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IRANIAN REVOLUTION DAY 23: Neda Soltani, The Symbol of Iranian Resistance, was a Christian

Photo hat tip Susan

9:27 pm: Tehran 04:00 am (July 6) : 3 people Executed in Mashhad Prison

3;31 pm: Who will stand with Iranians? Afshin Molavi at Ray Man Kojast

1:30 pm: 'The revolution in Iran has just begun'

In the media's ongoing campaign to institute the agenda of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and advance Islam, it has been previously withheld from the public that Neda Soltani was a Christian.

In the oft-reproduced picture run across world media, her cross is cropped out. What deceit.

That Neda was a Christian is ample proof that everyone in Iran who took to the streets was marching for different reasons but certainly under the umbrella of  liberty and one man one vote. How vile to imply that millions marched for the inside politicking of Islamic cleric rule. Her religion flies in the face of every cold blooded pundit who has attempted to dismiss this historic movement as simply more sharia in shades of green. Photo hat tip Robert via PI)

The video

From PI (Translated from German with google German translator)

Neda, which became a symbol of the Iranian uprising, it was - as in today's print edition of the WORLD on page 5 wiki - a Christian (to enlarge click on image).

A CNN video to today's carnage, you can see here:

A young woman tells of horror with tears, which she herself has witnessed. The security forces fired indiscriminately on demonstrators as if they were animals. It describes how young men were slaughtered with axes are:

"This is a massacre, a genocide is Hitler ... help us!"

Snapshots: Women of the revolution

THE WOMEN OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION

All Iranian revolution liveblogging archives here.

DEMOCRAT DESTROYERS: FBI "ABSOLUTELY NO TRUTH" to Leftwing Lily Livered Lies, Libels Against Palin

This beauty is Shannyn Moore, Puff Ho libel blogger.

The notoriously left wing LA Times reports that the FBI reports that there is  is "absolutely no truth" to the lies being spread by force of nature Sarah Palin. Palin scares the malevolent to death. Palin is the silver cross to the Democrats Dracula.

Palin in a facebook message said yesterday, "

I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint"
"How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it's about country," the statement said. "And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make."

"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."

I love her! She is the leader Americans need.  She is the leader the tea parties need.

I hope Palin sues just to shut these fat bastids up.

Sarah Palin not under FBI investigation, agency spokesman says LA Times

 The former GOP vice presidential candidate's surprise resignation as Alaska governor had set off speculation, including rumors of a pending federal corruption probe or charges.

Reporting from Washington -- A day after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resigned, a federal official in her home state dismissed one potential explanation for her sudden and unexpected resignation: a rumored FBI investigation into the former Wasilla mayor on public corruption charges.

Despite rumors of a looming controversy after the Republican governor's surprise announcement Friday that she would leave office this month, some of them published in the blogosphere, the FBI's Alaska spokesman said the bureau had no investigation into Palin for her activities as governor, as mayor or in any other capacity.

."There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her," Special Agent Eric Gonzalez said in a phone interview Saturday. "It's just not true." He added that there was "no wiggle room" in his comments for any kind of inquiry.

In case you missed this, read it:
Palin in 2012!Exclusive: Pamela Geller lauds Sarah for 'assuming the mantle' of leadership vs. Obama --WND

UPDATE:  Gary gets it

UPDATE: Oorah!

Marion man already driving around with Sarah Palin 2012 poster By James Q.
LynchThe Gazette
Harlan Muth isn’t organizing Sarah Palin’s presidential campaign, but pledges as soon as someone does, “I’ll be with ’em.In the meantime, the Marion maintenance contractor is turning heads with his “Sarah Palin 2012” poster prominently displayed on his van

Don't Buy His Book!

I thought my readers would get a kick out of this email exchange with an ex-Reaganite and BDS, Bush Derangement Syndrome sufferer - always good for a laugh :)

Believe it or not, Bartlett worked in the Reagan White House and at the Treasury Department under President George H.W. Bush. Since 1993, Bartlett had been affiliated with the National Center for Policy Analysis, a free-market think tank based in Dallas, Texas. In 2005 he was fired by the NCPA for his outspoken criticism of President George W. Bush.

Apart from the disconnect from humanity and his use of expletives, he's a lovely man, I am sure.

Just for the record, I do not know this fellow nor have we ever corresponded before. This is our first communication. Brucie boy, I am sure this is the beginning of a bee-yoo-tee-ful relationship. :)

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Subject: RE: Neda
Date: 7/5/2009 2:15:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
From: bartlettbruce@verizon.net
To: writeatlas@aol.com [Pamela]
Sent from the Internet (Details)

I think your post about her being a Christian is utterly irresponsible. The ONLY effect will be to give the government another excuse to crack down on demonstrators. When people die because of this I hope you are happy.

Bruce Bartlett

[Address redacted]

www.facebook.com/bruce.bartlett

Bruce Bartlett's new book is available for preorder: The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward. 

__________________________________________________________

From: writeatlas@aol.com [Pamela]
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 3:11 PM
To: bartlettbruce@verizon.net
Subject: Re: Neda

Oh, so the hundreds that were killed and brutally beaten and thousands arrested before I ran it were just a footnote. You are a bloodless inhumane creature (can't say soul, you haven't any).
I feel sorry for you.
Keep covering for Ahmadinejad.
Good luck with that and looking yourself in the mirror.

Yours in liberty,
Pamela Geller
Atlas Shrugs
Editor and Publisher

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Subject: RE: Neda
Date: 7/5/2009 4:03:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
From: bartlettbruce@verizon.net
To: writeatlas@aol.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)

You are a total fucking asshole.

Bruce Bartlett

[Address redacted]

(703) XXXXXXXXX

www.facebook.com/bruce.bartlett

Bruce Bartlett's new book is available for preorder: The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward.

PROPAGANDA PRESIDENCY: Obama Censoring Embarrassing White House Press Coverage Clips

Check the latest White House censorship. The White House youtube press briefing playlist has one episode noticeably missing. The 7/1/09 press briefing that exposed the propaganda and manufactured media of the Obama White House is gone.

7/1/09. It doesn't show up no matter how you view the page. Here is the "missing link" White House" page.

This is the episode with Helen and Chip rebelling/exposing the hypocrisy of the Obama White House controlling the message....The White House channel shows 6/26 and then skips to 7/2.

Here is the infamous exchange that has been censored and what dear leader does not want the American public to view:

7/1 is still is posted, but you have to find it by specifically searching for it, not via the playlist, where it is missing.

Here is the full White House 7/1 episode. Hat tip to beethovenqueen

Here is a screenshot of the White House youtube press grid:

Here is the 7/1 youtube page. It exists, even though it has been censored from the main page.

Another Faux Obama Emergency: Bypass Senate Ratification of Russian Arms Treaty

Further proof of the totalitarian-in-chief exercising power he does not have. Exception sets terrible precedent, just as exception makes bad law.

The out-of-control presidency.

US-Russian Arms Negotiators "Under the Gun," Might Temporarily Bypass Senate Ratification for Treaty Jake Tapper, ABC News (hat tip Kenneth S.)

[Italics, emphasis mine]

MOSCOW -- With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty.

[...]

Samore said administration lawyers are exploring the "different options that are available. One option is that both sides could agree to continue the inspections by executive agreement; that would work on our side. On the Russian side, as I understand it, that would require Duma approval."

The fact that the administration is preparing for such an extraordinary measure shows just how much pressure the two administrations are under to arrive at an agreement before the 18-year-old treaty expires. While resident Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are expected to announce progress tomorrow on a nuclear arms reduction treaty – nicknamed “New START” -- to take effect in just five short months, many sticking points that remain unresolved.

[...]

Both the US and Russia have agreed in principle to reduce the number of nuclear weapon delivery vehicles from the current level of 1,600 each, as was negotiated under START, and to reduce the number of nuclear warheads each nation has in its arsenal from 2,200 each, as agreed upon during the 2002 Moscow Treaty.

One of the major sticking points so far has been Russia’s continued frustration at US plans for a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, an issue [White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and Arms Control Gary Samore] said would “have to be addressed in the new treaty,” though he would not specify just how.

Do you think Obama will throw our allies under the bus? Rhetorical question, I know.

[...]

“In terms of missile defense Poland and the Czech Republic are one thing, Iran is a different one altogether, they are too far apart geographically,” Samore said. “I do not understand how people can say that missile defense is linked to the problems of the Middle East.” He allowed that “the missiles that North Korea is using have tremendous range. This has to be of concern for us. We are located in close proximity to this country.”

Hmmmm, I don't know how people can say the tiny country of Israel is linked to the global jihad.

[...]

After more than four hours worth of meetings with Medvedev on Monday, President Obama and his Russian counterpart will outline what is essentially yet another outline for a treaty. In London in April the two outlined what was an outline for this outline. Since that time, Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance Rose Gottemoeller and her counterpart, Anatoly Antonov, the head of the department for security and disarmament in the Russian Foreign Ministry, have been negotiating intensely.

President Obama told Russia’s ITAR-TASS/ROSSIYA TV that his “goal is that both countries reduce their nuclear stockpiles in a way that doesn't leave either country with an advantage, but reduces tensions and the expense of maintaining such high nuclear stockpiles when they're not necessary for our defense and our deterrence."

I can only imagine how 'tough' Obama is.

South Africa: Muslim slits wife's throat, attempts to set her on fire

Robert Spencer here -- Atlas has very kindly allowed me to guest post here while Jihad Watch is down. We are working on getting things up and running over there again. Sometimes you can get to the site, but it is very slow. In the meantime, I am grateful for the space here. Thanks, Atlas!

Here is another honor killing story, this one out of South Africa. Islamic apologists routinely dismiss honor killings as having nothing to do with Islam; however, Islamic law stipulates that a parent who kills a child incurs no penalty, and as for wife-killing, a few years back the Jordanian Parliament rejected on Islamic grounds attempts to stiffen penalties for honor killings. In light of such facts, the refusal of Islamic leaders in the West to face this issue is criminally irresponsible, and only ensures that honor killings will continue.

Note also that "Abdul Rudolph" sounds like the name of a convert. Did he pick up the idea that honor killing could be justified from those who converted him to Islam? How is it that they failed to instruct him in those true, peaceful Islamic teachings that we hear so much about?

"Man allegedly doused wife with petrol," by Jade Witten in IOL.co.za, July 3 (thanks to Maxwell):

An investigating officer has told the Goodwood Magistrate's Court how an Athlone man walked into his wife's place of work and slit her throat before attempting to set her alight.

It is alleged that Abdul Rudolph slit the throat of his wife, Firdous Fortune-Rudolph, and doused her with petrol in the kitchen of Morkels furniture store at N1 City Mall, where she worked.

Inspector Anton Abraham, testifying in Rudolph's bail application yesterday, relayed the events that unfolded at around 2pm on April 29.

He said Rudolph, 30, entered the store to speak to his 25-year-old wife. The couple then went to the kitchen where he asked her "if she didn't love or want him anymore".

Minutes later, Abrahams told the court, a knife was produced and he slit her throat.

This was premeditated: he had five liters of gasoline with him:

He then poured petrol from a five-litre bottle over his wife, before attempting to set her alight with his lighter.

But, as this took place, two of Fortune-Rudolph's colleagues stormed into the kitchen and shoved him aside.

They rescued her and rushed her to hospital.

Abrahams testified that Rudolph then knelt on the kitchen floor and slit his own throat. Later he drove off.

Mall security guards gave chase and found him unconscious at the wheel of his car. He was admitted to hospital....

The court also heard Rudolph had a separate case of attempted murder and rape of a former wife pending in the Wynberg Regional Court.

He had allegedly choked and then raped the woman in 2005 and was later released on R2 000 bail....

Abrahams said Rudolph should not be granted bail as he had violated the conditions of the order which prohibited him from physically, emotionally and verbally abusing his wife, harassing her or entering her place of work....

Jihadwatch down again

Another DOS attack on Robert Spencer. Jihadwatch is down. Ugh. I will keep you posted.

Qurans Burned, Destroyed ...... uh, wait

I had you going there for a minute, didn't I? You were expecting worldwide riots, embassies burning, Christians beheaded ........ not.

"If Jews had burned dozens of Muslim books, the whole world would be shaking.”

But the Jews would never do such a thing. The envy that Judaism breeds in Islam is incomprehensibly wicked. They can burn our books, but they will never touch our soul.

Kristallnacht’ at Homesh: Arabs Burned Holy Books

Arabs raided the yeshiva of Homesh in Samaria on Wednesday and torched dozens of books of the Talmud and of the Five Books of Moses, leaving behind a pile of ashes. The arsonists ignored personal equipment, including beds, tables and chairs, and concentrated all their energies on Jewish texts.

“It was a horrible sight to see dozen of holy books of the Talmud and Bible burned almost completely,” said Rabbi Elishama Cohen, head of the yeshiva that has been the stronghold of the community the past two years. Homesh was one of four towns in northern Samaria that the government destroyed after expelling the residents during the “Disengagement” program four years ago.

“The Arabs did this very thoroughly and carefully,” Rabbi Cohen added. “We succeeded in saving the remains of some of the burned books and several pages where the letters still are recognizable, the same pages we learned the past several days.”

Return to Homesh leader Yossi Dagan said that the yeshiva students gathered the remains of the books to bury them according to Jewish law. “We demand that the Prime Minister establish a community larger than the original Homesh. This needs to be the answer of the government to this desecration and national humiliation."

Yuli Edelstein, Minister of Information and Diaspora Affairs, said. "To my sorrow, this grave incident is a result of classic anti-Semitism and a reminder of the dark days of the past. It is sad to think that if there were permanent homes and official security, we would not be witness to this grave incident.”

Obama say: "We seek broader engagement based upon mutual interest and mutual respect. We will listen carefully, we will bridge misunderstanding, and we will seek common ground. We will be respectful even when we do not agree".

Muslims attack fleeing Christians with acid: 9 women, 4 children injured by rampage

The religion of peace ................. always.

Obama says, "We seek broader engagement based upon mutual interest and mutual respect. We will listen carefully, we will bridge misunderstanding, and we will seek common ground. We will be respectful even when we do not agree".

So is reporting these stories considered hate speech?

Muslims Attack fleeing Christians with acid:
9 women, 4 children injured by rampage

Muslims apparently angered because a Christian man driving a tractor reportedly tried to pass a Muslim on a motorcycle have rampaged in one village in Pakistan, destroying Christians' homes and throwing acid on women and children as they fled, according to a new report from Barnabas Aid.

The ministry reported that the violence this week happened in the village of Bahmani Walla in Punjab state in Pakistan, which is dominated by Islamic influences.

The report said 600 Muslims used gasoline bombs to vandalize 117 homes belonging to Christians – including 48 damaged by fire, and sabotage water pumps and cut electricity.

According to the report, the violence apparently stemmed from an incident one night earlier, "in which a Christian man driving a tractor requested that a Muslim man riding a motorcycle allow him to pass."

"The request was refused and a disagreement ensued," said the Christian ministry that directs financial support to projects that help Christians "where they suffer discrimination, oppression and persecution as a consequence of their faith."

SIX THUNDEROUS STANDING OVATIONS FOR PRESIDENT BUSH

"We miss you, George!,” a man in the crowd yelled.

In Crystal Beach Park Arena in the small rural town of Woodward, Oklahoma, population 12,000, the Freedom Ring 2009 festival was held. 9,200 tickets were sold. The organizers said that 14,000 enthusiastic supporters attended the event, and it was standing room only for President Bush's address to the crowd.

Bush spoke to thunderous applause and six standing ovations. Bush called the U.S. the ‘’greatest nation on the face of the earth." (Has Obama issued an arrest warrant for insulting other nations?)

Six standing ovations? I suspect it will be sixty in no time. If Obama has taught us anything, it's a terrible longing for what we've lost. A paradise lost, slipping so casually through our fingers.

The New York Times actually filed the following report. It makes you wonder who gets the pink slip for this one:

Thunderous Okla. Applause Greets Bush on July 4 NY Times

Former President George W. Bush was greeted by thunderous applause on the Fourth of July as he told thousands of spectators in a rural Oklahoma rodeo arena that the U.S. was ''the greatest nation on the face of the earth.''

Bush was given six standing ovations as he spoke on a warm, humid evening in GOP-friendly Woodward, a town of about 12,000 residents in northwest Oklahoma and the latest in a handful of out-of-the-way places Bush has visited since leaving office.

During a 30-minute speech mostly devoid of political references -- he mentioned his successor, Barack Obama, just once in passing -- Bush thanked members of the military, spoke about the bravery of injured soldiers he'd met and told stories of people in difficult situations helping others.

''Patriotism comes in all different kinds of forms,'' he said. ''Freedom is beautiful, freedom is precious, freedom must always be defended.''

[...]

After the speech, Bush waded into the crowd for a few minutes, giving hugs, signing autographs and shaking hands. ''I didn't think he'd do that,'' Fanning said. ''I told him he's welcome back any time.''

[...]

In 2004, Bush won 80.9 percent of the vote in Woodward County as he defeated Democratic challenger John Kerry.

''I came because George Bush was coming down here and I wanted to see him,'' said 48-year-old Douglas Stewart of nearby Freedom, who had a U.S. flag attached to his ballcap. ''I helped put him in office twice. I'm proud to say I did.''

[...]

The town welcomed Bush with banners on restaurants, hotels and a highway entering Woodward. Three protesters standing outside the arena with anti-Bush signs left by mid-afternoon. No protests were seen inside the arena.

City Manager Alan Riffel said it was the first presidential visit to Woodward since the late 1950s, when Dwight Eisenhower landed at the airport outside town en route to view drought damage in the area.

The Manifestation of Obama's Jew Hatred: Israel Forced Out of India Jet Bid

The object of Obama's Jew hatred is Israel. It is not hard to understand the roots of Obama's hate, as evidenced by Obama's close allies and gurus (i.e. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, etc.). I suspect it won't be long before American Jews feel the sting of the Mohammedan president.

The latest act of Obama's anti-semitism:

Under pressure from the Pentagon, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been forced to back out of a joint partnership with a Swedish aerospace company to compete in a multi-billion dollar tender to sell new multi-role fighter jets to the Indian Air Force.

The deal, estimated at a whopping $12 billion for over 120 new aircraft, is being fought over by Lockheed Martin's F-16, Boeing's F-18/Hornet, Russia's MiG-35 and BAE's Eurofighter. IAI was asked by Saab, manufacturer of the Gripen, to jointly develop an advanced model which would compete for the deal.

The Defense Ministry ordered IAI to back out of the deal after the Pentagon expressed concern that American technology, used by Israel, would be integrated into the Gripen offered to the Indians.

"The stated concern was that Western technology in Israeli hands would make its way to the Indians," one Israeli official said.

What was strange with the American request was that Boeing and Lockheed Martin - the two largest US defense contractors - are also competing for the Indian deal. For this reason, Israeli officials said it was more likely that the Americans were concerned that if IAI competed for the deal with Saab, it would force the American companies to lower their prices.

A multi-role fighter, the Gripen is in service in Sweden, the Czech Republic, Hungary and South Africa. IAI was supposed to provide the electronic systems - radar, communications and electronic-warfare - for the plane.

UPFATE: Jan P. adds, "The American objections are phony: they are proposing American technology in the F-16 and F/A-18. India already has Israeli fire control systems in the Russian Built, Indian flown SU-30! It is another raw attempt to hurt Israel in every way possible. Israel should make a deal for the Gripen for themselves".

