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On Thanksgiving, we should thank ourselves and the other producers
who make the good life possible.
By Debi
Ghate
from the November 25, 2009 edition
Washington - Ah, Thanksgiving. The word conjures
up images of turkey dinner, pumpkin pie, and watching football with family and
friends. It kicks off the holiday season and is the biggest shopping period of
the year.
Children are taught that Thanksgiving came about when Pilgrims gave thanks to
God for a bountiful harvest. It seems we vaguely mumble thanks for the food on
our table, the roof over our head, and how lucky we are in spite of these hard
economic times. After all, our lives are so much better than, say, those in
Bangladesh.
But surely there is something more to celebrate, something more sacred about
this holiday.
What should we really be celebrating on Thanksgiving?
Ayn Rand described Thanksgiving as "a typically American holiday" whose
"essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a
producers' holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant
consumption is the result and reward of production." She was right.
This country was mostly uninhabited and wild when our European forefathers
began to develop the land and then build spectacular cities, shaping what has
become the wealthiest nation in the world. It's in the American spirit to
overcome challenges, create great achievements, and enjoy prosperity.
We recognize that individuals free to produce create enormous wealth. We
uniquely dedicate ourselves to the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. It's
no accident that Americans have a holiday called Thanksgiving – a yearly
tradition when we pause to appreciate the bountiful harvest we've reaped.
What is the contemporary version of this bountiful harvest? In spite of the
current state of the economy, it's our affluence. It's the cars, houses, and
vacations we enjoy. It's the medicines we rely on, the movies we watch, and the
safe, clean streets we live on. It's the good life, for the long haul.
How do we get this bountiful harvest? Watch any hardworking American. We
create it by working hard year after year, and by wanting excellence for
ourselves and our loved ones. What we don't create ourselves, we use our best
judgment to trade value for value with those who have the goods and services we
need, such as our bankers, hairdressers, and doctors. We alone are responsible
for our wealth. We are the producers and Thanksgiving is our holiday.
So, on Thanksgiving, we should thank ourselves and the other producers who
make the good life possible. Why don't we?
From a young age, we are bombarded with messages designed to undermine our
confident pursuit of values: "Be humble," "You can't know what's good for
yourself," "It's better to give than to receive," and, above all, "Don't be
selfish!" We are scolded not to take more than "our share" – whether it is of
electricity, profits, or pie. We are taught that altruism – not mere benevolence
or generosity, but selfless sacrifice for others – is the moral ideal. We are
taught to sacrifice for strangers, who inexplicably have a claim to our
hard-earned wealth. We are asked to bail out failing banks and uninsured
patients. We are asked to serve rather than lead. We are taught to kneel rather
than reach for the sky.
But morally, each one of us should reach for the sky. Electricity,
profits, and pie can only be truly earned through individual production – giving
each of us the right to savor their consumption. Every decision, from which
career to pursue to whom to call a friend, should be guided by what will best
advance an individual's rational goals, interests, and, ultimately, an
individual's life. We should take pride in being rationally selfish.
Thanksgiving is the perfect time to appreciate and celebrate the fruits of
our labor: our wealth, health, relationships, and property – all the values we
most selfishly cherish. We should thank authors whose books made us rethink our
lives, engineers who gave us the BlackBerry and iPhone, and financiers whose
capital has helped build entire industries. We should thank ourselves and those
individuals whose production makes our lives more comfortable and enjoyable –
those who help us live the much-coveted American dream.
As you sit down to your sumptuous Thanksgiving dinner, think of all the
talented individuals whose innovation and inventiveness made possible the
products you are enjoying, even if the spread is a little smaller this year. As
you celebrate with your chosen loved ones, thank yourself for everything you
have done to make this moment possible. It's a time to selfishly and proudly
say: "I earned this."
Mecca, 25 Nov. (AKI) - The grandmother of US
president Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the 'Hajj' or Islamic
pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, a Saudi daily said on
Wednesday. Sarah Obama, 87, is being accompanied by a nephew and Obama's cousin,
Omran.
On Wednesday Sarah Obama was in the valley of Mina with an
African delegation, according to the Saudi daily Okaz.
Obama, the mother
of the American president's father, lives in a village in Kenya and is one of
the many guests of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz
al-Saud.
About two million Muslims converge on Mecca each year for the
Hajj pilgrimage but Saudi officials were expecting fewer pilgrims this year due
to the threat of the H1N1 virus known as swine flu.
Crowds of pilgrims
have been converging on the holy city of Mecca in recent days, and started the
Hajj rites on Wednesday.
At the weekend, Saudi health authorities said
that four people attending the Hajj had died from the H1N1 virus but sought to
play down the risk.
The Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. It is
an obligation for all able-bodied Muslims to attend at least once during their
lives, provided they can afford it.
911 never had to happen. Thank Bill Clinton and the pussified left for holding everyone but Americans dear. What is more frightening is that Wuss Clinton is to the right of Oblunder.
Let the indictments begin! Take down the fifth column. Basta! We want an investigation of this jihad organization. Click
here to sign the petition, and then forward it to everyone you
know.
New subpoena in conflict with judge's order on papers captured in undercover investigation
WASHINGTON – While attorneys representing the co-author of "Muslim Mafia"
were preparing late today to honor a federal court order to return documents
obtained from the Council on American-Islamic Relations in an independent
undercover operation, FBI agents served a warrant on a Washington, D.C., law
office for the same documents.
The FBI agents entered the capital law offices of Cozen O'Connor tonight and
issued a warrant for thousands of pages of documents as well as audio and video
recordings gathered by P. David Gaubatz and his son Chris in a daring and
lengthy undercover penetration of CAIR in which the younger Gaubatz served as an
unpaid intern for the group that was labeled an unindicted terrorist
co-conspirator in last year's Holy Land Foundation trial.
CAIR claimed in a lawsuit that Gaubatz removed its papers and made recordings
of employees "without any consent or authorization and in violation of his
contractual fiduciary and other legal obligations." A federal
judge in Washington issued a restraining order Nov. 3 barring the Gaubatzes
from further use or publication of the material – 12,000 pages of documents
along with audio and video recordings – and demanding that they return it to the
Muslim group's lawyers.
However, last night the FBI stepped in with a warrant, suggesting the agency
wants to see the papers and examine the recordings as part of its interest in
CAIR and its Muslim Brotherhood links.
Joseph Farah, chief executive officer of WND and its subsidiary, WND Books,
who has been raising money for the defense of his author and son, welcomed the
FBI's interest in the papers.
"Obviously, we were prepared to honor the court order from Judge Colleen
Kollar-Kotelly," he said.
Kollar-Kotelly – who as head of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
made several controversial decisions against the Bush administration's
counterterrorism policies – was criticized recently by many security experts for
ruling against the military's designation of a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy
combatant, allowing the Obama administration to send him home.
"Now," said Farah, "we will have to confer with the attorneys to determine
what happens next. Which takes precedence – a federal court order or an FBI
warrant? I trust this will be sorted out in the days to come. Personally, I
would like to see these papers in the hands of trained FBI investigators. The
revelations raised about CAIR in 'Muslim Mafia'
have clearly piqued the agency's interest."
Nonie Darwish, the executive director of Former Muslims United and author of Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law,
was scheduled to speak at Columbia and Princeton last week, but both
events were canceled under pressure from Muslim groups on campus.
Darwish,
a soft-spoken ex-Muslim and daughter of an Islamic martyr, is a
champion of the rights of women and non-Muslims in Islamic societies,
and leader of the group Arabs for Israel. She had been planning to
speak on “Sharia Law and Perspectives on Israel.” She is one of the few
courageous voices who speak out against Islamic anti-Semitism and the
oppression of women under Sharia.
At Princeton, she was
invited three weeks ago and was scheduled to speak last Wednesday. But
on Tuesday evening, Arab Society president Sami Yabroudi and former
president Sarah Mousa issued a joint statement, claiming: “Nonie
Darwish is to Arabs and Muslims what Ku Klux Klan members, skinheads
and neo-Nazis are to other minorities, and we decided that the role of
her talk in the logical, intellectual discourse espoused by Princeton
University needed to be questioned.”
One more thing that's germane. Kam (and later) nob pointed this out:
Sohaib Sultan, who helped get the Darwish
lecture canceled, wrote the book The Koran
for Dummies. In that book he says that the
medieval Islamic scholar Ibn Kathir is the “most referred to” authority on Islam
“in the Muslim world today.” Sultan says that Ibn Kathir offers “an excellent
collection of historical analysis on the Koran and his mastery of Islamic law
makes his insights especially interesting.” Yet Ibn Kathir taught that Muslims
should wage jihad war against Jews and Christians and impose laws upon them that
would make them “disgraced, humiliated and belittled.” Ibn Kathir said that
“Muslims are not allowed to honor the people of Dhimmah [Jews and Christians] or
elevate them above Muslims, for they are miserable, disgraced and
humiliated.”
So who is more like
the KKK or neo-Nazis? A courageous woman standing up for human rights for Muslim
women and ex-Muslims, or a Muslim imam who holds up as an authority someone who
says that non-Muslims should be “disgraced, humiliated and belittled”?
A U.S. census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree
with "fed"
scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it
look like a homicide, authorities said Tuesday.
Bill Sparkman, 51, was
found strangled Sept. 12 with a rope around his neck near a cemetery in a
heavily wooded area of the Daniel Boone National Forest in southeastern
Kentucky. Authorities said his wrists were loosely bound, his glasses were taped
to his head and he was gagged.
Kentucky State Police Capt. Lisa
Rudzinski said an analysis found that "fed" was written "from the bottom up." He
was touching the ground, and to survive "all Mr. Sparkman had to do at any time
was stand up," she said.
"Our investigation, based on evidence and
witness testimony, has concluded that Mr. Sparkman died during an intentional,
self-inflicted act that was staged to appear as a homicide," Rudzinski said.
Obama goes full out Muslim. What's his plan? Does he want to bring the universal ummah under a worldwide caliphate?
Obama has sent a letter to the leader of the main Muslim rebel group in the Philippines, a guerrilla official said Saturday. Atlas readers are painfully aware of Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF). I have covered their savage and bloodthirsty attacks in the Philippines.
Wow: Obama Sends Letter to Leader of Islamic Rebel Group
Waging Jihad Against Filipino Government....What a disgrace. The Moro
Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has been responsible for the ethnic cleansing of
Christians in the areas it controls, beheadings, numerous terrorist
attacks etc. not that this would bother Obama....
