Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Common Sense
COMMON SENSE
An Urgent Call to Action
ADDRESSED TO THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA
On the following vital SUBJECTS
On the Islamic Terrorist Threat Within
On Uniting As a People
Thoughts on Doing What It Takes
On the Necessity of Nothing But Victory
By A CONCERNED AMERICAN
September 11, 2006
AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
The ideas, events, and dangers pointed out in the following pages have not yet soaked deeply into Americans’ consciousness. It is urgent that Americans take note of these thoughts for the sake of their lives, their freedoms, and the very preservation of Western civilization.
We are faced with a violent and deadly enemy in the form of Islamic terrorists – let there be no doubt. I would submit we are in the beginning stages of World War III, whether we like it or not. These vile terrorists have but one main goal in mind – to kill Americans on our own soil, as well as around the world.
In the following pages, I have carefully laid out where we are and where I believe we need to be. These are indeed the times that will try American men and women’s souls.
Thomas Paine’s words of 1776 still ring true today: The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected.
The Islamic terrorists want to, using Paine’s unequivocal words: ...lay our country desolate with fire and sword, declaring war against the natural rights of all mankind (all infidels, such as ourselves, must be killed) and extirpating (exterminating) the defenders (Americans) from the face of the Earth. This is the concern of every man and woman to whom nature hath given the power of feeling.
Do we feel yet? Do we really understand? As always in the past, once Americans were aware of the magnitude of a threat, they have risen up to defend their freedoms with a vengeance. It is time to rise up!
In consecration of the thousands of innocent Americans savagely murdered by inhuman Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001.
ON THE ISLAMIC TERRORIST THREAT WITHIN
The present state of hidden terrorist cells in America is truly alarming to every man and woman who has reflected on or researched this serious matter. The property and life of no American man or woman is secure given the nature of the organization and methods of Islamic terrorists. All one has to do is look at the slaughter of thousands of innocent Americans at the World Trade Center and the bombings in Madrid, London, and around the world. It’s time to go on the offensive.
Let us look carefully at the reality of this state of affairs. I ask, as a reasonable question, by what means should we defend ourselves from these dastardly Islamic terrorist cells within? The Rubicon has been crossed, given all the schemes and violent actions of the cowardly, cruel enemy we now face.
Are we going to hesitate and fear this threat any longer? 9/11 was far worse than Pearl Harbor because innocent American civilians were targeted and brutally murdered—through no fault of their own. We should not be debating whether we should defend ourselves in our own country! Every day should convince us of its necessity.
Here is what has happened and is happening:
Al Qaeda sleeper cells are believed to be operating in 40 states, according to the FBI. They are awaiting orders and funding for new attacks in the U.S.—
financed in part by millions of dollars solicited by an extensive network of bogus charities, these cells use Muslim communities as cover and places to raise cash and recruit sympathizers. Are they in your neighborhood?
The Chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Omar Ahmad, said: Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth. This is outright treason! What is your answer to this “so-called” national American Muslim leader?
Ramzi Binalshilh, the paymaster for the September 11 terrorists, was captured in Pakistan, along with Khalid Shaikh, the mastermind of 9/11. They are both murderous subhumans who deserve no quarter, as do none of the Islamic terrorists. This points to the absolute need to go after these terrorists, under whatever rock they may be hiding—anywhere on earth. Our rallying cry must be “Remember 9/11.”
American Robert Spencer, author of the Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, has been targeted for death by militant Muslims because he has told the truth. One of the death threats he received was in the form of a prayer: May Allah rip out his spine from his back and split his brains in two, and then put them both back, and then do it over and over again. This is the nature of the enemy we are now fighting!
Eleven men, including nine U.S. citizens, were arrested in what authorities called the “Virginia jihad.”
Islamic terrorist organizations are operating very quietly within the borders of the U.S., from New York City to San Diego. Does this infuriate you? It should! They now have the capability and support infrastructure in the U.S. to attack us at any time, any place. Will it be where you live?
The U.S. has now become a key part of their terrorist network. These beastly, barbaric Islamic terrorists have merged into America’s famed “melting pot.” In what communities are they hiding and who is protecting them?
A U.S. Senate report said a terrorist attack with anthrax or sarin gas or a “dirty” bomb with nuclear material is almost inevitable. Most experts say that sooner or later it’s going to happen. What if you and your family are in that place at that time?
The men who committed the 1993 World Trade Center bombing were Islamic militants from Palestine, Sudan, and Egypt. But, unbelievably, some were U.S. citizens who had converted to radical Islamic fundamentalism. Their goal at that time was to bring down both towers by having one crash into the other. Eight years later, Islamic terrorists brought the twin towers down, AS THEY VOWED THEY WOULD DO.
U.S. authorities worry about what are called “sleeper cells” of terrorists who await orders from the mullahs in Iran. What happens if Iran gets nuclear weapons? To put it bluntly, their leader is Hitler II but even more deranged than Hitler.
An Islamic foundation in Florida was using the cover of a Mideast think tank to fund Islamic terrorists. At one time, it was affiliated with the University of South Florida. What is going on at the universities in your state?
Counter-terrorism analysts say the Islamic extremists consider the U.S. to be the “great satan.” The truth of the matter is that the radical mullahs who preach murder, destruction, and the killing of innocent men, women, children and babies are the “great satans,” let there be no doubt. We’ve heard enough of their rotten lies and propoganda. Hitler did the same.
Al-Qaeda provides financial, manpower, transportation, and training support to extremists worldwide. In 1998, Osama Bin Laden issued a statement saying: It is the duty of Muslims to kill U.S. citizens.