July 4, 2009: CAIR/ISNA THUGGERY VS. LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

There are two Americas indeed. One for beleaguered, put-upon patriots under siege for their love of country, the Constitution, freedom of speech, and individual rights. The other is the "special class" that oppresses and subjugates us on a daily basis. Individualism vs collectivism. Islamic supremacism vs democracy.

Today was the kick-off of  the Islamic Society of North America conference in Washington DC. The timing could not be more deliberate. Sort of like the North Koreans firing missiles on the Fourth of July. ISNA is as compatible with American values and freedoms as sharia is compatible with democracy.

As you read the following account, bear in mind that Obama's Department of Justice and the FBI had teamed with these groups.

Dave Gaubatz attended the ISNA conference (or at least attempted to); what follows is his  experience. Dave Gaubatz was the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. He is the owner of DG Counter-terrorism Publishing. He is currently conducting a 50 State Counter-terrorism Research Tour (CTRT). He can be contacted at davegaubatz@gmail.com.

Here is what Dave wrote:

Quick synopsis, of course more coming out later tonight/tomorrow:

1. Went to ISNA/DC to check in. I had prepaid $100.00 fee and had my registration.

2. It was apparent I was 'flagged'.

3. 8 or 9 ISNA and other men surround me.

4. They refused to tell me who they are or why they want me to leave.

5. One then said, "CAIR wants you out."

6. They began crowding me. I was professional and told them to step away from me, tell me who they are, and why was I being illegally detained.

7. I told them this could have been avoided if ISNA would have emailed me a cancellation. I told them I want my $100.00 back. Meanwhile I was asking them some tough questions they could not answer.

8. Then the group led me out of the convention; still no names of who they were.

9. I was on the street and noticed at least 3 DC patrol cars. I took pictures. Then I started walking toward my parked car. One patrol car was following me slowly. I stopped took a few pictures of him. Then walked to my car.

10. I got in my car. Three Patrol cars surrounded me and surrounded my vehicle. I was told to get out.

11. I asked what was the problem. Finally one officer showed me a picture CAIR had given them and told them I was a threat. It had four pictures. 3 were with me in Iraq with my M-16 and 9mm, and two I was holding AK-47s in Iraq. CAIR had photocopied the picture of me helping a sick iraqi child from the picture. Then CAIR had cropped my head shot onto a Nazi uniform (which was obvious).

12. The lead cop said this is all CAIR had given them. I told them about the pictures, my background in Iraq, and who I was. They knew nothing of this.

13. CAIR and ISNA had essentially tried to get me killed. The officer said they just had the holocaust shooting. CAIR intentionally misled the officers to make them believe I was just someone who carries guns. CAIR failed to tell them these were pictures from Iraq when I was serving my country.

Bit frustrated right now and hope we can get American people to respond legally or more and more of this will happen to innocent Americans.

What happened to Mr. Gaubatz is an outrage.  Bear in mind this is America, and these very same Islamists invoke our freedoms to kill our freedom. They invoke freedom of speech to kill freedom of speech. They use lawfare and litigation jihad to silence truth tellers. Dave will be writing a full recounting of today's events, but look at his report thus far.

It's pretty clear CAIR/ISNA tried to have this man killed or arrested. Expose Islam and risk your life. CAIR/ISNA distributing photos of "threats" to the police is like the Nazis distributing photos of Jews. They are this century's Nazis. Shouldn't law enforcement know who the good guys are?

This is America? They set up Gaubatz. They know who he is. Clearly, CAIR and ISNA were hoping for a larger incident.

Gaubatz was surrounded by nine people who had no identification (they were just wearing suits) when he attempted to register. He asked who they were. Only one of the nine spoke to him; the others just glared.  The one who did speak to him asked if he could come with them. He repeatedly asked who they were, because he was not going to go with a group of nine men unless he knew who they were. The individual who was speaking to him refused to identify himself. He asked for a manager, again, because he was not going to walk away with a group of people that he did not know. The only answer he received was, "our parent organization said you were a threat". He was surrounded for just under a half hour. Finally, one individual, who identified himself as being with the convention center, spoke to Gaubatz. When Gaubatz asked why he was being asked to leave, he stated repeatedly, "I don't know why"..."They just said you didn't register"..."I really don't know". 

They did not say why he was on their list, but if you read the Frontpage magazine article about the Cease and Desist letter, this is exactly why he was on the list. His main point for legal recourse is that all of this could have been avoided if ISNA had called or sent an email asking him not to be there. Clearly this was done intentionally, with the hopes that DC police would respond to their false claim of threats and the picture of Gaubatz's war photos and picture of him photoshopped in a Nazi uniform.

Here is an excerpt from the Frontpage article:

CAIR has actually just sent me a letter from the law firm of Martin F. McMahon & Associates pertaining to my upcoming attendance at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) conference to be held in Washington , during the 4^th of July holiday.

FP: What did the letter say?

Gaubatz: First let me emphasize what I have said for several years:

[1] It is my professional opinion that CAIR and its executives are terrorist supporters and their ‘non profit’ and IRS endorsed organization should have never been allowed to open almost 15 years ago.

[2] It is also my professional opinion that anyone or organization supporting CAIR or its ideology supports terrorism and are a national security threat to our country.

[3] A different acronym used does not change the ideology. CAIR is ISNA, ISNA is MSA, and MSA is MANA (Imam Siraj Wahhaj). These are different people representing the same ideology of an Islamic Ummah (Nation) under Sharia law.

[4] Many of our law enforcement executives of various agencies have lost sight of who they work for. They do not work for Saudi financed CAIR or ISNA, they work for America and its citizens

Gaubatz: The letter is a notice for me to cease and desist from contacting CAIR and its reps both at the ISNA convention and anytime afterwards.

Read the whole thing here. Very informative on the intimidation tactics of CAIR/ISNA.

Gaubatz is making his statement and filing charges tomorrow. He did feel threatened because of being surrounded, and felt like he could not safely leave the area. DC police will decide, based on his statement, which charge is appropriate. 

When Gaubatz was leaving the convention, there were two police cars out front. Two officers behind him (he did not see them at any time) subsequently got in one of the cars and tailed him to his car (which was parked across the street). He got into his vehicle, and then an officer approached and asked him to step out of the vehicle. The officer said, "You know why we're asking you to get out of the vehicle", to which Gaubatz replied, "No I don't".  To which the officer said, "Well, we've got this picture. Can you tell me about all these guns" (referencing a picture of Gaubatz serving in Iraq with M-16, and 9mm military issue).  Gaubatz then told him that they were pictures of him in the war for this country. Gaubatz then told him that the picture of him in a Nazi uniform was obviously a photoshop. The officer then stated, "You understand with the holocaust shooting...". They asked if they could search his trunk. He stated, No, I have been harassed enough, if you want to get a warrant, I'll wait all day. The officer exchanged cards with him. The officers were just doing their jobs, because they had been duped into following up this lead based on faulty intel.

 

The main point of concern here is that CAIR/ISNA gave misleading information to law enforcement that put Gaubatz's life in jeopardy. At any time when he was leaving, if had reached into his bag, the police, acting on faulty information from CAIR/ISNA, would have assumed he was a threat and drawn on him, or worse (like the officer said, considering the Holocaust shooting). CAIR/ISNA purposely used the Nazi uniform photo to get this effect from law enforcement. CAIR/ISNA did not inform law enforcement that these pictures were of him serving in the war (with the guns), and the police must have believed he was a threat based on this information. They wanted the incident to escalate; otherwise they would have just sent him an email and a refund online requesting that he not attend.

Here is a copy of Dave's confirmation and registration for ISNA.

Obama's administration is partnering with these enemies of freedom: Patrick Poole has a scathing indictment of Eric Holder's Department of Justice and ISNA.

Here is an  account of a pro-freedom rally across the street from the conference:

July 4, 2009 - Independence Day: Defending Equality And Liberty at DC ISNA Conference

On July 4, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) members stood outside of the DC Convention Center in the Mt. Vernon Square across the street to challenge the Washington DC ISNA convention on the issue of Islamic supremacism.  Per our previous article announcing this protest, we explained why we felt it was necessary to challenge ISNA on this Independence Day - where R.E.A.L. is calling for independence not just for America, but for the rest of humanity from supremacist and totalitarian ideologies.  On this Independence Day, we are also calling for independence from those oppressed by Islamic supremacists as well.

At today’s protest, we stated that as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. recognized the ideological challenge of “white supremacism,” so we too today recognize the ideological challenge of “Islamic supremacism.”   While we realize that such a challenge is not popular with some, we feel that if we are true to courage of convictions on human equality, that on July 4, as on every other day, we must defy such supremacist ideologies.

One of R.E.A.L.'s signs at the July 4 DC Rally for Equality And Liberty

We challenged ISNA to address the universal human right of EQUALITY, including equality of women, homosexuals, non-Muslims, and different Muslim sects.  We challenged ISNA that without equality, we have no life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness.  We challenged Americans to remember, especially on July 4, that in our Declaration of Independence we view human equality as “a truth that we hold self-evident.”  Equality is the foundation to all of our other universal human rights.

We asked ISNA this question:  “when will you condemn Islamic supremacism?”

Responsible for Equality And Liberty at ISNA Conference - July 4, 2009

We asked ISNA - “when will you start addressing the stonings and honor killings of women and homosexuals by Islamic supremacists around the world?”   We asked ISNA - “when will you acknowledge the use of Sharia in the deaths, mutilations, and amputations of women, non-Muslims, and Muslims around the world?”   We spent two hours going over specific examples of the repression, torture, mutilations, stoning, honor killings, and murders of women, other Muslims, non-Muslims, homosexuals and others who Islamic surpremacists have viewed as a threat.   We stated that on this Independence Day, we must speak for those suffering from oppression from Islamic supremacism around the world.

We explained that our universal human rights are not dependent on any religion, and we explained our universal human rights must be consistent for all people around the world.  Some ISNA convention goers stated to us that universal human rights don’t matter to them; they stated that the only rights that matter to them where those based on their religion.  We challenge that supremacist view on “human rights,” both as Americans and as fellow human beings.  We declare that our universal human rights apply - no matter your religion, your gender, your race, or your identity - our universal human rights apply to every human being.

We also announced our ORANGE RIBBON campaign for equality and liberty, and provided handouts to those going to the ISNA convention to educate them on their universal human rights and our campaign to defend such rights.   We have chosen ORANGE as our symbol for universal human rights that apply to all our fellow human beings on Earth.

Orange Ribbon for Universal Human Rights - Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)

Several individuals going to the ISNA conference did not like what we had to say.  Those individuals sought to shout us down.  However, the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department stepped in to defend our right to freedom of speech.

Several individuals going to the ISNA conference did not like what we had to say.  Those individuals sought to shout us down.  However, the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department stepped in to defend our right to freedom of speech.

July 4 - DC - Some ISNA Conference Members Don't Like R.E.A.L.'s Challenge to Islamic Supremacism and Defense of Universal Human Rights

R.E.A.L.'s Jeffrey Imm pauses while DC Police explain to ISNA conference go-ers about our right to free speech and organized protest

July 4 - R.E.A.L. Continues Its Message Challenging Islamic Supremacism and Defending Universal Human Rights

We also asked ISNA how it could have a theme of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” when it not only ignored the foundation of EQUALITY that is the basis for all of our universal human rights, but also had speakers who have defended or been unwilling to challenge Islamic supremacism.

– Siraj Wahhaj was a character witness for convicted 1993 World Trade Center terrorist “blind sheik” Omar Rahman, has called for replacing the American government with a caliphate.  According to Siraj Wahhaj, “if only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional govt. with a caliphate. If we were united and strong, he said, we would elect our own emir and give allegiance to him. Take my word if 8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.”

– Hamza Yusef (also spelled Hamza Yousuf or Hamza Yousef) has described Judaism as a “most racist religion,” and who promotes Jihad stating that Jihad is the duty and responsibility of all Muslims, further stating that “Jihad is actually considered a Rahma (mercy) in Islam.”  Yusef’s idea of “compromise” is that “There are times when you have to live like a sheep in order to live in the future like a lion.”

– Zaid Shakir has stated “Every Muslim who is honest would say, I would like to see America become a Muslim country”

– ISNA’s Ingrid Mattson has defended the idea of an Islamic supremacist caliphate, and has portrayed Christians as a threat to Jews.  On the idea of the Islamic supremacist caliphate, she has stated that “the overthrowing of the caliphate… was a plan of European powers for many years. This deprived the Muslim world of a stable and centralized authority, and much of the chaos that we’re living in today is the result of that.”  Ingrid Mattson also claims that “Muslim women have the same legal rights as Muslim men,” when we see daily how women are treated as second-class human beings by Islamic supremacists who seek the same “caliphate” that Ingrid Mattson defends.

On July 3, the ISNA conference also had Ihsan Bagby speak on “compelling history of Islam in the Americas and highlight the extraordinary contributions of Muslims to the American experience.”   But what has ISNA speaker Ihsan Bagby said about America?  According to Ihsan Bagby, “we [Muslims] can never be full citizens of this country… because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country.”

Read the rest here.

Previously at Atlas, and related:

FBI LEADERSHIP GUILTY OF CONSPIRING WITH ISLAMIC JIHAD: PARTNERS WITH ISNA

Department of State’s Criterion in Partnering with Jihadists in America

Ever since Obama took office, we have been scratching our heads trying to understand how and why he is reaching out to hardcore jihad-supporting Muslims. I documented the dangerous partnership of ISNA with the FBI. Patrick Poole has a scathing indictment of Eric Holder's Department of Justice and ISNA.  It's no accident, it's systemic. And it is sanctioned at the highest levels of government.

ISNA, CAIR, FBI AND Department of Justice Axis of  Jihad...

Saturday Night Cinema Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Classic Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, and Edward Arnold.

A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an American 1939 comedy/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra – his last film for Columbia Pictures, the studio where he made his name^[1] – and written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story.^[2] Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was controversial when it was released, but also successful at the box office, and made Stewart a major movie star.^[1] Aside from Stewart and Arthur, the film features a bevy of well-known supporting actors, among them Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell and Beulah Bondi. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, winning for Best Screenplay.^[3]

Tea Parties Nationwide! GO AMERICA!

UPDATED: 3:19 pm: Oh, the hypocrisy: Los Angeles Times: Tea Parties are 'Un-American'

15,000 show up in California

 

Amazing pictures  of DC tea party at Bored Melo (hat tip Armaros)

UPDATE: 1984 vs. 2009 (hat tip Kenneth S )

July 4th 1984: President Ronald Reagan attends the NASCAR race in Daytona Beach, Florida, is honored with the task of saying 'the most famous words in all of sports, "Gentlemen, start your engines !" and then witnesses Richard Petty winning his 200th NASCAR sanctioned event. President Reagan also stays after the race and with the drivers, their families and crews, enjoys a BBQ dinner and then the big fireworks display.

July 4th 2009: President Barack Hussein Obama goes to Russia........ In order to apologize for the existence of President Ronald Reagan.

Am I missing something ?

Why we fight on this Independence Day Robert Spencer

Morristown, NJ (hat tip Nancy)

 

Chicago (hat tip Crusty)

 

St Paul (hat tip Tammy)

Incoming IAEA Chief Gives Iran Nuclear Pass, Paves Way for Nuclear war

The international community is in league with the butchers. Considering the murderous execution Iran is committing against its own people, this is a disaster.

The incoming head of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog said on Friday that he did not see any hard evidence that Iran was trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear weapons.

Even El Baradei had it better: "Current IAEA head Mohammed ElBaradei told the BBC last month it was his "gut feeling" that Iran was seeking the ability to produce nuclear arms, if it desired, as an "insurance policy" against perceived threats from neighboring countries or the United States."(more here)

Armaros remarked, "I don't know what makes one qualify to work at UN agencies but surely the UN illustrates what I learned in drama classes. Comedy and tragedy are each others closest relatives".

Iranian Revolution Day 22: Crushing the Movement - 29 More to be Hanged Tomorrow

Names of women dead/arrested (English via Google Translator) 

6:11 pm: Judiciary has ordered Iranian ISPs and Web based service providers to give them info (including IPs) of users.

Evil assclown of the day: Incoming IAEA chief: No evidence Iran seeking nuclear weapons. Those perverse lilliputians over at the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, must be polishing up  their next award for this tool (it will stand next to El Baradei's, Yaser Arafat's, Dhimmi Carter's and Al Whore's).

5:26 pm: 20 PEOPLE WERE EXECUTED IN TEHRAN TODAY JULY 4
4 July 2009

Iran Human Rights, July 4: According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars, 20 people were hanged in the Rajaee shahr prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) early this morning July 4.

On July 3., Iran Human Rights warned that 29 prisoners were scheduled to be executed in Tehran today July 4.
Iran Human Rights is investigating whether among those (...)

2:55 pm: Execution Update: 20-Tehran; 14-Shiraz; 6-Qom; 6-Evin Prison. 14-scheduled in Qom. More tomorrow.................

I have one vote, I give it to no one. I have one life, I give it to free Iran. (Twitter)

While the Obama administration continues to vigorously pursue the criminalization of Bush and Bush officials for defending the American people against Islamic jihad, Obama abets the mullahs in Iran. Iran will execute another 20 people tomorrow. Obama? Silent. 

Another 29 people will be hanged for peacefully marching for one man one vote, and Obama will block sanctions against these bloodthirsty murderers at the coming G8 summit.

At the same time, John Yoo, an ex-Justice Department attorney who wrote memos justifying harsh interrogations of terrorism detainees, lost his bid to dismiss a lawsuit blaming him for alleged violations of a detainee’s rights: Yoo, Bush Administration Lawyer, Must Face a "Torture Lawsuit". Jose Padilla, a Muslim terrorist who planned a nuclear attack in America, claims that Yoo’s memos led to a system under which he was subject to coercive interrogations and cruel and unusual punishment while being denied his right to an attorney, access to courts, freedom of religion and due process. Yoo, his colleagues, and those brave men at GITMO (who get feces and urine thrown at them daily) saved thousands (perhaps millions) of American lives. Obama says, respect Islamic jihad!

Yoo argued that, as a government official, he was immune to such lawsuits. He didn’t personally participate in Padilla’s treatment and decisions about the government’s conduct during war should be decided by the president and Congress, he said.

Obama's silence speaks volumes. The man never shuts up. Who else is sick and tired of his daily seizing of the airwaves for his dose of dear leader propaganda?

The Wall Street Journal opined, "Here's a political thought experiment: Imagine that terrorists stage an attack on U.S. soil in the next four years. In the recriminations afterward, Administration officials are sued by families of the victims for having advised in legal memos that Guantanamo be closed and that interrogations of al Qaeda detainees be limited.

Should those officials be personally liable for the advice they gave President Obama?

We'd say no, but that's exactly the kind of lawsuit that the political left, including State Department nominee Harold Koh, has encouraged against Bush Administration officials. This month a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that a civil suit filed by convicted terrorist Jose Padilla can proceed against former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo for violating the terrorist's rights. Mr. Yoo is one of those who wrote memos laying out the legal parameters for aggressive interrogation of al Qaeda captives. If Mr. Yoo can be sued, why couldn't Obama officials also be held liable for their advice if there's an attack on their watch?"

29 people to be executed tomorrow in Karaj, Iran!