Manila - US President Barack Obama has sent a letter
to the leader of the main Muslim rebel group in the Philippines, a guerrilla
official said Saturday. The letter to Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) chairman Murad Ibrahim was delivered to rebel
peace negotiators by Deputy Assistant State Secretary Scot Marciel, according to
Muhammad Ameen, chairman of the MILF secretariat. Ameen said Marciel and two
other US diplomats met MILF peace negotiators headed by Mohagher Iqbal on
November 6. Ameen did not disclose the contents of the letter but said it was a
response to a letter Murad sent to Obama after he won the election last
year.
September 20,2008: MILF officially declared
jihad on Filipino government...
MANILA, Philippines—Religious leaders in Lanao are calling for a jihad (holy war)
in fighting "oppressors" against Islam, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)
claimed Saturday.
In a statement on its website
(www.luwaran.com), the MILF said the calls were made in sermons of religious
leaders during Friday congregational prayers.
"Sermons of the
religious leaders of Lanao provinces in Friday's congregational prayers called
on the Bangsamoro to unite and wage jihad fi sabilillah in
fighting the oppressors, religious persecutors and enemies of Islam,"
it said.
Here's a screen-grab from their official website (they've scrubbed it of most jihad-related
content over the last few months)...
…for New Yorkers there is a new option for deep
fried (and now
grilled!) chicken from a popular and familiar fast food chain. Within the
last 2 weeks, a new Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has opened up in Brooklyn, NY
which offers the taste of halal chicken on its menu.
The KFC located at 208 McGuinness Blvd is the first restaurant in the franchise
to offer halal meat on its menu in the New York area. The establishment is
located a few blocks away from the G line’s Greenpoint Ave stop and if you’re
traveling by car, it’s only a few minutes off of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway
or the Long Island Expressway with ample parking spots available.
The halal meat is being supplied by a slaughter
house in Georgia which is Muslim owned and is an approved vendor for KFC.
Employees have said that foot traffic has been very heavy since they’ve opened
and guests have traveled from as far as Connecticut to experience the taste of a
halal KFC. For those of you living in Manhattan, you will be pleased to hear
that there are plans to start construction on a new halal KFC in New
York City next week. Source
Some Illinois KFC’s are accommodating Islamic sharia law as
well.All KFC’s in France are under Islamic
rule.
Obama ought to step in and halt this persecution of brave patriots immediately. But he won't. He's not fit to wipe their boots.
The enemy is
O's friend and America is O's enemy. He is painfully unqualified. The
man never worked a real job. He scammed the system the radical leftist way, he never served in the military, never
lived one day as a proud American, and surrounds himself with America
haters and agitators. These SEALs are cooked.
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one
of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the
murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in
Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now
facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.
The
three, all members of the Navy's elite commando unit, have refused
non-judicial punishment — called an admiral's mast — and have requested
a trial by court-martial.
Ahmed Hashim
Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told
investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip
to prove it.
Now, instead of being lauded
for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL
commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.
Matthew
McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class (SO-2), is
facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty for willfully
failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and
assault.
Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe,
SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction of performance of duty and
making a false official statement.
Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an additional charge of impediment of an investigation.
The three SEALs will be arraigned separately
on Dec. 7. Another three SEALs — two officers and an enlisted sailor —
have been identified by investigators as witnesses but have not been
charged.
FoxNews.com obtained the official
handwritten statement from one of the three witnesses given on Sept. 3,
hours after Abed was captured and still being held at the SEAL base at
Camp Baharia. He was later taken to a cell in the U.S.-operated Green
Zone in Baghdad.
The SEAL told investigators he had showered after the mission, gone to the kitchen and then decided to look in on the detainee.
"I
gave the detainee a glance over and then left," the SEAL wrote. "I did
not notice anything wrong with the detainee and he appeared in good
health."
Lt. Col. Holly Silkman,
spokeswoman for the special operations component of U.S. Central
Command, confirmed Tuesday to FoxNews.com that three SEALs have been
charged in connection with the capture of a detainee. She said their
court martial is scheduled for January.
United
States Central Command declined to discuss the detainee, but a legal
source told FoxNews.com that the detainee was turned over to Iraqi
authorities, to whom he made the abuse complaints. He was then returned
to American custody. The SEAL leader reported the charge up the chain
of command, and an investigation ensued.
The
source said intelligence briefings provided to the SEALs stated that
"Objective Amber" planned the 2004 Fallujah ambush, and "they had been
tracking this guy for some time."
The
Fallujah atrocity came to symbolize the brutality of the enemy in Iraq
and the degree to which a homegrown insurgency was extending its grip
over Iraq.
9/11 Never Forget Coalition December 5 Rally Against the NYC Terror Trial
In the shadow of the Statue of Liberty and what once was the soaring World Trade Center, the 911 Never Forget Coalition held a press conference to announce a huge demonstration against Obama's atrocious move to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-conspirators to NYC to try them in a civilian court. Sign the petition.
Wonderful, brave 911 family member Debra Burlingame and Andrew McCarthy.
At a press conference today, family members of relatives lost in the
Islamic terrorist attacks of 911, and first responders who were part of
the rescue and recovery at the WTC on the day of the attack which killed
3,000 people, announced a national campaign to stop the Obama
administration from bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four 911
barbarian co-conspirators to the US for trial in Federal court. Over
120,000 people (and counting) have signed a petition to stop this
obamanation.
Here's the transcript for the above Q & A video: (hat tip KGS)
Even if this rally is gi-normous in Folley Square, do you believe for one second that he's going to back pedal and change his position? Is there hope? I mean there's always hope, so it's a rhetorical question.
Andrew McCarthy: But you know...remember the CIA photographs, they were going to release the prisoner abuse photos? People rose up, they got angry about it, there were a lot of political back lash? And what happened? He reversed himself. So it's not hopeless, and again, like I said on the podium, it's our courthouse, it's our government and they get to serve it for a while, and I think that we should speak to them and let them know what we want.
Atlas: I think that Debra Burlingame made a powerful statement when she said, it's legal jihad in the courtroom, would you classify it that way as well?
Andrew McCarthy: Well jihad is anything that advances their cause, which is to establish sharia as a first step towards Islamicizing this society. So anything that they can advance the cause with is properly catagorized as jihad. We call it lawfare because that was a catchy phrase for it, but I htink legal jihad is just as accurate, maybe more.
Atlas: Wouldn't it be troublesome, because I'm sure they wouldn't profile the jury, but lets say you have a couple of devout Muslims, I'm not saying non-practicing, I'm not saying secular Muslims. I'm saying devout Muslims like Major Hasan, who during prior to his mowing down of soldiers, was a perfectly, lovely American citizen, was he not.
Andrew McCarthy: I don't know whether he was perfectly lovely, he was perfectly lovely if he didn't (unclear)
Atlas: Right, but they kept promoting him.
Andrew McCarthy: But that doesn't mean he was not obvious to everyone else, he was obvious to.... all the wrong people were willfully blind.
Atlas: But he would have gotten on the jury.
Andrew McCarthy: I don't know, he wouldn't have gotten on my jury
Atlas: heh, right, but you're not there anymore.
Andrew McCarthy: Right. But I don't think that he would have gotten on most juries.
Atlas: That was a loaded question, but I think it's a legitmate question, should devout Muslims serve on this jury if the trial goes forward?
Andrew McCarthy: Pamela, they're going to be asked 150 to 200 questions to vet them for what their attitudes are, and I think that if there's any sense, devout is a loaded word, but I want to say, anyone who can be influenced by the ideology department should not be on the jury. Period.
Atlas: Ok. Do you think that the presecutor will follow those guidelines?
Andrew McCarthy: I think no prosecuter who wanted to win the case, for his own self preservation, and to do his job, which is to represent the United States and get a conviction if it's proper to get one under the evidence. No presecutor worth his salt would let someone on the jury who seems predisposed against the government, and predisposed for the other side.
Atlas: Thank you very much.
Atlas:
Congressman Pete King, NY:
Atlas: Can I ask you something? Obama's Rasmussen ratings today were the lowest ever, he's down 15%, do you think this has anything to do with it? Do you think it's impacting his approval ratings among the American people?
Congressman Pete King: I think it's only part of it, I think the American people, I think this is showing that the American people are looking at all of his policies against terrorism and realize they're lacking. And so yes, I think that this is going to hurt the president popularity, but it's not really a popularity issue, but I do think that the American people have, are beginning to see the weakness
Atlas: His approval ratings
Congressman Pete King: Right..and it really is, and I think the American people are realizing the apparent weakness in his policies
Atlas: Do you think that the Republicans have been strong enough on this issue? Have opened up and taken up the mantle against Islamic terror?
Congressman Pete King: Now I don't. I think we should be much more aggressive in speaking against it. I'm saying that again, as far as my own party, we should realize that this is the defining issue of our generation whether we survive as a civilization. No issue could be more important than that. We have to be outspoken, not be apologetic, we have to be heard and speak as loudly and frely as we can.
Atlas: Do you think that there should be devout Muslims on the jury
Congressman Pete King: Well that's up to the judge, I have no problem with a person's religion, if a person happens to Muslim, Catholic...
Atlas: I said devout...
Congressman Pete King: Well again that's going to be up to the judge to decide, I mean a person can be a devout Muslim and still treat this fairly, I think they can, I don't want to assuming people just because of their religion, I think that the subsequent questions asked go beyond that to see whether or not they should be on the jury.
Atlas: Thank you very much
Atlas: This is Tim Brown, you founded 911neverforget.us . Why did you strart this new organization?
Tim Brown: Because we got so much support, really it was three websites, thebravest.com , 911families4america and keepamericasafe , and when we sent it out to our, each of our lists, it just took off. And we wound up now with some where above 120 thousand signatures and now it's grown into organizations of thousands and thousands of people who are starting to sign on. You know this organization has ten thousand and that one has thirty thousand, so we will be posting the organizations that support us on the website, 922neverforget.us , and we're planning a rally on Sept. 5th at noon at Folley's Square where we're going to tell Obama that all of America does not agree with what they're doing.
Atlas: You said that you lost 93 friends on 9/11..
Tim Brown: Yes. 93 firefighter friends.
Atlas: Did you imagine at the time that you would be here now..
Tim Brown: No, never,..I'm not an activist, I've always been under the radar and, this decision just got in my gut and it just angers me so much. I know these familes, I know the families of my friends who were killed and, they don't need 9/11 part II, by the elite Holder and Obama. These people really hurt. They really hurt, they're still hurting and they are just trying to get on with their lives to where they can love and live again, and it's very unfair what's being done to them by Obama. They're just arrogant, just arrogant.
Atlas: Yes I agree. Do you think that no matter how big the rally is, even if it's lets say, gi-normous, do you think that they'll change their minds? Honestly?