Al-Qaeda has a master plan to take over the world and turn it into an Islamic state by the year 2020. This information comes from the Jordanian journalist Fouad Hussein in his book The Future of Terrorism: What al-Qaeda Really Wants. He writes that by 2020, ...the rest of the world will be beaten down by an army of one and a half billion Muslims. Are we willing to be beaten down? The answer is “Nuts!” – the same answer our American Commander gave the Nazis when they asked him to surrender at Bastogne in WW II.
Operatives of Hezbollah are believed “to be planning to activate sleeper cells located in New York and other large cities inside the U.S.” to stage attacks on Americans. Hezbollah is pure hate. Add to that, this hellish organization is the killing tool of Iran!
Get this. In 1994, the Executive Director of the American Muslim Council, A. Alamoudi, addressed a cheering rally OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE in these words: Hear that Bill Clinton! We’re all supporters of Hamas (terrorist organization). I wish to add I’m a supporter of Hezbollah. Anybody support Hezbollah here? And the crowd cheered.
How bad is it? In 2006, the Muslim imam of a Georgia mosque pleaded guilty to providing material support to the terrorist group HAMAS. Mohamed Shorbagi has been sentenced to 15 years in prison—and he’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The Islamic Republic of Sudan/Darfur has killed more than one million Christians to force Islamic rule in that country. Women have no rights. Rape and beatings are standard in Islamic fundamentalist countries where women are virtually slaves. Every American woman would do well to research this for herself.
To understand the dangers of Islamic terrorists infiltrating across our Southwest U.S. Border, go to the 2006 Border Report from Congress at:
www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf or to Congressman Mike McCaul’s website. If this current report is not a WAKE UP CALL to the American people, nothing will be.
Members of HEZBOLLAH, the Lebanon-based terrorist organization, have already stolen across our Mexican border. It’s documented that one of these terrorists bribed a Mexican Consular Official in Beirut for a visa to travel to Mexico. This killer then snuck across our border and established residence among the Lebanese expatriate community in Dearborn, Michigan. He then proceeded to began raising funds for HEZBOLLAH TERRORISTS.
It has been confirmed by the FBI that there are terrorists who are changing their Islamic surnames to Hispanic identities, learning Spanish, and pretending to be Mexican immigrants. BE AWARE!
Boats are going back and forth day and night, many times undetected, between Mexico and Texas. They are bringing in tons of marijuana and cocaine. It would be easy for 2 or 3 terrorists to bring their weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) across the river undetected—with the assistance of Mexican Drug Lords. Read the Border Report, especially pages 27-32, documenting terrorist infiltration. WMDs may already be in our country.
Read Steve Emerson’s American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us. He wrote that the U.S. has become home to hundreds and probably thousands of terrorists. In Oklahoma City, he happened on a convention at the Convention Center. He wandered inside and found vendors hawking all kinds of radical material. There were books calling for the extermination of Jews and Christians, even coloring books instructing children on subjects such as “How to Kill the Infidel.”—That’s us! In Oklahoma City, no less.
What has happened to us as a people to even allow such a thing??? Guess who was hosting that convention? – The Muslim Arab Youth Association. Does this make you furious, angry, afraid, or appalled? Or all of the above?
I submit it’s time to quit thinking about what is “politically correct.” We are at war with a capital “W”—worldwide. It’s time for just plain, down-to-earth American Common Sense – one of the key ingredients that helped make this country great.
It’s time to stop thinking about what other countries think of us and start thinking about what we think of ourselves. We must think of what is Common Sense for our country in these perilous times.
Aren’t you sick of hearing about angry Muslims almost every single day in the news media? After what the Islamic terrorists have done to damage our country and murder Americans, all over the world, we need to be more than angry, and totally aggressive in wiping them out. No holds barred!
They want us dead. What are you and I going to do about it? Even 1,000 more FBI Agents could not get the job done. The FBI is already bogged down investigating over 5,000 cases of terrorism. It is going to take the eyes, ears, and alertness of all Americans to defeat this treacherous foe. Let’s roll!
Ronald Reagan said, “As for the enemies of freedom, let us remind them that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; we will not surrender for it – now or ever.
When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism.”
ON UNITING AS A PEOPLE
These dramatic issues are neither Democrat nor Republican. They are American. Each individual American needs to ponder carefully what he or she believes is the best course of action. Unfortunately, this is not a game. It is not going to go away. Will we stand or fade?
The politicians, the government, the slanted news media, and the talking heads are not going to save us from the evil menace we now face. It is up to all of us. Each American can make a difference in this battle between Islamic Militant Fundamentalism and Western Civilization.
Americans are a good, kind, and generous people. Though our country is far from perfect, never has a country offered so much to so many. We have much of which to be proud. We do not take a back seat to any country on earth! That said, we must unite as one people in defense of our freedom, just as we did in WWII. It is imperative that we defend our rights and way of life against these evil and vile purveyors of hate. They are the worst of cowards.
We respect other peoples and other ways of life, but don’t tread on us! If Ronald Reagan were alive today, I believe he would put it very simply, just as he said about the Cold War: Here’s my strategy on the War with Islamic terrorists. We win, they lose. The alternative is frightening.
Thomas Paine put it in these crystal-clear words: We are the guardians of liberty—each individual American. It is now in the interest of America to provide for herself if we are to prevent the general massacre of mankind.
These despicable Islamic terrorists have sunk themselves beneath the rank of animals. They believe they are going to enter paradise by murdering innocent men, women, children, and babies. Let there be no equivocation, they are going straight to hell. They have been totally misled by Great Satans in turbans and robes. It is not the U.S. that is the Great Satan, quite the opposite.