According to news received by the International Committee against Executions, 29 people are to be executed tomorrow, Saturday, in Ghezal Hesar prison in Karaj. It has been reported that the 29 have been separated from other prisoners. There is no information on their charges.

The executions are being carried out in order to intimidate people and is directed at the protesting people of Iran.

We are calling for people in Iran and everywhere to condemn the executions and exert pressure to stop them.

All Iranian revolution liveblogging archives here.

Read Aloud!

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Celebrate America!

Please do not forget our troops today, here.

Lt. Colonel Allen West addressed the New Life Church on July 2nd. I am running his remarks because it is speech of a great America, a speech the President of the United States should make, but is incapable of making. I am honored to know Allen West and support his candidacy in Florida 22nd district.

Here is the speech of a leader, a patriot, a presidential contender.

“What Do We Celebrate Today”
New Life Church, 2 July 2009

A greeting to all here at New Life Church and it is truly an honor to be here with you this evening. Deerfield Beach has a real special place in my heart because it was here that I taught HS for a year upon my retirement from 22 years active duty service.

Here we are together at an event called “Celebrate America” and I believe a good speaker should always pose a question for the audience. Therefore, “What do we Celebrate Today?”

Read Psalms 33:12

Sit and imagine a select group of men, some 56, on 2 July 1776, 233 years ago. Imagine being Thomas Jefferson with the unenviable task of creating a document which basically was an act of treason and would mean the death warrant for those who would later sign.

You are about to capture in words one of the two greatest political documents ever known, the Declaration of Independence…later came the Constitution of the United States.

So what drove these men to such a conviction? What did they hope we would be here celebrating 233 years later?

On this same day 233 years ago, Gen George Washington stated;

“We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our Country’s Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the Supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions”.

Today we should be celebrating the beginnings of America and Americans. Today we should celebrate the triumph of the indomitable human will to seek out Freedom from tyrannical rule.

But then if I were to ask 200 people on the street this evening, “What is America and what is an American?” Do you think there would be one common answer or unifying theme?

Would the respondents understand that our Republic stands as a beacon of Liberty, Sacrifice, and Faith?

The 4th of July is more than just BBQ and fireworks, and time off from work. It is a day when we should reflect upon the fabric of this Nation, its history, struggles, challenges, defeats, and triumphs……everyone should rent and watch “The Patriot” and “John Adams”.

It is a day when we should examine ourselves as America and Americans and recommit ourselves to our foundational principles, beliefs, and yes Faith…….is there something wrong with embracing those basic American values?

Lets us look at some things that have recently occurred:

1.We have a government that has castigated those who believe in certain foundational principles as extremists…and labeled returning military veterans as potential domestic terrorists.
2.Just two days ago in the NY State Senate, there were legislators who refused to stand and give honor to the Pledge of Allegiance...and even restrained a comrade who attempted to stand and recite the pledge.
3.A homegrown convert to islam gunned down two US Soldiers, killing one, outside an Army recruiting station in Little Rock Ark.
4.There is legislation being developed to “give away” American citizenship to individuals who have entered our Country illegally…and we even have to “Press 1” for our own language, which no one in our Nation’s capitol wish to make official 5.Lastly, we have our President state before a foreign nation that we are not a Christian Nation but one of many religions.

Why? How have we forgotten what we are supposed to celebrate?

Patrick Henry stated, “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone that approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force you are inevitable ruined”.

And we all recall his most famous quote, “Give me liberty or give me death”.

The Freedoms we enjoy in America truly are not free; they come with a bill of personal sacrifice, responsibility, and accountability. We must hold ourselves to the highest degree of accountability to this Nation, under God indivisible with Liberty and Justice for all.

America is indeed a Land of Mutt’s, you know that is true but there must be a common fabric bonding us as Americans, language, beliefs, principles, shared goals, and Faith.

Inclusiveness of all cannot come at the detriment of our Society; for when tolerance becomes a one way street it leads to cultural suicide.

Washington stated, “We are either a people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of great concern act as a Nation, which has National objects to promote, and a National character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it”.

What do we Celebrate Today?

We celebrate a rich Judeo-Christian heritage which is the foundational premise upon which America was birthed and exists today…sorry Mr President, you got it wrong!

Here are examples from our Founding Fathers;

Washington: “While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and Soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”

John Adams: “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”

Jefferson: “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?.....I tremble for my Country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

Hancock: Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual….Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which Heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”

Patrick Henry: It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”

And if there is any doubt about what guided the construction of our branches of government….READ ISAIAH 33:22.

Our Founding Fathers believed as David did in Psalms 20:7……..

Today we celebrate a rich heritage born of Men of Conviction, (24) of the (56) signers held seminary or Bible school degrees. (15) became POWs, (12) had their homes destroyed, and (9) fought and died.

As Christ gave us Freedom from sin…these Men gave us Freedom from tyranny, earthly Liberty.

Do not focus on the seemingly constant negative messages and hate driven upon us by our media. Celebrate that which is truly the “shining city which sits upon a hill”. Never forget that you ARE the “Salt of the earth, the lamp which burns brightest”.

Never forget that we must be committed to fighting for this rich heritage, our National objects and character…or else we shall just be another chapter in a history book in the future.

John Stuart Mill stated, “War is an ugly thing, not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.”

In conclusion, I am not advocating constant war or conflict, but I do advocate this, know that for which we should celebrate, honor it, and defend it. When the National Anthem is played correct someone that continues to talk or not remove their hat.

Teach our children and grandchildren the history of this Country, good, bad, and otherwise, develop in them a sense of pride in being an American, never ashamed to simply state, “I am an American”.

In December 1776 after our young Nation had suffered defeats by the British, Thomas Paine stated, “These are the times that try Men’s souls. The summer Soldier and sunshine Patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his Country; but he (she) that stands now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

As I depart, I humbly beseech you not be the sunshine Patriot, celebrate the 4th of July every day honoring our Judeo-Christian heritage, honoring America.

Faithful and True.

God be with you all, God Bless America

Pamela Geller, World Net Daily: Palin in 2012

Check out my latest oped piece in World Net Daily: Palin in 2012!
Exclusive: Pamela Geller lauds Sarah for 'assuming the mantle' of leadership vs. Obama
--WND

UPDATE: Want to get involved? Of course you do! From the folks at Team Sarah

We have had many new members join and many others come back in to Team Sarah to get involved, so I wanted to provide some basic  information to help you navigate the community.

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If you want to find people with a similar interest or participate in a get together and meet Team Sarah members in your state go here  and use search, type in your interest or state to find groups you can join.

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Muslims in Minnesota: "We Hate Gays" Video of Muslim youths shout abuse, throw rocks at gay man

More tolerance from the religion of peace. The State Department can't import these communities fast enough. "Queers for Palestine" could not be reached for comment.

Barack Hussein Obama: "We will be respectful even when we do not agree".
In Islam, respect is a one way street.

Robert Spencer says here,

"If they want sharia, let them have it.” -- Dinesh D'Souza, The Enemy At Home, p. 280

"America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings." -- Barack Obama, Cairo, June 4, 2009

Rock throwing. So very Sharia-oriented. In Minneapolis.

From Creeping Sharia: Video: Somali Muslim kids in Minnesota assault gay man (hat tip Armaros)

Yet another video of Muslims harassing non-Muslims. Watch this video carefully, and listen. The majority of people in this video are kids – young kids. Also notice some of these kids try to turn it into a racial incident. Who is the coward now Attorney General Eric Holder? Will you hunt down each of these punks? Should be pretty easy to find if you’re not too busy freeing terrorists.

At around 1:20 you will see one of the Somalis wearing full Muslim garb.

hat tip Religion of Peace, from the video description:

My friend and I were leaving the Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis, MN (6/27/09) and came across a group of kids who asked my friend if he was gay. When he answered “yes”, they proceeded to harass him and me with verbal threats and even throwing rocks at my friend at one point. Sad…

***NOTE*** The Minneapolis Police Department has contacted me to let me know that the two guys in the video who look like police officers are NOT police officers and were in fact private security for the apartment building we were walking next to.

Great, did the Minn. police say anything about capturing the perpetrators? Or, like in Ft. Lauderdale, NYC, and elsewhere, do Muslims have freedom to harass and verbally assault anyone they choose while Americans can’t say boo about Islam without a pending lawsuit or DOJ investigation? CAIR? Where are you? ISNA? ICNA? MAS? MSA? Where are all the ‘moderate’ Muslims? Holding breath…

Remember, in several Muslim countries, homosexuality is a capital offense.

More here: Refugee Resettlement: The quiet jihad tsunami

North Korea Fires Off Another Two Missiles UPDATE: Japan Confirms Third Missile UPDATED: Seven Scud Missiles

Yesterday, North Korea Test Fires Four Missiles in Four Hours. Now this. They have no fear.

North Korea 'tests two missiles'

BBC News North Korea has tested two short-range missiles, South Korean media report, as concern mounts in the region that a long-range test could be days away.

It test-fired four similar missiles earlier this week and has incurred fresh UN sanctions since holding a second underground nuclear test in May.

The latest missiles were fired from a base near Wonsan into the Sea of Japan, South Korea's defence ministry said.

One is believed to be a Scud with a range of 500km (312 miles).

Japanese and South Korean media have reported that North Korea may be preparing to launch another long-range ballistic missile.

There are fears that North Korea is trying to produce nuclear warheads small enough to put on long-range missiles.

UPDATE: Japan now reports that South Korea confirmed that North Korea has fired a third missile into the Sea of Japan at 1045 hours Japan time (2145 (9:45pm) NY time)

In English:

 North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Saturday morning, the Japanese government said, while the South Korean military confirmed the launch of the third one.
     The two missiles launched at around 8 a.m. are believed to be short-range Scud types and ''are estimated to have a range of about 500 kilometers,'' Yonhap News Agency earlier reported, quoting a South Korean government official.
     At around 10:45 a.m., Pyongyang launched the third missile, according to the South Korean military.
     Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura issued a statement that said the latest missile launch ''is a serious act of provocation against the security of neighboring countries, including Japan, and is against the resolution of the U.N. Security Council.''
     Government sources of Japan and South Korea said the missiles may be Rodong missiles.
     Tokyo will decide how to respond to Pyongyang's latest moves in cooperation with South Korea and the United States, while closely monitoring developments, government sources said.
     The action came after Pyongyang test-fired four short-range missiles off its east coast into the Sea of Japan on Thursday.

TC opines, "this activity is not totally "unusual" - additionally - it is a way to get rid of aging weaponry (in this case missiles) which can not be kept in dormant status forever without expiring (and becoming useless). Plus - with Hussein O. in the office - evil communist dwarf - is counting on getting more extortion money out of US taxpayers -and is therefore putting on his typical little show of saber rattling".

An Independence Open Thread

What better to close the week and kick off my favorite annual holiday then with a little patriotic Louis Armstrong? It's his birthday tomorrow, so look for lots of wonderful Armstrong this holiday weekend.

Happy Fourth!

Palin's Complete Text of her Speech

Palin spoke from the heart. She is a natural leader. I unequivocally support her. I have to find the video of her full speech in Alaska today. Here is the official statement from her office: (hat tip Larwyn)

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has released her complete remarks announcing she will be stepping down from office; they can be found on her Web site.

Hi Alaska, I appreciate speaking directly to you, the people I serve, as your Governor.

People who know me know that besides faith and family, nothing's more important to me than our beloved Alaska. Serving her people is the greatest honor I could imagine.

I want Alaskans to grasp what can be in store for our state. We were purchased as a territory because a member of President Abe Lincoln's cabinet, William Seward, providentially saw in this great land, vast riches, beauty, strategic placement on the globe, and opportunity. He boldly looked "North to the Future". But he endured such ridicule and mocking for his vision for Alaska, remember the adversaries scoffed, calling this "Seward's Folly". Seward withstood such disdain as he chose the uncomfortable, unconventional, but right path to secure Alaska, so Alaska could help secure the United States.

Palin Stepping down! Palin Putsch: Pray for A Palace Revolution!

6:40 pm: The diseased and utterly morally left at work again (I talked of this very evil here, earlier this week) - photoshopping Palin family pictures here. Do you believe this represents America? (hat tip Dave)

Bear in mind, this is not the first time they have made fun of and photoshopped Trig. And these are not fringe blogs. These are some of the biggest blogs in the left wing blogosphere. (Wonkette, Tbogg, Firedoglake etc.)

CNN (!) video.  I LOVE HUH!

5:00 pm: FOX is running Palin's remarks. They must read Atlas :)

Turn on FOX, decide for yourself. And please, someone vidgrab it!

4:46 pm: Stop the ACLU has rounded up reaction from the right blogosphere. He culled the wrong opinion. They don't get it.

4:30 pm: My take? If Palin is anything like I think she is (know she is), Obama's treasonous presidency is responsible for this. She, like all patriotic Americans, is shocked by what is happening. Obama is destroying this country. She knows it. We all know it. We need a leader. She is answering our call.

She did not quit. She is going to get into the fight to save America. Watch what happens.

4:23 PM: FOX news cut her news conference. 7 days of Michael Jackson and they did not allow us to hear her remarks in full. First Iran, now this.

From what I saw - this is not a woman who is retiring. She is assuming the mantle. This was a campaign speech. She was amazing. I will try to get text or video.

4:09 pm: Liveblogging her announcement........... she is speaking (no teleprompter, how refreshing!) about the sacrifice great Americans have made on this eve of Independence day and what our founding fathers fought and died for.

"I am showing my independence"

She is outlining all of the achievements of her administration.

"living beyond our means today is irresponsible for tomorrow"

"vetoed debt ridden stimulus dollars"

"being right is better than being popular"

She is going after every Obama move without naming him. I have got to get a copy of these remarks.

The ethics legislation she championed was used by an army of political operatives who filed 15 charges against her, draining the public resources. She and her staff spend most of their day on the charges that have been dismissed, incurring over half a million in legal fees. That is not serving the people of Alaska.

The biggest problem today is that people are apathetic. They go with the flow. "Todd and I are fishermen and know only dead fish go with the flow".

This is a great speech.

She believes in and wants to fight for free enterprise, small government, national security .....

FOX NEWS JUST CUT OFF HER SPEECH. WTF???????????????

4:05 pm: The 2012 campaign began today!

3:47 pm: We are waiting for her press conference. There is lots of speculation. I am paying it no mind. In my opinion, it will allow her to spend more time in the lower 48 states without the left accusing her of neglecting her duties as Governor.

Her husband, Todd Palin, said she wants to do things to help the country that she can't do while fulfilling her role as Governor.

UPDATE: Governor Palin is stepping down! We are awaiting her announcement. She is the right's best hope for 2012. She is handing over control to Lt Governor Sean Parnell. He will be sworn in July 25.

I hope the reason is to run. Her country needs her desperately.

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It is being reported that Governor Sarah Palin will announce that she will not be running for reelection as Governor of Alaska. Eureka! This is magnificent news. The thrilla from Wasilla! Hope! Change! Seriously.

She has been mercilessly attacked. Brutal, but like water off a duck's back. Those on the right who have suffered the slings and arrows of the vile left smear machine (the depths of which are unthinkable to decent men, here) know that the more they throw, the greater you are. The more vile, disgusting, outrageous the smear, the more envious and afraid you know the destroyers are. 

The Democrats and their propaganda machine, the dinosaur media, will continue to attempt to destroy and marginalize this wonder woman. New media better pick up the slack. Jugular for jugular.

The hatred of the good for being the good. That is Palin. I am unmoved by assertions that Palin needs more foreign policy or more this and that. She has the key ingredient to great leadership - common sense. I am not concerned that she won't get up to speed on the nitty gritty details of national and international issues. Her thinking, her epistemology is good.

She has common sense, a moral compass and a very definite understanding of good and evil.

Best of all, she is not a product of the limpwristed, spineless, dickless GOP. She is outside the box. She has grit. She has balls. She is my kind of kishka.

Iranian Revolution Day 21: Germany Reverts to Nazism, Sells Torture Devices to Mullahcracy, Obama Backs Murdering Mullahs

3:11 pm: Iran: British embassy staff to be tried. (hat tip Armaros)
Is this not an act of war? 

The announcement by Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati alarmed European nations and fueled calls for tougher action against Tehran. Britain is pressing for members of the European Union to pull their ambassadors out of Tehran to protest the arrest of its embassy staffers last week — a step that the EU so far has hesitated to take.

After Jannati's comments, French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday expressed backing for Britain, saying "our solidarity with our English friends is total." He said France backs sanctions "so that Iranian leaders will really understand that the path that they have chosen will be a dead end."

3:00 pm: Iran executed 5 students in Kurdish city of KermanShan

2:50 PM: Iranian Expert: Obama Leading to Calamity (hat tip Choi)

Speaking with the Makor Rishon newspaper, Lubrani said, “Obama says he wants to reach an arrangement with the Iranians regarding a halt to the enrichment of uranium. In my best judgment, there is no chance of this happening. Iran of today is not the Iran of a month ago, before the riots, and the conditions in which the Americans had prepared for talks after the elections are no longer the same.”

“I fear that the Americans don’t know what to do,” Lubrani said, “but have don’t yet realize that they don’t know what to do. A tragedy is unfolding in front of our eyes. The tragedy is that the American administration actually will come to the conclusion, at the end, that negotiations have no chance – but they will reach this conclusion a year or two too late, and in the meanwhile, the nuclear clock is ticking.”

2:43 pm: UPDATED: Iran's dead and detained: the list keeps growing

2:17 pm: Six more people hanged in Ghom (Qom) Friday by the Revolutionary Guards. This brings the total that we know of up to 12 within 48 hours.  (hat tip Banafsheh)

2:00 pm: The Bush revolution sans Bush *sigh*

New video of clashes with plain clothes militia:

1:12 pm: SHOCKER: Obama, in a stunning and disastrous move, backs the murdering mullahs. The man has the audacity of hypocrisy to evoke our "moral authority" and "fundamental values" when defending ourselves against Islamic jihad (ie Gitmo, waterboarding). His administration wants to prosecute Bush and Cheney, but he backs the new Nazis.

It is obvious that Obama wants this desperate call for freedom to go away. It seems he is whispering to Ahmadinejad, "harder, faster!" Obama Betrays Freedom Again

America, what have you done?

Doctor who treated Neda Soltani under investigation

Iran's police chief says a doctor who was present at the death of a young Iranian woman during opposition street protests in Tehran is under investigation by both Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and by the international policy agency Interpol.

Family of eyewitness to #neda's murder put under pressure in Tehran.

Report: U.S. to block Iran sanctions at G8.

"The United States is opposed to enacting a new set of financial sanctions against Iran that are due to be discussed in the G8 summit next week, diplomatic officials in New York reported Friday. According to officials, sanctions against Iran are expected to top the G8's agenda. Sources are also predicting a pointed debate between the heads of the industrialized nations over an appropriate response to Iranian authorities' suppression of reformist demonstrations in Iran led by Mir Hossein Mousavi and other Iranian opposition leaders. "

German TV: Germany sold torture devices to Iranian mullahs Jihadwatch

Well, torture is one thing at which the Germans are certifiably expert.

It is not, unfortunately, in English, but the courageous Iranian dissident Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi sends this link from IranPressNews, to the effect that "German TV reports the sale of torture devices to the Mullah regime." You can watch the German news video there -- I caught the word "electroshock."

This redounds to the everlasting shame of the German corporation or corporations involved, and the German government.

