Behind the Lines

I know we've got a lot of vet readers at ER, and I thought you guys might be interested in hearing about the latest military project we've become invested in!

Behind the Lines: The Journal of U.S. Military Special Operations

In 1992, two brothers who had served in Vietnam, Mike & Gary Linderer, had a vision to produce a publication solely for the Special Operations community and those who served in support of it. Mike had served in military intelligence during Vietnam and Gary was a LRRP Ranger in the 101st Airborne Division. Gary is the successful published author of numerous Vietnam War books such as the Phantom Warrior series, Eyes Behind the Lines, Eyes of the Eagle, and Six Silent Men - all books recounting the missions of the LRRPs in Vietnam.

The Linderers' vision for Behind the Lines was a published journal of declassified covert operations and special missions written or recounted by the men who were there. They started as a newsprint-style publication and along the way, they established a strong staff of writers, their subscriber base swelled with very loyal readers, Gary took over as sole publisher, and the format evolved into an 80-page magazine with color.

Unfortunately, at the peak of its success in 1998, with big plans in the works for a digital edition magazine and website, BTL went dark. And to this day, there has been no other publication that filled the void - none that catered to the written and oral accounts of the Special Ops community and the unique impact they've had on modern warfare.

Until now.

This year, Gary's vision for an online digital edition of Behind the Lines magazine has been realized. The all-new BTL is spiffed up for the digital age but with many of the original authors and some new ones, and all new content. The first new issue was launched on 9/11-a date that is an ever-present reminder that there is still a mission to accomplish, and a war to be won. Thus, the focus of Behind the Lines remains the same, a tool whereby the warriors of the past can pass along their wisdom, insight, humor, and lessons learned to their peers as well as the younger generation of warriors.

If you would like to subscribe for the low '98 rates, please click here. Better yet, if you would like to contribute, either a Letter to the Editor or your own SpecOps story, please contact BTL at publish@btlmagazine.net. New content is always welcome!

For more info: info@btlmagazine.net.

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Guard the Borders Blogburst

By Heidi at Euphoric Reality

Today is the much ballyhooed Day Without Latinos......otherwise known as Nothing Gringo Day...officially (yes, as in politically-official) known as the Great American Boycott of 2006: No Shopping, No School, No Work.

Amboy Times has some helpful advice for the title of these strikes/boycotts/stick-it-in your-eye rallies: "I recommend a less confrontational title, perhaps 'Bite The Hand That Feeds You Day' or how about boycotting all the free medical care, schools, and other government services? They could call it 'No Payroll Taxation Means No Government benefits Day' - hmm...a bit wordy, that one...”

Whatever the name, illegal aliens (presumably of Latino descent only, since this is all about THEM, nevermind the hundreds of thousands of illegals from Ireland, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, etc.) intend to show us that THEY are the engine that drives the American economy. They hope to wreak havoc on our economy to prove that we can never live a day without them because "THEY are America."

Pro-immigration activists say a nationwide boycott and marches planned for May 1 will flood Americas's streets with millions of Latinos to demand amnesty for illegal immigrants and shake the ground under Congress as it tackles reform.
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"There will be 2 to 3 million people hitting the streets in Los Angeles alone. We're going to close down Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tucson, Phoenix, Fresno," said Jorge Rodriguez, a union official who helped organize earlier rallies credited with rattling Congress as it debates the issue.

Organizers of the May Day marches, which have strong support from big labor and the Roman Catholic church, vow that America's major cities will grind to a halt and its economy will stagger as Latinos walk off their jobs and skip school.

Various city leaders, contrary to their appointed duties, are having the opposite kind of reaction you'd expect. In the spirit of truly compassionate sycophants, they plan to aid and abet the lawbreakers:

Teachers' unions in major cities have said children should not be punished for walking out of class. A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Unified School District said school principals had been told that they should not try to keep students in class but instead should walk with the children to help keep order.

In Chicago, Catholic priests have helped organize protests, sending information to all 375 parishes in the archdiocese.

Personally, while I don't like it, I have to thank them for spitting in America's face over and over. That bitter froth is starting to wake up the apathetic to just how wrong everything is. As Right As Usual points out: "The more the Aliens gain 'strength', the more natives get their backs up. Take a hint, Pedro - you DON'T have the right to petition the government - it isn't YOUR government. That's a right granted to CITIZENS of the USA."