The Christian religion teaches “forgiveness” and to “do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.” The Islamic terrorists follow the teaching: “If you cannot convert Infidels (us), kill them.” We have no choice but to defend ourselves and fight back with every means at our disposal – block-by-block, community-by-community, and state-by-state.
If you wish to preserve your country and its freedoms, uncontaminated by immoral and degenerate Islamic terrorists, do your part. Do not delay. Be vigilant. We cannot hesitate on this vital mission or it will be our ruin as a nation. Like all other truths discovered by necessity, our path must appear clearer and stronger every day. It is high time to reflect deeply, from the depths of our souls, on this life-threatening situation.
Rise up as one people, Americans all. We cannot ignore any longer the deadly threat lurking in secret, insidious Islamic terrorist cells scattered throughout America, many in Muslim communities.
THOUGHTS ON DOING WHAT IT TAKES
In case many have forgotten, the Declaration of Independence starts out this way: When in the course of human events, it becomes NECESSARY.......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.
The depraved Islamic terrorists want to take away our lives, our liberty and our pursuit of happiness. It is time for Americans to unite – and for us to help root out every last one of these vermin hiding within our country. It is now more NECESSARY than ever.
As John Kennedy stated so eloquently, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” Our very futures depend on it.
The Preamble to our Constitution reads: “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Do we want to continue these blessings? Are you prepared to defend them? These are simple questions, but they are life-and-death questions—right down to our very own communities.
You may think you are safe in your own community, but that could change today. These terrorists are planning to blow up dams and shopping centers; poison water supplies; sabotage our defense, electric and energy systems through the Internet; and no telling what else. How do these deadly terrorist cells grow “at home”? In one document, it is stated: They simply emerge from a cesspool of mosques, colleges, and chance meetings. They meet with others and sometimes their similar hates unite them in a common purpose. That was the case with the 9/11 terrorist hijackers! Hate drives these heinous, perverted cowards. To try and reason with them is useless.
What is being taught at each mosque in America? Do we know? How many American Muslims subscribe to the Militant Islamic Agenda? These are common sense questions we all need truthful answers to, after seeing what’s been happening in Britain, Australia, & other countries around the world, including the rioting/burning in Paris.
Consider this. In 1998, as an exception to those who say they speak in the name of American Muslims, Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabani, speaking at the U.S. State Department, provided a frightening revelation. He estimated that the “militant Muslim extremists” had taken over 80% of the mosques in the U.S. and were exercising ideological control over schools, youth groups, professional associations, and commercial enterprises. SHOCKING! The key question is what percentage of U.S. mosques are controlled by Islamic extremists today??? Check the report out for yourself and read Bill Bennett’s book Why We Fight.
Analyst Daniel Pipes, who has documented this deeply alarming phenomenon in copious detail, noted: The major Muslim organizations in the U.S. are in the hands of the extremists. Their shared militant outlook is hostile to the prevailing order in the U.S. and they advocate its replacement with an Islamic one. MORE THAN SHOCKING! What are “we the people” going to do about it?
Professor Irshad Manji, in her book The Trouble With Islam, states: I have to be honest with you, Islam is on very thin ice with me. Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims are conspiring against ourselves. We’re in a crisis and we’re dragging the rest of the world with us.
If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it’s now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it? Why are we squandering the talents of women, fully half of God’s creation? (Islamic Fundamentalists see women as slaves or second class citizens—and no education is allowed)
If more of us don’t speak out against (Islamic militants) within Islam, they will walk away with the show.
It is clear that huge numbers of young Islamic men do not think for themselves. They are so mired in hate that they are being blindly led down a murderous path. They believe that, if in the process of killing themselves and innocent men, women, children, and babies, they are going to paradise – where 72 virgins will be waiting for them. They are going to be surprised and disappointed because they are going straight to the very depths of hell where they will be greeted by Satans – just like themselves.
The big question is what is going on with the good, law abiding Muslims in the U.S.? What are they doing to expose this menace in their own ranks? Have you heard any of them speak out against these insidious Islamic terrorists? If not, why not? Why are they quiet?
If you have Islamic neighbors, get to know them. Ask them what they think about their fellow Muslims who want to murder us in our own country. Ask them what they are doing about it. This is simple common sense – if we want to protect ourselves, our families and our sacred freedoms.
Being “politically correct” is a fraud that has been perpetrated on our society. Once we stood four-square for right and wrong. There is no middle ground with those who want to murder us. We should profile Arab men, especially the younger ones. If they want to live as Americans, under our free system, they should want to cooperate and help in these efforts, unless they are terrorists.
If the 9/11 terrorist hijackers had been profiled, 9/11 would never have happened. Consider if you had been in those towers that day—life or death?
Common sense dictates that we profile those most likely to harm us. It is time to quit frisking 84-year-old grandmothers – and that list goes on and on. It is asinine, ridiculous, and outrageous, and that is stating the case mildly! Look at what these terrorists have made us have to do at our own airports in our own country! It’s time to stop letting the Islamic terrorists manipulate our laws so they can more easily kill us!
How many Islamic terrorists have come across our border? Probably in the thousands. If anyone is truly interested in becoming an American or securing a work visa, then they MUST DO IT LEGALLY, starting immediately. Anyone in the U.S. who is here illegally should be sent back to the place from which they came for starters. Either our laws mean something or they don’t.
For those who say it’s okay for people to be here illegally, I would submit to them that it is then okay for anyone to break any law they want to—given their flawed reasoning. Laws must have meaning or there is chaos. Our laws need to be enforced NOW!
Teddy Roosevelt said it exactly right: “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American,....there can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all....we have room for one language here, and that is the English language.....And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is loyalty to the American people.”
Either we stand for something as a country or we don’t. It is impossible to have it all ways. This country became great because we stood for right, justice, respect, freedom, kindness, and honor. We dilute this at our own peril.