Tim Brown: Oh, I tell you what, I don't think Holder was on his game when we were sitting in the audience. I think they did not expect this. I think that we through him off his game, I think, I know that he did not have answers for Senator Graham,..
Atlas: He didn't.
Tim Brown: You know, I think we, they're going to listen, they're going to listen, he's going to be out of office in four years. You know that this is a very silly decision to make
Atlas: Dangerous too..
Tim Brown: Yeah..and very dangerous.
Atlas: Thank you so much. I hope to stay in touch with you, I'll be there.
Tim Brown: Thank you very much
Lady liberty is the background to the patriots' press conference.
Scenes from the crowd
Tim
Brown (left), retired, decorated 20 year FDNY firefighter. Brown is a
survivor of the 2001 Islamic terrorist attack on the WTC. He was a
first responder to the WTC on 911 and lost over 92 friends in the
unprecedented attack on America. Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles
"Chic" Burlingame, pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which crashed
into the Pentagon on September 11.
Rabbi Kahane's personal lawyer, Mr. Shannon Taylor, and FOX's Eric Shawn
Patriots, Great Americans.
That pile of white in the foreground is the petition with 120,000 signatures and counting.
I am one of the co-founders of the organization announced today, 911 Never FORGET US. The mission is to stop President Obama, Attorney-General Eric Holder, and members of congress from bringing sworn enemies of the United States into this country, and from bringing war criminals captured on the battlefield, lawfully held as war detainees, into civilian court, doesn't have to happen.
Two weeks ago, 300 9/11 family members sent a letter to the president telling him we adamently oppose this foolish, dangerous and unnecessary act. The letter was never acknowledged.
But one hour after the Attorney-General made his stunning announcement that unlawfull foreign combatants would be tried as civilians in federal court, the number of signers to that letter, jumped to 45 000, that was in one hour. By the end of the day, the number of signers was 100 000. Our internet server could count the number of Americans who somehow found out about this letter and wish to stand with us. That was the genisis of this movement.
Just as they did eight years ago, the American people are standing with us again. Attorney-General Eric Holder has suggested that those who oppose prosecuting these men, here, in New York city are afraid, that we don't have the courage to face Khalid Sheik Mohammed. But I say, how dare Mr.Holder, who didn't have the decency to notify victims' families of his decision to bring these monsters here. How dare him tell us, that we lack courage.
Courage, is carrying on after watching your loved ones die in real time, knowing that they burned to death, were crushed to death, or jumped from one hundred flights high. Courage is carrying on, even after we waited, in some cases years, to bury something of our loved one. More than eleven hundred families still await. how dare Mr.Holder suggest, that the firefighters who oppose this trial need to, man up, and let KSM mock their brother firefighters in the country's most majesterial setting, of federal court.
Mr.Holder, courage is going into those burning buildings that day, knowing, that they may not come out alive. Courage is digging for nine months on their hands and knees, breathing in toxic smoke, to find the ravaged remains of their brother firefighters, police officers, citizen responders and office workers.
This was courage, not summoned from false bravado, but which sprang from abiding love of their fellow human beings and their sense of obligation to them, their families and their beloved country. Mr.Holder has glibbly, and most insensatively called the perverse spectical that he wants to invite on this city and the nation, the trial of the century.
Well Mr.Attorney-General, Khalid Sheik Mohammed has put you on notice, he's going to give it to you. We, the families, the first responders, and those members of the US military, the people who patrol your streets, rescue your citizens and fight your wars, we understand what you do not. This trial will be lawyer assisted jihad. This trial will be lawyer assisted jihad in the courtroom.
We understand that jihad is more than justs spilling American blood, it is forcing us to change our lives, divert our limited resources, forgoing the luxury of boarding an airplane unabused. When we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars for rooftop snipers, kevlar vests and armored vehicles, that's jihad. When we barracade our buildings, lock down our streets and close our transportation systems, that's jihad. When we grant a confessed war criminal access to platinum due process so he can use it to rally his fellow terrorists to kill more of our citizens and to do harm to our military, that's jihad.
Mr.Attorney-General, it doesn't have to happen. You called the military commission system, quote: "lawful, fair and effective" and that they are, I quote: "consistant with our highest standards of the nation". We agree, and we think it's far more than they deserve.
Third district from New York, Congressman Pete King, ranking member of the House Homeland Security committee and member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intellegence:
Thank you Debra and Tim Brown for all the work in organizing this. Let me thank Andy McCarthy who is a regular scholar on this issue, and has been on the front lines of fighting jihad in the court rooms, also Peter Regan and his family, and I just want to thank you all so much, and of you who are here today.
The Obama-Holden descision to grant civilian rights to Guantomino detainees, is the most dangerous decision that any president and any attorney-general have ever made. This is a decision that has not basis in logic, in law or morality. We are changing the rules of the war. We are now saying that those captured as enemy combatants, on the battlefield, are entitled to civilian due process. There are in many ways more rights than are entitled for our own soldiers.
We are opening up so many avenues to terrorists, as far as giving them access to our intellegence, allowing then to use the courtroom as a forum, and of course putting, incredible, undue stress and strain and raising the level of security here, in the city of New York, at costs, as Debra said, in tens and tens of millions of dollars. And this is part of a pattern why this adminstration comes to not fighting the war in Iraq in the right way, and against terrorism
So it starts with the ordering the closure of Guantamino, it starts with the beginning of talks prosecuting or investigating CIA interrogators, the men and women who kept us safe for all these eight years. And now this decision to bring Khalid Sheik Mohammed and others to New York, by not puting him on trial before a military tribunal, is conferring a constitutional status on them which they don't deserve and it's going to be very harmfull to the United States. But again, to me the largest issue of all, in spite all the others, is the fact that we now that we've gone back to September 10.
We've said that we are going to treat this as a law enforcement issue, not as a matter of war. These enemy combatants are entitled to none of these rights. And I say what is this all going to do, in Afghanistan, when we capture someone in al-Qaida, knowing that an attack may be emminent, knowing that that person may know where Bin-Laden is? Is he allowed to question him, is he allowed to interrogate him, does he have to read him his rights, does he have to make sure of all the evidence, is carefully put them all together somewhere in the future when we put him on trial and send him here to New York or the District of Virginia or where ever ?
This again an administration which has turned its back, I believe, in effective fighting foreign terrorism, and taking us back to September 10th, and when you think back to September 10th, remember what happened on September 11th. We said that we would never do that again, we would never make those mistakes, unfortunately I believe we are mistaking them, more and more and more, so with that I urge everyone, to be at the rally at September 5th, let the President and the Attorney-General know, let them know clearly without any doubt at all, that New York and as a nation are opposed to these trials, we're opposed to the status they are conferring to the mass murderers of our generation.
And with that I want to thank everyone here today and everyone who I know who's going to be there on September. Thank you all and God bless.
VIDEO: Andrew McCarthy and Tim Brown's remarks
- Peter Regan, Active FDNY, 2 Tour Iraq War Vet, 9/11 Family member
ALEXANDRIA TWP. | An Alexandria Middle School assignment dealing with Islam sparked criticism Monday that students are receiving biased and age-inappropriate lessons about the religion.
About two dozen people gathered at the school with administrators to debate a sixth-grade textbook and a recent class assignment on Islam.
"To me, it read like a religious text," Diane Moran, whose daughter is one of 78 sixth-graders using the textbook, said about the social studies curriculum.
"Why are so many pages dedicated to the Muslim faith? I have no problem with my child learning about that, but not to this degree," Moran added. "I don't think within a public school that that's the role of the public school."
How many pages are devoted to 911, 77, 311 and over a millennium of jihad wars, land expropriations,
enslavements, and humiliations of the conquered non-Muslim populations on three
continents.
School board Vice President Scott Saccal later said counting pages was missing the point. Teachers are trying to do their best to be "fair and balanced" in their instruction of all religions, Saccal said.
"They're not indoctrinating your children," Saccal told the parents.
This is the poisonous fruit of the morally ill. Strickland is demented. He knows the fatal record of his Child Services department. Why did he insist that Rifqa be returned? She was perfectly safe and perfectly happy in Florida. Why did this tool of jihad force the hand of Florida?
Strickland says a killer is innocent, but Rifqa is guilty of not submitting to the religion of misogyny, gender apartheid and slavery.
78 petitioners from before
'08 win full or conditional pardon THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Nearly three years into his administration, Gov. Ted Strickland yesterday released nearly 300
clemency decisions, freeing a Lucas County murderer, pardoning a former Chauncey village official
on 30-year-old charges, and conditionally pardoning a Columbus lawyer who defrauded his clients of
$1 million.
The decisions were the governor's first on more than 700 clemency requests that had gone
undecided since the final years of the Taft administration.
Overall, Strickland approved clemency in 78 of the 296 criminal cases (26.3 percent) that he
considered, including commuting the life sentence of Willie Knighten Jr., convicted of murder in
Lucas County in 1996. Knighten, 37, is scheduled to be released today from the Allen County
Correctional Institution, officials said.
"The trial and sentencing judge in Mr. Knighten's case determined that his original finding of
guilt was in error and that Mr. Knighten has now served 12 years in prison for an offense he likely
did not commit," Strickland said in a statement. The sentencing judge, the late William Skow, sent
the governor a letter this year saying he felt he had made the wrong decision in the case.
Strickland, a Democrat in his third year in office, OK'd 33 of 63 cases left over from 2005 and
2006, Gov. Bob Taft's last years in office, and 45 of 233 cases submitted to Strickland in 2006 and
2007
[...]
In a conference call with reporters, Strickland said he and his legal staff spent more than
1,000 hours reviewing the cases.
"I have looked at every one of these cases early and many of them multiple times as I have asked
questions and sought additional information."
Strickland said that while he is not worried about critical fallout from the commutations, he
acknowledged that his staff is concerned.
[..]
The governor has 403 more clemency requests pending from 2008 and this year.
A Federal Court judge has ordered the Ministry of Citizenship and
Immigration to consider the credibility of a woman's claim that she
will be the victim of an "honour killing" if deported to her home
country of Pakistan.
Justice Michael Kelen found that an
immigration officer reviewing evidence in the case of Roohi Tabassum, a
44-year-old Mississauga hair stylist who has been fighting to stay in
Canada since 2001, made a mistake by characterizing as "not
threatening" letters purportedly from Ms. Tabassum's husband in which
he promised to "finish" Ms. Tabassum if she returned to Pakistan.