If any German-speaking Jihad Watch readers can provide a translation of the video, I would be most grateful, and will post it forthwith.

UPDATED: OMG translates the video from this link:

Siemens.... I knew it.

Translation from German of the video......

The protests in Iran are abating, but our attentiveness is not abating. The pressure on opposition leader Mousavi is increasing. Today, radical delegates called for putting Mousavi on trial. Critics are still being put down in the prisons. Whenever the clubs rain down on the demonstrators, whenever electro-shockers are used for forced confessions, when modern wire-tapping technology turns Iran into a perfect police state, then many of these products are made in Germany. This is and will remain a topic for "Monitor" [The name of the TV magazine]. Norbert Hahn and Jan Schmidt report about German High-Tech for the Mullahs' regime.

The annual Iranian police fair [IPAS 2009] starts in 2 weeks. On sale is everything the security forces of a dictatorship more or less need. The organizer of the fair is the purchasing department of the Iranian military forces, the handymen of a dictatorship, which have clubbed the last bits of resistance on the streets into silence. Thousands have been detained and 20 are dead, according to official estimates. Today, on July 2, it is supposed to be quiet in Tehran. The violence of the regime has won so far.

The woman's rights advocate Resvan Mohadam has personally witnessed this violence. In the course of 30 years she has been detained time and time again, in particular under Ahmadinejad. Her husband was tortured to death. Whenever she talks about this, she appears very composed. The last time she was detained occurred in 2007 during a demonstration on "woman's day."

"They beat and kicked everyone. They beat the women on the head and kicked against their breasts. I intervened because they started beating a young girl. Then they started beating me."

The current demonstrators are incarcerated here, in the infamous Evin prison. The advocate knows how prisoners are treated here. She could hear herself how prisoners were tortured with electro-shockers in neighboring prison cells. Amnesty International has re-enacted the brutality.

"It must be so horrific that they make people admit things they have never done."

Electro-shockers like these are made in Germany. Until now, about 100 electro-shockers have been discovered, which were supposed to have been delivered to Iran. They were discovered essentially by chance. The investigations by the police force and customs have shown that the illegal goods are dismantled into several components. There are many routes into Iran. Some take the direct route, some take a detour across the CIS states, and then some goods take the route across the free trade zone of Dubai. This form of deception is performed systematically.

Since September, Resvan Mohadam has been living in Germany. But whenever she talks with friends in Iran over the telephone, she is scared that her friends may simply disappear thereafter.

"If you're an advocate for civil rights in Iran, then it is like living in a glass house. One is permanently controlled, everything, friends coming and going, the telephone is tapped."

Technology from Germany is used for eavesdropping. Siemens developed it; the German/Finnish subsidiary Nokia-Siemens-networks has sold it to Iran. Mobile phones can be tapped using the delivered "monitoring centre." The Austrian Erich Möchelt is an expert on this technology, he knows in particular the technology delivered to Iran. Using the data from this monitoring centre, the location of persons can be determined, their communication profile can be determined, i.e. who they talk to. Groups of people can be identified and monitored, even if they do not want to appear as a group. A special form of computer-aided search can be performed using this monitoring centre.

The press officer of Nokia-Siemens-Networks only responded to our request in writing and downplays the usefulness of the system.

"Among our supplied goods in 2008 was a recording device, which is used for recording a very small number of calls in order to fight against crime."

Only listening to a small number of criminals?

This sounded quite different during the trade fair for security technology in Dubai, named ISS.

"The users of the monitoring system can display and analyse very fast a large number of caller data by analyzing the call connections."

The possibilities for communicating are increasing dramatically.

However, the dictators want to remain in control. The market is booming. This relates to security technology in the IT domain and also increasingly to surveillance technology, cameras, electronics, software and data centres for monitoring movement and communication.

The Iranian police fair IPAS: The connection with the dictatorship hasn't stopped many German Companies from displaying their products, among them "Rohde und Schwarz." In the West, this company is known as the foremost in radio technology, in particular for the military and secret services. "Monitor" wanted to know whether the company plans to attend the fair organized by the Iranian security forces. We received no clear answer. This is their statement:

"Rohde und Schwarz has been maintaining business connections with customers in Iran for years. All of the exported goods are scrutinized according to the presently valid regulations."

If German security technology continues to be exported to Iran, this would not be acceptable to the human rights commissioner of the federal government.

"Following the protests of the past weeks, it appears distasteful to keep on acting as if nothing had happened and as if the police force and other military armed forces had not substantially quashed the protests. Therefore, I feel it is distasteful to go there in order to talk about good business for oppression."

Resvan Mohadam: In secrecy she has been convicted for yet another prison term and additionally to flogging ten times. Hence, she won't go back to Iran in the foreseeable future -- unlike many German sales representatives.

All Iranian revolution liveblogging archives here.

Happy Birthday America!

Wishing my wonderful readers a wonderful Fourth of July (has Obama apologized to the Brits yet?)

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?  UPDATED: Thanks to Kenneth Solomon

Adams and Jefferson began to actually like each other. Really. Many of the books I have say so. After all was done and in place with the new Declaration, they were constantly communicating their ideas and thoughts of what took place, why and how. I’d have loved to have met them both.

Five signers were captured by the British and charged as traitors...... Four during military operations (Arthur Middleton, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward and George Walton) and the fifth (Richard Stockton) solely because of signing the document. No evidence exists of any of them being tortured to death.

Richard Stockton also violated his signing for independence by securing his release through signing a new oath of allegiance to King George of England. That's a real definition of a traitor on all sides.

John Witherspoon lost his son serving in the Revolutionary Army, Abraham Clark had two sons taken prisoner.

Button Gwinnett died from a duel..... as in “pistols at 10 paces”. He was a serving officer and another officer fought him - reasons unclear/unverified as to the actual cause of the duel, or which of the two was the challenger.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, inherited his fortune and businesses from family and associates, made it bigger, lost it, made it again, lost it again and so on. He did not die a pauper.

As happened with many homes, farms and businesses throughout the colonies, vandals and/or soldiers looted the properties of Ellery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Rutledge, and Middleton. As far as any documentation exists, they were not specifically targeted.

Contrary to popular beliefs, Thomas Nelson's house was not destroyed supposedly under his own call for fire…. The place still stands in Yorktown VA..... I know..... I’ve been there (on an “I’ll find stuff myself” history tour).

Shortly after the Declaration was signed, Francis Lewis of New York had his home and properties raided by The British. His wife was arrested after her and many others refused the order to evacuate the area where they lived.

John Hart’s farm was raided and he had to remain incognito for a little over a year. He then served two terms in the Continental Congress.

Lewis Morris’s farm was seized and taken over by The British. After the war, his land was returned.

Phillip Livingston had property seized and he sold off others in order to keep freedom alive for as many people as possible. He died in 1778.

Pamela Geller in American Thinker: "Honduras and Iran: Obama Betrays Freedom Again"

Check out the latest in the American Thinker:

Honduras and Iran: Obama Betrays Freedom Again
Pamela Geller
The real story behind the chaos in Honduras is a huge story that needs to be exposed to the world. And the bottom line is that Obama got it wrong, again. More

Before the Summit, Obama Forgives Russia for Invading Georgia

Will he apologize too?

BTW, I do not believe, for a nanosecond, that any of treaties that Obama negotiates with notorious evildoers will amount to anything more than the dismantling of our strategic arms. Obama declared before the election that he intended to disarm us, and under the guise of treaties such as SALT he will do just that. Do you really believe he will take a hard line with Medvedev?

Before the Summit, the U.S. Forgives Russia for Invading Georgia
The Jamestown Foundation (hat tip Arnaud)

On Monday July 6, President Barack Obama is expected in Moscow for a summit to discuss nuclear arms control, Iran, Afghanistan the post-Soviet space and other issues. It has been announced that Obama will spend most of July 6 in formal as well as informal talks with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev. There will be a joint press conference and a late night dinner with spouses (RIA Novosti, July 1). The two presidents will concentrate on discussing a progress report from the Russian and American negotiating teams that are working on preparing a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) (Interfax, July 1).

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told RIA Novosti that progress in the START negotiations "was more significant than our expectations." Ryabkov expressed optimism that a comprehensive new START treaty with solid verification measures that will "guarantee both sides equal security and a real strategic nuclear arms reduction" will be ready for signing by the end of the year, when in December the present 1991 START-1 expires. According to Ryabkov, the best way to improve U.S.-Russian relations is to build mutual trust that "was lacking over the last several years." He added that it was mainly the task of the U.S. "to work to rebuild mutual trust by concrete actions," since in Russia the U.S. is deeply distrusted (RIA Novosti, July 1).

The understanding that Washington must offer important concessions is widespread in Moscow. It was the Obama administration's idea to "reset" relations with Russia, so if the Americans want that to happen, they must deliver and change their foreign policy significantly to achieve anything. A pro-Kremlin Moscow think-tank - The Council on Foreign and Defense Policy - produced a report "Retuning instead of resetting - Russian interests and relations with the U.S." which argues that Russia might begin to cooperate with the U.S. and NATO on Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan. The U.S. in turn must drastically change its policies in the post-Soviet space by not supporting the anti-Russian regimes in Georgia and Ukraine, stopping any effort to incorporate these or any other former Soviet states into NATO and refraining from developing bilateral military-political partnerships with the former Soviet states. The report calls such a possible U.S.-Russian arrangement a "grand deal" and points out that Georgia or Ukraine are highly important to Russia, but of marginal interest to the U.S., unlike Iran, Afghanistan or North Korea. This fact could make the proposed "grand deal" possible, since Moscow and Washington will each be trading unimportant items for important ones (RIA Novosti, July 1).

Read it all. Obama is consistent, on the side of evil. Again.

Assad invites Obama to Damascus: Assassins, Terrorists, Honor Killers

It is increasingly clear that the US president feels at home with brutality. More and more it defines his presidency. Last week, WND ran my OpEd piece Will Obama Bow to Syria too? Apparently, he will. Watch the video; this is no accident. This is a set up. Obama was well aware of the invitation previous to Assad's spontaneity on the tarmac. There are no accidents when it comes to Obama and Islamic terror regimes.

Assad invites Obama to Damascus
Syrian President Bashar Assad has invited his American counterpart Barack Obama to a summit in Damascus. Assad told Sky News late Thursday, "We would like to welcome him in Syria, definitely. I am very clear about this." When asked whether this could happen soon, the Syrian leader replied: "That depends on him…I will ask you to convey the invitation to him."

Obama plans to huddle with the most vile regimes on earth. I am sure Obama will welcome this invitation from the State sponsor of terror. He talks of our moral authority and fundamental values.

Horrible news. Syria is Hezballah's ally, a criminal regime that executes duly elected leaders in neighboring countries. A regime that murders journalists in other countries. A country that oppresses its people and sanctions the murder of its women. Obama's latest partner in the planned genocide of the Jews. Israel's worst nightmare.

“Syria amends honour killing law”

Syria has scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences handed down to men convicted of killing female relatives they suspect of having illicit sex.

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The new law replaces the existing maximum sentence of one year in jail with a minimum jail term of two years.

Justice Minister Ahmad Hamoud Younis said the change was made by the decree of President Bashar al-Assad, following a recent increase in "wife-killings... on the pretext of adultery".

The new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour "provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing".

The legislation covers any man who "unintentionally" kills his wife, sister, daughter or mother after catching her committing adultery or having unlawful sex. It also covers cases where the woman's lover is killed.

Reports say women's rights activists have given a cautious welcome to the change, with one group calling it a "small contribution to solving the problem".

Their objection remains, however, that the new law still apparently invites men to murder women if they catch them having sex or suspect them of doing so.

Obama, cozying up to Assad? Will he side with evil again? Rhetorical.

The Democrats’ National Energy Tax Creates the Largest Welfare Program in Our Nation’s History

The road to hell is paved with "hope" and "change"! (from Mike Pence)

The Daily Truth about the Democrats’ National Energy Tax Creates the Largest Welfare Program in Our Nation’s History

What the bill does:

The bill (H.R. 2454) requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide monthly cash payments, or “energy stamps”, to low-income households for their estimated “loss in their purchasing power” resulting from the Democrats’ national energy tax. The bill establishes a national standard of eligibility (covering everyone under 150% of the poverty line). Energy stamps would reach an estimated 65 million individuals (about 20 percent of all US residents) – making it a larger program than welfare, food stamps, or even Medicaid. (H.R. 2454, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, Sec. 431, p. 1193)

What this means for Americans:

If, as Democrats claim, their national energy tax will create millions of well-paying “green jobs,” then why do we need to create a new energy welfare program? The Democrats’ national energy tax plan will raise energy costs on all Americans. Democrats know this so they created the largest welfare program in American history to compensate for those increased costs. Despite the massive scope of this program, more than 200 million Americans will not receive benefits, just energy tax hikes without direct

Obama wants control of health care (which is irreversible, irrevocable), education and energy.

UPDATE: It was announced today that we lost another half a million jobs last month, but Obama told us today at his daily dear leader mind-f**k press conference that it's a "sign of recovery," because we lost 750,000 the month before. So this is better. Get it? Remember how "terrible" unemployment was under Bush -- 5% -- and the media hand-wringing, caterwauling and howling at the moon was intolerable.

Honduras Timeline: Democracy at Work!

Atlas reader Allan R received this from friends who live on Roatan. Thousands of Hondurans have marched in support of their democracy here. It is the best description that I have come across of the events that led Honduras to save itself from a Chavez backed dictatorship (a coup, as it were):

I don’t profess to be an expert at Honduran politics or constitution, but I have been here a while and stay pretty involved with what’s going on in Honduras and especially Roatan. For those that don’t know me, I’m an American investor that has lived in Honduras full time since 2002. I’m very active on several commissions and have met with minister level executives of the Honduran government many times in the past few years.

There have been a lot of comments, descriptions, and hypothesis over the past few days. I’ve spent a LOT of time reading Spanish and English reports, talking to a lot of people on the islands and on the mainland, and listening to the local politicians. I’d like to present my take on what’s happened. This is especially for Nick who’s been posting on the Roatan Tourist discussion group, but hopefully it will help clarify some points for others as well.

· Mel Zelaya was elected 3 ½ years ago with an underwhelming 49% of the vote. He was seen as a fairly conservative member of the liberal party. The general feeling when he was elected was that he wasn’t the greatest pick, but his background as a wealthy logger and rancher coupled with his more liberal social policies would probably be OK.

· Almost from day 1, Mel started shifting Honduras policies to the left.

o Remember when he tried t o nationalize the oil industry – forcing all fuel distributors to buy from 1 company so that Mel could control the price? The US rightfully reminded Mel that the US oil companies had a lot invested here and the confiscating of those assets would not be a good thing. Mel changed his mind a couple of days later.

o Mel gave away the fishing rights to an area that Honduras has been fishing for decades if not a hundred years. He gave those rights to Nicaragua for nothing – or at least nothing that was ever publicly reported. Mel forgot to mention this transaction to anyone in the country, let alone the fisherman. Guess how the fishermen found out? The Nicaraguan Navy confiscated several boats over a period of a few weeks. The crews on these boats were detained from a few days to a few weeks. Some of the boats were eventually returned to the rightful owners – after paying “fines”. Some of the boats even had the electronics and gear still on board when they were returned to the owners. The Honduran government did absolutely nothing to repatriate these boats.

o Mel wanted Honduras to join ALBA – a collection of countries that was formed by Cuba and Venezuela to counteract NAFTA/CAFTA from the US. When this was announced, there was a lot of concern – especially from the business community. I was in a meeting with the local congressman less than a week before it was ratified. The message being sent was that this was just a way to get cheap oil from Venezuela. The congress wouldn’t consider ratifying this treaty for 6 or 8 months and by then Mel would have the oil that he was after. Again, less than a week later Mel got the treaty was ratified by the congress.

o Not too long ago, the minimum wage was raised from L. 3,500 per month to L. 5,500. That’s about a 60% increase. I’m not saying that the minimum wage didn’t need to be raised, but this huge increase was 3 times more than the labor unions were requesting (20%) and 6 times more than the business organizations had offered (10%). These increases caused tremendous layoffs on the mainland. Many maquillas (garment factories) began to move to Nicaragua because the cost of business in Honduras had gotten too high. This was another huge drop in jobs. I’ve not seen the actual number of jobs lost because of the 60% increase in minimum wage, but it was staggering.

o The Honduran constitution says that each year the President presents the annual budget to congress for approval. If the approval is not obtained by a specific date (I think it’s the end of January, but am not 100% sure) the budget from last year will be used until the new budget is approved by congress.

§ Mel never submitted a budget for 2009, hence the Congress can’t approve it so Honduras is operating in 2009 on 2008’s budget.

§ Now, why would a President not submit a budget? Who knows for sure but one of the possibilities is that 2009 is an election year. Mel would like to stay in power past 2009. The budget in 2008 didn’t include an election, so in essence there is NO money available for the 2009 election because we’re operating on 2008’s budget. There are other theories about hiding graft and corruption, but I would assume that anyone that becomes President in Honduras wouldn’t be concerned about hiding corruption and theft in the budget – he certainly didn’t mind doing it the previous 3 years!

· Somewhere along the way, Mel decided to take a lesson from his mentor (Chavez) and arrange it so that he could remain in power for as long as he wanted. There was a little problem with this. The Honduran constitution, enacted in 1982, has 378 articles. 6 of these articles are “cast in stone”, meaning that they can NOT be changed. These 6 articles deal with defining the type of government, territory claims, and presidential term limits. They are the basis of the Honduran20democracy.

o One other tidbit from the constitution – Article 42, Section 5 says that anyone who is found to “incite, promote, or aid in the continuation or re-election of the President” would face loss of citizenship. Remember this one later on in this saga.

· To further complicate things for Zelaya, ANY changes to the constitution have to be initiated by the legislative branch. The congress has to convene a constituent assembly. That’s basically a group of people selected by the congress to analyze any proposed changes and form those ideas into the new constitution. After the proposed changes are formulated, the congress would approve them to be put to a national referendum. The executive branch (the President) has nothing to do with that process.

· Mel didn’t think that the congress would go along with his ideas of staying in power so he decided he’d call his own referendum. He doesn’t have the authority to do that – remember that constitutional changes can only be done by the legislature AND the term limits are one of the articles cast in stone – but he goes ahead and calls one anyway.

· The Honduran Supreme Court says “Sorry Mel, you can’t do a re ferendum. That’s not within your power as president”.

· Mel, or more probably one of his advisors, figures out that if a referendum can’t be done, we could probably do a survey or a poll instead! Great idea – nobody will figure out that the poll that we’re now going to do is exactly the same thing as we were going to do with the referendum.

· Damn those people on the Supreme Court! They figured out the ruse! They ruled unanimously that regardless of what you call it, if it acts like a referendum the president can’t do it. If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck . . . .

· Mel continues to talk of doing the poll on June 28 regardless of the Supreme Court

· The Congress looks at the poll that Mel wants to do and gives an opinion that the poll would be illegal and they will not support it. Remember that Mel’s own political party is in control of the congress.

· The Attorney General also analyzes the poll and determines that it is illegal. Over the course of the weeks leading to June 28, the AG reiterates many times that the poll is illegal and anyone participating i n the poll would be committing a crime and could be arrested.

