-year ruling dynasty — are a foreign conspiracy carried out by extremist forces and armed thugs.
But he has acknowledged the need for reforms, offering overtures of change in recent weeks while brutally cracking down on demonstrations.
Last week, Syria’s Cabinet abolished the state of emergency and approved a new law allowing the right to stage peaceful protests with the permission of the Interior Ministry.
But the protesters, enraged by the mounting death toll, no longer appear satisfied with the changes and are increasingly seeking the regime’s downfall.
'We are preparing for a big demonstration today,' said an activist in the coastal city of Banias, which witnessed a large demonstration last Friday. 'The people want the downfall of the regime.'
Syria has banned nearly all foreign media and restricted access to trouble spots since the uprising began, making it almost impossible to verify the dramatic events shaking one of the most authoritarian, anti-Western regimes in the Arab world.
Witnesses and human rights groups said Syrian army units clashed with each other on Wednesday over following Assad’s orders to crack down on protesters in Daraa, a besieged city where the uprising started.
While the troops’ infighting in Daraa does not indicate any decisive splits in the military, it is significant because Assad‘s army has always been the regime’s fiercest defender.
It is the latest sign that cracks — however small — are developing in Assad’s base of support that would have been unimaginable just weeks ago. Also, about 200 mostly low-level members of Syria‘s ruling Baath Party have resigned over Assad’s brutal crackdown."
When it comes to Syria, the people are suffering at the hands of their evil dictator, Bashar Assad. Yet, I suspect if the Muslim Brotherhood has its way, the Syrian people will be far worse off if they come to power, especially the women.
Read from The Blaze:
AP: Muslim Brotherhood Behind Syria‘s New ’Day of Rage’
BEIRUT (AP) — "The banned Muslim Brotherhood urged Syrians to take to the streets on Friday as activists called for a 'Day of Rage' against President Bashar Assad’s regime, which has stepped up its deadly crackdown on protesters by unleashing the army along with snipers and tanks.
The government warned against holding any demonstrations. Syrian state television said the Interior Ministry has not approved any 'march, demonstration or sit-in' and that such rallies seek only to harm Syria’s security and stability.
Activists in Syria are planning nationwide protests following Muslim prayers in solidarity with more than 50 people killed in the last week alone in Daraa, a southern city at the heart of the revolt.
Since the uprising in Syria began in mid-March, inspired by revolts across the Arab world, more than 450 people have been killed nationwide, activists say.
Friday’s statement by the Muslim Brotherhood was the first time the outlawed group has openly encouraged the protests in Syria. The Brotherhood was crushed by Assad’s father, Hafez, after staging an uprising against his regime in 1982.
'You were born free so don’t let a tyrant enslave you,' said the statement, issued by the Brotherhood’s exiled leadership.
Assad has said the protests — the gravest challenge to his family’s 40-year ruling dynasty — are a foreign conspiracy carried out by extremist forces and armed thugs.
But he has acknowledged the need for reforms, offering overtures of change in recent weeks while brutally cracking down on demonstrations.
Last week, Syria’s Cabinet abolished the state of emergency and approved a new law allowing the right to stage peaceful protests with the permission of the Interior Ministry.
But the protesters, enraged by the mounting death toll, no longer appear satisfied with the changes and are increasingly seeking the regime’s downfall.
'We are preparing for a big demonstration today,' said an activist in the coastal city of Banias, which witnessed a large demonstration last Friday. 'The people want the downfall of the regime.'
Syria has banned nearly all foreign media and restricted access to trouble spots since the uprising began, making it almost impossible to verify the dramatic events shaking one of the most authoritarian, anti-Western regimes in the Arab world.
Witnesses and human rights groups said Syrian army units clashed with each other on Wednesday over following Assad’s orders to crack down on protesters in Daraa, a besieged city where the uprising started.
While the troops’ infighting in Daraa does not indicate any decisive splits in the military, it is significant because Assad‘s army has always been the regime’s fiercest defender.
It is the latest sign that cracks — however small — are developing in Assad’s base of support that would have been unimaginable just weeks ago. Also, about 200 mostly low-level members of Syria‘s ruling Baath Party have resigned over Assad’s brutal crackdown."
UPDATED: They Enjoyed Her Pain and Suffering
Finally, a female willing to speak up on a prominent stage about sexual abuse of women in the Middle East. Be sure to watch Lara Logan tell her story on 60 Minutes this Sunday evening.
Read from Jihad Watch:
Lara Logan: "They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence"
"The brutal, opportunistic sexual assault of Lara Logan -- an inconvenient incident in the feel-good story the mainstream media desperately wanted the Egyptian revolution to be -- is for many Westerners an introduction to the deplorable treatment and constant harassment of native as well as foreign women in Egypt. And as we have seen, the practice persists due to the mentality that women are possessions of men and do not belong in public, and, crucially, the ability to blame the victim for supposedly falling short of Islamic strictures on dress and behavior, as commenters on an Arab News story on harassment openly and stridently did here.
The burden is placed almost entirely on the woman to avoid 'provoking' harassment, or worse. That is not the stuff modern, stable democracies are made of, not only because of the lack of equality, but because self government in a society cannot survive without the government of the self on the individual level: no excuses, no displacement of responsibility.
An update on this story. 'CBS Reporter Recounts a "Merciless" Assault,' by Brian Stelter for the New York Times, April 28 (thanks to all who sent this in):
'Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo.
Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for “60 Minutes” on Feb. 11 when the celebratory mood suddenly turned threatening. She was ripped away from her producer and bodyguard by a group of men who tore at her clothes and groped and beat her body. “For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,” Ms. Logan said in an interview with The New York Times. She estimated that the attack involved 200 to 300 men.
Ms. Logan, who returned to work this month, is expected to speak at length about the assault on the CBS News program “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.
Her experience in Cairo underscored the fact that female journalists often face a different kind of violence. While other forms of physical violence affecting journalists are widely covered — the traumatic brain injury ’suffered by the ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff in Iraq in 2006 was a front-page story at that time — sexual threats against women are rarely talked about within journalistic circles or in the news media. [...]
Until now the only public comment about the assault came four days after it took place, when Ms. Logan was still in the hospital. She and Mr. Fager drafted a short statement that she had “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating.”
That statement, Ms. Logan said, “didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of.”
The assault happened the day that Ms. Logan returned to Cairo, having left a week earlier after being detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. “The city was on fire with celebration” over Mr. Mubarak’s exit, she said, comparing it to a Super Bowl party. She and a camera crew traversed Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the celebrations, interviewing Egyptians and posing for photographs with people who wanted to be seen with an American journalist.
“There was a moment that everything went wrong,” she recalled.
As the cameraman, Richard Butler, was swapping out a battery, Egyptian colleagues who were accompanying the camera crew heard men nearby talking about wanting to take Ms. Logan’s pants off. She said: “Our local people with us said, ‘We’ve gotta get out of here.’ That was literally the moment the mob set on me.”
Mr. Butler, Ms. Logan’s producer, Max McClellan, and two locally hired drivers were “helpless,” Mr. Fager said, “because the mob was just so powerful.” A bodyguard who had been hired to accompany the team was able to stay with Ms. Logan for a brief period of time. “For Max to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts,” Mr. Fager said. He said Ms. Logan “described how her hand was sore for days after — and the she realized it was from holding on so tight” to the bodyguard’s hand.
They estimated that they were separated from her for about 25 minutes.
“My clothes were torn to pieces,” Ms. Logan said.
She declined to go into more detail about the assault but said: “What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.”
After being rescued by a group of civilians and Egyptian soldiers, she was swiftly flown back to the United States. “She was quite traumatized, as you can imagine, for a period of time,” Mr. Fager said. Ms. Logan said she decided almost immediately that she would speak out about sexual violence both on behalf of other journalists and on behalf of “millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse.” ...'"
From Israel Matzav:
Video: Journalist abuse in the Middle East
"Lara Logan may be the one appearing on 60 Minutes on Sunday night, but she's far from the only journalist who has been abused. In fact, official abuse of journalists is far worse than what Logan apparently went through.
Let's go to the videotape.
By the way, guess which is the only country in the Middle East where journalists are free to write what they please."
UPDATE: Read this article:
How Supporters of Palestinian Terrorism Are Murdered and Raped by Their Palestinian Sponsors
Read from Jihad Watch:
Lara Logan: "They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence"
"The brutal, opportunistic sexual assault of Lara Logan -- an inconvenient incident in the feel-good story the mainstream media desperately wanted the Egyptian revolution to be -- is for many Westerners an introduction to the deplorable treatment and constant harassment of native as well as foreign women in Egypt. And as we have seen, the practice persists due to the mentality that women are possessions of men and do not belong in public, and, crucially, the ability to blame the victim for supposedly falling short of Islamic strictures on dress and behavior, as commenters on an Arab News story on harassment openly and stridently did here.
The burden is placed almost entirely on the woman to avoid 'provoking' harassment, or worse. That is not the stuff modern, stable democracies are made of, not only because of the lack of equality, but because self government in a society cannot survive without the government of the self on the individual level: no excuses, no displacement of responsibility.
An update on this story. 'CBS Reporter Recounts a "Merciless" Assault,' by Brian Stelter for the New York Times, April 28 (thanks to all who sent this in):
'Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo.
Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for “60 Minutes” on Feb. 11 when the celebratory mood suddenly turned threatening. She was ripped away from her producer and bodyguard by a group of men who tore at her clothes and groped and beat her body. “For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,” Ms. Logan said in an interview with The New York Times. She estimated that the attack involved 200 to 300 men.
Ms. Logan, who returned to work this month, is expected to speak at length about the assault on the CBS News program “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.
Her experience in Cairo underscored the fact that female journalists often face a different kind of violence. While other forms of physical violence affecting journalists are widely covered — the traumatic brain injury ’suffered by the ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff in Iraq in 2006 was a front-page story at that time — sexual threats against women are rarely talked about within journalistic circles or in the news media. [...]
Until now the only public comment about the assault came four days after it took place, when Ms. Logan was still in the hospital. She and Mr. Fager drafted a short statement that she had “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating.”
That statement, Ms. Logan said, “didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of.”
The assault happened the day that Ms. Logan returned to Cairo, having left a week earlier after being detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. “The city was on fire with celebration” over Mr. Mubarak’s exit, she said, comparing it to a Super Bowl party. She and a camera crew traversed Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the celebrations, interviewing Egyptians and posing for photographs with people who wanted to be seen with an American journalist.
“There was a moment that everything went wrong,” she recalled.
As the cameraman, Richard Butler, was swapping out a battery, Egyptian colleagues who were accompanying the camera crew heard men nearby talking about wanting to take Ms. Logan’s pants off. She said: “Our local people with us said, ‘We’ve gotta get out of here.’ That was literally the moment the mob set on me.”
Mr. Butler, Ms. Logan’s producer, Max McClellan, and two locally hired drivers were “helpless,” Mr. Fager said, “because the mob was just so powerful.” A bodyguard who had been hired to accompany the team was able to stay with Ms. Logan for a brief period of time. “For Max to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts,” Mr. Fager said. He said Ms. Logan “described how her hand was sore for days after — and the she realized it was from holding on so tight” to the bodyguard’s hand.
They estimated that they were separated from her for about 25 minutes.
“My clothes were torn to pieces,” Ms. Logan said.
She declined to go into more detail about the assault but said: “What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.”
After being rescued by a group of civilians and Egyptian soldiers, she was swiftly flown back to the United States. “She was quite traumatized, as you can imagine, for a period of time,” Mr. Fager said. Ms. Logan said she decided almost immediately that she would speak out about sexual violence both on behalf of other journalists and on behalf of “millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse.” ...'"
From Israel Matzav:
Video: Journalist abuse in the Middle East
"Lara Logan may be the one appearing on 60 Minutes on Sunday night, but she's far from the only journalist who has been abused. In fact, official abuse of journalists is far worse than what Logan apparently went through.
Let's go to the videotape.
By the way, guess which is the only country in the Middle East where journalists are free to write what they please."
UPDATE: Read this article:
How Supporters of Palestinian Terrorism Are Murdered and Raped by Their Palestinian Sponsors
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Obama's Bad Math
As President Obama sharpens up on the class warfare rhetoric and how we must raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay off our nasty deficits, he neglects to clue us in to that dirty little secret: lowering taxes, as strange as it may seem, in reality, increases tax revenues.
With that in mind, how exactly does raising taxes help us out of this economic hole we are in?
Here's a lesson in Economics 101 from Human Events:
Obama's Victimhood Rests on False Claims About Bush Tax Cutsby Donald Lambro
"When President Obama unveiled his newest debt reduction plan at The George Washington University, he said once again that George W. Bush’s tax cuts were to blame for the fiscal mess he’s in.