Look at what Australia has done. Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told recently to get out of Australia as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terrorist attacks.
Prime Minister John Howard and his Ministers made it clear that extremists face a crackdown. Some radical clerics may be asked to leave the country if they do not accept that Australia is a secular state and its laws were made by parliament. The Aussies do not fiddle-faddle around. They understand what’s at stake. Should we do any less?
On national TV, Peter Costello, the heir apparent to Prime Minister Howard, said: “If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Islamic Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you.”
Education Minister Brendan Nelson said: People who don’t want to be Australians, and who don’t want to live by Australian values and understand them, well then they can basically clear off.
Prime Minister Howard supports spy agencies monitoring his nation’s mosques. He also said: “I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge of patriotism by the majority of Australians.” How about 9/11? Bali didn’t hold a candle to that horrendous murdering of innocents.
Further, he said: “This idea of being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our national identity. As Australians, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language, and our own lifestyle.
This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials, and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom. We speak mainly English, not Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language!
Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian right-wing political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian Principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is a part of our culture. We will accept your beliefs and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.
We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don’t care how you did things where you came from. By all means, keep your culture, but do not force it on others.”
Prime Minister Howard went on to say: “This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, AND OUR LIFESTYLE, and we allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you to take advantage of one other great Australian freedom: THE RIGHT TO LEAVE! If you aren’t happy here, then leave. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country you accepted.”
If only American politicians had the guts and courage to stand up and tell it like it is! We need hundreds of leaders along the line of John Paul Jones, Betsy Ross, Washington, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt—men and women with wisdom, character, courage, and steadfastness who are willing to stand up for what’s right.
It appears it’s up to us, individual Americans, to speak up for common sense and exercise our rights of freedom and justice. We cannot decide for other countries but we can decide for ourselves. Our rallying cry must be “Remember 9/11!” All we have to do is look back at the cheering in the streets, by thousands of people, in so many Arab cities as the Twin Towers collapsed. The thought of that should be enough to make our blood run cold and galvanize us into action. It’s time to get mad as hell and determined to win this battle – whatever it takes. Let’s roll!
Call your Congressman or woman TODAY and personally ask him or her if they have information on or know of any Islamic terrorist cells thought to be operating in the area where you live. You as an American deserve to know this.
On the eve of our struggle for American independence, Dr. Joseph Warren, one of the Founding Fathers, said to his fellow Americans, Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important questions upon which rests the happiness and the liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.
ON THE NECESSITY OF NOTHING BUT VICTORY
If you have young children and discover a pedophile is living in your neighborhood, what would you do? You certainly don’t want that pedophile living in your neighborhood.
If you discover Islamic terrorists are living in your neighborhood, what would you do? That is a real possibility we cannot ignore. Britain learned this deadly lesson the hard way—and is still learning it.
What we need to do is immediately report suspicious activity to the authorities; have those suspects arrested—if the facts and evidence back it up; give them a speedy, fair trial; and if it is proven that they were plotting to murder innocent Americans, then they should be put before a firing squad as enemy combatants. We are at war—let there be no hedging on this point.
Most Americans are extremely concerned that other attacks like 9/11 or attacks on airplanes may occur. What if a number of attacks are launched on the same day across the U.S. at shopping malls, churches, schools, huge events, and the poisoning of water supplies, to name just a few of the possibilities. Get ready for anything! We are dealing with people no better than ravenous beasts – in human form – who lay in wait to brutally murder innocent men, women, children, and babies.
When did the terrorist threats start? It was long before 9/11. It began 22 years prior to September 2001 with the Iran Embassy hostages (1979) – we owe Iran one, a big one; Beirut, Lebanon Embassy (1983); Beirut, Lebanon Marine barracks (1983); Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to N.Y. (1988); first World Trade Center attack (1993); our Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex (1996); our Nairobi , Kenya and Ares Salaam, Tanzania U.S. Embassies (1998); Aden, Yemen USS Cole (2000); and the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001). During the period from 1981 to 2001, there were 7,581 beastly terrorist attacks, by beasts, worldwide.
We know exactly who we are fighting! We need to help our law enforcement authorities root out these vermin. You as an individual American citizen can make a difference by being observant and alert, just as the passengers on the airplane who stopped the shoe bomber from blowing everyone up.
What does losing mean? No one would be safe from harm, our freedom and happiness would be gone, the world would revert to the Dark Ages, women would become second class citizens and slaves, the deadly attacks would never subside, fear would be rampant, and you would have no future. It’s our choice—we organize and fight, or live in fear and suffer the deaths of more thousands of innocent American citizens.
Americans have always risen to the challenge against evil and totalitarianism. We fight or implode. Rome imploded, and for good reason. As Churchill so eloquently stated during World War II, with a bit of a twist, “We will fight them on the beaches and we will fight them in every dark corner and under every slimy rock where we find them.” All terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40 years of age!!! Where are these insidious murderers now hiding in our country?
Churchill said it perfectly, and it applies today more than ever: “You ask what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.
You ask what is our aim? It is victory at all costs – victory in spite of all terrors – victory however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.
On this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization.
If we fail, the whole world, including the United States and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age.”
“Political Correctness” won’t get it! Freedom and life must be our battle cry until victory is achieved. We must be united, determined, and strong in this noble and necessary mission. It is a battle between good and pure evil.
You and I are now on the front line against these vicious and unseen Islamic terrorists sneaking up behind us, to murder us when we least expect it! You will have no chance to fight back. If you have read through this pamphlet, there is no way you can be any longer complacent. Barbarism is on the march against us.
During World War II, American women stepped forward and helped win the war. They are desperately needed to step forward again to defend their rights, freedoms, and their children’s futures. The threat is long past being ignored.