According to documents submitted to Citizenship and Immigration obtained by the National Post,
Ms. Tabassum claims her husband, Faisal Javed, thought to be living in
Dubai, began sending her letters and emails in 2006 in which he
threatens to kill her for "dishonouring" his family by touching other
men's hair while working at a Mississauga salon.
She also
claims her husband and his family have become erroneously convinced
that she is living with another man in Canada, after a friend's husband
answered the phone at her apartment one night.
"What you
are doing there, does it look better to you and does your religion
allow you to touch other men? It is better to die hungry," says one
2006 letter translated from Urdu and allegedly written by Mr. Javed.
"Tell
me everything true otherwise you know that I can do anything for my
honour. Do you know how much I believed in you? Other than this you are
also aware that your life is seriously in danger in Pakistan....
Everybody is against you. I am also very combative to you. If you are
here, I could not leave you alive."
After asking her
husband for a divorce, Ms. Tabassum received another letter dated
February 2007 in which Mr. Javed alledgedly writes: "My doubts about
you are real and right but keep this in mind that now I will finish you
myself."
Cowards. Pathetic cowards. Haven't these Ivy League know-nothings done their homework? Have they studied Islam? Jihad? Have they read Dr. Andrew Bostom's The Legacy of Jihad and his Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism? Here is something they don't know: Sohaib Sultan, who helped get the Darwish lecture canceled, wrote the book The Koran for Dummies. In that book he says that the medieval Islamic scholar Ibn Kathir is the "most referred to" authority on Islam "in the Muslim world today." Sultan says that Ibn Kathir offers "an excellent collection of historical analysis on the Koran and his mastery of Islamic law makes his insights especially interesting." Yet Ibn Kathir taught that Muslims should wage jihad war against Jews and Christians and impose laws upon them that would make them "disgraced, humiliated and belittled." Ibn Kathir said that "Muslims are not allowed to honor the people of Dhimmah [Jews and Christians] or elevate them above Muslims, for they are miserable, disgraced and humiliated."
So who really resembles the KKK or neo-Nazis? A courageous woman standing up for human rights for Muslim women and ex-Muslims, or a Muslim imam who holds up as an authority someone who says that non-Muslims should be "disgraced, humiliated and belittled"?
Indian officials cite possible connection to last year's deadly assaults
Authorities in Chicago are looking into allegations that two local men
accused of plotting an assault on a Danish newspaper that published
controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad may be linked to other
plots, including a terrorist assault in Mumbai last year that left more than 170 dead, sources said.
David Coleman Headley,
who has cooperated with authorities, is being investigated as a scout
for the Mumbai attack, which targeted multiple sites, including two
hotels, a train station, a cafe and a Jewish community center.
A source familiar with the probe said Headley's co-defendant in the newspaper case, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, is suspected to have paid for Headley's India missions.
Neither
man has been charged in connection with the Mumbai planning, though
officials in India were outspoken last week about their possible
connection to the attacks.
The militant Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba, linked to Rana and
Headley in court documents here, has been blamed for the Mumbai attacks.
The
U.S. attorney's office in Chicago has declined to say whether charges
against the men here could be upgraded to account for their suspected
roles in the Mumbai operation. U.S. citizens lost their lives in the
coordinated attacks.
So far, Headley, a Pakistani American, is
charged with conspiring to commit a terror act outside the U.S., and
Rana, a Pakistani native with Canadian citizenship, has been charged
with providing material support to terrorism. Those charges relate only
to the plan in Denmark, where Headley is alleged to have staked out the
Copenhagen offices of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Prosecutors here also have said Rana discussed other targets with Headley.
Both
men are to appear in court in Chicago next week, Rana on Dec. 2 and
Headley on Dec. 4. Both remain in custody. Rana's lawyer, Patrick
Blegen, has denied the allegations. Headley's attorney, John Theis,
declined to comment Monday.
Even before Fort Hood, authorities in New York, Michigan, Illinois, North
Carolina, Ohio and other states recently had broken a rash of cases, arresting
potential terrorists and disclosing their plots. Every time law enforcement
kicks over one of these anthills, it uncovers an intricate underground network
with paths leading into major cities, rural areas and even prisons.
Consider the 12 people tied to Detroit's Masjid Al-Haqq mosque charged with
felonies in their leader's fatal Oct. 28 firefight with FBI agents.
This apparently isolated Dearborn case turned out to have direct links to '60s
radical H. Rap Brown -- who converted to Islam while serving time in Attica,
changing his name to Jamil Abdullah al-Amin. He's allegedly running a network
from a prison cell in Florence Max, Colo. (where he's serving a life sentence
for murdering a police officer).
In 1993, the infamous Blind Sheik Omar Abdul-Rahman was found to be under
orders from Ramzi Binalshibh,
coordinator between KSM and the 9/11 highjackers, with a network extending to
closed Muslim communities both inside New York City and in remote upstate
Hancock, NY.
A convenience-store front operation in North Carolina, broken up in advance
of terrorist activities, allegedly was found to be a stolen-car ring that
funneled cash to al Qaeda. Seven men were indicted in July.
As law-enforcement agents dig, each case leads to spreading networks.
Plainly, the fundamentalist ideology has sunk serious roots in America.
Alleged terrorists are emerging across the social spectrum. Some are white
wannabes who revere the likes of turncoats like American Taliban John Walker
Lindh. Others are Somalis, Moroccans, Palestinians and others who were born
or reside in America and have been radicalized here.
Then there are former criminals (primarily African-Americans) radicalized in
prison by fundamentalist imams (mostly trained in Saudi Arabia). Abdullah was
among this group. Christian Science Monitor reporter Michael Farrell notes that
Muslim prison conversions occur at the rate of 35,000 a year. Most won't become
violent extremists -- but that still leaves a large number of potential
terrorists on our streets and an even larger number who might form a sympathetic
support group.
We must get past our preoccupation with individuals' "membership" in terror
groups. The "third wave" strategy doesn't focus on recruiting "inside the tent"
members but on street operatives whose missions can support the terrorist
agenda.
The terror masters hope to create compartmentalized, grass-roots cells that
will act independently to carry out attacks. The network will have enough lines
of communication through mosques and charities to coordinate efforts if required
or to funnel weapons, explosives, training and funding to those cells showing
promise.
And, as a "fringe benefit," they get radicals like Maj. Hasan.
As this third wave strengthens, we should expect many more attacks -- and
rising discontent among Americans persuaded to sympathize with our enemies.
I am curious. Will Muslims be allowed to serve on the "trial" of the plotters of the September 11th Islamic attack on America that resulted in thousands of deaths?
Considering that we are, in effect, living under a quasi-soft sharia law, the answer to that question is, of course. There is no way Holder or any of the political elites will "profile" the jury. But they should. Will their religiosity be questioned? It should. It is germane. It is at the very core of the attack - the motivation.
Non-practicing Muslims, secular Muslims, apostates are fit to serve, but devout Muslims are not. Religious Muslims study and revere the same book as the 911 Muslims who invaded this country and attacked this country, wanting to bring it down and usher in an Islamic state. Religious Muslims believe in the same ideology that all jihadis believe in. It is Islam.
And if potential observant Muslims are queried about their allegiance, they will lie, as is their religious mandate. Taqiya, lying to advance Islam, is a religious mandate. It is your religious duty to advance Islam at any cost in servitude to allah.
Major Muslim Hasan would have made a perfect juror -- up until he mowed down scores of Americans at Fort Hood. Is that not right?
Will Muslims serve on the 911 jury? They should not.
The vise tightens further on Rifqa. The authorities, at the command of the Barys' lawyer Omar, continue to isolate Rifqa. She has been in Ohio for well over a month and still there is no "approved visitation" list. How can this be? How can it be that friends who request a visit, and whom Rifqa requests to visit, are repeatedly told "there is no approved visitation list"? Is it not the very mission by objective of children's services to protect the health and welfare of a child? Why has Rifqa been denied "pastoral guidance"? Convicts, murderers, rapists, and pedophiles have access to "pastoral guidance". Is that how powerful and influential Islamic jihad has become in the state of Ohio -- that one young girl is starved of spiritual nourishment so as not to insult Islam? Has everyone gone mad?
No phone. No net. No religious succor.
This is why I so fiercely fought her return to Ohio. Columbus is home to one of the largest Somali Muslim populations in the United States, 70,000 and growing. This is the group, Somali Muslims, that has been at the epicenter of myriad busts for jihad in recent weeks (and one coming today). Is she safe in a devout Muslim community?
The office of Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland (recipient of buko Islamo-bucks) issued a statement back on September 14th, on why Rifqa Bary should be returned to Ohio.
"Child welfare agencies and authorities in Ohio and
Franklin County are fully capable of providing for the security and
well-being of Ohio's children," the statement said. "The governor
believes this is a family matter and therefore would most appropriately
be handled here in Ohio with the assistance of the child welfare and
foster care system."
"We have no reason to believe that she would be unsafe in Ohio," his statement said.
There is a dependency hearing on December 22 in Columbus. I know it's awfully close to Christmas. I know you are busy. My kids are in from school too. We must rally for Rifqa the day of her hearing, a day she could be sent back to a devout Muslim household. How frightening for her.
Ohio child services continues to earn its infamous reputation as one of the country's worst places for children in foster care. Funny how Meredith "hijabed" Heagney at the Dispatch never cited this article from her own publication:
A Columbus
Dispatch investigation reveals that an alarming number of children being watched
by child services because they were at risk have died of abuse and criminal
neglect, twice the national average (having a national average for such deaths
is deplorable in itself). The article, which includes statistics assembled by
the newspaper with unprocessed data from the agencies involved, shows "the
child-welfare system is broke. And it has been broke for years."
UPDATE: Jamal Jivanjee tells first hand what happened:
AFTER BEING BACK IN OHIO FOR ALMOST ONE MONTH, WHY IS RIFQA BARY BEING DENIED VISITS DUE TO A LACK OF AN APPROVED VISITOR’S LIST?
If you are incarcerated in an American prison today, you have the right to have a visit from a Pastor. Rifqa Bary does not have this most basic right that most criminals have today. During the week of November 16-21, I was in Columbus Ohio for the rally for Rifqa, as well as the hearing that eventually was cancelled. It came to my attention that Rifqa was requesting a visit. While most 17 year old girls worry about their social lives, or what colleges they will attend, Rifqa’s worries are quite unique. Unlike most girls her age, Rifqa wonders how long she’ll be in a safe home, or how long before the Ohio court system extradites her back to her parents custody that she fled from out of fear for her life. Many expect that she’ll be taken back to Sri-Lanka immediately if that is the case. Because of Rifqa’s apostasy from Islam and conversion to Christianity, a woman’s prison, forced marriage, or even a death sentence await her back in her native land. Obviously, this would be a heavy burden for any of us to carry, let alone a 17 year old girl. In light of this, Rifqa needs all the encouragement and support that she can get. As you can imagine, visits are a crucial way for Rifqa to receive the needed emotional and spiritual support that she needs.