In a speech that sounded more like the kickoff to his reelection campaign than a plan to cut deficit spending, Obama could not resist blaming Bush and the Republicans for all of the economic and fiscal woes that still afflict his presidency, a tactic that worked for him in his 2008 campaign but is growing threadbare and tiresome in his third year in the Oval Office
'We increased spending dramatically for two wars and an expensive prescription drug program—but we didn’t pay for any of this new spending. Instead we made the problem worse with trillions of dollars in unpaid-for tax cuts,' he said.
In 'the last decade, if we had simply found a way to pay for the tax cuts and the prescription drug benefit, our deficit would currently be at low historical levels in the coming years,' Obama said.
Whenever Obama talks about paying for tax cuts, he means, but does not say, raising taxes on someone else. It never occurs to him, nor does he say, that the tax cuts can pay for themselves through increased economic growth and higher employment.
That is exactly what President Bush’s 2003 accelerated tax cuts did in the remaining years of his presidency, a five-year period when the unemployment rate fell well below 6%, and tax revenues rose by hundreds of billions of dollars, cutting the budget deficit in half, according to government revenue and budget deficit statistics.
When Bush was running for office in 2000, the economy was in the midst of a high-tech, dot-com economic boom, until the bubble burst in 2001 and the economy fell into recession. In his first year in office, Bush pushed through an across-the-board income tax cut agenda that would be phased in over several years. But as the recession worsened, unemployment—then at a low 4.7%—rose to 5.8% in 2002 and 6% in 2003.
Federal tax receipts, which had hit a high of $2 trillion in 2000, fell to $1.99 trillion in 2001, to $1.85 trillion in 2002, and then to $1.78 trillion in 2003. Deciding that the economy needed a faster booster shot, Bush and Congress accelerated the Bush tax cuts in 2003, and the nation’s economy responded.
Contrary to Obama’s anti-tax cut, zero-sum ideology, federal tax revenues didn’t fall as a result of Bush’s across-the-board tax rate cuts that affected every income bracket—including a new, lower 10% tax rate for low-income workers—they rose to the following:
—$1.88 trillion in 2004
—$ 2.15 trillion in 2005
—$ 2.4 trillion in 2006
—$ 2.6 trillion in 2007.
In other words, tax revenues rose by more than $800 billion in just four years by cutting tax rates and boosting economic growth that pushed the Dow to a record 14,164 points on Oct. 9, 2007.
Meantime, unemployment fell sharply as the economy expanded, dropping to 5.55 in 2004, 5.1% in 2005, and 4.6% in 2006 and 2007.
This also helped reduce Bush’s soaring budget deficits. They rose substantially during the first half of his presidency as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the deepening recession, but as federal tax revenues increased, the yearly deficits began to shrink, falling to a modest $161 in 2007—a record that Obama can only dream about.
'[I]n 2003-2008, the U.S.’s general (total) government deficit fluctuated between 2% and 5% of GDP,' the Standard & Poors economic analysis firm noted this week in a critical report of the Obama administration’s descent into debt. '[I]t ballooned to more than 11% in 2009 and has yet to recover.'
'This surely is one Bush comparison that the Obama team wishes to bury,' the Wall Street Journal remarked.
To be sure, there are many other factors in measuring Bush’s fiscal record, including levels of spending that could have and should have been cut down to size. The prescription drug program turned out to be a lot less expensive than earlier forecasts, largely because it is run through a private-sector system of drug insurance firms, but this was no time to be dumping another entitlement onto the Medicare program, which is also threatened by insolvency.
In the last year of his presidency, as the economy tipped into a deep recession, tax revenues fell to $2.5 trillion and the jobless rate rose to 5.8%.
Still, Bush began his presidency by cutting tax rates, which helped get our country through some very tough times not of his making, and even Obama renewed them for another two years.
Little more than two years later, Obama’s annual budget is skirting $4 trillion, the deficit is at $1.6 trillion, the national debt is $14.3 trillion and climbing, and the unemployment rate is still nearly 9%."
With that in mind, how exactly does raising taxes help us out of this economic hole we are in?
Here's a lesson in Economics 101 from Human Events:
Obama's Victimhood Rests on False Claims About Bush Tax Cutsby Donald Lambro
"When President Obama unveiled his newest debt reduction plan at The George Washington University, he said once again that George W. Bush’s tax cuts were to blame for the fiscal mess he’s in.
In a speech that sounded more like the kickoff to his reelection campaign than a plan to cut deficit spending, Obama could not resist blaming Bush and the Republicans for all of the economic and fiscal woes that still afflict his presidency, a tactic that worked for him in his 2008 campaign but is growing threadbare and tiresome in his third year in the Oval Office
'We increased spending dramatically for two wars and an expensive prescription drug program—but we didn’t pay for any of this new spending. Instead we made the problem worse with trillions of dollars in unpaid-for tax cuts,' he said.
In 'the last decade, if we had simply found a way to pay for the tax cuts and the prescription drug benefit, our deficit would currently be at low historical levels in the coming years,' Obama said.
Whenever Obama talks about paying for tax cuts, he means, but does not say, raising taxes on someone else. It never occurs to him, nor does he say, that the tax cuts can pay for themselves through increased economic growth and higher employment.
That is exactly what President Bush’s 2003 accelerated tax cuts did in the remaining years of his presidency, a five-year period when the unemployment rate fell well below 6%, and tax revenues rose by hundreds of billions of dollars, cutting the budget deficit in half, according to government revenue and budget deficit statistics.
When Bush was running for office in 2000, the economy was in the midst of a high-tech, dot-com economic boom, until the bubble burst in 2001 and the economy fell into recession. In his first year in office, Bush pushed through an across-the-board income tax cut agenda that would be phased in over several years. But as the recession worsened, unemployment—then at a low 4.7%—rose to 5.8% in 2002 and 6% in 2003.
Federal tax receipts, which had hit a high of $2 trillion in 2000, fell to $1.99 trillion in 2001, to $1.85 trillion in 2002, and then to $1.78 trillion in 2003. Deciding that the economy needed a faster booster shot, Bush and Congress accelerated the Bush tax cuts in 2003, and the nation’s economy responded.
Contrary to Obama’s anti-tax cut, zero-sum ideology, federal tax revenues didn’t fall as a result of Bush’s across-the-board tax rate cuts that affected every income bracket—including a new, lower 10% tax rate for low-income workers—they rose to the following:
—$1.88 trillion in 2004
—$ 2.15 trillion in 2005
—$ 2.4 trillion in 2006
—$ 2.6 trillion in 2007.
In other words, tax revenues rose by more than $800 billion in just four years by cutting tax rates and boosting economic growth that pushed the Dow to a record 14,164 points on Oct. 9, 2007.
Meantime, unemployment fell sharply as the economy expanded, dropping to 5.55 in 2004, 5.1% in 2005, and 4.6% in 2006 and 2007.
This also helped reduce Bush’s soaring budget deficits. They rose substantially during the first half of his presidency as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the deepening recession, but as federal tax revenues increased, the yearly deficits began to shrink, falling to a modest $161 in 2007—a record that Obama can only dream about.
'[I]n 2003-2008, the U.S.’s general (total) government deficit fluctuated between 2% and 5% of GDP,' the Standard & Poors economic analysis firm noted this week in a critical report of the Obama administration’s descent into debt. '[I]t ballooned to more than 11% in 2009 and has yet to recover.'
'This surely is one Bush comparison that the Obama team wishes to bury,' the Wall Street Journal remarked.
To be sure, there are many other factors in measuring Bush’s fiscal record, including levels of spending that could have and should have been cut down to size. The prescription drug program turned out to be a lot less expensive than earlier forecasts, largely because it is run through a private-sector system of drug insurance firms, but this was no time to be dumping another entitlement onto the Medicare program, which is also threatened by insolvency.
In the last year of his presidency, as the economy tipped into a deep recession, tax revenues fell to $2.5 trillion and the jobless rate rose to 5.8%.
Still, Bush began his presidency by cutting tax rates, which helped get our country through some very tough times not of his making, and even Obama renewed them for another two years.
Little more than two years later, Obama’s annual budget is skirting $4 trillion, the deficit is at $1.6 trillion, the national debt is $14.3 trillion and climbing, and the unemployment rate is still nearly 9%."
How to Obtain an American Passportoo
Insanity has set in regarding securing a U.S. passport. Government officials have lost their minds if they think Americans can remember their first employers from decades ago and their respective phone numbers. I can't even remember the name of some of the places I worked as a teen, yet alone a phone number to go with them.
To top that off, they want us to recall the address of every single place we have lived since we were born. Now, I moved around quite often as a child, and I certainly do not remember each of the addresses of the many places I've resided over the years.
And to think that I have been saving money for a trip to Israel. Does that mean that I won't be able to go because I can't remember where I worked nearly 40 years ago or where I lived as a baby?
Read from New Zeal:
The Move to Undocument the Documented
"Do you remember the legislation that now dictates that passports must be shown at US land borders? It went into effect on June 1, 2009 I believe. That’s almost two years ago. Here is a link to the old passport application form. When this became law, many of us shrugged it off with the reasoning that is was for homeland security and that it was logical to show papers to get back into the country to prove who you were and that you were a documented American. Now I wonder…
I live about 100 miles from the Canadian border. Just a few years ago, we could drive over the border just by showing our driver’s license. We might have to submit to a brief car inspection and a rude border guard, but that was about it. Now, it’s 'papers please!'
When I first heard on the Glenn Beck show on the radio yesterday about the new proposed passport forms, I instantly got very angry at what I perceived as a fourth amendment infringement on our rights. I then proceeded to look up the form and research it. That is why I did not post until today. I wanted to get my facts straight and cool off a bit before racing into battle. My conclusion – I have never had a passport in my life, but always intended to get one. It may very well be that I can now never get one and I was born and raised in America. I grew up as a construction brat and we moved an average of four times a year. There is no way I can ever find out all the schools I went to and all the places I have lived. In my life, I have worked at casinos and applied for security clearances as well. They only asked for the last 10 years. What the government is now asking for, effectively bans me from ever getting a passport. It bans me from traveling legally over the Canadian border as well. I find myself a prisoner in my own homeland. I am beyond furious over this.
From Glenn Beck when he asked questions about the form:
'A State Department Official told Glenn’s producers, “The Biographical Questionnaire for a U.S. Passport, form DS-5513, is a supplemental form that an applicant may be asked to complete when information supplied on the application for a U.S. passport is insufficient to support passport issuance.”
“Where the information provided in an application is insufficient, rather than deny the application automatically, we ask for additional information to help an applicant prove his or her identity or citizenship.”
While not being able to answer a question would not preclude an applicant from being issued a passport, the official said, “Passport adjudicators will consider the information derived from the form in its entirety to confirm identity and citizenship, the two elements required by law for U.S. passport issuance.”
The goal of the new questionnaire is to stop people from obtaining passports through fraudulent means, as a passport is “gold standard among identity documents”.'
Oh, I feel soooo much better. So if an 'adjudicator' does not like the way you look, so sorry, no passport for you! You don’t qualify for the gold standard. I’m sure this won’t be abused by the government at all. This smacks of Nazi Germany. It looks like the new form went into effect on April 24th.
Here is the new form – DS-5513. The authorities say it should only take you 45 minutes or so to fill out. No freaking way… Let’s cover what is on the new 5 page form (the old one required two pages of filling out).
Section A is pretty standard:
Section A – Biographical Information
1. Full Name
2. Date of Birth
3. Social Security Number
4. Place of Birth – City, State, Country
So far, so good. Section B is where it starts to go off the rails:
Section B – Information about Your Family (Living and Deceased)
Information About Your Family… They want the full name, place of birth – city, state, country, date of birth and if the person is a US citizen. You need to list the following: Father, Stepfather, Mother, Stepmother, Spouse, all Siblings and all Children. Okay, children fine. But my Mother passed away when I was two and I don’t know where she was born. She was also married multiple times and I don’t even know the names of some of my half siblings. As you are supposed to list all those alive or deceased, I have half-siblings that I have absolutely no information on and cannot fill this part out. Hurdle number one for yours truly…
Section C gets even worse, but you only have to fill out this section if you did not receive a birth certificate within one year of birth in the US and/or if you were not born in a medical facility:
Section C – Information for Non-Institutional Births or Delayed Birth Filings
5. List your mother’s residence one year before your birth.
6. List your mother’s residence at the time of your birth.
7. List your mother’s residence one year after your birth.
8. List your mother’s place of employment at the time of your birth. This includes dates of employment, name of employer and the address of the employer.