Muslims in this country who believe in its principles and freedoms must step forward to do their part in this life-and-death struggle. They can no longer sit back in silence and allow evil and degenerate Muslims to hijack their religion. The days of sitting on the fence are over. The “so-called” American Islamic leaders never condemn Islamic extreme ideology, murder, and terror. And you now understand why, do you not?
It’s us or them (the Islamic terrorists), to put it simply. We must be totally committed to finding and defeating these hidden, heinous killers.
To put it all in perspective, here is a statement by al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahir: We have the right to kill four million Americans – two million of them children – and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands. It is our right to fight them with chemical and biological weapons, so as to afflict them with fatal maladies.” What is your answer to Zawahir’s pronouncement?
Consider the short, smirking, beady-eyed Iranian leader with the Napolean complex. He enthusiastically makes speeches proclaiming to the world his commitment to genocidal annihilation of Christians, Jews, and democracies. Do we have news for this murderous, maniacal, totalitarian Iranian zealot who would destroy the entire world to achieve his warped vision! Watch the award-winning documentary DVD “OBSESSION”. It shows what is really going on that you will not see on TV.
It is time for the likes of Sergeant York, John Wayne, and common citizen heroes like those on Flight 93 among us to step up to the plate and be heard—and vigilant. The life you save may be your own. There are other shoe bomber types out there waiting their turn.
Tony Blair pledged to shut down certain mosques and deport “preachers of hate” following the subway and bus bombings in London. He will also deport dozens of Islamic extremists. God bless him! British Intelligence, M15, is keeping 1,600 suspects in 200 terrorist cells under surveillance. That’s the ones they know about.
Blair said: Let no one be in any doubt, the rules of the game are changing. It is impossible to get more inhumane than blowing up innocent people on subway trains, buses, and airplanes.
It’s long past the time when we need to start “playing” the equivalent of smash-mouth football with these Islamic terrorists. They’ve got our number, but we don’t yet have theirs. The British are still shocked that people who were born in their country, went to their schools, have British accents, and eat fish and chips would kill their fellow Brits. How many of these satanic murderers do we have “laying in wait” in our country? It’s time for us to help expose them—before they insidiously and brutally murder more Americans.
Sheikh al-Hanooti gave a speech calling for jihad against the U.S. and Great Britain. In it he said: Allah will curse the Americans and the British, and America has to learn the wrath of God will come. Well, he has it all backwards. That is exactly what is going to happen to him and all his degenerate Islamic terrorist murderers!
To sum it up, it’s barbarism versus civilization, it’s Islamic fascism versus democracy, its evil versus goodness. We have no choice but to WIN. We are fighting an enemy who would wrap themselves in dynamite and nails for the purpose of killing little children in the name of God.
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Saturday, December 30, 2006
Memes
Conservatives give more to charity. Truly, It's a Christian thing, you wouldn't understand. Maybe it is Charity vs Welfare thing. Two days left to give a deductable contribution.
The Gift helps the giver too, showing there is a connection between markets and charity. In any case, culture matters.
Krugman advocates for Britain's poverty policy. Too bad, he should advocate for Milton Friedman's: "Economic freedom, as advocated by Friedman for decades, is positively correlated with GNP per capita. Economic liberalization, as advocated by Friedman for decades, has resulted in dramatic increases in wealth and standards of living in Chile, China, India, Ireland, Estonia, and elsewhere."
Final thought: Freedom and life itself is the gift that really keeps on giving. Have a happy new year and blessed 2007.
Saddam Executed: Sic Semper Tyrannis
The murder of 140 members of a village in 1982 was the specific crime he was convicted for. Saddam avoided a trial on his many other genocidal and murderous acts, but we ought not forget how truly barbaric he was:
Iraq's Anfal campaign. Iraqi Holocaust. The call to indict Saddam.
Iraq has not conquered violence yet, but the spectre of Saddam and Iraq's past will haunt the Iraqis no more.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Iran At War
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Two Iranians detained by U.S. forces in Iraq were senior members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and had coordinated attacks against coalition troops and Iraqi civilians, the head of an Iranian opposition group said Thursday.
The White House said earlier this week that U.S. troops had caught a group of Iranians in a raid on suspected insurgents in Iraq. Two of the men had diplomatic immunity and were released them to Iran, but the other two were kept in custody. ... In Washington, a Pentagon official said Thursday that U.S. forces had found "indications and evidence that all of the people rounded up, including the two Iranians, are involved in the transfer of IED technologies from Iran to Iraq."
To win in Iraq, we need the neighbors Syria and Iran to butt out, but those neighbors have every wish and interest to see us fail. The Democrats have thrown in the towel on Iraq, the ISG report pretty much begged the administration to do likewise by directly negotiating with Iran. Such a negotiation would be a farce without a use of force threat or alternative that would make Iran's IED trade far more painful to them then it is worth. Calls for dialog will serve no end unless Iranian meddlers are held as prisoners of war instead of given diplomatic immunity. Time to be more open about Iran's meddling and more openly condemn it and attack the Iranian proxies in Iraq, namely Mahdi Army.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Milton Friedman
I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual's natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they're responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.The free world owes him a debt of gratitude. And the socialized world ... socialism remains a toxic prescription for poverty that has caused and continues to cause untold misery to millions. Yet the siren call of Government controls and anti-capitalism beckons fear-mongering demagogues and dictators. Friedman is gone, but the cause of economic freedom continues.