· Mel runs into another logistical snafu. He needs some ballots printed. The entire political structure of Honduras (except him) has ruled that the poll is illegal. It’s a pretty sure bet that he can’t get the government to print the ballots for an illegal referendum so he asks his buddy Hugo Chavez to print the ballots. Of course Hugo says “No Problem Commrade!”

· The rhetoric in the 2 weeks before the “poll” gets tense. Every legal opinion in Honduras says that the poll is illegal. The Supreme Court reaffirms its ruling that the poll is illegal. The Attorney General keeps saying that the poll is illegal and that anyone participating is committing a crime. Mel’s own political party says that the poll is illegal. There literally is not one legitimate group in the country that is siding with Mel about the poll.

· Traditionally the military handles the distribution of the ballots and voting materials. The head of the military, Romeo Vasquez Velasquez says that the military will not participate in the poll because the Supreme Court is the entity that determines what is legal and what is illegal in Honduras. The Supreme Court has determined that the poll is illegal, so the military will not participate.

· Mel Zelaya promptly fired Romeo Vasquez. The other heads of military (Navy and Air Force) as well as the Minister of Defense resigned in support of Vasquez.

· The next day the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Vasquez was fired without reason and demanded his reinstatement. Zelaya refused.

· The ballots arrive in Honduras (from Venezuela on a Venezuelan flagged plane). The Attorney General demands that the ballots be confiscated and held at a military installation.

· Mel decides that if the military won’t distribute the ballots, he’ll get his own people to distribute them

· Mel gets a couple of busses and a few cars full of supporters. They drive to the Air Force installation that was holding the ballots. They forcibly entered the installation and took the ballots. Not only was this “breaking and entering” it was a complete betrayal of a lawful order of the Attorney General

· The Attorney General says that the President has committed treason and asks for him to be removed from office. The congress created a commission to examine Zelaya’s acti ons and determine if removal from office is appropriate.

· A side note here about removal from office. I’m in no way a Honduran constitutional expert, but from what I understand, there’s not a clear means to impeach a sitting president. In a lot of constitutions, the impeachment of a president would be done by the legislative branch. In Honduras, there’s no such structure. There could be criminal charges brought against the president and the trial would be handled by the judicial branch. Not much different than anyone else accused of a crime. I’ve not heard of any provision to temporarily remove a president from office until the criminal charges were adjudicated. What would you do? Let a man accused of treason remain as the sitting president until the trial was completed? That would be insane, but that may be the only choice.

· On Saturday, June 27, Mel got most, if not all, of the ballots distributed around the country. The polls were set to open at 7am on Sunday.

· The Supreme Court voted to remove Zelaya. The Congress decided to remove Zelaya. The Attorney General stated many times that Zelaya was committing illegal acts and in fact committing treason. The military determined that the poll was illegal and that their responsibility was to uphold the constitution as opposed to supporting the president.

· Early Sunday morning, about 6am, the military went to the president’s house and removed him from the building. He was put on a plane to Costa Rica. This was done to enforce the ruling from the Supreme Court.

· This is where Article 42 of the constitution comes into play. The way that I read that article, Zelaya should have lost his Honduran citizenship at this point.

· Once Mel had been removed, the President of the Congress (Roberto Micheletti) was sworn in as the new President of Honduras. This was exactly the person that is indicated by the constitution. It was a proper and legal succession of the presidency. The first thing that Micheletti did was confirm that the regularly scheduled elections would be held in November. His post is temporary until the new President was duly elected.

· It’s been said all over the press that Mel was arrested in his pajamas. I personally don’t believe that. In an hour he would have been at some polling place to vote and also to motivate those that showed up. This was the biggest day of his life. I’d be amazed if he slept at all – I know I wouldn’t be able to. There was one report that Mel was actually in suit pants and a crisply ironed white shirt when he was arrested and he asked to change into other clothes. Quite frankly, I see this as more likely.

I believe that this is an accurate depiction of the events that led to Zelaya’s expulsion on Sunday. If I’m wrong on a any points, I don’t think I’m off by much. The salient points are certainly accurate.

I personally think that it would have been better to arrest Zelaya and hold him somewhere in the country. He was removed from Honduras in the interest of public safety. The feeling at the time was that if he was held within Honduras, his supporters would take violent actions to release him from captivity. It would be a difficult decision and I’m sure the powers that be did what they thought was best.

I have been disgusted at the world reaction to these events. It’s like they only looked at what happened on Sunday morning and ignored what events led to that day. I don’t understand how the removal of Zelaya was anything less than a small country demanding that their country remain democratic. Their constitutional process worked exactly right to remove a rogue president with an agenda that was detrimental to the Honduran constitution and society. While the actions o f June 28 would fit some definitions of a coup, it was certainly a legal and CONSTITUTIONAL coup. There have been several articles written that state that it was a MANDATORY coup. That’s a very difficult concept for most people from the first world to understand, but there are some coups that are good and even required.

I’ve read so much over the past few days that I can’t remember where I read this, but the author was talking about the events in Honduras. He concluded by stating quite simply that if you find yourself aligned with Castro, Chavez, and Ortega – you should REALLY look at where you’re standing.

I think that the Hondurans should be honored for what occurred. I know that I’ve never been prouder of a group of people than I’ve been of Hondurans the past several days. Instead of being isolated from the world and denounced as being “anti-democratic” they should be lifted on the shoulders of all free men around the world. I’m sure that there are plenty of people in Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea that would LOVE to hear the story of what a small country can do to ensure democracy lives in their society for their children to enjoy. That is if the people in those countries ever hear of the great accomplishments of a small third world country with ideals and principa ls larger than the “democratic showcase” of the first world.

North Korea Test Fires Four Missiles in Four Hours

As two young American women journalists languish in a North Korean labor camp, Obama entertains at the White House, eats $100 steaks, bankrupts the country, plans the final solution for the Jewish people, sanctions unspeakable crimes against humanity in Iran, dashes off to NYC with Meesh for $100,000 dinner and show, destroys health care, education and energy -- and he is absent on North Korea. He is mandating ethnic cleansing of the Jewish people in Israel and is strong arming Israel to relinquish Jerusalem to control of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, but is impotent with the NORKs.

North Korea laughs in our face. Not in Obama's face (he's on their side). North Korea, Islamic jihad's go-to for nuclear weapons, is firing up its war machine, again. Obama must come to grips with the obvious reality that the world does not share his grand view of himself. Obama's maniacal egoism has come smack up against the commonly held world view (particularly among the most prolific evil doers) that he is a self obsessed schmuck and poses no threat to their imperialistic plans. And it's only getting worse.

If you missed my piece in the American Thinker last weekend, go here: North Korea's March to War.

New Missile Test

North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles within four hours on Thursday, Pentagon officials confirmed to FOX News.

While the surface-to-ship missiles, with a range of less than 62 miles, are not capable of reaching Japan, the test-fires are a move that aggravates the already high tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and U.N. sanctions imposed as punishment.

The missiles were fired from the eastern coastal city of Wonsan on Thursday afternoon and evening, a ministry official said on condition of anonymity citing department policy.

"One was fired at 5:20 p.m. and the other at 6:00 p.m. from Sinsang-ni" near the eastern coastal city of Wonsan, South Korean defense ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae said. The third was reportedly fired around 7:50 p.m. and the fourth shortly after that.

Check out recent war moves by North Korea. Think Obama worries them?

June 25 North Korea Promises "Nuclear Firestorm"

June 24 North Korea Threatens to "wipe U.S. off the Globe"

June 24 North Korea Bans Japanese Ships, Steps up Capabilities to Stage Guerrilla warfare. Ships WMD Payloads and Prepares for Missile Launches

June 18 NORK ATTACK ON US JULY 4TH?

June 10 NORKS GO BALLISTIC AGAIN: OBAMA DIPLOMACY

May 27 North Koreans Fire Third Missile after Dropping Hiroshima Nuke: "NO LONGER BOUND BY 1953 ARMISTICE SIGNED AT THE END OF KOREAN WAR"

May 25 NORTH KOREA TESTS SECOND NUCLEAR BOMB

Day 20 Iran the Revolution: Time for an Israeli Strike, Obama still willing to Talk to Violent, Brutal regime

7:20 pm: Rally for Iran in Tel Aviv, Israel (June 27)

I received this report from Boaz Arad in Israel:

Pictured taken by Iranian born Farhad Moradian whom organised this event in order to show the Iranian people our solidarity in Israel with their suffering and also to convey the message to Obama. The BBC broadcast to Iran picked this demo and it was broadcast - Facebook as well was a useful tool to send this message.

Mr. Moradian said that many Iranians respond to it and some did it by saying: "For 30 years we cursed Israel and made a demonstration for the Palestinians people, despite the poverty in Iran our government send our money to Lebanon and Gaza, but we did not received any support from the Palestinians now even not a demonstration... The Israelis do support us and showing solidarity".

5:17 pm: More of Obama's "lively debate!" From the blog, "For a democratic secular Iran. For peace and prosperity in the Middle East": hat tip Banafsheh

Iranian youth chased and beaten up by Police thugs in Iran:

Iranian Protesters, arrested, beaten up and raped

1:37 pm: Tweet the White House: Send a Tweet to the @WhiteHouse. Use the hashtag #iranelection

1:30 PM: Another suspend your disbelief moment: Interpos is investigating Neda Soltani's death. Send them my post.

Interpol: No request to seek Dr. Arash Hejazi who witnessed Neda's death.

 

photo hat tip Neda

Obama on May 21st, 2009:

 "We also cannot keep this country safe unless we enlist the power of our most fundamental values".

I make this claim not simply as a matter of idealism. We uphold our most cherished values not only because doing so is right, but because it strengthens our country and keeps us safe. Time and again, our values have been our best national security asset - in war and peace; in times of ease and in eras of upheaval.

Fidelity to our values is the reason why the United States of America grew from a small string of colonies under the writ of an empire to the strongest nation in the world."

"America must demonstrate that our values and institutions are more resilient than a hateful ideology".

Is that from the "President's" statement on Iran? No, GITMO.

"There is also no question that Guantanamo set back the moral authority that is America's strongest currency in the world".

No, Mistuh President, your position on Iran did that.

11:44 am: Obama's hypocrisy and brutal inhumanity in light of recent events shocks even the most jaded among us. Americans had to listen to his daily tongue lashing about our morals and values as a defense in closing GITMO (home to the worst war criminals), while admonishing us for the use of benign waterboarding in order to save thousands of American lives. Now, just weeks later, we watch Obama turn a blind eye to the horrible brutality, beatings and murder the Islamic regime (one that Obama says we must respect "even if we don't agree") is committing against people peacefully marching for liberty. He pledges to reward this regime with recognition.

One has to ask, why did this man run for President? The knee jerk reaction to such a question is, a man (or woman) runs for President because he loves America. It is becoming increasingly clear that Obama ran for President because he hates America and wants very much to "change" it.

Violence May Hinder Talks With Iran, Obama Says

It's now or never, fellas. John Bolton says what we are all thinking (and praying for):

Time for an Israeli Strike? Washington Post

With Iran's hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel's decision of whether to use military force against Tehran's nuclear weapons program is more urgent than ever.

Iran's nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change. That prospect seems lost for the near future or for at least as long as it will take Iran to finalize a deliverable nuclear weapons capability.

Accordingly, with no other timely option, the already compelling logic for an Israeli strike is nearly inexorable. Israel is undoubtedly ratcheting forward its decision-making process. President Obama is almost certainly not.

He still wants "engagement" (a particularly evocative term now) with Iran's current regime. Last Thursday, the State Department confirmed that Secretary Hillary Clinton spoke to her Russian and Chinese counterparts about "getting Iran back to negotiating on some of these concerns that the international community has." This is precisely the view of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, reflected in the Group of Eight communique the next day. Sen. John Kerry thinks the recent election unpleasantness in Tehran will delay negotiations for only a few weeks.

[....]

Only those most theologically committed to negotiation still believe Iran will fully renounce its nuclear program. Unfortunately, the Obama administration has a "Plan B," which would allow Iran to have a "peaceful" civil nuclear power program while publicly "renouncing" the objective of nuclear weapons. Obama would define such an outcome as "success," even though in reality it would hardly be different from what Iran is doing and saying now.

[...]

In short, the stolen election and its tumultuous aftermath have dramatically highlighted the strategic and tactical flaws in Obama's game plan. With regime change off the table for the coming critical period in Iran's nuclear program, Israel's decision on using force is both easier and more urgent. Since there is no likelihood that diplomacy will start or finish in time, or even progress far enough to make any real difference, there is no point waiting for negotiations to play out. In fact, given the near certainty of Obama changing his definition of "success," negotiations represent an even more dangerous trap for Israel.

Read it all...

All previous Iran: The Revolution archives (liveblogs, coverage etc.)

BO's Hos Working the Street

Wow. The lowlife administration and their information pimps go lower than we can even fathom.

Washington Post sells access, White House denies involvement

The Washington Post has long prided itself on its access to the capital's elite. Now, it appears, the paper is willing to sell that access.

In a flier circulated to Beltway lobbyists, the Post touted a "salon" program which gives "exclusive access" to "Obama administration officials, Congress members, business leaders, advocacy leaders and other select minds" for between $25,000 and $250,000.

White House officials said privately Thursday that the administration had no idea that the Post was peddling access to its officials.

After news of the salon program broke and received wide circulation on the Internet, the Post canceled them.

"This should never have happened. The fliers got out and weren't vetted," Weymouth told her paper. "They didn't represent at all what we were attempting to do. We're not going to do any dinners that would impugn the integrity of the newsroom."

Another Obama Potential Peace Partner: Taliban buying children for suicide bombers ...

As Obama sqawks about talking to the "moderate Taliban," the Taliban go about buying children for suicide bombing. But we ought to talk to these people. Obama admonishes us: We seek broader engagement based upon mutual interest and mutual respect. We will listen carefully, we will bridge misunderstanding, and we will seek common ground. We will be respectful even when we do not agree.

I have no common ground with these philistines.

The thing is, nobody talks about how Islam and the Quran inspire this "teeny, tiny, itsy bitzy" minority. The same passages of the book inspire millions to inflict terrible evil worldwide without respect for national boundaries. The Muslim Brotherhood, the Taliban, Ahmadinejad, LeT - the Mumbai Muslim terrorists, al qaeda, hamas, hezballah, al aqsa brigade, blah blah blah, all walk in lock step. The teeny tiny itzy bitzy minority of millions are all in lockstop, read the same book and are wreaking hell across the world. This is one giant teeny minority. Get it?

Taliban buying children for suicide bombers ...

Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani officials say.

A Pakistani official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said the going price for child bombers was $7,000 to $14,000 - huge sums in Pakistan, where per-capita income is about $2,600 a year.

"[Mehsud] has turned suicide bombing into a production output, not unlike [the way] Toyota outputs cars," a U.S. Defense Department official told reporters recently. He spoke on the condition that he not be named because of ongoing intelligence efforts to catch Mehsud, a prime target for a U.S. and Pakistani anti-Taliban campaign.

Moderate Taliban Promise to "Exact Revenge in America"
Taliban to Obama: "There Are No Moderates or Extremists Among Us"
Atlas Shrugs: Even the Taliban say Obama's call on moderates "illogical" ...
PRESIDENT SCARY WILL SURRENDER TO TALIBAN
US CAPITULATES TO ISLAMIC DOMINATION
Taliban Children (video)

Islam: The War of Propaganda Makes Huge Gains

Islam is unique in that it is the only religion with a propaganda arm. No other religion advocates for propaganda, deception and disinformation. It is a powerful weapon in their war on the enemy (non-Muslims).

The media is indispensable in this aspect of Islam's war on the West (education is too, of course). Sophisticated and well packaged, Islamic objectives are served well. The assault is global and national. And pretenses are being dropped. Al Jazeera (the English version) is now being live streamed to our intelligence and State departments. It is the worst kind of bias, but every employee can livestream it.

In the global landscape, the Alliance of Civilizations (arm of the OIC, the Organization of the Islamic Conference), is "connecting experts with journalists" through the UN. Get it?

UN-Sponsored Service Connects Journalists with Experts Around the World

The United Nations' Alliance of Civilizations recently revamped and relaunched the Global Expert Finder (GEF), a searchable database of commentators, analysts and academics who have expertise in many topics, including politics, law, education, women's rights, human rights, terrorism, globalization, religion, and art. IJNet recently interviewed the UN's Daanish Masood about GEF and how journalists can benefit from the service.

Daanish Masood is a "Muslim Leader of Tomorrow" (here): Here's his bio - all the buzzwords are there.

Daanish Masood is currently Executive Coordinator at ASMA Society, a non-profit religious and educational organization dedicated to building bridges between the American public and American Muslims through culture, arts, academia and current affairs. Previously, Daanish worked as Outreach Coordinator for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee where he developed a program to increase civil rights awareness in New York's Arab and South Asian immigrant communities. Over the last few months, he has been dedicated to organizing and developing programmatic content for the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow forum. Daanish's main interest is in the political economy and economic anthropology of the Middle East and South Asia, particularly the issues of foreign labor in the Gulf region. He wrote his undergraduate thesis on the Saudi government's Saudization program, and hopes to pursue a doctoral degree in this area in the near future. Daanish graduated New York University with honors in Analytic Philosophy and Middle Eastern Studies. His language skills include: Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Hebrew. Born and raised in Saudi Arabia to Lukhnavi parents, he has been living in New York for the past eight years.

Masood was the contact person at the Istanbul Forum for the Alliance of Civilizations (which Obama in his Muhammadan mode attended on his European apology tour). One of the initiatives of the conference was:

“Restore Trust, Rebuild Bridges”, a cluster of Euro-Mediterranean projects, led by the Alliance and the Anna Lindh Foundation, to be developed by a number of partners, aimed at restoring trust and rebuilding bridges in that region in the wake of the Gaza crisis.

Bat Ye'or said of Obama's speech in Cairo concerning the Alliance of Civilizations:

The president’s speech is similar to many such declarations by European leaders. The question it raises is how much the West is ready to forgo truth and its basic principles in its supplication for obtaining peace with Islam. Clearly, the full Islamization of the West is the quickest way to obtain it. Obama’s political program in connection with the Alliance of Civilizations conforms to an OIC strategy that has already been accepted by the EU. In history, this policy has a name: the dhimmitude syndrome.

And President Barack Hussein Obama is fully on board: UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations Jorge Sampaio "welcomed the bold vision set forth by the American President to inaugurate a new era of peace and cooperation between the "Muslim world" and the West based on mutual respect, trust and partnership."

"From the Alliance of Civilizations' perspective, this approach provides a strong framework, not only for advancing Muslim-Western relations, but also for engagement between diverse communities and cultures around the world. It constitutes our best hope to turn tides of mistrust that have beset us in past decades and forge a new beginning.
 
"President Obama's speech provides a clear path for constructive engagement with the Muslim world, a path that doesn't attempt to paste over differences, but builds on common aspirations. Most importantly, he emphasizes the need to address the various sources of tensions - including violent extremism and the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians - and join forces to confront them.

Back to the propaganda article:

The database currently has 120 experts but expects to include around 300 in the next year. Most of the sources speak English, but many are bilingual and can speak with journalists in multiple languages.

In times of a crisis or important breaking global news, GEF also sends media alerts directly to a subscribed list of journalists, containing brief biographies and contact details for experts able to comment on the topic.