9. Did your mother receive pre-natal or post-natal care? At what hospital and what was the address? What was the name of the doctor? What were the dates of the appointments?
10. What type of document, if any, did your mother use to enter into the United States before your birth?
11. Please describe the circumstances of your birth including the names (as well as addresses and phone number, if available) of persons present or in attendance at your birth.
12. Was there any religious or institutional recording of your birth or event occurring around the time of birth? (Example: circumcision, confirmation or other religious ceremony. Please provide details including the name, location of the institution, and date.)
Getting ridiculous huh? I ask you, is there any way someone could answer all this? It just gets better and better… Now more requirements if you are a born and bred American like me:
Section D – Residences
In this section you have to list EVERY residence you have had since you were born until present day. That’s street, city, state, zip, country and the dates of residence. For me, this is impossible. For many military or overseas contractors or salesmen, this is impossible. Maybe you are one of the fortunate ones who can list everywhere you lived, but I would wager it will take you a lot longer than 45 minutes to get through this form.
Onward and downward – hope you have super-duper records folks:
Section E – Employment
Here you have to list everywhere you have worked in your life here in the States and abroad. They want the company name, address, city, state, country, dates of employment, your supervisor’s name and telephone number.
Got that? I’m sure you can just recite that from memory right? Next:
Section F – Schools
They want you to list all schools you attended inside and outside the United States during your lifetime. They want the school name, address, city, state, country and dates of attendance.
This one would also be impossible for me as I changed schools on average four times a year. Another hurdle.
Do you feel that this is intrusive? I sure as h*** do. Section G – Oath and Signature is self-explanatory and then you are done. Simple huh?
I have done countless hours of research on Cass Sunstein and his grubby fingerprints are ALL OVER this. I think Beck got it right when he said this is an attempt to undocument the documented. It is a move towards a national ID card and amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. The government wants to level the playing field and make us all peasants that are easily dealt with.
You know, my husband and I fought like mad to get our son-in-law into the US. He’s Danish and just a wonderful guy. We proved our income; we filled out countless forms. Now, I am not sure that we did him a favor. Oh, and it looks like there’s a strong possibility that I won’t be vacationing in Canada this lifetime or anywhere other than the US unless these creepy, invasive rules are overturned. I owe a world of thanks to Sunstein and DHS.
Welcome to the new United States, where it feels more like East and West Germany rather than America and Canada. Better have your papers in order or really good contacts (and a lot of money)."
To top that off, they want us to recall the address of every single place we have lived since we were born. Now, I moved around quite often as a child, and I certainly do not remember each of the addresses of the many places I've resided over the years.
And to think that I have been saving money for a trip to Israel. Does that mean that I won't be able to go because I can't remember where I worked nearly 40 years ago or where I lived as a baby?
Read from New Zeal:
The Move to Undocument the Documented
"Do you remember the legislation that now dictates that passports must be shown at US land borders? It went into effect on June 1, 2009 I believe. That’s almost two years ago. Here is a link to the old passport application form. When this became law, many of us shrugged it off with the reasoning that is was for homeland security and that it was logical to show papers to get back into the country to prove who you were and that you were a documented American. Now I wonder…
I live about 100 miles from the Canadian border. Just a few years ago, we could drive over the border just by showing our driver’s license. We might have to submit to a brief car inspection and a rude border guard, but that was about it. Now, it’s 'papers please!'
When I first heard on the Glenn Beck show on the radio yesterday about the new proposed passport forms, I instantly got very angry at what I perceived as a fourth amendment infringement on our rights. I then proceeded to look up the form and research it. That is why I did not post until today. I wanted to get my facts straight and cool off a bit before racing into battle. My conclusion – I have never had a passport in my life, but always intended to get one. It may very well be that I can now never get one and I was born and raised in America. I grew up as a construction brat and we moved an average of four times a year. There is no way I can ever find out all the schools I went to and all the places I have lived. In my life, I have worked at casinos and applied for security clearances as well. They only asked for the last 10 years. What the government is now asking for, effectively bans me from ever getting a passport. It bans me from traveling legally over the Canadian border as well. I find myself a prisoner in my own homeland. I am beyond furious over this.
From Glenn Beck when he asked questions about the form:
'A State Department Official told Glenn’s producers, “The Biographical Questionnaire for a U.S. Passport, form DS-5513, is a supplemental form that an applicant may be asked to complete when information supplied on the application for a U.S. passport is insufficient to support passport issuance.”
“Where the information provided in an application is insufficient, rather than deny the application automatically, we ask for additional information to help an applicant prove his or her identity or citizenship.”
While not being able to answer a question would not preclude an applicant from being issued a passport, the official said, “Passport adjudicators will consider the information derived from the form in its entirety to confirm identity and citizenship, the two elements required by law for U.S. passport issuance.”
The goal of the new questionnaire is to stop people from obtaining passports through fraudulent means, as a passport is “gold standard among identity documents”.'
Oh, I feel soooo much better. So if an 'adjudicator' does not like the way you look, so sorry, no passport for you! You don’t qualify for the gold standard. I’m sure this won’t be abused by the government at all. This smacks of Nazi Germany. It looks like the new form went into effect on April 24th.
Here is the new form – DS-5513. The authorities say it should only take you 45 minutes or so to fill out. No freaking way… Let’s cover what is on the new 5 page form (the old one required two pages of filling out).
Section A is pretty standard:
Section A – Biographical Information
1. Full Name
2. Date of Birth
3. Social Security Number
4. Place of Birth – City, State, Country
So far, so good. Section B is where it starts to go off the rails:
Section B – Information about Your Family (Living and Deceased)
Information About Your Family… They want the full name, place of birth – city, state, country, date of birth and if the person is a US citizen. You need to list the following: Father, Stepfather, Mother, Stepmother, Spouse, all Siblings and all Children. Okay, children fine. But my Mother passed away when I was two and I don’t know where she was born. She was also married multiple times and I don’t even know the names of some of my half siblings. As you are supposed to list all those alive or deceased, I have half-siblings that I have absolutely no information on and cannot fill this part out. Hurdle number one for yours truly…
Section C gets even worse, but you only have to fill out this section if you did not receive a birth certificate within one year of birth in the US and/or if you were not born in a medical facility:
Section C – Information for Non-Institutional Births or Delayed Birth Filings
5. List your mother’s residence one year before your birth.
6. List your mother’s residence at the time of your birth.
7. List your mother’s residence one year after your birth.
8. List your mother’s place of employment at the time of your birth. This includes dates of employment, name of employer and the address of the employer.
9. Did your mother receive pre-natal or post-natal care? At what hospital and what was the address? What was the name of the doctor? What were the dates of the appointments?
10. What type of document, if any, did your mother use to enter into the United States before your birth?
11. Please describe the circumstances of your birth including the names (as well as addresses and phone number, if available) of persons present or in attendance at your birth.
12. Was there any religious or institutional recording of your birth or event occurring around the time of birth? (Example: circumcision, confirmation or other religious ceremony. Please provide details including the name, location of the institution, and date.)
Getting ridiculous huh? I ask you, is there any way someone could answer all this? It just gets better and better… Now more requirements if you are a born and bred American like me:
Section D – Residences
In this section you have to list EVERY residence you have had since you were born until present day. That’s street, city, state, zip, country and the dates of residence. For me, this is impossible. For many military or overseas contractors or salesmen, this is impossible. Maybe you are one of the fortunate ones who can list everywhere you lived, but I would wager it will take you a lot longer than 45 minutes to get through this form.
Onward and downward – hope you have super-duper records folks:
Section E – Employment
Here you have to list everywhere you have worked in your life here in the States and abroad. They want the company name, address, city, state, country, dates of employment, your supervisor’s name and telephone number.
Got that? I’m sure you can just recite that from memory right? Next:
Section F – Schools
They want you to list all schools you attended inside and outside the United States during your lifetime. They want the school name, address, city, state, country and dates of attendance.
This one would also be impossible for me as I changed schools on average four times a year. Another hurdle.
Do you feel that this is intrusive? I sure as h*** do. Section G – Oath and Signature is self-explanatory and then you are done. Simple huh?
I have done countless hours of research on Cass Sunstein and his grubby fingerprints are ALL OVER this. I think Beck got it right when he said this is an attempt to undocument the documented. It is a move towards a national ID card and amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. The government wants to level the playing field and make us all peasants that are easily dealt with.
You know, my husband and I fought like mad to get our son-in-law into the US. He’s Danish and just a wonderful guy. We proved our income; we filled out countless forms. Now, I am not sure that we did him a favor. Oh, and it looks like there’s a strong possibility that I won’t be vacationing in Canada this lifetime or anywhere other than the US unless these creepy, invasive rules are overturned. I owe a world of thanks to Sunstein and DHS.
Welcome to the new United States, where it feels more like East and West Germany rather than America and Canada. Better have your papers in order or really good contacts (and a lot of money)."
Obamas Attended Israel-Hating Church on Easter
Next year is an election year. Therefore, the committed Christian who takes up residence in the White House sucked it up and showed his face in church on Easter morning. Not only was the pastor of the church Obama attended a little preoccupied with race, but he, like the president, is an Israel-hater. Imagine that. It's almost as though Obama has a magnet on his chest which draws him to anyone who hates the Jewish nation.
Read from News Real Blog, via John McTernan's Insights:
President Obama Chose To Worship On Easter At A Church That Hosted A Palestinian Hate-Israel Conference
"President Obama and the first family attended Easter services at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. As the mainstream press made sure to point out, this church was founded in 1863 by freed slaves.
MSNBC proclaimed:
'Obama attends Easter service at historic church: The first family enters Shiloh Baptist Church to a round of applause'
It would be such a heart-warming picture of religious devotion except that the mainstream press neglected to mention a couple of things about the church which Obama chose for his Easter worship. The Shiloh Baptist Church hosted an anti-Israel hate fest in 2009 at the same time as an associate minister of the church, Adam Russell Taylor, was serving as an Obama administration White House Fellow in the Office of Cabinet Affairs, Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs.
Why did Shiloh Baptist Church’s associate minister Taylor win one of only fifteen coveted fellowship positions at the White House? Perhaps because he just happened to be the Senior Political Director of the far Left ministry Sojourners run by Obama’s spiritual advisor Jim Wallis when he was tapped by the Obama White House for the prestigious fellowship. Perhaps Taylor’s appointment was also payback for the kind things he had to say about Obama’s controversial Chicago pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, during the height of the bruhaha over Obama’s twenty year association with Wright’s Trinity Church.
Taylor said that while he did not agree with every single word Wright had ever uttered,
'I still vehemently defend the prophetic tradition that Rev. Wright has advanced over the course of 36 years of ministry.'
In October of 2009, while Taylor was serving in the Shiloh Baptist Church and as an intern in the Obama administration, the church hosted a hate Israel conference sponsored by a radicalized Palestinian Christian liberation theology group that called the establishment of Israel 'The Catastrophe' (Nakba) and has openly questioned Israel’s right to exist.
The group is known as Friends of Sabeel, which has spewed anti-Israel propaganda in both the United States and Europe since its founding in 1989. It has chapters in the United States and runs conferences in churches such as Shiloh Baptist Church to support the work of the Jerusalem-based Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center. Among other things, they have helped spearhead the divestment campaign against Israel in churches receptive to the anti-Israel, Palestinian victimhood message.
The dinner speaker at Shiloh Baptist Church’s 2009 hate Israel conference was Rev. Naim Ateek, President and Director of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center. It must be a small world since Obama’s spiritual advisor Jim Wallis is a great admirer of Ateek, whom he has reportedly referred to as 'Palestine’s Desmond Tutu.' That makes sense since Tutu also hates Israel.
It’s too bad that Ateek was not present at this year’s Easter service at Shiloh, attended by President Obama. Ateek would have then been able to repeat a past Easter season sermon of his:
'In this season of Lent, it seems to many of us that Jesus is on the cross again with thousands of crucified Palestinians around him. It only takes people of insight to see the hundreds of thousands of crosses throughout the land, Palestinian men, women, and children being crucified. Palestine has become one huge [G]olgotha. The Israeli government crucifixion system is operating daily. Palestine has become the place of the skull.'
But I digress. Let’s return to the 2009 Shiloh Baptist Church’s Palestine conference where Israel’s 'crimes' against the Palestinians dominated the agenda and any talk of the persecution of Christians by Muslims or the terrorist violence against Israel were taboo. The guest list represented a who’s who of Israel bashers.
The Opening Plenary remarks at the conference were delivered in the Shiloh Baptist church sanctuary by Dr. Richard Falk, UN Special Rappporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Plenary Territories, who has compared Israeli policies with regard to the Palestinians to the Nazi Germany record of collective punishment.