The LAMP of web learning is on
The exploration is about confirming some architectural decisions and learning new one. If I were to build a web technology stack for my web enterprise now, it would be:
- Standards-based: XHTML, CSS, microformats, RSS/atom, REST
- Open-source based
- LAMP stack based: Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (alternative is Java server-side programming, or ruby/rails)
- mysql database schema and XML need to be in sync
- Utilize PHP5 and OOP features of it - use WASP, PEAR, PECL
- Programmable & "Framework"-based; build layers that allow customization with REST-style APIs
- App Architecture, as in here
Open-source CMS solution built on the "LAMP" stack, in PHP, have become quite powerful. This blog may well morph into a Drupal-based web site. It may be the basis for my next collective blog. Yet I am thinking beyond that, and beyond what I can share here - but enquire within if you want to know more. The web is a constant reinvention, and so must I to keep up. Onward, to "Web 3.0".
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Cut-n-Run versus Plan B
Senator Carl Levin on ABC News said "We need to begin a phased redeployment of forces from Iraq in four to six months." Speaking on the same program, Sen. Joseph Biden said he supported Levin's proposal for a withdrawal.
Biden showed the Democrats' "politics over patriotism" hand when he commented that it was untenable for Democrats to be running in 2008 and still have US troops over there. So military engagements are now measured by the election cycle. We will call it "Operation Saigon II" or maybe "Operation Bugout".
But that is not the plan Bush has in mind. What is in store has been cooked up in the Baker's shop - let's call it "Plan B" for Baker - and will be executed by new Defense Secretary Gates, a member of that group.
Baker's bipartisan Iraq Study Group is now front and center in the revamping of Iraq policy:
Those familiar with the panel's work predict that the ultimate recommendations will not appear novel and that there are few, if any, good options left facing the country. Many of the ideas reportedly being considered -- more aggressive regional diplomacy with Syria and Iran, greater emphasis on training Iraqi troops, or focusing on a new political deal between warring Shiites and Sunni -- have either been tried or have limited chances of success, in the view of many experts on Iraq. Baker is also exploring whether a broader U.S. initiative in tackling the Arab-Israeli conflict is needed to help stabilize the region.The good news is that Bush administration has already - and properly - quashed the idea of partition of Iraq, and has been firm in the overall goal of maintaining Iraq's democracy. Beyond that, everything is 'on the table', even negotiating with Iran and Syria over Iraq.Given the grave predicament the group faces, its focus is now as much on finding a political solution for the United States as on a plan that would bring peace to Iraq. With Republicans and Democrats so bitterly divided over the war, Baker and Hamilton believe that it is key that their group produce a consensus plan, according to those who have spoken with them.
What the President should do for "Plan B" is the following: Reconfirm the overarching vision of a democratic Iraq that is internally secure and stable. Lay down a clear marker of how to achieve success, make it a viable and achievable plan that Iraqis can work with - a plan to get Iraq's democratic Government to defend itself 100% within the next 18-24 months (meaning Bush finishes the job on his watch). It would be based on the expanded Iraqi army that Rumsfeld approved, and Iraq's reconciliation plan as well. Bush must then challenge the U.S. Congress and the American people to accept this plan which keeps the core goal while putting our metrics and milestones on a strict schedule. This "2 year to victory" plan must recognize the essential goal to preserve Iraq's democratic form of Government and not undermine these new institutions. But it may adjust them, knock heads and force Iraqi political leaders to coe to terms with need for real leadership and serious Iraqi political compromise.
If needed, increase troops levels to meet goals short-term (although the main mephasis would be training and equipping the Iraqis). However, that is likely not needed. What will be needed are many more advisors to help make the Iraqi army more capable. That should be seriously ramped up.
The time bound has one dangerous outcome: It invites the enemy to wait it out. It also treads the dangerous ground of trying to fight half-heartedly and violates the basic rule of 'dont leave until the mission is done". Our mission will have to be to train and equip the Iraqi force enough to be able to defend themselves. But they have no tanks, no armored vehicles, no heavy weapons.
But it has many salutary effects as well. For the Iraqi Government, it gives them a time line to shape up; for the Iraqis who mistrust America and are supporting the violence solely to make sure we eventually go, it ends the incentive to support the insurgents; for our enemies, it robs them of yet another argument against the U.S.
What if the "Plan B" is not agreed to by the new Democratic Congress?
Let the White House ask. Let the Congress debate. And watch the Democrats cave to common sense as they have a choice of being exposed as wanting to pull the rug out from under the troops immediately or going along with a plan that has a reasonable chance of working. In truth, the horrible Democrat position of 'withdraw in 6 months' is the 'opening bid', and as usual the Dems have signalled weakness to our enemies. Bush now is forced to find a viable alternative plan that balances the political realities at home with the need to bring Iraq to a better place than where it is today.
As they debate, I surely hope someone reminds them that the Iraq war is a part of the wider war on Islamofascist terrorism, and remind them of the sacrifices made and sacrifices we will make in the future to fight terrorists: Honor their sacrifice. Complete the mission.
Friday, November 10, 2006
Where the Danger Lies
"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. "
- Abraham Lincoln, 27 January 1838
Thursday, November 09, 2006
It's the Corruption, Stupid
Some conservative voters may have chosen to sit this one out. But the overriding reason for the Democrats’ sweep — just as it was for the Republicans 12 years ago — was corruption.The big loser in the election is Big Government Republicanism, or "big Government conservatism", an oxymoron as unpopular as it is unwise:
Here's one telling exit poll result: In battleground districts, only one in five voters said Republicans would do a better job to "keep government spending under control"; almost twice as many voters said Democrats would do a better job. Yet this week a separate poll found that 59% of Americans still favor fewer government services and lower taxes compared with 28% who favor more government services and higher taxes. "Big government conservatism" was a nice think-tank proposition; it merely lacks support from actual voters.The advice for Republicans? "Republicans must operate as the party of change, ... they need to reclaim their fiscal conservative birthright."