Propaganda is taqiya, lies to advance Islam. Like this from their June 29th meeting:

'U(nderstanding) + R(espect) = U(nited) S(takeholders) for Good Governance of Cultural Diversity, Education for Social Cohesion, Respect and Peace,'

Please see previous at Atlas:

June 27: Charter of Dhimmitude: Execution of "US Muslim Engagement", Obama Creates New Office for Outreach to the Ummah: Farah Pandith

June6: Bat Ye'or on Buraq Obama's Muslim Speech

June 5; Obama's Muslim Speech "Revealed"

May 16:  OIC FREE SPEECH ALERT: Islamic Supremacism on the Net?

Aoril 14  World's Leading Human Rights Violator, the OIC, Seeks Its Own "Human Rights Commission"

April12:  Alliance of Civilizations' Subterfuge Campaign Marches On Over Us

April 8:  OIC'S ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS MAKES ITS MOVE IN ISTANBUL TURKEY: Obama Advances Islamic New World Order

April 7:  OIC ALERT: PRESIDENT HUSSEIN WELCOMES THE FORCE OF EVIL TO THE WHITE HOUSE

March 28:  UN MAKES IT A CRIME TO INSULT ISLAM: RESPECT VIOLENT IDEOLOGY OR JAIL

March 22:  THE OIC'S BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL DOMINATION TAKES HOLD OF AMERICA

March 18: WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

March 10: BAT YE'OR LIVE IN NYC: CANDOR OR RESPECT,  TALKING ABOUT ISLAM

March 5: ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC CONFERENCE IMPOSES ISLAMIC DOMINATION ON THE FREE WORLD 

March 5: DAVID LITTMAN VIDEO INTERVIEW: OVERWHELMING ISLAMISATION OF THE UN

New York City Tea Party!

Here is a List of Tea-Parties held throughout the Country!

New York had a crowd of 500-700

There was a tea party in New York City - Pamela Hall got great pics at her post.

Tee shirt, yeah baby

Obama, suffer the children

Steven Baldwin

Department of State’s Criterion in Partnering with Jihadists in America

Ever since Obama took office, we have been scratching our heads trying to understand how and why he is reaching out to hardcore jihad-supporting Muslims. I documented the dangerous partnership of ISNA with the FBI. Patrick Poole has a scathing indictment of Eric Holder's Department of Justice and ISNA.  It's no accident, it's systemic. And it is sanctioned at the highest levels of government. Recently I reported on Hillary Clinton at the State Department "outreaching" to proselytizing jihadis like Mahdi Bray and Esam Omeish (whom I have blogged about and exposed at length).

The State department and Hillary Clinton know who Omeish and Bray are and know their background. They chose to conference with him nonetheless and developed talking points in case the press should query State on such seditious and idiotic moves (talking points below):

[Omeish] is an Islamist tied to an al-Qaida fund raiser and the spiritual adviser to the 9/11 hijackers.

Turns out it his real name is Esam S. Omeish, and he runs a nonprofit group in Washington called the Muslim American Society, which the FBI believes is the U.S. branch of the dangerous Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide jihadist movement that operates like the mafia. The secret Islamist society counts Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and blind sheik Omar Abdel Rahman among its members. Its motto: “The Quran is our constitution, the prophet is our guide; Death for the glory of Allah is our greatest ambition.”

Mahdi Bray: 

On December 22, 2000, MPAC's Mahdi Bray organized a rally in Lafayette Park outside the White House to celebrate a "Worldwide Day for Jerusalem." In Arabic, the crowd responsively chanted with the emcee, "Khaybar, Khaybar oh Jews, the Army of Muhammad is coming for you!" Posters calling for "Death to Israel" and equating the Star of David with the Nazi swastika were openly displayed and anti-Semitic literature calling for the destruction of the Jews and Israel was distributed. Members of the crowd burned the Israeli flag while marching from the White House to the State Department.

Bray spoke at this rally, along with Imam Mohammed al-Asi, former director of the Islamic Education Center in Potomac, Maryland, who exhorted the crowd to violence in the name of Islam. Would Truman's State department have invited and teamed up with Nazis?

For those of you were wondering what the Department of State’s criterion was in choosing/identifying Muslim American contacts/leaders. These are the dangerous, submissive, defeated guidelines:

NEA Press Guidance
June 10, 2009

Muslims: Department of State criterion in choosing Muslim American contacts/leaders

Q: What is Department of State’s criterion in choosing/identifying Muslim American contacts/leaders?

• The Department meets with a wide range of American citizens and domestic groups who have an interest in United States foreign policy.

• We do so to hear a diverse number of opinions as well as to explain our policies to American citizens.

• We value hearing all opinions, whether people agree with U.S policies or not.

Here is the State department directive should the media press the State Department on why they would meet with Omeish and jihadis like him:

(IF PRESSED)
• This call was designed to amplify the President’s speech in Cairo. A general invitation was issued by the Bureau of Public Affairs to a large list of groups we have interacted with over many years. While I will not discuss the specifics of any one group or individual, Americans’ have the right to free speech, protected by the constitution.

 

Background for Briefer: Esam Omeish was invited by the PA/PIL to participate in a conference call designed to amplify the President’s speech in Cairo. This call was for Arab and Muslim Americans, Mr. Omeish is listed as a, “Doctor and Former President of the Muslim American Society (MAS).” The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee was also included on the call and may have raised concerns about Mr. Omeish.
Mr. Omeish is a candidate for representative of Virginia’s 35th District to the State House, and a doctor at Northern Virginain Community Hospital. In 2007, he had to resign from the Virginia Commission on Immigration due to comments he made regarding “Israel’s war machine” during the 2006 Israel-Hizballah conflict. He is also accused of supporting suicide attacks and violence in achieving a Palestinian state.
Mr. Mahdi Bray, MAS Executive Director, could not be on the call, Mr. Omeish took his place.

Hugh Fitzgerald over at Jihadwatch has some testimony before Congress about Mahdi Bray:

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Terrorist Recruitment and Infiltration in the United States: Prisons and Military as an Operational Base.

Statement of J. Michael Waller
Annenberg Professor of International Communication
Institute of World Politics

Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security

Senate Committee on the Judiciary

14 October 2003

Appendix 2: Key Organizations Involved in Muslim Prison Recruitment

National Islamic Prison Foundation (NIPF) – Contact: Mahdi Bray; 1212 New York Ave. NW, Suite 525, Washington, DC 20005. This is the same address as the American Muslim Council (AMC).

• “Specifically organized to convert American inmates to Wahhabism.”

And at www.masboston.org, the website of the Boston chapter of the “Muslim American Society” there are quite a number of items of interest. The first is the listing of the “Trainers” of Muslim activists (“training” in how to talk to Infidels at Outreach Meetings or in the conduct of Da’wa or in dealing with inquisitive media). In fact only one “trainer” is listed: Mahdi Bray

Imam Mahdi Bray is a long time civil and human rights activist. He is currently the Executive Director of the Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation, and the President of the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO). He also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice and the Interfaith Alliance, and also on the Advisory Board of the American Muslim Council and Muslim Public Affairs Council. He is a Washington, DC, Television and Radio Talk-Show Host.

He has served as a major consultant and a political advisor to Bonner & Associates, Washington’s largest grassroots lobbying firm, the National Center for Housing Management, Alexandria City Redevelopment & Housing Authority, Community Relations Department, The City of Norfolk, Virginia, Department of Community Improvement, and the Independent Voter League. He has also served as a Political Advisor and Strategist, to several national, state, and local political campaigns. He is also the author of, ‘The Masjid (Mosque) Voter’s Guide’ and ‘The Political Guide for Masjid (Mosque) Activists.’
Also, Imam Mahdi Bray is one of the main organizers for the No War on Iraq movement.

He has also served as a liaison between President’s White House Faith-Based Initiative Program and congressional affairs on behalf of the Muslim community.

On another page, there is an advertisement for a Muslim summer camp where students will experience “Tarbeya”:

“At MAS, the Tarbeya process is considered the most important process and the Tarbeya department is one of the permanent departments in the organization. This belief traces its origin to the teachings of Prophet Mohamed as he -- peace be upon him- --invested a lot of effort doing Tarbeya for his companions. As a result of his effort, he did not only leave a great message, the message of Islam, but also left a great generation that carried the message and spread it all over the land and moved humanity from darkness to light. Islamic history proved that whenever this process was considered, Muslims were able to succeed and Islam prevailed. Imam Hassan Al-Banna, the founder and the leader of a great Islamic movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, said ‘Whenever you find the good Muslim you find with him all means for great success.’”

Note the praise of Hassan al-Banna, described as “the founder and the leader of a great Islamic movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Islamic invasion of America: The 20 Point Plan

This sums up the Muslim Brotherhood project in America quite succinctly. On November 7, 2001,  international law enforcement authorities and Western intelligence agencies discovered a twenty-year old document revealing a top-secret plan developed by the oldest Islamist organization with one of the most extensive terror networks in the world to launch a program of “cultural invasion” and eventual conquest of the West that virtually mirrors the tactics used by Islamists for more than two decades.

Since that time information about this document, known in counterterrorism circles as “The Project”, and discussion regarding its content has been limited to the top-secret world of Western intelligence communities. Only through the work of an intrepid Swiss journalist, Sylvain Besson of Le Temps, and his book published in October 2005 in France, La conquête de l'Occident: Le projet secret des Islamistes (The Conquest of the West: The Islamists' Secret Project), has information regarding The Project finally been made public. One Western official cited by Besson has described The Project as “a totalitarian ideology of infiltration which represents, in the end, the greatest danger for European societies.”

[...]

Included in the documents seized during the raid of Nada’s Swiss villa was a 14-page plan written in Arabic and dated December 1, 1982, which outlines a 12-point strategy to “establish an Islamic government on earth” – identified as The Project. According to testimony given to Swiss authorities by Nada, the unsigned document was prepared by “Islamic researchers” associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

If you want to read more of the Muslim Brotherhood project, go here.

U.S. Arab-American author outlines secret 20-year strategy to undermine country WND(hat tip Diane)

A refugee from the Muslim Middle East thinks he has discovered Islam's 20-point plan for conquering the United States by 2020

Anis Shorrosh, author of ''Islam Revealed'' and ''The True Furqan,'' is a Christian Arab-American who emigrated from Arab-controlled Jerusalem in January 1967.

''The following is my analysis of Islamic invasion of America, the agenda of Islamists and visible methods to take over America by the year 2020,'' Shorrosh says. ''Will Americans continue to sleep through this invasion as they did when we were attacked on 9/11?''

1. Terminate America's freedom of speech by replacing it with statewide and nationwide hate-crime bills.

2. Wage a war of words using black leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson  and other visible religious personalities who promote Islam as the religion of African-Americans while insisting Christianity is for whites only. What they fail to tell African-Americans is that it was Arab Muslims who captured them and sold them as slaves. In fact, the Arabic word for black and slave is the same, ''Abed.''

3. Engage the American public in dialogues, discussions, debates in colleges, universities, public libraries, radio, TV, churches and mosques on the virtues of Islam. Proclaim how it is historically another religion like Judaism and Christianity with the same monotheistic faith.

4. Nominate Muslim sympathizers to political office to bring about favorable legislation toward Islam and support potential sympathizers by block voting.

5. Take control of as much of Hollywood, the press, TV, radio and the Internet as possible by buying the related corportations or a controlling stock.

6. Yield to the fear of the imminent shut-off of the lifeblood of America – black gold. America’s economy depends on oil and 41 percent of it comes from the Middle East.

7. Yell ''foul, out-of-context, personal interpretation, hate crime, Zionist, un- American, inaccurate interpretation of the Quran'' anytime Islam is criticized or the Quran is analyzed in the public arena.

8. Encourage Muslims to penetrate the White House, specifically with Islamists who can articulate a marvelous and peaceful picture of Islam. Acquire government positions and get membership in local school boards. Train Muslims a medical doctors to dominate the medical field, research and pharmaceutical l companies (Ever notice how numerous Muslim doctors in America are, when their countries need them more desperately than America?) Take over the computer industry. Establish Middle Eastern restaurants throughout the U.S. to connect planners of Islamization in a discreet way.

9. Accelerate Islamic demographic growth via:

• Massive immigration (100,000 annually since 1961).

• Use no birth control whatsoever – every baby of Muslim parents is automatically a Muslim and cannot choose another religion later.

• Muslim men must marry American women and Islamize them (10,000 annually). Then divorce them and remarry every five years – since one can't legally marry four at one time. This is a legal solution in America.

• Convert angry, alienated black inmates and turn them into militants (so far 2,000 released inmates have joined al-Qaida worldwide). Only a few ''sleeper cells'' have been captured in Afghanistan and on American soil.

10. Reading, writing, arithmetic and research through the American educational system, mosques and student centers (now 1,500) should be sprinkled with dislike of Jews, evangelical Christians and democracy. There are currently 300 exclusively Muslim schools in the U.S. which teach loyalty to the Quran, not the U.S. Constitution. In January of 2002, Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in Washington mailed 4,500 packets of the Quran and videos promoting Islam to America's high schools – free of charge. Saudi Arabia would not allow the U.S. to reciprocate.

11. Provide very sizeable monetary Muslim grants to colleges and universities in America to establish ''Centers for Islamic studies'' with Muslim directors to promote Islam in higher-education institutions.

12. Let the entire world know through propaganda, speeches, seminars, local and national media that terrorists have hijacked Islam, when in truth, Islam hijacked the terrorists.

13. Appeal to the historically compassionate and sensitive Americans for sympathy and tolerance towards Muslims in America who are portrayed as mainly immigrants from oppressed countries.

14. Nullify America's sense of security by manipulating the intelligence community with misinformation. Periodically terrorize Americans with reports of impending attacks on bridges, tunnels, water supplies, airports, apartment buildings and malls.

15. Form riots and demonstrations in the prison system demanding Islamic Sharia as the way of life, not America's justice system.

16. Open numerous charities throughout the U.S., but use the funds to support Islamic terrorism with American dollars.

17. Raise interest in Islam on America's campuses by insisting freshman take at least one course on Islam.

18. Unify the numerous Muslim lobbies in Washington, mosques, Islamic student centers, educational organizations, magazines and papers by Internet and an annual convention to coordinate plans, propagate the faith and engender news in the media.

19. Send intimidating messages and messengers  

to the outspoken individuals who are critical of Islam and seek to eliminate them by hook or crook.

20. Applaud Muslims as loyal citizens of the U.S. by spotlighting their voting record as the highest percentage of all minority and ethic groups in America.

COMPLETE VIDEO Islamic Terror in Mumbai: Actual Dispatches: "This is a struggle between Islam and Unbelievers, We are the People God has Chosen to Defend Against the Unbelievers"

Terror master on intercept with Muslim terror foot soldiers  in Mumbai:

Kill all hostages, except the two Muslims. Keep your phone switched on so that we can hear the gunfire.

Complete video of the Islamic attack on Mumbai. Please watch all five videos and then ask yourself, did the media cover this adequately and give it the same attention to detail as ....Michael Jackson?

The scenes of carnage, the testimony, are very difficult to watch, But you must, of course. The scale...

Muslim terrormaster: "People are dying everywhere. With God's blessing, you've done a brilliant job. All praise to God"

"You're very close to heaven brother"

The Railway station

The railway station after jihad (52 killed, 100 injured)

In a stunning broadcast in the UK, the complete dispatches were released on the Islamic attack on Mumbai (for complete Atlas coverage of this, scroll here). The small Jewish synagogue, Chabad at the Nariman House, not the Taj, was the prime target on 11/26. When we think of Mumbai, images of the carnage at the Taj come to mind. But the Muslim killers themselves were in no doubt that Nariman House was the prime focus. For this was the place which housed a Jewish centre, and the Muslims from Pakistan were clear that they wanted to send a message to the world from there.

 

Little boy: "Six of us died. My mum, dad, two cousins and my sister's husband".

The carnage is breathtaking. 

 

Sushi restaurant at the Oberoi Hotel where 13 diners were murdered.

Inside the hotel, 15 guests were rounded up to be shot (video part II minute 9:18) when one of the wives of those about to be executed shouted, Stop, stop, don't shoot, my husband is a Muslim! And he was spared.

And with the massive attacks on a number of targets - hotels, railway, the primary focus was the little Jewish house.

When asked during interrogation why Nariman House was specifically targetted, Ajmal reportedly told the police they wanted to sent a message to Jews across the world by attacking the ultra orthodox synagogue.

According to the statement by Ajmal, Khan told Babar and Nasir that even if the others failed in their operation, they both could not afford to. "The Nariman House operation has to be a success," the officer said, quoting from Ajmal's statement.

The untold story of 2008's terrorist attack on the Indian city of Mumbai. The story is told in the words of its victims and the gunmen. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Dan Reed, Terror in Mumbai tells the story of what happened when 10 gunmen held one of the world's busiest cities hostage; killing and wounding hundreds of people while holding India's crack security forces at bay.

Islamic Jew hatred. The videos show the events. They show no remorse. Brutal murders, up close, but they kill for jihad, for Islam. One witness at the railway station: "There was a baby. His mother was still alive next to him. The baby started to cry so the mother picked him up, and was shot dead."

Featuring footage of the attacks and interviews with senior police officers and hostages, including the testimony from Kasab - the sole surviving gunman, Dispatches reveals what happened, hour by hour, from the perspective of the security forces, the terrorists, their masterminds and the victims.

The murderers were "very, very happy, talking, smiling".

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Disturbing photographs made available to this newspapers by police sources indicate that several of the guests at the Taj Mahal Hotel during the siege November 26 were sexually humiliated by the terrorists and then shot dead.

Police sources confirm that even as the terrorists were engaged in a fierce combat with NSG commandos, they were humiliating their hostages before ending their terrifying ordeal.

Foreign guests were their particular target. Eight of the 31 killed at the Taj were foreign nationals.

Photographs taken by a police forensic team after the hotel was sanitised yield a gruesome picture of some of the guests in the nude.

These bodies were found away from the hotel's swimming pool which makes it clear that they were not those guests who were taken hostage from the poolside.

"Even the Rabbi and his wife at Nariman House were sexually assaulted and their genitalia mutilated," said a senior officer of the investigating team, not wishing to be quoted.

More here.

Al Franken's "Super" Stolen Election

 

I blame Pawlenty. He stood by and did nothing while Franken and thug/goon party changed the rules, pulled ballots out of their ass and stole the election. Al Franken? Is he even normal? Sane?

Norm Coleman won his election fair and square, and he was robbed by the same crooks who gave Burris the fraud his senate seat.

"Franken, who will hold a victory rally Wednesday and will be seated in the Senate next week, will assume coveted committee assignments on the Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee and the Judiciary Committee, allowing him to play a role in influencing the debates over health-care reform and the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor when Congress returns from its Fourth of July break" -- from a Yahoo news story. Choi opines, "Here's the ultimate Freshman Senator,100th in Seniority, receiving "Coveted " Committee Assignments in order for him to play an"influencing role" in RUINING Our Nation".

SUPER MAJORITY! 

If people get the government they deserve, then we are really cretins.

The 'Absentee' Senator

Franken wins by changing the rules.

The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of last year's disputed Senate race, and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman's gracious concession at least spares the state any further legal combat. The unfortunate lesson is that you don't need to win the vote on Election Day as long as your lawyers are creative enough to have enough new or disqualified ballots counted after the fact.

Mr. Franken trailed Mr. Coleman by 725 votes after the initial count on election night, and 215 after the first canvass. The Democrat's strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total. The Franken legal team swarmed the recount, aggressively demanding that votes that had been disqualified be added to his count, while others be denied for Mr. Coleman.