Guest panelists included Phyllis Bennis, who hates America as well as Israel. She has recently linked 'Islamophobia' to
'American exceptionalism, racism and America first-ism'
And she has identified Israel with
'colonialism, violations of international law, crimes of aggression'
There was also Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Abunimeh’s idea of a bold solution is one nation shared by the Palestinian and Jewish people – a sure-fire way to destroy the Jewish homeland.
Abunimah has met Obama several times and was impressed with Obama’s skepticism towards Israel. Abunimah said in March 2007:
'Over the years since I first saw Obama speak, I met him about half a dozen times, often at Palestinian and Arab-American community events in Chicago including a May 1998 community fundraiser at which Edward Said was the keynote speaker. In 2000, when Obama unsuccessfully ran for Congress I heard him speak at a campaign fundraiser hosted by a University of Chicago professor [Khalidi]….”That’s where I had a chance to really talk to him. It was an intimate setting. He convinced me he was very aware of the issues [and] critical of U.S. bias toward Israel and lack of sensitivity to Arabs…. He was very supportive of U.S. pressure on Israel.'
And weren’t the Israel haters from the Friends of Sabeel lucky to also have their conference graced by Nadia Hijab, Senior Fellow, Institute of Palestine Studies in Washington, D.C., who has accused Israel of 'genocide.' Before President Obama took office, she advised in a letter to the Washington Post how the new administration must 'reverse' Israel’s 'settlement enterprise.' The Obama administration has been trying to do just that ever since.
Finally, it would be a shame not to mention Tom Getman, who moderated one of the panels at the conference. Getman is a board member at Sojourners and served as an advisory board member of Sabeel. This self-described Palestinian advocate questioned why Israel refers to itself as 'a Jewish state.' He wondered aloud to the conference participants why the United States would tolerate a Jewish state of Israel when it does not approve of 'theocratic states' elsewhere in the Middle East.
To sum up, President Obama chose to worship this Easter at a church where his Jeremiah Wright-admiring White House intern, whom had just previously served as Senior Political Director for Obama’s spiritual advisor’s left-wing organization Sojourners, is an associate minister.
Given the Obama administration’s close association with Shiloh Baptist Church’s associate minister, there was no way Obama could have been unaware that the same church hosting him and the first family this Easter had hosted a pro-Palestinian conference less than two years ago to delegitimize Israel."
Read from News Real Blog, via John McTernan's Insights:
President Obama Chose To Worship On Easter At A Church That Hosted A Palestinian Hate-Israel Conference
"President Obama and the first family attended Easter services at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. As the mainstream press made sure to point out, this church was founded in 1863 by freed slaves.
MSNBC proclaimed:
'Obama attends Easter service at historic church: The first family enters Shiloh Baptist Church to a round of applause'
It would be such a heart-warming picture of religious devotion except that the mainstream press neglected to mention a couple of things about the church which Obama chose for his Easter worship. The Shiloh Baptist Church hosted an anti-Israel hate fest in 2009 at the same time as an associate minister of the church, Adam Russell Taylor, was serving as an Obama administration White House Fellow in the Office of Cabinet Affairs, Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs.
Why did Shiloh Baptist Church’s associate minister Taylor win one of only fifteen coveted fellowship positions at the White House? Perhaps because he just happened to be the Senior Political Director of the far Left ministry Sojourners run by Obama’s spiritual advisor Jim Wallis when he was tapped by the Obama White House for the prestigious fellowship. Perhaps Taylor’s appointment was also payback for the kind things he had to say about Obama’s controversial Chicago pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, during the height of the bruhaha over Obama’s twenty year association with Wright’s Trinity Church.
Taylor said that while he did not agree with every single word Wright had ever uttered,
'I still vehemently defend the prophetic tradition that Rev. Wright has advanced over the course of 36 years of ministry.'
In October of 2009, while Taylor was serving in the Shiloh Baptist Church and as an intern in the Obama administration, the church hosted a hate Israel conference sponsored by a radicalized Palestinian Christian liberation theology group that called the establishment of Israel 'The Catastrophe' (Nakba) and has openly questioned Israel’s right to exist.
The group is known as Friends of Sabeel, which has spewed anti-Israel propaganda in both the United States and Europe since its founding in 1989. It has chapters in the United States and runs conferences in churches such as Shiloh Baptist Church to support the work of the Jerusalem-based Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center. Among other things, they have helped spearhead the divestment campaign against Israel in churches receptive to the anti-Israel, Palestinian victimhood message.
The dinner speaker at Shiloh Baptist Church’s 2009 hate Israel conference was Rev. Naim Ateek, President and Director of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center. It must be a small world since Obama’s spiritual advisor Jim Wallis is a great admirer of Ateek, whom he has reportedly referred to as 'Palestine’s Desmond Tutu.' That makes sense since Tutu also hates Israel.
It’s too bad that Ateek was not present at this year’s Easter service at Shiloh, attended by President Obama. Ateek would have then been able to repeat a past Easter season sermon of his:
'In this season of Lent, it seems to many of us that Jesus is on the cross again with thousands of crucified Palestinians around him. It only takes people of insight to see the hundreds of thousands of crosses throughout the land, Palestinian men, women, and children being crucified. Palestine has become one huge [G]olgotha. The Israeli government crucifixion system is operating daily. Palestine has become the place of the skull.'
But I digress. Let’s return to the 2009 Shiloh Baptist Church’s Palestine conference where Israel’s 'crimes' against the Palestinians dominated the agenda and any talk of the persecution of Christians by Muslims or the terrorist violence against Israel were taboo. The guest list represented a who’s who of Israel bashers.
The Opening Plenary remarks at the conference were delivered in the Shiloh Baptist church sanctuary by Dr. Richard Falk, UN Special Rappporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Plenary Territories, who has compared Israeli policies with regard to the Palestinians to the Nazi Germany record of collective punishment.
Guest panelists included Phyllis Bennis, who hates America as well as Israel. She has recently linked 'Islamophobia' to
'American exceptionalism, racism and America first-ism'
And she has identified Israel with
'colonialism, violations of international law, crimes of aggression'
There was also Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Abunimeh’s idea of a bold solution is one nation shared by the Palestinian and Jewish people – a sure-fire way to destroy the Jewish homeland.
Abunimah has met Obama several times and was impressed with Obama’s skepticism towards Israel. Abunimah said in March 2007:
'Over the years since I first saw Obama speak, I met him about half a dozen times, often at Palestinian and Arab-American community events in Chicago including a May 1998 community fundraiser at which Edward Said was the keynote speaker. In 2000, when Obama unsuccessfully ran for Congress I heard him speak at a campaign fundraiser hosted by a University of Chicago professor [Khalidi]….”That’s where I had a chance to really talk to him. It was an intimate setting. He convinced me he was very aware of the issues [and] critical of U.S. bias toward Israel and lack of sensitivity to Arabs…. He was very supportive of U.S. pressure on Israel.'
And weren’t the Israel haters from the Friends of Sabeel lucky to also have their conference graced by Nadia Hijab, Senior Fellow, Institute of Palestine Studies in Washington, D.C., who has accused Israel of 'genocide.' Before President Obama took office, she advised in a letter to the Washington Post how the new administration must 'reverse' Israel’s 'settlement enterprise.' The Obama administration has been trying to do just that ever since.
Finally, it would be a shame not to mention Tom Getman, who moderated one of the panels at the conference. Getman is a board member at Sojourners and served as an advisory board member of Sabeel. This self-described Palestinian advocate questioned why Israel refers to itself as 'a Jewish state.' He wondered aloud to the conference participants why the United States would tolerate a Jewish state of Israel when it does not approve of 'theocratic states' elsewhere in the Middle East.
To sum up, President Obama chose to worship this Easter at a church where his Jeremiah Wright-admiring White House intern, whom had just previously served as Senior Political Director for Obama’s spiritual advisor’s left-wing organization Sojourners, is an associate minister.
Given the Obama administration’s close association with Shiloh Baptist Church’s associate minister, there was no way Obama could have been unaware that the same church hosting him and the first family this Easter had hosted a pro-Palestinian conference less than two years ago to delegitimize Israel."
DHS Abolishes Program Requiring Closer Scrutiny of Arabs
Wanna know why Israel is considered to be one of the best-secured nations in the world? One word: profiling.
But, in the age of Obama, kissing up to Muslims, who then laugh hysterically behind his back, takes first priority. Securing the public? The Obama regime can't do that; it might offend the Muslims.
When America experiences its next 9/11, we now know who we can blame for not securing our nation.
From Weasel Zippers:
CAIR Claims Victory After DHS Ends Post-9/11 Program Used to Track People Coming From Islamic Countries…
"PC kills.
(WSJ) — 'The federal government Wednesday effectively ended a controversial program launched in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to keep tabs on individuals visiting the U.S. mainly from Arab countries.
The National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, known by its acronym, NSEERS, required individuals from more than 20 predominantly Arab countries to register with the government on arrival and departure from the U.S.
The manual process required about 30 minutes of additional inspection at a port of entry for those arriving on nonimmigrant visas. Visitors had to register again on exiting the country.
Human-rights groups said the program promoted profiling of Muslims.
The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that the program was abolished because new automated technology renders the program unnecessary and no longer cost-effective.
“Since NSEERS was first implemented in 2002, DHS has implemented more robust, risk-based, and intelligence-driven targeting processes,” said spokesman Matt Chandler.'
Link to CAIR’s inevitable victory lap press release."
But, in the age of Obama, kissing up to Muslims, who then laugh hysterically behind his back, takes first priority. Securing the public? The Obama regime can't do that; it might offend the Muslims.
When America experiences its next 9/11, we now know who we can blame for not securing our nation.
From Weasel Zippers:
CAIR Claims Victory After DHS Ends Post-9/11 Program Used to Track People Coming From Islamic Countries…
"PC kills.
(WSJ) — 'The federal government Wednesday effectively ended a controversial program launched in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to keep tabs on individuals visiting the U.S. mainly from Arab countries.
The National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, known by its acronym, NSEERS, required individuals from more than 20 predominantly Arab countries to register with the government on arrival and departure from the U.S.
The manual process required about 30 minutes of additional inspection at a port of entry for those arriving on nonimmigrant visas. Visitors had to register again on exiting the country.
Human-rights groups said the program promoted profiling of Muslims.
The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that the program was abolished because new automated technology renders the program unnecessary and no longer cost-effective.
“Since NSEERS was first implemented in 2002, DHS has implemented more robust, risk-based, and intelligence-driven targeting processes,” said spokesman Matt Chandler.'
Link to CAIR’s inevitable victory lap press release."
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Our Radical Universities
Receiving a college education these days isn't quite like it was when I attended in the mid 70s. American universities have always been bastions of liberalism, but the liberalism has gotten much more radical, and the hatred for America has become rampant.
How appalling that families are sacrificing to send their children to college only to find that their children return embracing radical anti-American agendas.
Read from Big Government:
College Course: US Flag Is Racist, How-To Defeat America In Iraq And Afghanistan
by Dan Riehl
"While claiming the American flag represents racism and discussing today’s Progressive Movement’s efforts to defeat America both at home and abroad, including on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to help their international 'comrades,' Communist Tony Pecinovsky pulls the mask off today’s Progressive Movement in two new exclusive Big Government videos of a University of Missouri course offering, already much in the news.
Pecinovsky first came to light yesterday in a Washington Times item by Kerry Picket.
'Communism 101 at the University
Tony Pecinovsky, a Communist Party USA representative who is serving as the Communications Workers of America Secretary and Treasurer in St. Louis, spoke to students at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. In the video, he speaks about how the Communist Party looks to support candidates saying (5:30 mark in the video)':
While discussing “the idea that the American flag is racist,” in the video below,
Pecinovsky mentions a 2005 international youth festival in Venezuela sponsored by the World Federation of Democratic Youth(WFDY).
Pecinovsky brags that the WFDY is officially recognized by the United Nations. He also defines Cuba, Venezuela, and others as genuinely 'progressive,' the very same code word today’s entire American Left uses for itself. That would include the Obama administration and today’s Democrat Party, which it has finally managed to take over. In deed, in the second video, Pecinovsky touts their linkage to such so-called mainstream efforts, including trade unions.
The Young Communist League(YCL) sent 700 young Americans to Venezuela for the event. There, claims Pecinovsky, they had to actually engage in internal debate as to whether, or not to display the American flag next to the flags of countries like Cuba and Venezuela. If they did, it would be only so as to reclaim it from representing racism and what he calls the Right Wing. That includes the Bush administration, as Pecinovsky later reveals.