So in light of these facts, why has Rifqa Bary been cut off from the people she is requesting to see? After learning of her need of a visit, I approached Rifqa’s attorneys requesting the proper procedure to schedule a visit with her. When she was in Florida, it was a matter of a simple phone call. Not so in Ohio. It seems that Ohio has effectively put her into solitary confinement. Her attorneys told me that I would have to contact her case worker with Franklin County Children’s services to attempt to schedule a visit with her. I left her social worker a detailed message indicating that I was a friend of Rifqa, that I needed to schedule a Pastoral visit with her, and that my time in the city would only be a few days. I never heard back from her. Finally after repeated phone calls, I decided to take most of the day on Wednesday to track someone down at Children’s services to attempt to schedule a visit. This was an incredibly difficult task as no one seemed to answer their phones, and no one would return my calls. Finally, a director from children’s services contacted me to let me know that they would not be able to accommodate my request to visit Rifqa Bary.
I reminded the director of the utmost importance that Rifqa Bary not be isolated from her friends and supporters. He agreed, but said that in light of a meeting with her attorneys, her attorneys would need to put together an approved visitors list for her. Until then, I was not allowed to visit her, even if she requested a visit from me. As a result of this conversation, I then contacted her attorneys who told me that they were now putting together a visitor’s list, and that the ultimate authority to approve or deny potential visits would rest with Franklin County Children’s services. When I asked how long it would take to get this potential list approved, no one had an answer for me. Because of this bureaucracy, Rifqa is now effectively in solitary confinement.
How can this be good for Rifqa? On what grounds can they keep her from the most basic of privileges that are afforded to common criminals? Why has Rifqa Bary been in Ohio for almost one month, and they have still yet to approve a visitor’s list for her? Is this not an outrage?
We need to contact Rifqa Bary’s attorneys, Kourt Gatterdam, and Angie Lloyd and let them know that Rifqa Bary’s visitors list needs to be completed ASAP and it must include the specific people that Rifqa has requested! We also need to contact Rifqa’s case worker at Franklin County Children’s services and let her know that this visitor’s list needs to be approved in its entirety with no further delay.
Attorney Kourt W. Gatterdam can be reached at: gatterdam@carpenterlipps.com
Attorney Angie Lloyd can be reached at: Lloyd.148@osu.edu
Rifqa’s Franklin County Children’s Services Case worker Margaret Shirk can be reached at 614-575-3514.
Thanks so much,
Jamal Jivanjee
Send
her a Christmas card. And please join us on December 22 for Rifqa's
hearing. Let the authorities know she is not alone. Be there on the
22nd.
Send Riifqa a Christmas card today: Send your card to Rifqa Bary c/o Angela Lloyd 255C Drinko Hall 55 West 12th Avenue Columbus, OH 43201
Strange discussions seem to be flowing across the intelligence wires and Threats Watch has the recon via Memri Blog.
An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement’s foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the source, the U.S. has offered the Taliban control of the Kandahar, Helmand, Oruzgan, Kunar and Nuristan provinces in return for a halt to the Taliban missile attacks on U.S. bases.
Afghan Source: The U.S. Has Offered the Taliban Control in Return for Quiet
An Afghan source in Kabul reports that
U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks
with Taliban elements headed by the movement's foreign minister, Ahmad
Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the source, the
U.S. has offered the Taliban control of the Kandahar, Helmand, Oruzgan,
Kunar and Nuristan provinces in return for a halt to the Taliban
missile attacks on U.S. bases.
Source: Al-Watan (Saudi Arabia), November 22, 2009
What the lying Coward in chief pretending to be American said in order to steal the Oval office:
September 2008. Check out the how the worm has turned. He said anything
to seize power.
He is like a different person...
What: 9/11 Never Forget Coalition Press Conference. Details
to be provided on December 5th rally protesting the NYC based trial
of 9/11 conspirators LOCATION 100 yards east of Castle
Clinton at Battery Park Gardens Restaurant. When:
November 24, 2009 12:00 noon Who:
- Representative Pete King (R, NY) - Debra Burlingame, co-founder 9/11
Families for a Safe and Strong America - Tim Brown, founder
TheBravest.com - Andrew C. McCarthy, former Assistant United States Attorney
for the Southern District of New York and prosecutor in the trial of the 1993
World Trade Center bombing
- Peter Regan, Active FDNY, 2 Tour Iraq War Vet, 9/11 Family member
The 9/11 Never Forget Coalition, a diverse group of 9/11 victims, family
members, first responders, active and reserve members of the military, veterans,
and concerned Americans, is holding a November 24th press
conference to discuss the details of their December 5th
rally protesting the plan to bring the 9/11 terrorist conspirators to trial in
New York City.
The Coalition formed to fight the decision of President Barack Obama and
Attorney General Eric Holder to try the 9/11 co-conspirators in New York City’s
federal court, effectively giving war criminals the same rights as American
citizens while endangering the safety of all New Yorkers. Two weeks ago, we
sent a letter signed by 300 family members of 9/11 victims to the President,
Attorney General and Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking them to reverse
course. The letter has now been signed by over 120,000 Americans and is posted
at http://www.keepamericasafe.com.
At the November 24th press conference, leading organizers of the
Coalition will give details on a large rally which will be held on
December 5th in New York City to protest the plan to bring
terrorist detainees to trial in civilian courts.
Debra Burlingame, founder of 911 Families for a Safe and Strong America, said
“We chose to hold it on Thanksgiving Week in the hope that our fellow Americans
will join us in sending our prayers and messages of thanks to our troops and
first responders, who will bear the brunt of these dangerous decisions made in
Washington. Our rally on Saturday, December 5 will tell Attorney General Eric
Holder, President Barack Obama and their supporters in Congress: We will fight
you all the way! ”
The Recession is over (yes, tell that to the close to 11% unemployed).
Giving the 911 jihadi mass murderers Constitutional rights and a worldwide platform to preach Islam and radicalize millions in a NYC courtroom is justice.
Government run healthcare will save money, provide better quality service and has nothing to do with his meglomaniacal lust for power to control 20% of the American economy.
UPDATE: Katherine updates us:
This article says the unemployment rate is just under 16%
"But the real national unemployment rate is far worse than the U.S. Department
of Labor's March figure, announced today, shows. That's because the official
rate doesn't include the 3.7 million-plus people who are reluctantly working
only part time because of the poor labor market. And it doesn't include the
workers who have given up scouring want ads for seemingly nonexistent jobs."
What jihad? Another jihad bust in the war that doesn't exist in the minds of our betters.
I hear that Major Muslim Hasan, soldier of allah, willcop an insanity plea. Does that mean Islam is a mental illness? Or is it another jihad rape of the American justice system to advance Islam and get away with killing Americans in their war on the West?
Meanwhile, the State department is importing whole Muslim communities from Somalia. Rifqa Bary was sent to Columbus, Ohio, home to the largest Somalia Muslim population in the US.
Federal authorities are expected to announce charges against eight more
people today in a long-running investigation into how perhaps dozens of young
men from the Minneapolis area were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in
Somalia.
It will be the most significant and public move to date in the case.
Charges against the eight people will be announced at a joint FBI-U.S.
Attorney's Office press conference in Minneapolis on Monday afternoon, a source
said. Some, if not all, of the individuals will be charged with providing
material support to terrorists, the source said.
Many of those charged have already been arrested, but some individuals are
currently overseas, the source said. The source did not elaborate.
Beginning in late 2007 and continuing through last year, more than 20 young
Americans of Somali descent were persuaded to train and fight with al-Shabaab,
which is fighting to establish a Muslim state in Somalia and recently pledged
its allegiance to Usama bin Laden.
U.S. officials worry that if al-Shabaab prevails, Somalia could turn into a
haven for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
After families in Minneapolis began to report their sons missing, the FBI
launched a wide-ranging investigation.
By March federal authorities were aware that several Minnesota men who
traveled to Somalia had returned to the United States, but they were not
arrested immediately so that federal authorities could continue their
investigation, a law enforcement source said.
One of the Minneapolis area's most popular mosques, the Abubakar As-Saddique
Islamic Center in St. Paul, has become a point of interest for investigators and
a subject of speculation among those watching the case.
Many of the men recruited to join al-Shabaab attended the Abubakar mosque,
and some of the latest individuals to be charged have ties to the mosque, a
source said.
"But don't look for that to be at the center of the announcement," the source
said. The source said no mosque officials will be part of Monday's
announcement.
Authorities have so far remained mostly quiet about the progress of their
investigation, as indictments related to the case were sporadically being
unsealed.
In July, FOX News first reported that a federal grand jury in Minneapolis had
indicted three Somali-American men in the case. Two have since pleaded guilty to
providing material support to terrorists, and one has admitted that he lied to
investigators.
More recently, another man was indicted for lying to FBI agents, but he has
pleaded not guilty.
Two weeks ago, a Somali man was arrested in the Netherlands for allegedly
financing terrorist activities. U.S. authorities are working with Dutch
authorities to extradite him to the United States, a source said.
[...]
In October 2008, 27-year-old college student Shirwa Ahmed of Minneapolis
became "the first known American suicide bomber" when he blew himself up in
Somalia, killing dozens, according to the FBI. Since then at least four more men
from Minneapolis have been killed in Somalia, according to their
families.
Obama shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao.
Another trip, another spectacular Obama failure. He is consistent in his impotence, is he not? And he will use any excuse to back away from his failures. When it comes to failing America, Obama never disappoints.
I find Axelrod's plea for taking "the long view" really rich, like we did for President Bush, right? The Bush doctrine needed the long view. The long view on fighting jihad perhaps but for sucking up and standing down on American hegemony. I think not.
And still Obama pimps for "climate change" hoax, which has bee exposed as the largest fraud ever committed in human history.
President
Obama has spent a week in Asia, with high level meetings across four
countries. But critics argue all that time and jet fuel has not been
well-spent. The President leaves South Korea today with arguably little
show for it.
After Obama's joint press conference with
President Lee Myung-Bak, White House senior advisor David Axelrod
defended the visit to reporters in the hall of the Blue House.
"This
not an immediate gratification business. I understand that Washington's
in the immediate gratification business," Axelrod said, "We made solid
progress on climate change that's been reported. We've helped him
clarify understanding on security issues and obviously on economics.