But the team's real goldmine were absentee ballots, thousands of which the Franken team claimed had been mistakenly rejected. While Mr. Coleman's lawyers demanded a uniform standard for how counties should re-evaluate these rejected ballots, the Franken team ginned up an additional 1,350 absentees from Franken-leaning counties. By the time this treasure hunt ended, Mr. Franken was 312 votes up, and Mr. Coleman was left to file legal briefs.

What Mr. Franken understood was that courts would later be loathe to overrule decisions made by the canvassing board, however arbitrary those decisions were. He was right. The three-judge panel overseeing the Coleman legal challenge, and the Supreme Court that reviewed the panel's findings, in essence found that Mr. Coleman hadn't demonstrated a willful or malicious attempt on behalf of officials to deny him the election. And so they refused to reopen what had become a forbidding tangle of irregularities. Mr. Coleman didn't lose the election. He lost the fight to stop the state canvassing board from changing the vote-counting rules after the fact.

This is now the second time Republicans have been beaten in this kind of legal street fight. In 2004, Dino Rossi was ahead in the election-night count for Washington Governor against Democrat Christine Gregoire. Ms. Gregoire's team demanded the right to rifle through a list of provisional votes that hadn't been counted, setting off a hunt for "new" Gregoire votes. By the third recount, she'd discovered enough to win. This was the model for the Franken team.

Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election. If the GOP hopes to avoid repeats, it should learn from Minnesota that modern elections don't end when voters cast their ballots. They only end after the lawyers count them.

Read it and weep.

NYC Tea Party Times Square

Tonight at 6:30 om in New York City! The NYC Tea Party is July 1st at 6:30 PM in Times Square!

Day 19 Iran Revolution: Supporters of Opposition Hanged

11:52pm: Oppressed peoples of the world unite! Funny -- sort of. The Chinese Falun Gong are helping those fighting for liberty in Iran. Regular Atlas readers remember Falun Gong. The repressive Chinese government despises them, persecutes them and harvests their organs. Yes, harvests their organs.

CHINESE FALUN GONG HELP IRANIANS BREAK REGIME'S CENSORSHIP Reliapundit

ABC-OZ: Computer software invented to beat China's stringent internet controls is being used by pro-democracy activists in Iran to manoeuvre around authorities there.

Developed and managed by a team of volunteers from the Falun Gong spiritual group, Freegate was created to allow net users to bypass Beijing government censorship.

Now it is estimated as many as a million Iranians use the free service each day, as anti-government demonstrators take their protests online.

9:42 pm: The evil overlords weigh in from Nazi HQ:

Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) denounces all interference in Iran's internal affairs
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran [Iran state run media]
The Organization of the Islamic Conference has denounced all efforts to interfere in Iran's internal affairs.

The OIC, about which I have written extensively here, is driving the UN bus. The same bus that Obama wants America to get on and throw off American sovereignty. Enter Harold Koh, stage left. 

8:10 pm: Arrested, beaten and raped: an Iran protester's tale. Afshin, a shopkeeper from south-west Iran, alleges that one of his friends was beaten and repeatedly raped after being arrested at an opposition rally after last month's disputed election. He gave this account to Esfandiar Poorgiv, a journalist and academic. It is published here as part of the Guardian's project to trace those killed and detained during the unrest. (hat tip James the Fin)

He came to my shop around 10.30am. You could tell straight away that he had just been released. His face was bruised all over. His teeth were broken and he could hardly open his eyes.

He was not even into politics. He was just an ordinary 18-year-old in the last year of school. Before the election he came to me and asked how he should vote. He looks up to me. His father is an Ahmadinejad supporter.

He had gone home directly after his release, but his father did not let him in. He didn't mention he had been raped. At first, he didn't tell me either. It was the doctor who first noticed it and told me.

When he came to my shop he collapsed in a chair. He said he had nowhere to go and asked if he could stay with me. I called a friend of mine who is a doctor to come home and see him. Then I brought him home.

His shoulder blades and arms were wounded. There were some slashes on the face. No bone fractures, but he was bruised all over the body. I wanted to take some photos but he did not let me. The doctor said only four of his teeth were intact, the rest were broken. You could hardly understand what he said.

Then the doctor told me what had happened. He had suffered rupture of the rectum and the doctor feared colonic bleeding. He suggested we take him to the hospital immediately.

They registered him under a false name and with somebody else's insurance. The nurses were crying. Two of them asked what sort of beast had beaten him up like that. He was a broken man. He told us not to waste our money on him, and that he would kill himself.

He was arrested in Shiraz on 15 June, the Monday after the election. Some sturdy young men made a human shield around the demonstrators. He was among them. He said he managed to hit some of the anti-riot police. But then they caught him and beat him up.

"I was kept in a van till evening that day and then transferred to a solitary cell where I was kept for two days," he said. "Then I was repeatedly interrogated, beaten and hung from a ceiling. They call it chicken kebab. They tie your hands and feet together and hang you from the ceiling, turning you around and beating you with cables.

Read it and weep.

7:00 pm: The handwriting is on the wall and everybody is scrambling. If the people who protested prevail, the struggle will be over what did they fight and die for.

Rivals unite to reject Iran’s regime Financial Times

Iran’s reformist opposition on Wednesday delivered a co-­ordinated message to Iranians, declaring the government of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad illegitimate and encouraging supporters to challenge it.

A statement by  Moussavi, the opposition leader who says the June 12 election was rigged in favour of the hardline Mr Ahmadi-Nejad, followed similarly defiant calls by Mosharekat, Iran’s largest reformist party, and Mehdi Karroubi, the second reformist candidate.

Hossein Mousavi calls Iranian government illegitimate Guardian

6:48 pm: More than 500 Demonstrators gathered today in front of Chinese counselor in L.A to condemn China's support of Ahmadinejad.

Where are the tens of thousands who marched across Europe, the US and Asia against Israel when they were defending themselves in Gaza back in January? Now we know who and what those people are.

3:49 pm: Student beaten by Ahmadinejad's thugs, the Basijis Raye Man Kojast blog (hat tip Urban Infidel)

1:00pm Obama's evil eye

12:04 pm: Basij militia calls for Mousavi to be prosecuted over post-election unrest

Iran's opposition leader accused of nine offences in letter to chief prosecutor as Ahmadinejad cancels Libya trip

What are they going to do? Arrest the whole country? Haven't they done that already? In North Korea.

11:48 am: Numerous reports on twitter today of people gathering in "six places (Bahareset, Valiasr, Enghelab, Vanak, Tajrish, Sadehgieh)"

Amid the talk of despair and quashed protests, one defiant reformist supporter told this reporter: "The regime wants the world to think they have won. Don't believe it... Even if this regime is about to collapse, they would not let anybody know until their final hour."

  "I've made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran and is not interfering with Iran's affairs." Obama day before yesterday

I would suggest that Obama watch these hangings, but that bloodless fiend wouldn't blink an eyelash.

Israel should seize this opportunity to take out Iran's nukes. This is cannot go on. Free and fair elections without "pre-selected" candidates.

Mousavi supporters reportedly hanged J Post (hat tip James the fin)

As the Iranian authorities warned the opposition on Tuesday that they would tolerate no further protests over the disputed June 12 presidential elections, a report emerged of the hangings of six supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Speaking after Iran's top legislative body upheld the election victory of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources in Iran told this reporter in a telephone interview that the hangings took place in the holy city of Mashhad on Monday. There was no independent confirmation of the report.

Underlining the climate of fear among direct and even indirect supporters of Mousavi's campaign for the election to be annulled, the sources also reported that a prominent cleric gave a speech to opposition protesters in Teheran earlier this week in which he publicly acknowledged that the very act of speaking at the gathering would likely cost him his life.

On Monday, witnesses said thousands of policemen and Basij militiamen carrying batons were deployed in Teheran's main squares to prevent any recurrence of the opposition protests. Drivers who so much as shouted "Allahu Akbar" or beeped their horns had their windows smashed by the Basiji and riot police.

Women police, better known as the Sisters of Zeynab, are also now out in force, the witnesses said.

"Some people are still going out into the streets, but there is despair and sadness"

Photo: Public hanging in Iran (file)

Where are the enlightened, the outraged, the self righteous?

The Case for Iran: Fighting for Freedom

All Atlas previous Iran: The Revolution archives (liveblogs, etc.)

Islamic Supremacism in US: Swift & Co. Install Muslim Footbaths and Bidet Sprays for Somalia Muslims, File Lawsuit for "Mistreatment"

The US State Department has admitted over 80,000 Somali refugees to the US in the last 25 years, and then last year had to suspend family reunification because widespread immigration fraud was revealed through DNA testing.

And under Obama, they are flooding in under "diversity" and "religious" visas in incomprehensible numbers -- see here and here.

From Refugee Resettlement Watch here:

Somali Muslims in Greely, Colorado have filed a civil rights complaint with federal and state officials about their supposed mistreatment at the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant which employs about 300 of them.

Add this to the numerous incidents of civil unrest that Somali Muslims have brought to this same beleaguered town.

Complaints center around alleged mistreatment by Hispanic supervisors, while Swift & Co. is scrambling to give the Somalis what they demand.  Apparently bidets for Somalis were not enough to satisfy them!

GREELEY — State and federal civil-rights officials are investigating claims that Somali workers at the JBS Swift Beef Co. meatpacking plant were mistreated.

Complaints have been filed with state officials and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said Steve Chavez, director of the Colorado Civil Rights Division.

Chavez met with Somalis in Greeley last week. He said federal officials are taking the lead on the investigation.

EEOC officials declined to comment.

Concerns surfaced last year after JBS managers refused to let late-shift Somalis pray at sunset during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Workers walked off the job, and more than 100 were fired. Somali workers have since claimed ongoing issues with their Latino supervisors, Chavez said.

“They believe they were treated differently because they were Somalis,” he said.

JBS spokesman Chandler Keys said the company has attempted to accommodate religious practices by installing foot washes in locker rooms for foot-cleansing prior to prayer and bidet-type spray devices on toilets to assist with cleansing after using the rest room.

Be sure to see my post last night on the strategy being used to disrupt communities to bring about “change.”

Greeley and the historical roots of radical Islam. 

The irony of all of this happening in Greeley, CO is surely not lost on the Islamists driving these demands for religious accommodation.  I have speculated before that they are having a good laugh over the fact that Greeley is considered the birthplace of some of the most extreme Islamic fundamentalism rampant in the world today.

This is what I told you last September when much of the controversy with the Somalis and Swift & Co. came to our attention.

Here is the answer to my comment at this morning’s post about what role Greeley played in the birth of Al Qaeda. Sayed Qtub had come for a visit:

Communism had Karl Marx. Al Qaedaism has Sayed Qtub. Who’s he, most people would ask. The ideology that nurtured modern Islamic extremism, and spawned every violent movement from Hezbollah to al Qaeda, was born in 1952 when Qtub, an Egyptian writer, returned from studying American literature at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colo.

The tipping point from detached observer to extremist ideologue took place at a church dance in Greeley when, as Qtub recalled in “The America I Saw,” the pastor dimmed the lights and put on the come-hither number “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” a hit tune from the MGM movie “Neptune’s Daughter” — a guy, girl and bathing suit lemon — with Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban.

“The room,” Qtub wrote “became a confusion of feet and legs; arms twisted around hips; lips met lips; chests pressed together,” That was the scene that turned him off American culture in particular and Western culture in general — and onto Islamic fundamentalism.

Read more here and consider how Greeley could just be an excellent target city in which Shariah might be planted in America. The irony.

Previous and related:
Atlas Shrugs: MUSLIM PROTESTS EXPAND, HUNDREDS MORE TAKE TO THE STREET

Atlas Shrugs: IT'S RAMADAN, HUNDREDS OF MUSLIMS WALK OFF THEIR JOBS

SWIFT FIRES THE VIOLENT SOMALIS OVER RAMADAN VIOLENCE

Somalis violent protest against Swift, media violence coverup 

Somali Muslims have been disappearing off the streets, returning to Somalia to get terror training, then coming back to the States. Somalis here have been violently trying to impose Islam on the American workplace. I have been covering the disruptive dangerous jihad caused by the forced settling of Somali Muslims into small towns by the State department here.

SOMALIA MUSLIMS IMPORTING TERROR AND HARDCORE JIHAD

Those Lips, Those Eyes!

Faces of the Revolution. More great new pictures from the front here at Social Documentary.

Gorgeous!

 

Atlas earrings!

 

Love the hair

Masks to avoid the sting of tear gas

Freedom riders!

Lovely



Tough broad .... they look to her

Beaten but not down

(On a personal note, I cannot help but notice that the hags that the mullahocracy drag out to "rally" for Ahmadinejad are pasty faced, lipstickless sows. Just sayin')

All Atlas previous Iran: The Revolution archives (liveblogs, etc.)

11:52 pm: Ashkan Sohrabi, an 18 year old teenager who was shot by Basij/Security forces, passed away last night.

Islam Promises Bloodbath for Burka Ban

We will imprison our women and you will like it! The religion of peace promises a reign of terror as France strands up for their women. They want women in polyester prisons - let them stay in Islamic countries. Don't bring that shiz to free countries.

The religion of peace, doin' a'what comes naturally.

Qaeda warns France of revenge for burka stance

Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing threatened on Tuesday to take revenge on France for its opposition to the burka, calling on Muslims to retaliate against the country, the US monitoring service SITE Intelligence reported.

Earlier this month, President Nicolas Sarkozy said the burka, which covers the whole face,  was not welcome in the strictly secular country.

"Yesterday was the hijab (the Islamic headscarf long banned in French schools) and today, it is the niqab (the full veil)," Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, head of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was quoted as saying.

We will take revenge for the honour of our daughters and sisters against France and against its interests by every means at our disposal."

The group also called on Muslims to retaliate for what it called French "hostility" against the community and its attempt to obstruct Islam's practice on its territory.

"For us, the mujahedeen ... we will not remain silent to such provocations and injustices," Abdul Wadud said without elaborating, according to SITE.

"We call upon all Muslims to confront this hostility with greater hostility, and to counter France's efforts to divide male and female believers from their faith with a greater effort ... (by) adherence to the teachings of their Islamic sharia."

He said Muslims in France, who are estimated at around five million, are "increasingly concerned about the practices of French politicians and leaders and their harassment".

On June 22, Sarkozy said the burka was not a symbol of religious faith but a sign of women's "subservience," adding that the head-to-toe veil was "not welcome" in staunchly secular France.

The French National Assembly set up an inquiry into the rising number of Muslim women who wear the burka.

IRAN: DAY 18 of the Revolution that will not die

Day 19 coverage of the revolution continues here.

10:00 pm: SHOCKA!  They said it was the Jooooooos!

Israel's grand Twitter conspiracy. Via NIAC, a major hard-right newspaper in Iran, Kayhan, "reports" that Israel posted 18,000 Twitter messages urging people to complain about voter fraud two days before

9:38 pm: Press TV reports "The killers and beaters were "impostors" and not real Basijj or RGC".. (surprised they haven't said it was the Jews) hat tip Armaros

Nico Pitney reported earlier that "Host quits Iran's Press TV over 'bias' after election. "It is called Press TV, is funded by the Iranian regime, and opponents say that from its nondescript offices off Hanger Lane in northwest London the 24-hour news station is beaming pro-Tehran propaganda into homes across Britain. Nick Ferrari, a leading British radio presenter, quit his show on the station yesterday in protest at the regime crushing dissent after the Iranian elections, but Press TV continues to employ plenty of other Britons -- including MPs and Cherie Blair's sister."

8:38: I linked to this yesterday but I want to recirculate it:

Your contributions to our search for Iran's dead and detained

Screengrab of Iran election: faces of the dead and detained. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Simon Jeffery on the response to our call for help in naming those who have died or been jailed since the Iran elections

4:00 pm: EU states set to recall Iran ambassadors Financial Times. You know we have sunk terribly low if the EU is more humane than the US.

Arrested in Tehran

Iason Athanasiadis, a Greek journalist based in Istanbul, is being held by the Iranian authorities. He was arrested 17 June 2009. The arrest seems particularly perverse since Iason, on assignment for the Washington Times and GlobalPost, is a long time Iran-hand, Farsi-speaker, and Iran-lover, who spent 2 years at Tehran University. Efforts to secure his release are being managed by the Greek Foreign MInistry, and the Greek embassy in Tehran.

12:26 am Tuesday morning: IHRDC Calls on the World to Prevent Iran from Executing Prisoners Arrested in Connection with the June 12 Presidential Election (hat tip Paul)

June 29, 2009
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – Today, ILNA, an official Iranian news outlet, announced the creation of a special commission to “determine the fate of recent arrestees.” If history is any barometer, the creation of this commission and the men appointed to it, are ominous signs that the regime intends to severely punish, and execute, demonstrators and other human rights activists. The world cannot stand by and watch.

Ayatollah Shahroudi, the Head of the Judiciary who is appointed by the Supreme Leader, directed that members of the commission will include Hojatoleslam Dorri Najafabadi (Iran’s General Prosecutor), Ibrahim Ra’isi (Deputy Judiciary Chief), and Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (Head of the General Inspection Organization). He also directed the commission to coordinate its activities with the Prosecutor of Tehran, Saeed Mortazavi.

This announcement followed closely on the heels of Friday’s sermon by senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami in which he stated that demonstrators are muharib, a status that makes them subject to the most severe punishment, including execution. The sermon and creation of the commission follow a familiar deadly pattern, particularly given the men involved.

Mortazavi has been implicated in the death of photo-journalist Zahrah Kazemi, and the arrests and torture of other journalists and bloggers. Two of the named commissioners, Pour-Mohammadi and Ra’isi, were members of special commissions that were created in July 1988 on the orders of the then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Those commissions, known as Death Commissions, sent thousands of already sentenced political prisoners throughout Iran to their deaths based solely on their responses to a few questions. The Iranian government secretly executed the prisoners and has never acknowledged that they took place. To this day, the exact numbers and identities of those executed remain unknown.

In a pattern eerily similar to today, as the executions were beginning in 1988, the then-Chief Justice Musavi Ardebili delivered a sermon claiming that “[t]he people say they should all be executed without exceptions.”

Given this history involving many of the same powerful men, the creation of special commissions coupled with a call for executions, are clear signs that Iran intends to severely punish, and execute, demonstrators and other human rights activists. The IHRDC calls on the United Nations to prevent this from happening.

 

10:50 pm: Update from Tehran Bureau:

Ever since the revolution and especially after the hostage crisis, the western media, unconsciously perhaps, pictured Iran as a hostile, threatening country with uncivilized people. The western media were not alone in this; they had an accomplice in the Iranian government, who embraced this villain-ized picture of Iran. To them, the more alienated the world was from the true Iran, the less they cared about what goes on in the country. In fact, it was not until its secret nuclear facilities were discovered that western governments took a real interest in Iran.

I remember September 11, 2001. I remember watching TV all day worried and sad. I remember holding candlelight vigils with my friends for the victims. Then George W. Bush went on to declare us as one of the “Axis of Evil.” I remember asking myself, “Why?” Not a single one of the terrorists was Iranian, and I wondered why he didn’t bother to make a distinction between the government and the people. In fact, in all of the Middle East I don’t think there is a more pro-American nation than Iran, but no one made such a distinction. Consequently, the Iranian people were viewed with an aura of suspicion in every airport and embassy around the world for the rest of the Bush administration.