Going on to call America 'the belly of the beast,' Pecinovsky notes the surprising growth of the Communist Party in America today, claiming an additional 1,500 – 2,000 new members this year, just through the Internet. That number does not include results from ground-level activism and recruiting, according to Pecinovsky.
In the above video, Pecinovsky defines Progressive Internationalismin terms of how to isolate and defeat what he calls the 'ultra Right' in the US. Bear in mind, to him, that term means free market Capitalism and traditional forms of liberty America has traditionally embraced, as well as the previous Bush administration. When speaking of the Left’s 'Iraqi comrades,' and again in speaking about Afghanistan, Pecinovsky’s and the greater Left’s view is, they are organizing domestically to beat America abroad, as well as at home, including while we are at war.
Lest some critics want to dismiss Pecinovsky as some far Leftist fanatic, one only need look to the Peace Movement - which he also addresses, to understand how his progressivism is the very same as that of today’s mainstream Democratic Party. In many ways, it was said Peace Movement and its propaganda, circulated by a complicit media, that so tipped the scales against former President Bush, opening the way for Obama to win the WHite House in 2008.
It was former Democrat Vice President Al Gore who accused then President Bush of betraying the country over Iraq, not some minor Communist activist lecturing a class in Missouri. Those unwilling, or unable to make the very real connection between a Pecinovsky and the Democrat administration we currently have in Washington are simply putting their heads in the sand.
As if to highlight that point, Pecinovsky mentions how his and the Democrat’s anti-American agenda is closely tied to who holds sway in the White House and Congress. He is not talking revolution, but a taking over of America from within, with what he identifies as a 'larger movement.' That’s today’s Left - in practice not theory. And that is precisely what was happening in Washington, until the political reversals of 2010. Was not ObamaCare dictated to us, despite an election in Massachusettes clearly identifying any American majority opinion as opposed to it?
Moving on from the Peace Movement, to Labor, Pecinovsky runs through the well-known alliances making up today’s far Left as part of a unified 'larger movement. 'Almost every member of our (communist) organization is a member of a union, is a member of a coalition, is a member of neighborhood association. Is a member of a peace organization.' While he didn’t say it, how do they differ, especially 'neighborhood association,' from community organizer? They don’t. And we know who the community-organizer-in-chief is in America today, do we not?
In terms of unity, he talks of the existing alliances between many nationally recognized groups and movements through which he and others organize to bring about … change, I suppose. What the Communist Pecinovsky is part of is not simply some ten member group meeting monthly in a basement somewhere. He makes it quite clear how broad and networked is today’s Progressive movement through much larger organizations of, ultimately, like-minded groups with large memberships.
Capitalism is 'the ultimate enemy,' says Pecinovsky at 4:20 into the second video. The goal, he says, is not 'duel unionism,' in which some even further Left splits off on his own. What they do and have done already is infiltrate groups already in existence. The mobs that recently swarmed Wisconsin, issuing violent threats to Governor Walker and lawmakers did not simply appear out of nowhere. And now it’s busy trying to recall some of the latter.
Finally, to think that a university selling this anti-American, anti-Capitalist ideology would get $400 million in taxpayer dollars, only to squander some portion of it on classes and an institute of some kind to poison young minds against the very country that built and now largely funds said institution, is only adding insult to injury."
How appalling that families are sacrificing to send their children to college only to find that their children return embracing radical anti-American agendas.
Read from Big Government:
College Course: US Flag Is Racist, How-To Defeat America In Iraq And Afghanistan
by Dan Riehl
"While claiming the American flag represents racism and discussing today’s Progressive Movement’s efforts to defeat America both at home and abroad, including on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to help their international 'comrades,' Communist Tony Pecinovsky pulls the mask off today’s Progressive Movement in two new exclusive Big Government videos of a University of Missouri course offering, already much in the news.
Pecinovsky first came to light yesterday in a Washington Times item by Kerry Picket.
'Communism 101 at the University
Tony Pecinovsky, a Communist Party USA representative who is serving as the Communications Workers of America Secretary and Treasurer in St. Louis, spoke to students at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. In the video, he speaks about how the Communist Party looks to support candidates saying (5:30 mark in the video)':
While discussing “the idea that the American flag is racist,” in the video below,
Pecinovsky mentions a 2005 international youth festival in Venezuela sponsored by the World Federation of Democratic Youth(WFDY).
Pecinovsky brags that the WFDY is officially recognized by the United Nations. He also defines Cuba, Venezuela, and others as genuinely 'progressive,' the very same code word today’s entire American Left uses for itself. That would include the Obama administration and today’s Democrat Party, which it has finally managed to take over. In deed, in the second video, Pecinovsky touts their linkage to such so-called mainstream efforts, including trade unions.
The Young Communist League(YCL) sent 700 young Americans to Venezuela for the event. There, claims Pecinovsky, they had to actually engage in internal debate as to whether, or not to display the American flag next to the flags of countries like Cuba and Venezuela. If they did, it would be only so as to reclaim it from representing racism and what he calls the Right Wing. That includes the Bush administration, as Pecinovsky later reveals.
Going on to call America 'the belly of the beast,' Pecinovsky notes the surprising growth of the Communist Party in America today, claiming an additional 1,500 – 2,000 new members this year, just through the Internet. That number does not include results from ground-level activism and recruiting, according to Pecinovsky.
In the above video, Pecinovsky defines Progressive Internationalismin terms of how to isolate and defeat what he calls the 'ultra Right' in the US. Bear in mind, to him, that term means free market Capitalism and traditional forms of liberty America has traditionally embraced, as well as the previous Bush administration. When speaking of the Left’s 'Iraqi comrades,' and again in speaking about Afghanistan, Pecinovsky’s and the greater Left’s view is, they are organizing domestically to beat America abroad, as well as at home, including while we are at war.
Lest some critics want to dismiss Pecinovsky as some far Leftist fanatic, one only need look to the Peace Movement - which he also addresses, to understand how his progressivism is the very same as that of today’s mainstream Democratic Party. In many ways, it was said Peace Movement and its propaganda, circulated by a complicit media, that so tipped the scales against former President Bush, opening the way for Obama to win the WHite House in 2008.
It was former Democrat Vice President Al Gore who accused then President Bush of betraying the country over Iraq, not some minor Communist activist lecturing a class in Missouri. Those unwilling, or unable to make the very real connection between a Pecinovsky and the Democrat administration we currently have in Washington are simply putting their heads in the sand.
As if to highlight that point, Pecinovsky mentions how his and the Democrat’s anti-American agenda is closely tied to who holds sway in the White House and Congress. He is not talking revolution, but a taking over of America from within, with what he identifies as a 'larger movement.' That’s today’s Left - in practice not theory. And that is precisely what was happening in Washington, until the political reversals of 2010. Was not ObamaCare dictated to us, despite an election in Massachusettes clearly identifying any American majority opinion as opposed to it?
Moving on from the Peace Movement, to Labor, Pecinovsky runs through the well-known alliances making up today’s far Left as part of a unified 'larger movement. 'Almost every member of our (communist) organization is a member of a union, is a member of a coalition, is a member of neighborhood association. Is a member of a peace organization.' While he didn’t say it, how do they differ, especially 'neighborhood association,' from community organizer? They don’t. And we know who the community-organizer-in-chief is in America today, do we not?
In terms of unity, he talks of the existing alliances between many nationally recognized groups and movements through which he and others organize to bring about … change, I suppose. What the Communist Pecinovsky is part of is not simply some ten member group meeting monthly in a basement somewhere. He makes it quite clear how broad and networked is today’s Progressive movement through much larger organizations of, ultimately, like-minded groups with large memberships.
Capitalism is 'the ultimate enemy,' says Pecinovsky at 4:20 into the second video. The goal, he says, is not 'duel unionism,' in which some even further Left splits off on his own. What they do and have done already is infiltrate groups already in existence. The mobs that recently swarmed Wisconsin, issuing violent threats to Governor Walker and lawmakers did not simply appear out of nowhere. And now it’s busy trying to recall some of the latter.
Finally, to think that a university selling this anti-American, anti-Capitalist ideology would get $400 million in taxpayer dollars, only to squander some portion of it on classes and an institute of some kind to poison young minds against the very country that built and now largely funds said institution, is only adding insult to injury."
Beware of Donald Trump
Wake up, conservatives. Donald Trump does not represent us. What conservative would donate a dime to the likes of Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, Harry Reid, or Rahm Emanuel, and the Emanuel donation was RECENT. It's enough to make you want to barf. Do we really want such a man representing us?
Read from the Washington Post:
Trump’s donation history shows Democratic favoritism
"Billionaire Donald J. Trump, an early presidential favorite among tea party activists, has a highly unusual history of political contributions for a prospective Republican candidate: He has given most of his money to the other side.
The real estate mogul and 'Celebrity Apprentice' host has made more than $1.3 million in donations over the years to candidates nationwide, with 54 percent of the money going to Democrats, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal disclosure records.
Recipients include Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.), former Pennsylvania governor Edward G. Rendell, and Rahm Emanuel, a former aide to President Obama who received $50,000 from Trump during his recent run to become Chicago’s mayor, records show. Many of the contributions have been concentrated in New York, Florida and other states where Trump has substantial real estate and casino interests.
The donations provide another view into the odd political spectacle surrounding Trump, who may be the most unlikely of possible GOP presidential hopefuls in an already eclectic field. Although candidates such as Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty have spent years carefully crafting and plotting a White House run, the tycoon and fixture of the New York tabloids has leapt onto the scene with loud proclamations and surprisingly strong poll numbers among likely Republican voters.
The iconoclastic developer and television personality is attempting to appeal to social conservatives, even with a record of failed marriages and earlier statements in favor of abortion rights. His attacks on Obama have focused on conspiracy theories about the president’s birth in Hawaii that make many Republican leaders nervous. And Trump is considering a run for the nomination in an increasingly conservative Republican Party, despite years of donations to prominent Democrats.
None of which has stopped him from forging ahead with a potential candidacy, including a scheduled trip on Wednesday to the early primary state of New Hampshire.
The Democratic recipients of Trump’s donations make up what looks like a Republican enemies list, including former senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), Rep. Charles B. Rangel (N.Y.), Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) and the late liberal lion Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.).
The biggest recipient of all has been the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee of New York, which has taken in more than $125,000 from Trump and his companies. Overall, Trump has given nearly $600,000 to New York state campaigns, with more than two-thirds going to Democrats.
His representatives did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday. But Trump said in a recent interview that he had relatively few Republican options in an overwhelmingly blue state.
'Everyone’s Democratic,' he told Fox News in an interview about his potential candidacy. 'So what am I going to do — contribute to Republicans? One thing: I’m not stupid. Am I going to contribute to Republicans for my whole life when they get heat when they run against some Democrat and the most they can get is 1 percent of the vote?'
His Democratic generosity is hardly confined to New York, however. Trump has given more than $250,000 to federal candidates and campaigns, including more than $100,000 to the party’s House and Senate campaign committees. He donated $10,400 to Reid, including for his 2010 battle with Sharron Angle, the GOP nominee and tea party favorite.
Ron Bonjean, a GOP consultant and former Capitol Hill aide, said that 'it will be hard for him to spin his way out of direct campaign contributions' to Reid and other Democrats.
'In a Republican primary, it shows where your loyalty lies,' said Bonjean, who has not signed on with a GOP presidential candidate. 'He may be giving this money to Democrats because it helps his business, but it will be a big deal to Republican primary voters.'
While favoring Democrats, Trump has donated more than $600,000 to Republicans as well, including Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the party’s 2008 presidential nominee, whom Trump first supported in 1998.
He gave $95,000 to the Republican Governors Association for its record-breaking electoral push in 2010, and he has donated more than $80,000 to the three national GOP political committees in the past two decades. Individual Republicans supported by Trump include former congressman Tom DeLay (Tex.), former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) and former senator George Allen (Va.).
The data collected by The Post for this article does not include donations to outside interest groups. Last year, for instance, Trump gave $50,000 to American Crossroads, which supported Republican candidates in the midterm elections.
GOP political consultant Alex Castellanos said Trump’s contribution pattern is similar to the approach of many business leaders and corporations that divide their donations between the two parties. But to get through a Republican primary season, he added, 'it doesn’t help to have that record.'
One of Trump’s biggest Democratic beneficiaries was Rendell, who received $32,000 from the mogul during his 2002 primary and general election campaigns to become Pennsylvania’s governor. Rendell, who favors abortion rights, was challenged in the Democratic primary by Bob Casey Jr., who opposes abortion.