Now They Tell Us
“One of them (a Democrat leader) told me that any early withdrawal will be a catastrophe for the United States and the world,”Did the Democrats fake out the voters or Talibani? Time will tell.
Consider also this:
"Americans made big mistakes in Iraq," [Talibani] said, including the rejection of its leaders hopes to form an interim Iraqi government immediately after the March 2003 invasion rather than occupying the country for more than a year.More correctly, the Powell/Armitage/Bremer State Dept made big mistakes in Iraq, including the rejection of its leaders hopes to form an interim Iraqi government immediately after the March 2003 invasion. Rumsfeld and DOD appointed General Garner to set up the interim Iraqi Government, and there were 5 or 6 key players, including Talibani, who were to lead the country; Garner started talking with people with plans for a quick interim Government set up and led by Iraqis. But it was quickly criticized as 'not enough', the State Dept insisted on taking the lead and within 3 weeks Paul Bremer came in. He revamped the Iraqi governing council into a bigger and less effective advisory board; Bremer also made the fateful decision both for debaathification, which removed many civil servants, and disbanding the army, which made tens of thousands of baathist soldiers unemployed instead of involed in security. This was an army that had melted away, but still ... the rest is "Sunni insurgent" history.
So the Irony of ironies. If the Rumsfeld strategy was pursued - 'occupation lite' while putting onus on Iraqis to rebuild - we might be out of there by now.
News Starts Looking Better
Pre-election headline (Nov 6):"Poverty, anger with government fueling Taliban support in Afghanistan"
Post-election headline (Nov 9): "Poll: Afghans express confidence in country's direction, security"
Nothing new here. They did the same years ago with Clinton-era media bias:
I recall back in August 1992 the Presidential campaign was in full swing. The local (New York) ABC station decided to do a story on the economy. They did a LIVE remote from a Mall in Long Island and asked passersby how they felt the economy was doing. The results were mixed. One third thought that the economy was doing fine. One third thought it was doing horrible. And the remaining one third thought it was doing ok, but could be better. Fast forward 4 months later. It's the first week of December. Clinton has won the election. The same local ABC station decided to do another story on the economy. And they aired the same video. Only they edited out the ones that thought the economy wasnt doing so well. Left in were all the ones who thought the econmomy was doing great. And hte word "LIVE" was still in the upper corner. No mention of the fact that this was old video.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Republicans' Election Horribilus
Lesson number 1 - Elections have consequences: Don Rumsfeld, you were a great Secretary of Defense, Thank you; now enjoy your retirement. The ACLU is thrilled, Pelosi can get those drapes after all.
Lesson number 2 - Every vote counts: Latest news shows the final vote tally gives Webb the edge of Allen. In 2002, the GOP got all the breaks in the close races (save one, in North Dakota) and surprisingly gained. In 2006, a reverse shock - Webb beat Allen by 7,000 votes; Tester beat Burns by 3,000 votes; McKaskill over Talent by about 30,000 votes. In MO and MT, the Libertarian candidate got more votes than the margin of difference. Had 40,000 votes changed to the GOP, the Republican Senate would have been solid. That margin being Libertarian Party voters begs a question - Is the libertarian vote the swing vote that swung away from the GOP in 2006?. There were similar close races in the House - Fitzpatrick in PA, for example.
Lesson number 3 - if you want to not lose again, Learn from mistakes:
"After 1994, we were a majority committed to balanced federal budgets, entitlement reform and advancing the principles of limited government," said Rep. Mike Pence, an Indiana conservative who wants to be the next minority leader. "In recent years, our majority voted to expand the federal government's role in education, entitlements and pursued spending policies that created record deficits and national debt."Rush feels liberated enough to be a conservative critic again, ready to fire fussilades from Bush's right flank:That's pretty much dead on. Bush manfully took his medicine, taking responsibility for this week's electoral debacle and then letting Donald Rumsfeld go. It's time for congressional Republicans to do the same.
By an 11% margin, voters who voted yesterday believe that Republicans are "the big government party now." How can you blame them?
This was a Republican loss, but not a conservative one; many Democrats ran as conservatives, and the hardest hit Republicans (Nancy Johnson, Jim Leach, Sue Kelly, Mike Fitzpatrick) that lost were the "RINO" Republicans, joined by Senate RINOs DeWine and Chaffee. Yet more than a few conservatives joined them.
But the driving force was not the spending or immigration, they merely played the backdrop of leaving the GOP base voters less enchanted with their own Congressional slate than they otherwise would be. The driving force was the corruption and personal issues.
Consider a "TEN STEPS TO A MINORITY" plan of action. If you were Hastert and Bush 18 months ago, what would you do to maximize your losses in the election. You might:
1) Let a major lobbyist (Abramoff) with Republican connections get convicted of fraud and finger legislators who did favors in return for contributions.Having contemplated the list, and looking at some of the races, there is a sense that some of the punishment was well-deserved. I would have hoped, though, that the Democrat margin of victory would not be that great.2) When that happened, instead of going whole-hog to clean out the stables, get the bad apples bounced out pronto, and reform the system fully ... you make a stab at half-measure reforms and leave the fingered Congressmen to determine their own way. Oh, and hope it will blow over because there are Democrats fingered and 'everybody does it'.
3) Let a major personal scandal erupt 1 month before the election, that gives one seat to the other party and make the leadership look like they protected a pervert.
4) Forget your party's principles regarding fiscal discipline and restrained spending.
5) Fail to take credit for the great economy built on tax cuts, and instead let negative stories on the economy become the theme. And fail to mention that the Bush tax cuts will be terminated or curtailed under the Pelosi Congress.