But all of that unfounded negative stereotyping came to an end when, in the aftermath of the elections, the nation stood up to the manipulative authorities and separated its account from that of the government. We shattered the stereotype with the amateur photos and videos taken with our own mobile phones. We captured the true picture of the Iranian nation and relayed it to the world, a picture of a young and highly educated nation yearning to be free.

Now I must tell the people of the world: Thank you! To the western media: Thank you for believing in us and in our cause. To the drinkers in the pubs of London: Thank you for supporting us and for lending us your voice.

10:04 pm: Echoes of the solidarity movement.............Iran Khodro car workers take action against regime Raye Man Kojast

The workers of the Khodro automobile company in Iran today issued the following declaration (translated for The Field from the original Farsi by Iraj Omidvar): We declare our solidarity with the movement of the people of Iran.

Autoworker, Fellow Laborers (Laborer Friends): What we witness today, is an insult to the intelligence of the people, and disregard for their votes, the trampling of the principles of the Constitution by the government. It is our duty to join this people's movement.

We the workers of Iran Khodro, Thursday 28/3/88 in each working shift will stop working for half an hour to protest the suppression of students, workers, women, and the Constitution and declare our solidarity with the movement of the people of Iran. The morning and afternoon shifts from 10 to 10:30. The night shift from 3 to 3:30. 

All Atlas previous Iran: The Revolution archives (liveblogs, etc.)

Shot of the day

David Axelrod showing a picture of himself as a baby:

David Axelrod, reading to kids. I hope the little ones had their shots.

Thousands March In Honduras Against Chavez-Backed "President" Zelaya: Democracy Lives!

Obama got it wrong, again.

Obama, wrong on Honduras, wrong on Iran. He's consistent, no?

The UN, media leftopaths and the radical US President are trying to paint what happened in Honduras as a coup. It was not. It was a democracy at work, saving itself from a Chavez-backed takeover.

Obama is on the same side as Chavez, Noriega and the Castro twins. Good luck with that!

Chavez, Zelaya complicit

"Micheletti is our President"

Atlas read JC writes:

My brother lives in Honduras. says that anti-Zelaya demonstrations are huge. The people support the actions of the congress and supreme court.

Obama does not understand democracy or the meaning of a Constitution.

(Pro-Zelaya demonstrations small and sporadic)

This is widely reported in Spanish-language press but not here in the US

Links (in Spanish only, sorry) here

Photos of large anti-Zelaya, anti-Chavez demonstration here.

Here's an excerpt from my post yesterday:

Honduras Fights for Constitution, Obama Takes Sides with Chavez against the Honduran People

Take this hypothetical: Imagine Obama announced that he was going to hold a referendum on legalizing a third term for himself. Imagine that even his attorney general Eric Holder advised him that it was illegal. Imagine that the Supreme Court ruled that holding the referendum was unconstitutional. In spite of that, let's imagine that Obama coerced the FEC to hold the referendum any way. Then we found out that the referendum was being financed by Hugo Chavez. What should the Joint Chiefs do? That is exactly what has occurred in Honduras to a tee. The Honduras Attorney General and their Supreme Court did exactly that. Their Generals did what they had to. Of course Obama and Clinton express outrage on our behalf. Thank God that another domino wasn't toppled. But Chavez wants blood.

Obama, always on the side of evil.

UPDATE Speaking of evil, the UN General Assembly condemns coup in Honduras:

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously condemned the military coup in Honduras and demanded President Manuel Zelaya's immediate return to power, a decision the ousted Honduran leader called "historic."

The world body adopted a resolution by acclamation, calling on all 192 U.N. member states not to recognize any government in Honduras other than Zelaya's.

WTF? This is the problem with international law. It's wrong.

They won't recognize the will of Honduran people and the sanctity of their Constitution?

They won't recognize the will of the Iranian people and the sanctity of one man one vote?

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Says No to Muslim School Holidays

Back on June 18th, I reported that Resolution 1281 was passed overwhelmingly by the New York City Council Education Committee. It called on the “New York City Department of Education to incorporate the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha as observed school holidays in the school calendar for the city school district of the city of New York” and also asked that the state legislature “pass, and the Governor to sign into law," a measure calling for this. CAIR was euphoric. It was absolutely silent on the mullahs murdering Iranians who were fighting and dying  for freedom in Iran, but positively giddy on the news that the NYC Council had caved on Muslim holidays.

Today Bloomberg said no to Muslim school holidays.

Atlas readers know that I have my issues with Mayor Bloomberg and I have been vocal about it. I was outraged that Bloomberg would not remove CAIR-New York President Omar Mohammedi from the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Mohammedi was appointed to the Commission in October of 2002.  We protested the Mayor's  appointment here, after Mohammedi took after the Jane and the John Does in the "flying Imams" episode. 

Terror lawyer Mohammedi represents a number of organizations that are the defendants in a 9/11 lawsuit for the murder of 3000 innocent people. One of the organizations he is the lawyer for is the World Assembly for Muslim Youth (WAMY), a Saudi-based group with offices around the globe that publishes incendiary materials against Jews and openly supports Hamas and violent jihad. Mohammedi also represents the six imams who were removed from a plane that was headed for Arizona in November of 2006, in a lawsuit against the airline (and originally also the passengers who reported the imams’ suspicious behavior).

Mayor Bloomberg has stated that he disagrees with Mohammedi's private actions in exposing the "John Does" in the "Flying Imams" lawsuit, but a human rights commissioner is appointed by the mayor and serves at the mayor's pleasure.

Another member of the Human Rights Commission, Rabbi Haskell Lookstein, raised questions about Mr. Mohammedi's appointment.

"If in fact CAIR does have close ties to known terrorist organizations, then the presence of its general counsel on the Human Rights Commission of New York City would seem to me very problematic," said Rabbi Lookstein. "The most elementary human right is the right to live and not to be blown to bits."

BUT he did the right thing in this case. Separation of church and state. Bravo Bloomberg.

Bloomberg: Schools Can't Observe Muslim Holidays

NEW YORK (AP)  -- New York's City Council has passed a nonbinding resolution asking the Education Department to observe two important Muslim holidays. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city is so diverse schools can't observe every holiday.

The city has the nation's largest school system. A 2008 study by Columbia University's Teachers College estimates at least 10 percent of its 1.1 million students are Muslim.

The resolution was passed Tuesday. It asks the Bloomberg administration to observe the holidays in schools and for the state to require it by amending education law.

PALIN: They Wanna Killa The thrilla From Wasilla

The hatred of the good for being the good. Ayn Rand

Sarah Palin scares the guts out of RINOs, leftopaths and freedom haters. She embodies all that good and fine and decent, and they vomit. You couldn't have written a more charismatic honorable character in a Victor Hugo novel. They will do anything and say anything to destroy this woman. They are so low, so corrupt .... their depravity continues to shock even the most jaded.

Wonkette Goes After Trig Palin Again

It really is hard to understand why some adults feel the need to make fun of Trig Palin, a one-year old who has Down Syndrome. Politics alone cannot explain it. If you don't like Sarah Palin, fine, but why go after Trig?

The controversy regarding the Photoshop of Trig by Alaskan blogger Linda Biegel is only the tip of the iceberg. Ever since Sarah's nomination, Trig has been a target. Last fall, the popular DC-based "gossip" website Wonkette joked how Trig must have wished he'd been aborted. Now Wonkette has taken Biegel's Photoshop antics as an excuse to go after Trig anew.

In a recent post, Wonkette promoted and joked about even cruder Photoshops of Trig at the Something Awful web forum, where people can post anonymously (examples below). Wonkette even included one of these photoshops in its post (above right) while mocking Trig as the "New Jesus," "Holy Infant" and "Sacred One."

All the attacks on Trig are Sarah's fault, according to the Wonkette post, since Sarah had the audacity to bring Trig on stage at the Republican National Convention (where the original photo in question was taken), which Wonkette calls using Trig as a "cheap political prop." I guess that makes the Obama kids fair game according to Wonkette since they were brought on stage at the Democratic National Convention.

Sarah is to blame for all the new Photoshops of Trig, according to the Wonkette post, because Sarah complained about Biegel:

The Virgin Palin, Our Lady of Eternal Anger, gave birth to the New Jesus at some point last year — or not, who knows, and now Andrew Sullivan just cares about Iran (which is a good thing!) so we’ll never find out the truth — and ever since it has been both a Cardinal/Venial Sin and Sharia Law that no mortal shall “desecrate” an image of the Sacred One … no one but Sarah Palin herself, because Allah both allows and encourages the use of the Holy Infant as a cheap political prop as long as such cruel hackery is performed by the Virgin Palin herself.

Palin’s fury was such, when she found out some blog “on the Internet” had combined a picture of her cradling one of her Magic Babies together with a picture of her Jedi Master, some dingbat old radio talk-show clown in Alaska, that she did verily send her dumbest disciple, “Brother Meg,” to start a Jihad against the Entire Internet.

But we know what happens when a fear-and-anger crazed Snow Witch starts a vain war she can never hope to win: The Internet Strikes Back.

Which is to say, Palin basically poked a stick in the world’s largest beehive filled with cheap & tireless insanity, and the SomethingAwful.com goons have unleashed a pack of Photoshop Dogs From Hell to make the most incredible collection of Sarah Palin Desecration Images in the History of Time, the end.

General Bullshit > Sarah Palin thinks photoshopping special needs babies is appalling [Something Awful]

Here are two of the milder Photoshops in the Something Awful forum, which are Sarah's fault according to Wonkette:

What a riot. It takes small people to stoop this low.

[Note: Accordingly to one of the commenters, the face imposed on the photo immediately above is that of a convicted sex offender, Brian Peppers, which makes that Photoshop particularly sick.]

UPDATE: Huffington Post blogger Jason Linkins has joined Wonkette in blaming Sarah for the crude Photoshops because Sarah complained and used the word "desecrate":

And now, all of these people that you had heretofore never heard of are famous, because Sarah Palin wouldn't let the stuff slide. Even dumber, she said that the photoshopping was a "desecration," which means she believes Trig had been "divested of her sacred character." Now I think Trig Palin is an awesome kid, but COME ON. That's a really pretentious thing for a parent to say.

Can't the Editors at Wonkette or bloggers at HuffPo check the dictionary? Desecrate has more than one meaning, and is not limited to someone being "divested" of "sacred character." The Merriam-Webster online dictionary includes "to treat disrespectfully, irreverently, or outrageously" in the definition of the term. Sounds right to me. More important, regardless of which words Sarah used, why does that justify attacks on Trig?

As if that weren't terrible enough, Vanity Fair has a hit piece coming out  filled with lies and propaganda. Worse, they were aided by the cancerous liberals of the Republican party.

There is a struggle in the Republican party for the heart and soul of our future. The RINOs (McCain, Romney etc. vs true individualists and conservatives). You must get involved in this struggle.

The GOP wants to knock her out, for the same reasons that they don't back the formidable, courageous Lt. Colonel Allen West.

Steve wrote:

Vanity Fair is loaded with Obama lovers and Palin-haters. It's right up there with MSNBC. My friends, this is more than a struggle to keep Sarah viable. It's a battle for the Republic. Ferocity, please!

The McCain Campaign was abominable in every way imaginable -- no strategy, low-quality support staff, pathetic fundraising, and a top-of-the-ticket candidate who was more interested in preserving his Beltway status than in winning the election. The low point in the campaign was when McCain essentially told the woman in Wisconsin who "feared" Obama that she had nothing to fear from an Obama presidency.

As a 3-year-speechwriter, I found it obvious that Sarah needed a topflight speechwriter/advisor (Elaine Lafferty would have been fine, and I would have done it for nothing) with her; she had no such person. Biden did. Sarah didn't. McCain clearly resented the fact that Sarah drew huge crowds . . . and he couldn't draw flies.

The GOP is trying to knock her out.

Below is to give you a taste of what is to come. There is a devastating hate piece in Vanity Fair, in what can only be a pathetic attempt at complete and total character assassination.Vanity Fair on Palin: 'It came from Wasilla'  - reporter Todd Purdum relies heavily on quotes from unnamed McCain campaign officials.

The same shills that laud Obama for dropping a cool $100,000 on a "dinner and a show with Meesh in NYC, are aghast that Sarah spent $150,000 of donated bucks on her wardrobe for the presidential campaign. 

By the time Election Day rolled around, the staff had been serially pummeled by unflattering press reports about the gaps in Palin’s knowledge, her stubborn resistance to direction, and the post-selection spending spree in which she ran up bills of $150,000 on clothes for herself and her family at high-end stores.

The leftopaths have chutzpah!

Todd S. Purdum, Vanity Fair: NY Daily News

"Whatever her political future, the emergence of Sarah Palin raises questions that will not soon go away," Todd Purdum writes in a long piece that ranges from her campaign for governor to her current status as the "sexiest and riskiest brand" in GOP politics. "What does it say about the nature of modern American politics that a public official who often seems proud of what she does not know is not only accepted but applauded? What does her prominence say about the importance of having (or lacking) a record of achievement in public life? Why did so many skilled veterans of the Republican Party-long regarded as the more adroit team in presidential politics-keep loyally working for her election even after they privately realized she was casual about the truth and totally unfit for the vice-presidency?" ...

As Palin makes her way slowly across the crowded ballroom—dressed all in black; no red Naughty Monkey Double Dare pumps tonight—she is stopped every few inches by adoring fans. She passes the press pen, where at least eight television cameras and a passel of reporters and photographers are corralled, and spots a reporter for a local community newspaper getting ready to take a happy snap with his pocket camera. For a split second she stops, pauses, turns her head and shoulders just so, and smiles. She holds the pose until she’s sure the man has his shot and then moves on. A few minutes later, the evening’s nominal keynote speaker, the Republican Party’s national chairman, Michael Steele, who has been reduced to a footnote in the proceedings, introduces the special guest speaker as “the storm that is the honorable governor of the great state of Alaska, Sarah Palin!”

[...]

In the aftermath of the November election, the conventional wisdom among Palin’s supporters in the Republican establishment was that she should go home, keep her head down, show that she could govern effectively, and quietly educate herself about foreign and domestic policy with the help of a cadre of experienced advisers. She has done none of this. Rather, she has pursued an erratic course that, for her, may actually represent the closest thing there is to True North. Her first trip to Washington since the election was to attend the dinner of the Alfalfa Club, an elite group of politicians and businesspeople whose sole function is an annual evening in honor of a plant that would “do anything for a drink.” Some of her handlers first said she had accepted—though she then went on to decline—an invitation to speak at the annual June fund-raiser for the congressional Republicans. She created a political-action committee—Sarahpac—with the help of John Coale, a prominent Democratic trial lawyer. But just months into its existence the pac’s chief fund-raiser, Becki Donatelli, a veteran of Republican campaigns, suddenly quit. One person familiar with the situation told me that Donatelli could not stand dealing with Palin’s political spokeswoman in Alaska, Meghan Stapleton, who has drawn withering fire from Palin friends and critics alike for being an ineffective adviser. Also with Coale’s help, Palin formed the grandiosely named Alaska Fund Trust, to defray a reported half million dollars in legal expenses arising from a slew of formal ethics complaints against her in her home state—prompting yet another formal complaint, that the fund itself constitutes an ethical breach. Onetime supporters have become harsh critics. Walter Hickel, 89, a former two-term governor and interior secretary, and the grand old man of Alaska politics, who was co-chair of Palin’s winning gubernatorial campaign, in 2006, now washes his hands of her. He told me simply, “I don’t give a damn what she does.”

Palin is unlike any other national figure in modern American life—neither Anna Nicole Smith nor Margaret Chase Smith but a phenomenon all her own. The clouds of tabloid conflict and controversy that swirl around her and her extended clan—the surprise pregnancies, the two-bit blood feuds, the tawdry in-laws and common-law kin caught selling drugs or poaching game—give her family a singular status in the rogues’ gallery of political relatives. By comparison, Billy Carter, Donald Nixon, and Roger Clinton seem like avatars of circumspection. Palin’s life has sometimes played out like an unholy amalgam of Desperate Housewives and Northern Exposure.

Another aspect of the Palin phenomenon bears examination, even if the mere act of raising it invites intimations of sexism: she is by far the best-looking woman ever to rise to such heights in national politics, the first indisputably fertile female to dare to dance with the big dogs. This pheromonal reality has been a blessing and a curse. It has captivated people who would never have given someone with Palin’s record a second glance if Palin had looked like Susan Boyle. And it has made others reluctant to give her a second chance because she looks like a beauty queen.

Soon Palin will take a crack at her own story: she has signed a book contract for an undisclosed but presumably substantial sum, and has chosen Lynn Vincent, a senior writer at the Christian-conservative World magazine, as co-author of the memoir, which is to be published next year not only by HarperCollins but also in a special edition by Zondervan, the Bible-publishing house, that may include supplemental material on faith. During the presidential campaign, Palin’s deep ignorance about most aspects of foreign and domestic policy provided her with a powerful political reason not to submit to interviews. The forthcoming book adds a powerful commercial reason.

Palin is a cipher by choice. When she chooses to reveal herself, what she reveals is not always the same thing as the truth. Her singular refusal to have in-depth conversations with the national media—even Richard Nixon and Dick Cheney, among the most saturnine political figures in modern American history, each submitted to countless detailed interviews over the years—has compounded the challenge of understanding who she really is. There has been Hollywood talk that Palin could star in a reality-TV show about running Alaska, but nothing has come of it yet. Recently, Palin did star in a week-long seriocomic feud with David Letterman over some of his borderline jokes. Meanwhile, she has begun sharing insights several times a day on Twitter, with chipper reports on her own doings and those of her husband, Todd, and the rest of what she calls the “first family.” “Look forward to today’s staff discussion re: my 3rd justice appt to highest court in 3 yrs. Supreme Court truly effects AK’s future,” reads one. And another: “Picking up my handsome little man to rtrn to Juneau, Trig got 1st haircut so my little hippie baby’s ready for AK sunshine on his shoulders.”

It gets worse. Newbusters had this:

Moving on, Purdum writes:

The top McCain aides who had tried hard to work with Palin—Steve Schmidt, the chief strategist; Nicolle Wallace, the communications ace; and Tucker Eskew, her traveling counselor—were barely on speaking terms with her, and news organizations were reporting that anonymous McCain aides saw Palin as a “diva” and a “whack job.”

This quote, irritating as it is, is merely a setup for a later assertion:

Some top aides worried about her mental state: was it possible that she was experiencing postpartum depression? (Palin’s youngest son was less than six months old.)

One might ignore the jab about being a diva – after all, then-candidate Barack Obama said:

"Like any politician at this level, I've got a healthy ego."

However, quoting anonymous sources to imply that a national political figure may, in fact, have been mentally unstable during a campaign is beyond any stretch of journalistic integrity.  And yet, Purdum is not content to smear Palin with the ethereal possibility of postpartum depression:

More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy”—and thought it fit her perfectly.

It is amusing to consider the idea that random, unidentified constituents would, unbidden, pick up the copy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders that they just so happened to have sitting on the bookshelf, and wonder if Sarah Palin suffered from a mental disorder.

For the sake of argument, however, let us simply settle on the fact that failing to identify these people – or their expertise in the field of psychiatric medicine – leaves this paragraph as a near-libelous attack on the mental state of a public figure.