When he considered a run for president in 2000 as a Reform Party candidate, Trump said he supported abortion rights. But he said last week that he now opposes the procedure except in cases of rape or incest or when the mother’s health is at risk.
In Pennsylvania, Rendell favored allowing slots gambling, and Trump waged a long and ultimately fruitless battle to secure a casino license in the state after the practice was legalized. He publicly lashed out at Rendell when an independent gaming board rejected the license application, calling Pennsylvania 'a little too political of a state for me.'
The tycoon benefited from a Rendell decision to lift a moratorium on water development rights in Philadelphia, allowing a planned Trump Tower project to proceed. The luxury development has since been put on hold amid the economic downturn.
Rendell did not respond to a telephone message seeking comment Tuesday.
Former congressman Thomas M. Davis III (Va.), who served as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said Trump’s close ties to some Democrats would be 'a huge obstacle, but it’s not insurmountable.' Trump, he added, would not be running as a 'purity' candidate.
'Republicans are looking for a savior,' Davis said. 'Here’s a guy who has succeeded outside politics and articulates the right vision. Sometimes that works. . . . It’s a long shot, but it’s not out of the bounds of possibility.'"
Read from the Washington Post:
Trump’s donation history shows Democratic favoritism
"Billionaire Donald J. Trump, an early presidential favorite among tea party activists, has a highly unusual history of political contributions for a prospective Republican candidate: He has given most of his money to the other side.
The real estate mogul and 'Celebrity Apprentice' host has made more than $1.3 million in donations over the years to candidates nationwide, with 54 percent of the money going to Democrats, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal disclosure records.
Recipients include Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.), former Pennsylvania governor Edward G. Rendell, and Rahm Emanuel, a former aide to President Obama who received $50,000 from Trump during his recent run to become Chicago’s mayor, records show. Many of the contributions have been concentrated in New York, Florida and other states where Trump has substantial real estate and casino interests.
The donations provide another view into the odd political spectacle surrounding Trump, who may be the most unlikely of possible GOP presidential hopefuls in an already eclectic field. Although candidates such as Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty have spent years carefully crafting and plotting a White House run, the tycoon and fixture of the New York tabloids has leapt onto the scene with loud proclamations and surprisingly strong poll numbers among likely Republican voters.
The iconoclastic developer and television personality is attempting to appeal to social conservatives, even with a record of failed marriages and earlier statements in favor of abortion rights. His attacks on Obama have focused on conspiracy theories about the president’s birth in Hawaii that make many Republican leaders nervous. And Trump is considering a run for the nomination in an increasingly conservative Republican Party, despite years of donations to prominent Democrats.
None of which has stopped him from forging ahead with a potential candidacy, including a scheduled trip on Wednesday to the early primary state of New Hampshire.
The Democratic recipients of Trump’s donations make up what looks like a Republican enemies list, including former senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), Rep. Charles B. Rangel (N.Y.), Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) and the late liberal lion Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.).
The biggest recipient of all has been the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee of New York, which has taken in more than $125,000 from Trump and his companies. Overall, Trump has given nearly $600,000 to New York state campaigns, with more than two-thirds going to Democrats.
His representatives did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday. But Trump said in a recent interview that he had relatively few Republican options in an overwhelmingly blue state.
'Everyone’s Democratic,' he told Fox News in an interview about his potential candidacy. 'So what am I going to do — contribute to Republicans? One thing: I’m not stupid. Am I going to contribute to Republicans for my whole life when they get heat when they run against some Democrat and the most they can get is 1 percent of the vote?'
His Democratic generosity is hardly confined to New York, however. Trump has given more than $250,000 to federal candidates and campaigns, including more than $100,000 to the party’s House and Senate campaign committees. He donated $10,400 to Reid, including for his 2010 battle with Sharron Angle, the GOP nominee and tea party favorite.
Ron Bonjean, a GOP consultant and former Capitol Hill aide, said that 'it will be hard for him to spin his way out of direct campaign contributions' to Reid and other Democrats.
'In a Republican primary, it shows where your loyalty lies,' said Bonjean, who has not signed on with a GOP presidential candidate. 'He may be giving this money to Democrats because it helps his business, but it will be a big deal to Republican primary voters.'
While favoring Democrats, Trump has donated more than $600,000 to Republicans as well, including Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the party’s 2008 presidential nominee, whom Trump first supported in 1998.
He gave $95,000 to the Republican Governors Association for its record-breaking electoral push in 2010, and he has donated more than $80,000 to the three national GOP political committees in the past two decades. Individual Republicans supported by Trump include former congressman Tom DeLay (Tex.), former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) and former senator George Allen (Va.).
The data collected by The Post for this article does not include donations to outside interest groups. Last year, for instance, Trump gave $50,000 to American Crossroads, which supported Republican candidates in the midterm elections.
GOP political consultant Alex Castellanos said Trump’s contribution pattern is similar to the approach of many business leaders and corporations that divide their donations between the two parties. But to get through a Republican primary season, he added, 'it doesn’t help to have that record.'
One of Trump’s biggest Democratic beneficiaries was Rendell, who received $32,000 from the mogul during his 2002 primary and general election campaigns to become Pennsylvania’s governor. Rendell, who favors abortion rights, was challenged in the Democratic primary by Bob Casey Jr., who opposes abortion.
When he considered a run for president in 2000 as a Reform Party candidate, Trump said he supported abortion rights. But he said last week that he now opposes the procedure except in cases of rape or incest or when the mother’s health is at risk.
In Pennsylvania, Rendell favored allowing slots gambling, and Trump waged a long and ultimately fruitless battle to secure a casino license in the state after the practice was legalized. He publicly lashed out at Rendell when an independent gaming board rejected the license application, calling Pennsylvania 'a little too political of a state for me.'
The tycoon benefited from a Rendell decision to lift a moratorium on water development rights in Philadelphia, allowing a planned Trump Tower project to proceed. The luxury development has since been put on hold amid the economic downturn.
Rendell did not respond to a telephone message seeking comment Tuesday.
Former congressman Thomas M. Davis III (Va.), who served as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said Trump’s close ties to some Democrats would be 'a huge obstacle, but it’s not insurmountable.' Trump, he added, would not be running as a 'purity' candidate.
'Republicans are looking for a savior,' Davis said. 'Here’s a guy who has succeeded outside politics and articulates the right vision. Sometimes that works. . . . It’s a long shot, but it’s not out of the bounds of possibility.'"
How Dare She Walk Beside Him?
Once again the feminists in America are AWOL. Are they okay with females being beaten by the opposite sex for daring to walk beside a male in a protest? Based on their silence, I suppose they have no problem with such behavior.
Feminism isn't about looking out for women; it's about promoting liberalism.
Read from Weasel Zippers:
Yemen: Islamists Beating up Women for Marching Alongside Men During Anti-Regime Protests…
"Let me guess, they just want 'democracy.'
(Yemen Observer) — 'The peaceful revolution should be refined and the “terrorist culture of the Taliban” should be expelled from its ranks, a Yemeni opposition leader has said on Saturday.
Dr. Mohammed Abdul Malik al-Mutawakil, former chairman of the Islamist-led opposition coalition, called on opposition leaders — especially the Islamists — to stop beating up women who march with men.
He also told them to apologize to the women who were beaten up by extremists for marching alongside men last week. Al-Mutawakil is the secretary-general of an opposition party, Federation of Popular Forces, which is a small Islamic party from the Zaidi-Shiite sect and part of the opposition coalition Joint Meeting Parties (JMP).
Al-Mutawakil said that he would boycott all opposition meetings until its leaders publicly apologized to women and stopped such barbaric behavior. In total, seven women and 11 men were beaten up and arrested for hours by extremist Islamists for marching together at an anti-government protest in the capital Sana’a on April 16.
The 18 women and men who were attacked included well-known female activists like Arwa Othman, Huda al-Attas, Jamila Ali Raja, Elham al-Kebsi and Sara Jamal. They published a joint statement to the media and Yemen’s general prosecutor in which they demanded prosecution of perpetrators.'"
Feminism isn't about looking out for women; it's about promoting liberalism.
Read from Weasel Zippers:
Yemen: Islamists Beating up Women for Marching Alongside Men During Anti-Regime Protests…
"Let me guess, they just want 'democracy.'
(Yemen Observer) — 'The peaceful revolution should be refined and the “terrorist culture of the Taliban” should be expelled from its ranks, a Yemeni opposition leader has said on Saturday.
Dr. Mohammed Abdul Malik al-Mutawakil, former chairman of the Islamist-led opposition coalition, called on opposition leaders — especially the Islamists — to stop beating up women who march with men.
He also told them to apologize to the women who were beaten up by extremists for marching alongside men last week. Al-Mutawakil is the secretary-general of an opposition party, Federation of Popular Forces, which is a small Islamic party from the Zaidi-Shiite sect and part of the opposition coalition Joint Meeting Parties (JMP).
Al-Mutawakil said that he would boycott all opposition meetings until its leaders publicly apologized to women and stopped such barbaric behavior. In total, seven women and 11 men were beaten up and arrested for hours by extremist Islamists for marching together at an anti-government protest in the capital Sana’a on April 16.
The 18 women and men who were attacked included well-known female activists like Arwa Othman, Huda al-Attas, Jamila Ali Raja, Elham al-Kebsi and Sara Jamal. They published a joint statement to the media and Yemen’s general prosecutor in which they demanded prosecution of perpetrators.'"
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
For Your Entertainment
Donald Trump's questioning of the legitimacy of Obama's U.S. birth certificate is having its impact on the public.
From Gateway Pundit:
Oh My… Only 38% Believe Obama Was Definitely Born in USA
"Trumped.
Only 38% of Americans believe Obama was definitely born in the USA
The Daily Mail reported:
'The so-called ‘birther’ conspiracy appears to have maintained its traction on American voters ahead of next year’s elections, as a new poll shows fewer than four in 10 believe President Barack Obama was definitely born in the U.S…
…Among those who say they definitely or might vote for Mr Trump just a third question Mr Obama’s birthplace.
Birther support is stronger for Mr Trumps Republican rivals Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee the poll shows.'"
From Gateway Pundit:
Oh My… Only 38% Believe Obama Was Definitely Born in USA
"Trumped.
Only 38% of Americans believe Obama was definitely born in the USA
The Daily Mail reported:
'The so-called ‘birther’ conspiracy appears to have maintained its traction on American voters ahead of next year’s elections, as a new poll shows fewer than four in 10 believe President Barack Obama was definitely born in the U.S…
…Among those who say they definitely or might vote for Mr Trump just a third question Mr Obama’s birthplace.
Birther support is stronger for Mr Trumps Republican rivals Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee the poll shows.'"
"In a Word: Islam"
We hear all sorts of reports of what is going on in Afghanistan. But, here's an opportunity to get an account of what it is like on the ground from one of our troops.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Afghanistan Observations
"I emailed you some time ago my praise for your work. I do so again. Currently I am deployed with my Marine infantry battalion to Helmand, AFG. Daily I get to see what the country offers: subjugation of women, abuse of children, stagnation of minds, industry and hope… wasted lives. In a word: Islam.
I have had some poignant moments over the last many months in Afghanistan. They have shaped my view of this place and Islam. The other day I was walking from a compound to our vehicles with a group of elders, when off about 60 feet away I notice a woman of probably 20 or 25 walking towards us with her little daughter. She was in the full body black cloth coffin, moving like a wispy wraith. Every movement was fear. When she got to about 20 paces away from us, she moved off the road, next to the canal, and squatted down, back towards us. Her little daughter did the same. Later I asked one of our interpreters why she did that and he said because she did not want to 'bring dishonor.' I asked him rhetorically, 'Do you realize how absolutely screwed up that is?' Of course he didn’t.
A few days later, we walked next to some compounds in an area the Marines had never been to before. As we patrolled and secured, a group of little boys came out and watched us. In a nation with no literacy, Marines are a week’s worth of excitement and gossip. I had some candies in a bag so I passed some out as we talked with the kids about foreigners, Taliban, and peace. At that moment, 2 of the cutest little girls you have ever seen came out peeked out of the compound and immediately the little boys flew into a rage and chased them with sticks, throwing them and hitting one girl square in the back. I immediately chastened the boys and told them that what they did was not wrong, it was evil. The boys shouted back that they were 'just girls!'