But nobody came expecting that all of these things would be resolved on
this trip, this is part of laying the foundation." But the list of disappointments is long:
-official
news from the Danish Prime Minister that the upcoming climate change
summit in Copenhagen will not yield a binding international agreement.
-Chinese
President Hu Jin Tao made no commitments on balancing the yuan, and his
government refused to broadcast live Obama's town hall on state
television.
-Despite a personal appeal from President Obama, President Hu also continued to oppose economic sanctions on Iran.
-A
key meeting in Singapore with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev yielded
official confirmation that US/Russian disarmament negotiators will not
reach a new agreement before the START treaty expires on December 5th.
Ambassador John Bolton nailed him on this trip here:
China and others know exactly how to take advantage of a 'post-American' President.
Barack Obama's first visit to Asia since his inauguration was one of
the most disappointing trips by any U.S. president to the region in
decades, especially given media-generated expectations that
"Obamamania" would make it yet another triumphal progression. It was a
journey of startlingly few concrete accomplishments, demonstrable proof
that neither personal popularity nor media deference really means much
in the hard world of international affairs.
The contrast between Asia's reception for Obama and Europe's is
significant. Although considered a global phenomenon, Obamamania's real
center is Europe. There, Mr. Obama reigns as a "post-American"
president, a multilateralist carbon copy of a European social democrat.
Asians operate under no such illusions, notwithstanding the "Oba-Mao" T
shirts briefly on sale in China. Whatever Mr. Obama's allure in Europe,
Asian leaders want to know what he means for peace and security in
their region. On that score, opinion poll ratings mean little.
What the president lacked in popular adulation, however, he more
than made up for in self-adulation. In Asia, he labeled himself
"America's first Pacific president," ignoring over a century of
contrary evidence. The Pacific has been important to America since the
Empress of China became the first trading ship from the newly
independent country to reach the Far East in 1784. Theodore Roosevelt
created a new Pacific country (Panama) and started construction on the
Panama Canal to ensure that America's navy could move rapidly from its
traditional Atlantic bases to meet Pacific challenges. William Howard
Taft did not merely live on Pacific islands as a boy, like Obama, but
actually governed several thousand of them as Governor-General of the
Philippines in 1901-1903. Dwight Eisenhower served in Manila from 1935
to 1939, and five other presidents wore their country's uniform in the
Pacific theater during World War II—two of whom, John F. Kennedy and
George H.W. Bush, very nearly perished in the effort.
But it was on matters of substance where Mr. Obama's trip truly was
a disappointment. On economics, the president displayed the Democratic
Party's ambivalence toward free trade, even in an economic downtown,
motivated by fear of labor-union opposition. On environmental and
climate change issues, China, entirely predictably, reaffirmed its
refusal to agree to carbon-emission limitations, and Mr. Obama had to
concede in Singapore that the entire effort to craft a binding,
post-Kyoto international agreement in Copenhagen had come to a complete
halt.
On U.S. national security, Mr. Obama
came away from Beijing empty-handed in his efforts to constrain both
the Iranian and North Korean nuclear weapons programs, meaning that
instability in the Middle East and East Asia will surely grow. In
Japan, Mr. Obama discussed contentious issues like U.S. forces based on
Okinawa, but did not seem in his public comments to understand what he
and the new Japanese government had agreed to. Ironically, his warmest
reception, despite his free-trade ambivalence, was in South Korea,
where President Lee Myung-bak has reversed a decade-long pattern by
taking a harder line on North Korea than Washington.
Overall, President Obama surely suffered his worst setbacks in
Beijing, on trade and economics, on climate change, and on security
issues. CNN analyst David Gergen, no conservative himself, compared Mr.
Obama's China meetings to Kennedy's disastrous 1961 encounter with
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, a clear indicator of how
poorly the Obama visit was seen at home. The perception that Mr. Obama
is weak has already begun to emerge even in Europe, for example with
French President Nicholas Sarkozy, and if it emerges in Asia as well,
Obama and the U.S. will suffer gravely.
SINGAPORE | President Obama on Sunday will become the first American
president in more than 40 years to attend a meeting with the repressive rulers
of Myanmar, marking a dramatic shift in the U.S. approach to bringing change to
a regime that responds brutally to dissent, locks up journalists and political
opponents, and has kept itself largely walled off from the Western world.
Formerly known as Burma, Myanmar has for years played the role of skunk in
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, known as ASEAN, repeatedly
preventing the group from attracting participation from the United States. But
Mr. Obama came to office promising to extend an open hand to rogue states in the
hopes of changing the dynamics.
"The policies of the international community have not in two decades produced
positive results," said Jeffrey Bader, a special assistant to the president for
national security. "One definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and
over and expect a different outcome. Twenty years is long enough."
Is it any wonder that ivy league Columbia Universitay welcomes the mass slaughterer and genocidal dictator Ahmadinejad like a returning king, but censures and bans brave truth tellers like Nonie Darwish? Any Jew who gives money to Columbia deserves his or her face slapped. As if the zyklon B wasn't strong enough.
Every Jewish dollar should be pulled from every one of these jihad juicing nurseries of brownshirts.
Anti-Israel, pro-Iran university professors are being funded by a shadowy
multimillion-dollar Islamic charity based in Manhattan that the feds charge is
an illegal front for the repressive Iranian regime.
The deep-pocketed Alavi Foundation has aggressively given away hundreds of
thousands of dollars to Columbia University and Rutgers University for Middle
Eastern and Persian studies programs that employ professors sympathetic to the
Iranian dictatorship.
"We found evidence that the government of Iran really controlled everything
about the foundation," said Adam Kaufmann, investigations chief at the Manhattan
District Attorney's Office.
Federal law-enforcement authorities are in the midst of seizing up to $650
million in assets from the Alavi Foundation, which they charge funnels money to
Iran-supported Islamic schools in the United States and to a syndicate of
Iranian spies based in Europe.
In one of the biggest handouts, the controversial charity donated $100,000 to
Columbia University after the Ivy League school agreed to host Iranian leader
and Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to the foundation's 2007 tax
filings obtained by The Post.
Rutgers professor Hooshang Amirahmadi, former head of the school's Center for
Middle Eastern Studies and president of the American-Iranian Council, a
nonprofit advocacy group, unabashedly has touted Hezbollah and Hamas as
legitimate organizations and not terrorists.
Between 2005 and 2007, the Alavi Foundation donated $351,600 to the Rutgers
Persian language program, a spokesman for the school acknowledged. The
university would not comment further.
Alavi's Web site says its mission is the "promotion of Islamic culture and
Persian language."
"This is all about Iran laundering their policies through academe," said
Michael Rubin, an Iran expert at the American Enterprise Institute think tank.
"And the ivory tower is prostituting itself for money."
But Amirahmadi disagreed. "Grants from Alavi are made to the universities,
not to the professors," he told The Post.
Columbia spokesman Robert Hornsby said Alavi's donations rarely topped more
than a few thousand dollars and that the $100,000 donation was its largest
single gift. Hornsby added that the school was surprised the foundation had
direct ties to the Iranian government.
The Alavi foundation declined comment.
Additional reporting by Brad Hamilton
UNIVERSITIES FOR SALE
The Alavi Foundation — a charity that law-enforcement
officials believe is a front for the Iranian government — has given hundreds of
thousands of dollars to fund professorships at Columbia and Rutgers
universities. These professors have been apologists for the Iranian
government:
Gary Sick, professor, School of
International and Public Affairs, Columbia:He [Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad] made it very clear that, whether he is talking about ‘wiping Israel
off the map,’ or ‘erased from the pages of time,’ or whatever the quote is, what
he means is that there should be a free referendum among the peoples of the
Palestine that existed to the partition in 1948 to vote about the kind of a
government they should have. He is confident that, in a free vote, Israel and
Israelis would lose that vote and it would turn out to be something else: a
unitary state, probably run by the Palestinians.
Hooshang Amirahmadi, director, Center for Middle Eastern
Studies, Rutgers: Unfortunately, a large part of the problems
between Iran and the US are not based in reality, but are based on myths. The
problem of terrorism is a true myth. Iran has not been involved in any terrorist
organization. Neither Hezbollah nor Hamas are terrorist organizations . . . The
Iranian president’s problem is with Israel, not with America.
Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian studies and comparative
literature, Columbia: That monstrosity that [director Zack] Snyder
pictures [in his film “300”] marching towards Thermopylae is the American empire
— and that band of brothers that stood up to that monstrosity are those
resisting this empire: They are the Iraqi resistance, the Palestinians,
Hezbollah.
There was no claim of responsibility for the bloodshed in
the predominantly Muslim region wracked by political tensions between rival
clans. The convoy of vans carrying about 40 people was hijacked in Maguindanao province, about 560 miles
(900 kilometers) south of Manila, and army troops later found the bullet-riddled
bodies of 13 women and eight men, regional military commander Maj. Gen. Alfredo
Cayton said. It was unclear if anyone survived the attack. An army and police
search was under way for the other hostages. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines
said at least 10 local reporters were part of the convoy. Their organizations
failed to reach them, leading them to conclude they too were killed. "Never
in the history of journalism have the news media suffered such a heavy loss of
life in one day," Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said in a
statement. "The frenzied violence of thugs working for corrupt politicians has resulted in
an incomprehensible bloodshed," it said. The politician, Ismael Mangudadatu,
was not in the convoy and said his wife called him by mobile phone shortly
before she and her entourage were abducted.
"She said ... they were stopped
by 100 uniformed armed men ... then her line got cut off," he said. He said his
wife and relatives were among the dead. Victims' relatives blamed political
rivals in national elections slated for May 2010. Philippine elections are
particularly violent in the south because of the presence of armed groups,
including Muslim rebels fighting for self-rule in the predominantly Roman
Catholic nation, and political warlords who maintain private armies.
MANILA, Philippines – Dozens of gunmen hijacked a convoy carrying journalists,
and family and supporters of a candidate for provincial governor, killing at
least 21 of the travelers Monday in the southern Philippines' worst political
violence in years.The
decades-long Muslim insurgency has killed about 120,000 people since the 1970s.
But a presidential adviser, Jesus Dureza, said Monday's massacre was "unequaled
in recent history." "There must be a total stop to this senseless violence," he said,
recommending a state of emergency be imposed in the area to disarm all gunmen.
"Anything else will not work." About 100 gunmen were involved in the
hijacking, military spokesman Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner said. Also in the convoy
were Mangudadatu's two sisters, followers and several local journalists. They
were traveling to nearby Shariff Aguak township to file Mangudadatu's nomination
papers for the position of governor of Maguindanao province, Brawner said. Mangudadatu, vice
mayor of Buluan township, accused political rivals belonging to a prominent clan
for the massacre. Representatives of that family did not respond to the
allegations. Maguindanao is
part of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao,
which was created as part of a 1996 peace agreement with a large Muslim rebel
group. Army troops went on full alert in Maguindanao to prevent retaliatory
killings, Cayton said.