6) Let your competence get questioned again and again, without responding, over matters like Katrina, etc.
7) Split your own party by going left on immigration. After not getting what you want, pass a fence bill at the last possible moment, but then undermine it's political impact by calling for 'comprehensive' bill.
8) Have an inarticulate House leadership that can't make the case for what they've done very well,
9) Fail to have a national message and campaign to counter the Democrats' successful attempt to nationalize the campaign around Iraq and personal issues. That campaign should have been around the economy, the war on terror, and the overall values issues. But it wasn't.
10) When a Democrat has $90,000 in bribe money in a freezer and his Congressional offices are being searched under warrant, jump up and defend his 'immunity' publicly against Dept of Justice's investigation.
Lesson 4 - Consequences redux - elections can have consequences that go beyond our shores. There was little the Democrats ran on other than Iraq that will have as far-reaching a consequence.
The Democrats didn't win because we were 'losing' in Iraq; that is too abstract. (We are in fact winning in Iraq, losing in Sudan, have issues in Pakistan that are not being dealt with, succeeded well diplomatically in North Korea, and are completely stymied with Iran, while Afghanistan slips into the mode that Iraq is in already.) Iraq was a winning issue for Democrats because soldiers are dying, and there was a segment who are ready to throw in the towel. We know that would be a disaster for the middle east; it would embolden Iran, it strengthen terrorism, and it would make any US ally distrust us for many years. It's a recipe for disaster as big as Vietnam.
This was the matter that was debated in 2004, but decided in favor of Bush at the time. Yet also at the time, the 'end of the tunnel' looked a lot closer. Iraqi elections would secure the political basis for Iraq, and the training of Iraqi army units would eventually be enough to give it all to Iraq. In the beginning of 2005, it was 18 months to 2 years out.
Here we are 2 years later, with a more capable Iraqi army than ever, yet an insurgency that is still inflamed and violence is worsened by sectarian death squads. This is not a 'fiasco' nor disaster. But deadly violence that is killing Iraqis and our soldiers is not looking better than before, and so faith in 'progress' in Iraq is at a low ebb.
The change in Iraq, the Democrats now signal post haste, will not be sudden and final, and now - after a campaign season of backseat driving, they are will to let Bush be CinC on this. They decision will not be "do I stay or do I go?" but: "how do we stop the dying of American soldiers?" The Democrats' Nancy Congress has already impacted who will be Secretary of Defense - Gates, an alum of the Bush 41 inner circle, and another 'realist', meaning not a neo-con ready to remake Iraq.
Baker-Hamilton commission is already set to remold our policy. We may have a 'change of mission' to training will be the muddy compromise between 'stay the course' and 'withdraw'. In the best of worlds, the reflection will be a tune-up of our policy; in the worst of worlds, we will make the mistakes we made before, of exhibiting the lack of will to do what is necessary to win wars, with the consequence that we ended up losing them, at bitter cost. Our best assurance on this matter is President Bush's consistency in overall vision in securing Iraq's democracy.
Yes, a horrible election for Republicans, but most horrible for the 'big-Government Republicanism' and its corrupt dark underbelly (earmarks and the like). There is much good the Republican Congress did that wasn't recognized and may be forgotten:
"The evil that men do lives long after them, The good is oft interred in their bones." - Shakespeare, Julius CeasarThe best chance Republicans have of regaining power is to quickly retool and relearn the art of getting back to conservative principles and articulating them and living up to them. The voters sent a message to 2 parties, and we will see which one of them can listen the best.
"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." ~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Never Give Up
Monday, November 06, 2006
Terrorist phone surveillance works!
"The brothers are asking you not to contact anyone in person, but do it through others instead, the leader does not make calls in person. With every call a brother is detained and God help us."
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Media's Desperate October Surprises Fall Flat
There has been a massive "throw everything you can at it, flood the zone, attack the Republicans, Democrat-media-complex attack. Stuff like the "Vanity Fair" piece, which declared the neo-cons had given up on Iraq. David Frum Deconstructs Vanity Fair's hit piece on Neocons and refutes the core claims. Hit piece after hit piece... And the result?
As of today, the Generic Congressional ballot now looks not bad for Republicans going into the election, a lot like it did in prior election cycles in the past decade: " Pew shows Republicans with momentum. In the generic ballot, Dems lead by just 4 points."
Man of Steele
STEELE: I know. Isn't it a shame? Well, you know, Chris, that is pitiful. It is absolutely pitiful, and that's nothing more than what the Baltimore Sun said about me four years ago, that I bring nothing to the table but the color of my skin. They were just a little bit more sophisticated in their ignorance.
My conversation with the editorial board didn't go the way they wanted it to go because I wouldn't kowtow and answer the questions the way they wanted me to answer them. I'm my own person. I don't care about the Washington Post. The Washington Post is not going to get me elected. The Washington Post is not going to prevent me from getting elected.
They're a bunch of folks, as I told them in the interview, who sit in an ivory tower, who have no clue what real life is about out here. It's easy to pontificate when you don't have to put a vote on the line, when you don't have to look a voter in the eye and let them know what you really think, so what — they come after me.
Saddam Convicted, Will Hang
Saddam murdered hundreds of thousands in his genocides, tortured thousands in his totalitarian state, so even a thousand death penalties would not be punishment enough for his crimes. And this was a judgement against only one act (murdering residents of one town), when Saddam had many others during his reign.
But the verdict is less about punishment of an ex-dictator then about sealing the judgement of the Iraqi people and of history on a very bad tyrant, and ending the spectre of his return, finally. Good riddance and well done to the Iraqi justice system that took pains to give a proper trial for his crimes.