Two days ago, one of the linguists I work with was sitting looking like a man broken-hearted. I asked what was wrong and his friends, all full of vacant eyed smiles, said, 'His fiancé killed herself!' as they all laughed except for the broken hearted one. I didn’t believe them at first because humans do not respond to tragedy in triumphant laughter. I again asked what the matter was and they again reiterated that his girl had killed herself. At this he looked up mournfully and nodded. Her parents tried to force her into a marriage with another man and she resisted. They forced, so she took poison. His friends went on to explain that it was OK because 'she was just a girl and there are many others.' I stopped them as only an angry Marine can. I described to them in very insensitive language that they are all jacked up and their mood represents why their country is in the Stone Age, that this place has no heart and their souls are dead. I told them that they need to get through their heads that a woman’s life is just as important as a man’s and when a woman dies it is just as tragic as when a man dies. They looked at me as though I was explaining to them a deep secret and two of them even started nodding. Maybe there is hope. I wished the linguist affected well and was done with them.
I am growing increasingly upset with the culture of Islam here. I am growing increasingly vocal. In a meeting the other day as local elders were discussing ways to improve this place, I announced that the reality of the situation is that the men have screwed this place up so bad it’s time to arm the women with machine guns and give them a turn. A few laughed; I didn’t. Soon, no one laughed when they realized I was serious. What I have learned is that Islam is pain and human suffering. For the rest of my life I will fight it wherever it creeps. Even the Northern Afghanis who fight with us against the Taliban and their much more open minded (think New York Catholic) view of Islam (who say the only solution is to genocide the south and start over) lack an element of humanity, that righteous desire to 'defend the defenseless.' I have attached an unclassified intelligence report that sheds some light on what Islam in it’s pure form does to civilizations.
I have seen the face of Islam and I do not care what Charles Johnson or Ibrahim Hooper say: social, economic, and religious systems must be judged by their fruits. The same standard by which I reject socialism, communism, and Nazism is what I use when I reject Islam. That standard is human happiness."
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Afghanistan Observations
"I emailed you some time ago my praise for your work. I do so again. Currently I am deployed with my Marine infantry battalion to Helmand, AFG. Daily I get to see what the country offers: subjugation of women, abuse of children, stagnation of minds, industry and hope… wasted lives. In a word: Islam.
I have had some poignant moments over the last many months in Afghanistan. They have shaped my view of this place and Islam. The other day I was walking from a compound to our vehicles with a group of elders, when off about 60 feet away I notice a woman of probably 20 or 25 walking towards us with her little daughter. She was in the full body black cloth coffin, moving like a wispy wraith. Every movement was fear. When she got to about 20 paces away from us, she moved off the road, next to the canal, and squatted down, back towards us. Her little daughter did the same. Later I asked one of our interpreters why she did that and he said because she did not want to 'bring dishonor.' I asked him rhetorically, 'Do you realize how absolutely screwed up that is?' Of course he didn’t.
A few days later, we walked next to some compounds in an area the Marines had never been to before. As we patrolled and secured, a group of little boys came out and watched us. In a nation with no literacy, Marines are a week’s worth of excitement and gossip. I had some candies in a bag so I passed some out as we talked with the kids about foreigners, Taliban, and peace. At that moment, 2 of the cutest little girls you have ever seen came out peeked out of the compound and immediately the little boys flew into a rage and chased them with sticks, throwing them and hitting one girl square in the back. I immediately chastened the boys and told them that what they did was not wrong, it was evil. The boys shouted back that they were 'just girls!'
Two days ago, one of the linguists I work with was sitting looking like a man broken-hearted. I asked what was wrong and his friends, all full of vacant eyed smiles, said, 'His fiancé killed herself!' as they all laughed except for the broken hearted one. I didn’t believe them at first because humans do not respond to tragedy in triumphant laughter. I again asked what the matter was and they again reiterated that his girl had killed herself. At this he looked up mournfully and nodded. Her parents tried to force her into a marriage with another man and she resisted. They forced, so she took poison. His friends went on to explain that it was OK because 'she was just a girl and there are many others.' I stopped them as only an angry Marine can. I described to them in very insensitive language that they are all jacked up and their mood represents why their country is in the Stone Age, that this place has no heart and their souls are dead. I told them that they need to get through their heads that a woman’s life is just as important as a man’s and when a woman dies it is just as tragic as when a man dies. They looked at me as though I was explaining to them a deep secret and two of them even started nodding. Maybe there is hope. I wished the linguist affected well and was done with them.
I am growing increasingly upset with the culture of Islam here. I am growing increasingly vocal. In a meeting the other day as local elders were discussing ways to improve this place, I announced that the reality of the situation is that the men have screwed this place up so bad it’s time to arm the women with machine guns and give them a turn. A few laughed; I didn’t. Soon, no one laughed when they realized I was serious. What I have learned is that Islam is pain and human suffering. For the rest of my life I will fight it wherever it creeps. Even the Northern Afghanis who fight with us against the Taliban and their much more open minded (think New York Catholic) view of Islam (who say the only solution is to genocide the south and start over) lack an element of humanity, that righteous desire to 'defend the defenseless.' I have attached an unclassified intelligence report that sheds some light on what Islam in it’s pure form does to civilizations.
I have seen the face of Islam and I do not care what Charles Johnson or Ibrahim Hooper say: social, economic, and religious systems must be judged by their fruits. The same standard by which I reject socialism, communism, and Nazism is what I use when I reject Islam. That standard is human happiness."
Syria on the UN Human Rights Council?
You can't make this stuff up.
From Weasel Zippers:
Despite Brutal Crackdown on Protesters, Syria’s Election to UN Human Rights Council “All But Assured”…
"The UN never manages to disappoint.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — 'Human rights groups and a growing number of governments are working to prevent Syria from being elected to the U.N.’s top human rights body, as President Bashar Assad’s security forces crack down on pro-democracy protesters.
Syria’s election to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council is all but assured as one of four candidates selected to fill four Asian seats unless another candidate enters the race or Syria fails to win a majority of votes in the May 20 election in the 192-member General Assembly.
Since the 53-member Asian Group endorsed its slate — which also includes India, Indonesia and the Philippines — for the council in January, rights groups and some governments have engaged in a behind-the-scenes effort to keep Syria off the council.
Those efforts have gathered steam since a crackdown on pro-democracy protests since mid-March has left more than 350 dead and hundreds wounded, diplomats said.
One diplomat involved in the process, speaking on condition of anonymity because the consultations are private, said he was confident that another country would be found to contest the election but declined to say which countries were being pursued.'"
From Weasel Zippers:
Despite Brutal Crackdown on Protesters, Syria’s Election to UN Human Rights Council “All But Assured”…
"The UN never manages to disappoint.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — 'Human rights groups and a growing number of governments are working to prevent Syria from being elected to the U.N.’s top human rights body, as President Bashar Assad’s security forces crack down on pro-democracy protesters.
Syria’s election to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council is all but assured as one of four candidates selected to fill four Asian seats unless another candidate enters the race or Syria fails to win a majority of votes in the May 20 election in the 192-member General Assembly.
Since the 53-member Asian Group endorsed its slate — which also includes India, Indonesia and the Philippines — for the council in January, rights groups and some governments have engaged in a behind-the-scenes effort to keep Syria off the council.
Those efforts have gathered steam since a crackdown on pro-democracy protests since mid-March has left more than 350 dead and hundreds wounded, diplomats said.
One diplomat involved in the process, speaking on condition of anonymity because the consultations are private, said he was confident that another country would be found to contest the election but declined to say which countries were being pursued.'"
Egyptians Don't Want Peace with Israel
When Egypt breaks its peace treaty with Israel, we can thank the foreign policy genius in the White House for his part in encouraging the Egyptian people to overthrow their dictator, Hosni Mubarak, who happened to be an ally of ours.
Don't think for one moment that Obama did not know that the Muslim Brotherhood would come to power. I truly believe his number one goal is the destruction of Israel. That Muslim blood running through his veins runs deep, and it calls for the death of Israeli Jews. As Glenn Beck so often says, Israel is being set up, and the Responsiblity to Protect will be the means Obama uses to accomplish his goal. Or so he plans.
We shall yet see what the God of Israel has to say. If I were Obama, I would be concerned about one key verse: Obadiah 15 which states regarding Israel:
"The day of the Lord is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head."
Read from Jihad Watch:
Poll: Over half of Egypt wants to end the peace with Israel
"I tried to tell you. 'Poll: Over half of Egypt wants end to Israel peace,' by Paul Schemm for AP, April 25 (thanks to Nichole):
CAIRO (AP) - 'More than half of all Egyptians would like to see the 1979 peace treaty with Israel annulled, according to results of a poll conducted by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center released Monday.
The poll highlights the deep unpopularity of the three-decade-old treaty, which is central to U.S. policy in the region and was scrupulously adhered to by former President Hosni Mubarak, until his Feb. 11 ouster....
According to the poll results, only 36 percent of Egyptians are in favor of maintaining the treaty, compared with 54 percent who would like to see it scrapped....
Opinions varied according to income, with 60 percent of lower income Egyptians supporting the treaty's cancellation while only 45 percent of the wealthier classes thinking it should be done away with.
Only 40 percent of Egyptians with a college education felt the treaty should be scrapped, as well....'
AP clearly wants you to think that Islamic antisemitism is restricted to the poor and ignorant. If only it were so."
Read from Weasel Zippers:
Pew Research Poll: 75% of Egyptians Have Favorable View of Muslim Brotherhood, Only 20% Feel Same Way About US…
"Disaster.
(CFR) — 'The Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project is out with a new poll on what Egyptians are thinking about the dramatic political changes they are experiencing. Egyptians are upbeat about their future, but they don’t look too kindly on the United States or the now three-decades-old peace treaty with Israel.
Some highlights:
•Nearly eight in ten Egyptians (77 percent) think that Hosni Mubarak’s resignation was a “good thing.”
•More than seven out of ten Egyptians have a “very favorable” (37 percent) or “somewhat favorable” (38 percent) view of the Muslim Brotherhood.
•Nearly nine in ten Egyptians think that the Egyptian military has had a “very good influence” (53 percent) or “somewhat good influence” (35 percent) on the the way things are going.
•Only 20 percent of Egyptians hold a “favorable” opinion of the United States. That’s just three percentage points higher than what Pew found in its polling a year ago. Roughly two out of three Egyptians have “not too much” or no confidence in Barack Obama. So the White House has won few political benefits from urging Mubarak to step down.
•A majority of Egyptians (54 percent) want to annul Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. The poll doesn’t indicate how those who want to annul the treaty would change Egypt’s policy toward Israel.
The survey covers a lot more terrain, including insights into what Egyptians hope will come out of the ongoing political change. Not surprisingly, better economic conditions top the list. No matter the country, jobs come first.'
Keep reading…"
Don't think for one moment that Obama did not know that the Muslim Brotherhood would come to power. I truly believe his number one goal is the destruction of Israel. That Muslim blood running through his veins runs deep, and it calls for the death of Israeli Jews. As Glenn Beck so often says, Israel is being set up, and the Responsiblity to Protect will be the means Obama uses to accomplish his goal. Or so he plans.
We shall yet see what the God of Israel has to say. If I were Obama, I would be concerned about one key verse: Obadiah 15 which states regarding Israel:
"The day of the Lord is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head."
Read from Jihad Watch:
Poll: Over half of Egypt wants to end the peace with Israel
"I tried to tell you. 'Poll: Over half of Egypt wants end to Israel peace,' by Paul Schemm for AP, April 25 (thanks to Nichole):
CAIRO (AP) - 'More than half of all Egyptians would like to see the 1979 peace treaty with Israel annulled, according to results of a poll conducted by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center released Monday.
The poll highlights the deep unpopularity of the three-decade-old treaty, which is central to U.S. policy in the region and was scrupulously adhered to by former President Hosni Mubarak, until his Feb. 11 ouster....
According to the poll results, only 36 percent of Egyptians are in favor of maintaining the treaty, compared with 54 percent who would like to see it scrapped....
Opinions varied according to income, with 60 percent of lower income Egyptians supporting the treaty's cancellation while only 45 percent of the wealthier classes thinking it should be done away with.
Only 40 percent of Egyptians with a college education felt the treaty should be scrapped, as well....'
AP clearly wants you to think that Islamic antisemitism is restricted to the poor and ignorant. If only it were so."
Read from Weasel Zippers:
Pew Research Poll: 75% of Egyptians Have Favorable View of Muslim Brotherhood, Only 20% Feel Same Way About US…
"Disaster.
(CFR) — 'The Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project is out with a new poll on what Egyptians are thinking about the dramatic political changes they are experiencing. Egyptians are upbeat about their future, but they don’t look too kindly on the United States or the now three-decades-old peace treaty with Israel.
Some highlights:
•Nearly eight in ten Egyptians (77 percent) think that Hosni Mubarak’s resignation was a “good thing.”
•More than seven out of ten Egyptians have a “very favorable” (37 percent) or “somewhat favorable” (38 percent) view of the Muslim Brotherhood.