RoP. Indeed. They keep slaughtering people, destroying churches, villages, persecuting Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, non-practicing Muslims, and what do they get from the international community? Respect!
Hundreds of Muslim protesters on Saturday burnt
Christian-owned shops in southern Egypt and attacked a police station where they
believed a Christian accused of raping a Muslim girl was being held, a police
official said.
Police repelled the demonstrators in the town of Farshut using tear gas and
also arrested 60 people during the clashes in which seven Coptic Christian-owned
shops were destroyed, the official said.
Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision
to try the men in a New York City civilian courthourse have warned that the
trial would provide the defendants with a propaganda platform.
Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Department of
Justice, said Sunday that while the men may attempt to use the trial to express
their views, "we have full confidence in the ability of the courts and in
particular the federal judge who may preside over the trial to ensure that the
proceeding is conducted appropriately and with minimal disrupton, as federal
courts have done in the past."
Let the circus begin. And the clown in the White House will enjoy every disgusting minute of this obamanation. Jihad attacked America, jihad is winning.
The White House is certainly not on our side. This is awful. Not two months ago, these Islamic killers were pleading guilty. This was an act of war. WAR. Obama should be impeached.
NEW
YORK — The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty
so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one
of the defendants said Sunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused
terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the
2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."
The U.S. Justice Department announced
earlier this month that Ali and four other men accused of murdering nearly 3,000
people in the nation's deadliest terrorist attack will face a civilian federal
trial just blocks from the World Trade Center site.
Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, is a
nephew of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain
"their assessment of American foreign policy," Fenstermaker said.
"Their assessment is negative," he said.
Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the
U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He has not spoken with the others but
said the men have discussed the trial among themselves.
Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, is a
nephew of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain
"their assessment of American foreign policy," Fenstermaker said.
"Their assessment is negative," he said.
Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the
U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He has not spoken with the others but
said the men have discussed the trial among themselves.
Today, 11-22-09, a beautiful sunday, at Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, more than 5000 people gathered to protest against the visit of iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Brazil.
Jews, gays,a few muslims,baha'is,women and blacks protested and marched along the avenue singing and shouting words.
At the end many balloons were released from a cage symbolizing human rights wich are not respected in Iran.
The prosecution team I led in 1995 convicted the notorious Blind
Sheikh and 11 others for conspiring to wage a terrorist war that
included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and attempting (unsuccessfully) to attack New York City
landmarks. Consequently, some observers seem puzzled that I'm a vocal
critic of civilian trials for our terrorist enemies. But they are
confusing litigation success with national-security success. So is the Obama administration in deciding to transfer Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 plotters to federal court in Manhattan.
We certainly can convict terrorists in civilian court. We've done it
too many times for that to be a serious issue. It's also indisputable
that the U.S
attorney's office in Manhattan, where I was privileged to work for 18
years, is without peer in the expertise needed for such complex
prosecutions. I have every confidence the Justice Department could convict KSM & Co.
The problem on this ride is not the destination; it's the journey.
We are in a hot war, overwhelmingly
authorized by Congress, against vicious enemies still plotting attacks
that could dwarf the carnage of 9/11. To deal with war crimes, Congress
in 2006 endorsed military commission trials, which have a rich pedigree
in our history, are fully consistent with our Constitution, and better
enable us to withhold intelligence methods and sources.
Indeed, the Obama administration concedes that military commissions are sound: Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that the bombers of the warship Cole will face one.
From a legal standpoint, it makes no sense to try the Al Qaeda
quintet in civilian court. Eleven months ago, these men were prepared
to plead guilty in their military commission and proceed to execution.
Yet the Obama administration pulled the plug on that commission. This
was a transparent sop to the left, which wants to judicialize
war-fighting and is repulsed by the intelligence-centric,
prevention-first counterterrorism strategy that has protected us for
eight years from a reprise of the 9/11 atrocities.
Now, our enemies will be given a full-blown civilian trial with all
the rights of the American citizens they are sworn to kill. They will
get a year or more to sift through our national defense secrets. They
will have wide latitude to turn the case into a trial of the Bush
administration - publicizing information about anti-terrorism tactics
that leftist lawyers will exploit in their quest for war crimes
prosecutions in foreign courts against current and former U.S.
officials.
In the military system, we could have
denied them access to classified information, forcing them to accept
military lawyers with security clearances who could see such
intelligence but not share it with our enemies. In civilian court, the Supreme Court
has held an accused has an absolute right to conduct his own defense.
If KSM asserts that right - as he tried to do in the military
commission - he will have a strong argument that we must surrender
relevant, top-secret information directly to him. And we know that
indicted terrorists share what they learn with their confederates on
the outside.
Finally, as policy, the administration's decision is perverse. A
half-century of humanitarian law, beginning with the Geneva
Conventions, sought to civilize warfare. To receive enhanced
protection, combatants must adhere to the laws of war and refrain from
targeting civilians. Under Obama-logic, the Cole bombers get a military
commission while the 9/11 savages are clothed in the majesty of the
Bill of Rights.
So here's the message to terrorists: If you kill thousands of
civilians, we will give you better rights than if you attack military
assets. That is dangerously irresponsible.
BTW, An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers believe the jihadis who
planned the 9/11 attacks should and will be sentenced to death. This does not belong in civilian court.
The Czech Senate on Thursday banned an appearance by the controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders on its premises. Mr Wilders was going to screen his anti-Islamic film, Fitna, and address a conference held by Czech anti-Islamists and Euro-sceptics.
The controversial anti-Islamic movie Fitna by Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom, was due to be shown in the Czech Senate on November 30. Mr Wilders, who will be coming to Prague at the invitation of a Czech anti-Islamist website, eurabia.cz, and Civic Democrat Senator Jiří Oberfalzer, was also going to deliver an address entitled “Free Speech and the Islamization of Europe”. The news immediately sparked a huge controversy, and Senate leaders eventually banned Mr Wilders from appearing on the premises of the upper chamber. Civic Democrat Přemysl Sobotka is the Senate’s chair.
Přemysl Sobotka“When I found out about the details, and when I learned about what he was going to talk about here in the Senate, I said clearly it was a problem that such a controversial politician should appear in one of the chambers of the Czech Parliament.”
The Senate’s media commission, which originally approved the event, revoked its decision. Meanwhile, the Civic Democratic Party distanced itself from the invite, and so did the heads of both chambers’ foreign committees. I asked one of the organizers, Daniel Kotula, whether he was surprised by the reaction.
“I expected that there would be some voices that would not welcome Wilder’s visit but I did not expect that they would be from the Civic Democrats because they and Mr Wilders have very similar opinions. So I don’t understand. I expected this from some Social Democrats or the Greens for instance, but not from Civic Democrats.”
Senator Jiří Oberfalzer, who is well-known for his opposition to the EU’s Lisbon treaty, and the editors of eurabia.cz are now looking for another venue. They want to draw attention to how the Lisbon treaty will change the immigration policies within the EU. Daniel Kotula again.
Geert Wilders says: “It’s also related to the Lisbon treaty because it has some paragraphs related to immigration. Now that the Lisbon treaty is ratified, the EU can change immigration flows within the European Union, from example from Italy to central Europe.”
The country’s several-dozen-thousand-strong Muslim community is unfazed by the event, regardless of where Geert Wilders will screen his anti-Islamic movie. Mohammad Abbas is the head of the Muslim Union of the Czech Republic.
“Traditionally, the Muslim community here ignore such provocations. This man is coming to provoke, and I think that if we react to this, it will be exactly what he wants. He wants to show Muslims as people who are not rational. I think the best thing is to ignore him, just like that.”
If there was a leader who emerged heads and tails above the crowd, the one huge star at Restoration was Michele Bachmann. She represents our best hope for leadership. She intends to take the tea party/townhall meeting movement into a national force to effect change.
Further, she intends to lead the fight in Congress not to bring Khalid Sheikh Muhammad to New York and give him the full constitutional protections that are reserved for American citizens.
She is a force of nature.
And while I am not a huge Newt fan, he was especially good. I was glad he spoke of "irreconcilable Islam" - will post speech when it goes live at DHFC.
Andy McCarthy, Steve Emerson, Robert Spencer on a panel on Free Speech
Doug Giles, Hannah's papa...............
Congressman Ed Royce
Michele Bachmann connecting with members of ACT
Michael Ledeen
Spencer, Jamie Glazov - Editor of Front Page Magazine, and Geller
John Fund discussing hacking electronic voter machines
UPDATE: NOTE RIFQA'S ADDRESS CHANGED!!!! Rifqa Bary c/o Angela Lloyd 255C Drinko Hall 55 West 12th Avenue Columbus, OH 43201
The Franklin county Ohio Juvenile Detention Center allows inmates
to receive mail. Therefore...Rifqa should be able to receive Christmas
cards from well wishers, starting now. You just have to have your return
address on the letter and follow a few simple rules HERE.
Send her a Christmas card and email others to do the same. Show her she is not alone.
Rifqa Bary c/o Angela Lloyd 255C Drinko Hall 55 West 12th Avenue Columbus, OH 43201
UPDATE: I will find out if gifts can be sent.
UPDATE 1:48 pm: Here's a wonderful idea Atlas reader in the UK, Davod. Righteous! What a great idea. Be fruitful and multiply it:
Sunday afternoon, 22 Nov, 2009
Dear Pamela
The idea occurred to me only today, Sunday, to approach local church leaders here in the UK, tell them about Rifqa, and ask them to ask their congregants to send her a Christmas card with message or greeting, by way of support.
When I thought of this idea, it was the eleventh hour (literally, it was 11am!) by which time, of course, many churches are already well into their services. Nonetheless, I hastened to draft and print a document, written with “newbies” in mind, an overview, telling about Rifqa’s predicament, and providing the reader with the details and conditions for sending her a card as directed on Atlas (c/o Franklin County Child Services).
I then went to a local church where I knew Sunday afternoon services are held, and asked to speak with the pastor before services began. He kindly met with me. After explaining the case, I gave him the document I had prepared. I even offered to speak before his congregation (something that would have been entirely impromptu) but that idea did not fit in with his plans!
As evidence, I had even downloaded off the internet and taken with me (on my mp3 player) a recording of Rifqa’s eloquent testimony when she was 16, and of her heart-rending appeal from Florida when she was first interviewed by the press. As it turned out, I did not use these recordings, but I they could be useful in other situations.