•Nearly nine in ten Egyptians think that the Egyptian military has had a “very good influence” (53 percent) or “somewhat good influence” (35 percent) on the the way things are going.
•Only 20 percent of Egyptians hold a “favorable” opinion of the United States. That’s just three percentage points higher than what Pew found in its polling a year ago. Roughly two out of three Egyptians have “not too much” or no confidence in Barack Obama. So the White House has won few political benefits from urging Mubarak to step down.
•A majority of Egyptians (54 percent) want to annul Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. The poll doesn’t indicate how those who want to annul the treaty would change Egypt’s policy toward Israel.
The survey covers a lot more terrain, including insights into what Egyptians hope will come out of the ongoing political change. Not surprisingly, better economic conditions top the list. No matter the country, jobs come first.'
Keep reading…"
Nigeria Leads in Killing Most Christians
I realize that there are many devastating things happening in the world currently. However, if the American Pravda was doing its job and not kowtowing to Islam, this horrific massacre of Christians in Nigeria would be a major news story.
But, don't hold your breath; the victims are ONLY Christians, and we all know that our press has a disdain for all things related to the true God of the Bible because they don't want to be reminded that there is a God who will one day hold them accountable for whether or not they accepted His Son, Jesus.
I'm warning you that the photo at the end of this story is truly disturbing. Imagine if these victims were Muslims; the outcry would be deafening.
Read from Weasel Zippers:
Nigeria: More Than 60 Churches Burned, Thousands of Christian-Owned Homes Destroyed in Muslim Areas After Presidential Elections…
"The sad part is these elections were widely considered to be free and fair for the first time in decades.
(Christian Post) — 'More than 60 churches were burned and thousands of Christian-owned homes destroyed in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north after the recent election of incumbent Christian president Goodluck Jonathan, according to the Christian persecution watchdog group Open Doors.
Riots broke out Monday after the preliminary results of Saturday’s vote were announced. Jonathan, who was sworn in as president in May 2010, was announced president over his Muslim opponent Muhammadu Buhari.
“Last year there were more martyrs in Nigeria — approximately 2,000 Christians killed in the northern part — than in any other country in the world,” said Open Doors USA President/CEO Carl Moeller. “Nigeria is such a key country in the spread of Christianity all over Africa.”
“Please join me in prayer for the Christians there, especially for those in the north,” he added.
Muslims complained that the vote tallies were rigged, but independent observers described the election as the fairest in decades.
“The elections for the National Assembly and the Presidency were both credible and creditable and reflected the will of the Nigerian people,” said the Commonwealth observers’ report.'
And if you want to see the ROP’s handiwork in Nigeria, here’s a pic of the charred Christian bodies they left behind."
I ask you, American Pravda, which deserve more attention: the royal wedding or the slaughter of innocent Christians?
But, don't hold your breath; the victims are ONLY Christians, and we all know that our press has a disdain for all things related to the true God of the Bible because they don't want to be reminded that there is a God who will one day hold them accountable for whether or not they accepted His Son, Jesus.
I'm warning you that the photo at the end of this story is truly disturbing. Imagine if these victims were Muslims; the outcry would be deafening.
Read from Weasel Zippers:
Nigeria: More Than 60 Churches Burned, Thousands of Christian-Owned Homes Destroyed in Muslim Areas After Presidential Elections…
"The sad part is these elections were widely considered to be free and fair for the first time in decades.
(Christian Post) — 'More than 60 churches were burned and thousands of Christian-owned homes destroyed in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north after the recent election of incumbent Christian president Goodluck Jonathan, according to the Christian persecution watchdog group Open Doors.
Riots broke out Monday after the preliminary results of Saturday’s vote were announced. Jonathan, who was sworn in as president in May 2010, was announced president over his Muslim opponent Muhammadu Buhari.
“Last year there were more martyrs in Nigeria — approximately 2,000 Christians killed in the northern part — than in any other country in the world,” said Open Doors USA President/CEO Carl Moeller. “Nigeria is such a key country in the spread of Christianity all over Africa.”
“Please join me in prayer for the Christians there, especially for those in the north,” he added.
Muslims complained that the vote tallies were rigged, but independent observers described the election as the fairest in decades.
“The elections for the National Assembly and the Presidency were both credible and creditable and reflected the will of the Nigerian people,” said the Commonwealth observers’ report.'
And if you want to see the ROP’s handiwork in Nigeria, here’s a pic of the charred Christian bodies they left behind."
I ask you, American Pravda, which deserve more attention: the royal wedding or the slaughter of innocent Christians?
Monday, April 25, 2011
Islamic Supremacism
First, the Islamists wanted to build a mosque and cultural center within the shadows of Ground Zero to show their conquest over the Great Satan. Naturally, this enraged most good and decent Americans.
Not surprisingly, Muslim arrogance is on display not only in the U.S., but in Europe as well, as Muslims show their contempt for Christianity, and on Good Friday no less. It's becoming abundantly clear that the more the West caves to their demands, the more emboldened they become.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Good Friday in Rome: Muslims Illegally Pray at "Altar to the homeland"
"Imagine if Christians tried this in Mecca. What is so utterly galling is how much respect they demand for their belligerence, contempt and violence. Islamic supremacism.
Maxime Lépante made today a new video that shows how Muslims illegally prayed on the ground in the center of Rome, this past Friday, April 22nd, 2011 :
Video description:
'Déclaration de guerre - Prières musulmanes en plein Rome (22 avril 2011)
Those illegal Muslim prayers took place on the Piazza Venezia, in front of the national monument dedicated to Vittorio-Emanuele II, and, more precisely, in front of the "Altar to the homeland"
Therefore, those prayers were a declaration of war to the Italian homeland.
Moreover, this Friday, April 22nd, was the Good Friday : therefore, those prayers were a declaration of war to all the Christians too'
Reminds me of this. And this ...takbir. They allegedly apologized -- but they keep on doing it. Islamic imperialism."
Not surprisingly, Muslim arrogance is on display not only in the U.S., but in Europe as well, as Muslims show their contempt for Christianity, and on Good Friday no less. It's becoming abundantly clear that the more the West caves to their demands, the more emboldened they become.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Good Friday in Rome: Muslims Illegally Pray at "Altar to the homeland"
"Imagine if Christians tried this in Mecca. What is so utterly galling is how much respect they demand for their belligerence, contempt and violence. Islamic supremacism.
Maxime Lépante made today a new video that shows how Muslims illegally prayed on the ground in the center of Rome, this past Friday, April 22nd, 2011 :
Video description:
'Déclaration de guerre - Prières musulmanes en plein Rome (22 avril 2011)
Those illegal Muslim prayers took place on the Piazza Venezia, in front of the national monument dedicated to Vittorio-Emanuele II, and, more precisely, in front of the "Altar to the homeland"
Therefore, those prayers were a declaration of war to the Italian homeland.
Moreover, this Friday, April 22nd, was the Good Friday : therefore, those prayers were a declaration of war to all the Christians too'
Reminds me of this. And this ...takbir. They allegedly apologized -- but they keep on doing it. Islamic imperialism."
Terry Jones Plans to Sue in Michigan
What has happened to this great nation? Why have we become a bunch of wimps? Do we not have the moral courage to stand up to a religious group which represents a lousy 1% of our population, especially when we have the law on our side?
Our Founding Fathers must be livid to see the Constitution being disregarded in an effort to kowtow to a particular religion.
I'm no fan of Terry Jones, but it is outrageous that he is not being permitted to exercise his First Amendment right to free speech because Dearbornistan officials are frightened of violent behavior from the "religion of peace". It's rather ironic that leftists promote the theme that Islam is indeed a peaceful religion, but at the same time, they defy our laws to prevent something that is far from peaceful from occurring.
If it's legal for the Westboro Baptists to spout their vile nonsense, then it should be the same for Jones.
You may be interested to know that Terry Jones is not taking his unfair treatment lying down, but plans to sue. Too many Americans have become sue happy, but this is a situation which must be addressed to keep America from becoming Sharia friendly.
Read from Jihad Watch:
Terry Jones to sue over enforcement of Sharia in Dearborn, Michigan
"Arrested for something he had not done -- not a crime he didn't commit, mind you, but a crime that no one committed, and something that, if it had been done, isn't even a crime at all. Except under Islamic law, that is. An update on this story. 'Terry Jones says he'll sue over his arrest,' by Oralandar Brand-Williams and Mark Hicks for The Detroit News, April 25:
'The controversy over Florida pastor Terry Jones is unlikely to end anytime soon.
He said he plans to file a lawsuit against the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office and other government offices in connection with his arrest Friday following a jury trial that found he was likely to create a 'breach of the peace' for plans to protest outside the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn.
And he still vows to conduct his protest, but it will be Friday outside Dearborn City Hall.
"We invite every American who still believes in the freedom and rights that our Constitution guarantees to come and stand with us," Jones said Sunday.
The controversial Quran-burning pastor said he is working with the Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center because "we were arrested for something we had not done."
Jones' case is unique, said Richard Thompson, the center's president and chief counsel. "There are legal experts and commentators from all sides of the political spectrum who agree that what happened to Pastor Jones was a violation of the First Amendment."
Constitutional law expert Robert Sedler said he is glad Jones is challenging the "bizarre" ruling by 19th District Judge Mark Somers requiring Jones to post a "peace bond," jailing him for refusing and ordering him to stay away from the mosque for three years — all before Jones held the demonstration.
"The Supreme Court says you cannot deny a permit because of the message," said Sedler, a Wayne State University Law School professor. "The U.S. Constitution supersedes everything, which is why this is so bizarre."
At the trial, prosecutors cited an imam's remark that some see burning a Quran as worth 1,000 lives to explain why violence might erupt.
Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini, whom prosecutors were quoting about the Quran burning, said while safety concerns were legitimate, he was referring to reaction abroad. "I had no concerns at all that our community would react violently," he said....'
Even if that is true, the responsibility for what people do abroad lies with them, not with Terry Jones."
Our Founding Fathers must be livid to see the Constitution being disregarded in an effort to kowtow to a particular religion.
I'm no fan of Terry Jones, but it is outrageous that he is not being permitted to exercise his First Amendment right to free speech because Dearbornistan officials are frightened of violent behavior from the "religion of peace". It's rather ironic that leftists promote the theme that Islam is indeed a peaceful religion, but at the same time, they defy our laws to prevent something that is far from peaceful from occurring.
If it's legal for the Westboro Baptists to spout their vile nonsense, then it should be the same for Jones.
You may be interested to know that Terry Jones is not taking his unfair treatment lying down, but plans to sue. Too many Americans have become sue happy, but this is a situation which must be addressed to keep America from becoming Sharia friendly.
Read from Jihad Watch:
Terry Jones to sue over enforcement of Sharia in Dearborn, Michigan
"Arrested for something he had not done -- not a crime he didn't commit, mind you, but a crime that no one committed, and something that, if it had been done, isn't even a crime at all. Except under Islamic law, that is. An update on this story. 'Terry Jones says he'll sue over his arrest,' by Oralandar Brand-Williams and Mark Hicks for The Detroit News, April 25:
'The controversy over Florida pastor Terry Jones is unlikely to end anytime soon.
He said he plans to file a lawsuit against the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office and other government offices in connection with his arrest Friday following a jury trial that found he was likely to create a 'breach of the peace' for plans to protest outside the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn.
And he still vows to conduct his protest, but it will be Friday outside Dearborn City Hall.
"We invite every American who still believes in the freedom and rights that our Constitution guarantees to come and stand with us," Jones said Sunday.
The controversial Quran-burning pastor said he is working with the Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center because "we were arrested for something we had not done."
Jones' case is unique, said Richard Thompson, the center's president and chief counsel. "There are legal experts and commentators from all sides of the political spectrum who agree that what happened to Pastor Jones was a violation of the First Amendment."
Constitutional law expert Robert Sedler said he is glad Jones is challenging the "bizarre" ruling by 19th District Judge Mark Somers requiring Jones to post a "peace bond," jailing him for refusing and ordering him to stay away from the mosque for three years — all before Jones held the demonstration.
"The Supreme Court says you cannot deny a permit because of the message," said Sedler, a Wayne State University Law School professor. "The U.S. Constitution supersedes everything, which is why this is so bizarre."
At the trial, prosecutors cited an imam's remark that some see burning a Quran as worth 1,000 lives to explain why violence might erupt.
Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini, whom prosecutors were quoting about the Quran burning, said while safety concerns were legitimate, he was referring to reaction abroad. "I had no concerns at all that our community would react violently," he said....'
Even if that is true, the responsibility for what people do abroad lies with them, not with Terry Jones."
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