The pastor, a seasoned professional, listened to my description with a sympathetic ear and even seemed to be familiar with the problems of apostacy and the difficulties faced by young persons like Rifqa. He had not heard of Rifqa, but said he’d like to help, and would speak about the case with his own members, and even with his church elders.
To my delight, he said: "I guarantee you, at least 50 cards will be sent!"
I was so gratified. Later, I went back to sit in on some of the service and singing, so as to hear him in action and be better acquainted with the type of congregation. (He was good, and the music and singing were elevating).
Now, Pamela, having returned from that service, I hasten to write to you, so you can let others know of this idea, which resonated with the pastor and therefore can be said to have had a successful result. I will stay in contact with him to track the follow-up.
As you know, London is full of churches, and so I intend to approach others immediately, even with my “rough-hewn” idea. I am also working on rolling out a more refined approach in the next few days, but in the meantime I wanted to let you know about this right away, for time is of the essence, and action-oriented readers of Atlas will hopefully pick up on this idea and apply it in their own individuals ways and locales.
For those Atlas readers who do follow through, I hope they will report to you with an indication of where, and how many, people responded, so you can keep track, sort of.
Pamela -- first you held that marvellous RALLY FOR RIFQA. Now I feel we need to get this CARDS FOR RIFQA campaign off the ground, make it gain momentum and go viral!
Any and everyone can participate. I am not Christian, in fact I am a traditionally observant Jew, with attachment to my faith and people. Nevertheless, I totally identify with Rifqa’s struggle and want to see her prevail, for – as they say about Israel – she is the canary in the coalmine, and whither she goeth, there go many more.
In fact, I intend to also send her a Hannukah card, for the story of Hannukah – of courage and action in the face of the odds, and of miracles that ensued -- is in many ways the story of Rifqa – only Hannuakh is behind us while she is still in the midst of her struggle and needs our support.
The document I wrote and used -- which I attach in case you or any of your readers may find it useful, but note the spellings are English -- is only my first draft, as it was written in haste, and needs further editing: it is too lengthy and repetitive, for example. However, it contains the essential details of her story, and of where to send a card, and so is a starting point for anyone wanting to become informed about Rifqa. I think it would be especially useful if given as backup to a personal presentation – whether that presentation is made in person or by phone. Please feel free to change it in any way you deem suitable.
Pamela, I greatly admire Rifqa, and respect her faith and spirit, and am outraged at her treatment by the authorities. I will do my utmost to defend her right to choose and practice her own belief and especially her right to express herself freely. At the age of 17+, at which in many jurisdictions she would be considered an adult, she deserves to be allowed to make her own choices. She is so obviously the victim of political correctness, and worse. It is a travesty that she has been deprived of communication and effectively isolated, and that the court and authorities have seen fit to treat her and her case with such draconian secrecy.
I was delighted to read that she can receive Christmas cards. Sending a card to Rifqa is an easy and inexpensive gesture which will have impact far out of proportion to the effort involved. I urge all your readers not only to do this themselves but to to approach their local communities and churches to participate, and to ask all their friends to join in the campaign.
Ans finally, a personal message to all Atlas readers: As you sit down to your Thanksgiving Dinners, wherever you are, expressing thanks for the freedoms you enjoy, please give thought to Rifqa Bary who struggles to regain hers in “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Brave she certainly is, but – outrageously -- free she is not!
G-d Bless America andG-d Bless Rifqaand all those who support this worthy cause – in particular you, Pamela, for the wonderful advocacy work you do.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
UPDATE: Someone just sent in this remix on the Rifqa rally:You can view it here.
A Wish for The Wise at The Breakers -- Those Wave-Making, Sand-Shifting, Right-Thinking Movers & Shakers -- Let the Free Speech you Preach At Palm Beach
have Far Reach, Shaking up all those Policy Makers !!
This is Islamic supremacism. Forcing the imposition of Islam on the secular society by the strong arm for the front of the Muslim Brotherhood, unindicted co-conspirator, CAIR.
Here we go! Lewiston, the city that has struggled for years ever since
federal government contractors, such as Catholic Charities, chose it as a site
for refugee resettlement and after a secondary migration of mostly Somali
refugees picked this city in “welcoming” Maine, the joys of multiculturalism
have come home to roost. And, darn, just when town fathers thought citizens
were finally getting the memo that diversity is strength something like this
happens.
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) the subject of an important
new
book entitled, “Muslim Mafia:Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring
to Islamize America,” has the audacity to threaten to bring action against a
school district that supposedly denied a Muslim girl the right to pray during
school. Here is the story
from the Sun Journal today. Hat tip: Mars
LEWISTON — A national Muslim civil rights
organization has filed a formal request with the Lewiston School Department to
allow a middle school student to pray on school property. The group also wants
Lewiston to modify existing policy and provide “constitutionally protected
religious accommodation,” such as a designated prayer room.
The group has also requested the school department
institute diversity training for school staff, and to ensure the middle-schooler
won’t face retaliation because of her request to pray at the Lewiston Middle
School.
According to the Washington, D.C.,-based Council
on American-Islamic Relations, seventh-grader Nasra Aden had been routinely
“praying discreetly during her free time or lunch break in a corner of a school
hallway.” But, on Tuesday, CAIR asserts a teacher told Aden “never to pray on
school property” after Aden was seen preparing to kneel in prayer in a corner of
one of the hallways.
After Aden told her mother, Jamad Warsame, what
happened, Warsame spoke with school Principal Maureen Lachappelle and asked the
school to accommodate her daughter’s desire to pray. According to CAIR,
Warsame’s request was rebuffed and she has been “forced to pick up her daughter
every day and take her to a nearby park to pray.”
Lachappelle said Aden is not being forced to leave
school to pray, but that the district accommodated her mother’s request for her
to leave the campus this past week for prayer.
Lewiston Superintendent Leon Levesque, who learned
of CAIR’s written accusations hours after a press release had already been
published on various Web sites, said, “Students are free to pray quietly during
class if they choose as long as it’s not disruptive,” because “prayer is
constitutionally protected in schools.”
“A stunning scenario of lack of multicultural competency” —they
have learned the lingo!
In a written statement, Ismail Warsame called
school officials’ alleged actions in responding to Aden’s effort to pray “a
stunning scenario of lack of multicultural competency” and “clear violation of
our constitutional rights to free religious expression.”
Warsame also accused Lachappelle of hanging up on
him as he was asking whether the school department would accommodate the
family’s request to accommodate the specific religious needs of certain
students. Lachappelle acknowledged she did end a phone conversation with Warsame
abruptly because “he wouldn’t take no for an answer.”
According to Lachappelle, after an involved
conversation about the school’s position on allowing silent prayer, she said she
told Warsame that “this is what the ruling is. We’re disagreeing, and I’m
following district policy. I feel we need to end this conversation.”
Readers should know that we have had reports from many cities about the fact
that some Muslim men do not respect female school teachers and administrators,
so that may explain what happened in this phone conversation.
Ibraham Hooper threatens: Do what we say, or else!
CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim
Hooper said Friday that if the Lewiston School Department did not address its
four requests to allow prayer, modify school policy, institute training and
protect Aden from retaliation, “we wouldn’t really have much choice but to take
the case further” because “the student has the legal right and the
constitutional right to pray in school in a manner that is not disruptive to the
learning environment.”
One can see the stark difference in how Florida and Ohio are handling Rifqa. This speaks to my fear of Rifqa's being returned Ohio. There is a level of corruption and Islamic influence all the way up to Strickland's office that is deeply troubling. He's on their payroll.
We needed Ohio to stay out of Rifqa's case.Ohio is biased, Florida is neutral. Look at the remarks law enforcement has already made, before they conducted any investigation (on August 14).
Columbus police also question
the girl's claim of being in danger.
Mohamed Bary "comes across to
me as a loving, caring, worried father about the whereabouts and the health of
his daughter," said Sgt. Jerry Cupp, chief of the Columbus police missing
persons bureau.
When Rifqa was in Florida, we knew when the hearings were. The media was there, and we could cover it. Now there is a blackout on this child. What are they doing? Are they medicating her under the "psychiatric evaluation" findings? Who knows? Do the Islamic apologists in the Ohio media even so much as question this fascism? Not a peep. Hijabed journalism.
John Jay has been indispensable to me in following the increasingly disturbing imposition of sharia law (though it may be unintended) in Ohio. He called the clerk's office yesterday, Franklin County Juvenile Court, (phone -614.462.4411), to
inquire about the dependency court hearing date at about 12.15 p.m. The
"results" follow.
He was told that:
1.) there is no hearing date, and
2.) it is
not being divulged to the public, if there is one.
i asked to speak to
mary ellen o'shaunesey, the court clerk personally, and was told she is out of
her office until monday. i spoke with her secretary, who did not want to talk
to me very badly, and transferred me into the ether after telling me she would
connect me to the "office manager."
i called again, asked to speak to
the office manager, and got his answering machine.
when pressed, they
say juvenile court matters are confidential.
john
p.s. i think
that the only way you are going to be able to ascertain these matters is to
intervene in the action. that is, to file a motion of intervention with the
court, and have it heard. to do that, you will have to demonstrate that you are
a necessary and proper party to the action. have some relation to
it.
the following pdf format case discusses intervention in suits in
ohio. http://olrs.ohio.gov/other/epsdtintervenejuly09.pdf
the long and the short of it, you would have to allege that the intervention
seeks to have considered a legal issue, apostasy, that might effect future
litigants. a tough row to hoe. to say the least.
UPDATE: Dr. Greg observes:
Ohio code 2151.32 requires that a child be placed in the hands of people of her own faith if the child's faith is different from the parents. As a baptised Christian, this would seem to apply to Rifqa .Can you let us know if there is any kind of "sort of formal" record or affidadit from Brian M. Williams or Pastor Blake Lorenz, or the pastor at the Korean United Methodist Church in Columbus Ohio. This could go a long way in countering the claims that Rifqa is making up her belief as an act and trigger provisions of Ohio law. As you know, the official Metro world loves paper: although in truth,God could care less about paperwork, but it may be a tool for justice in the right hands here on earth.
The Franklin county, Ohio Juvenial Detention Center allows inmates to recieve mail. Therefore.. Rifqa should be able to recieve Christmas cards from well wishers starting now. You just have to have your return address on the letter and follow a few simple rules HERE.
I am sending her a Christmas card and hope that others will do likewise. Thank you, and God Bless.
Rifqa Bary c/o c/o Angela Lloyd 255C Drinko Hall 55 West 12th Avenue Columbus, OH 43201
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