BobGriggs.com voices the sentiment of an ever-growing contingent of appalled Americans:

"I have finally reached the boiling point on illegal immigration. We are a nation of laws, including those that control how visitors can enter this country, how long they can stay and how they can become permanent citizens. I expect those visitors to obey the same laws that citizens are expected to follow; and I expect my government to enforce the law when those visitors choose to ignore it.

It’s bad enough when the invaders (and that’s what they are) sneak across the border by night, then hide in the undocumented crevices of society. It is quite another thing to then demand, by the light of day, that their lawlessness be excused. Such have been the marches staged across the nation and in my Capitol– thousands of lawbreakers protesting my representatives’ efforts to control our borders and stop the lawlessness.

It angers me when the interlopers so brazenly demand the protection of the same law that they flaunted with their very first steps on American soil. My blood boiled as I watched student illegals skip the classes that you and I paid for to protest that you and I aren’t doing enough. I fumed as I watched illegals, waving the Mexican flag, insist that I 'treat them like Americans'.”

Kit at Euphoric Reality reports that Tulsa is planning a HUGE rally for immigrants where cooperation with the masses and the enabling of lawbreakers is the order of the day. Event organizers, having learned from previous rallies that defiant Mexican flag-waving is counter-productive to their claims that "We are Americans, too", has urged participants to only carry U.S. flags and "wear white as a symbol of hope". They are also referring to their movement as A Day Without Immigrants. Yes, yet another rally nickname, but this one apparently aims to be more generically "inclusive".

...CSA (American Dream Coalition, or Coalicion del Sueño Americano) President, Rev. Victor Orta II, said that arrangements had been made with Tulsa Public Schools, Broken Arrow Schools, and Union School District for high school students to be allowed to leave at 1:30 p.m. in order to give parents the opportunity to take their children to the rally if they wish.
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Orta also wished to dispel rumors in Tulsa's Latino community that the Tulsa Police Department (TPD) is planning on using the event as a way to corral undocumented individuals, or that federal immigration officers would be undercover at the rally.

"I spoke personally with [acting Police Chief] Bill Wells," Orta said, "and he assured me that a policy was established several years ago that 'no officer of ours is allowed to ask anyone for immigration papers, and that policy has not changed'."

Orta described his discussions as being "very positive," adding that [Police Chief] Wells will be a podium guest and possibly a speaker at the rally, and the only police presence at the May 1 event is to be for security reasons. Orta is scheduled to meet with Sheriff Stanley Glanz this week to work out similar arrangements with county officers.

Tulsa Community College (TCC) has volunteered the free use of its downtown parking lots for rally attendees in another sign of the cooperative spirit many organizations in the community are showing in what is seen as perhaps the most critical time in the history of Latino immigration.

Whoops - there it is again - Latinos only, I guess. It is all about THEM, after all. Fortunately, contradicting Reverend Orta's assurances, an eyewitness trucker one hour south of Tulsa reported seeing 30 ICE vehicles and approximately 10 white government buses heading north toward the city tonight. Are the government vehicles carrying refreshments for the rallying masses or dare we hope that our government has plans to do the right thing?

Similarly, Right on the Right wonders if something is brewing in LA. Another eyewitness spotted something hopeful - go here to find out what he saw - and approached an officer:

"I asked one of the deputies what the deal was, and he said 'The deal with what? I don't see anything.'

This boycott tomorrow in L.A. is going to get very interesting. Did anyone else notice that the cops are being really nice in helping to block off streets and herd people into certain areas? The planned route down Wilshire from MacArthur park to La Brea is easily an area that could be cordoned off with the right amount of troops and some strategic planning.

Viva La Revolucion my ass!!!!"

One has to wonder if anyone has remembered to tell the California legislators that they're coddling a huge mass of people who are lawbreakers to a man! They seem to have forgotten that laws are meant to be followed, and instead they are busy issuing obsequious statements of support.

Pamibe reports that "California’s state senators on Thursday endorsed Monday’s boycott of schools, jobs and stores by illegal immigrants and their allies as supporters equated the protest with great social movements in American history:

By a 24-13 vote that split along party lines, the California Senate approved a resolution that calls the one-day protest the Great American Boycott 2006 and describes it as an attempt to educate Americans “about the tremendous contribution immigrants make on a daily basis to our society and economy.”

So I have to ask the obvious: with civic leaders, law enforcement officers, and lawmakers like that, who needs laws??? Apparently, not America.

Make no mistake, the immigration reform being debated endlessly in the Senate is NOT what the illegals really want. It's too complicated, too much work, and will cost a fine – so forget that! Besides, if they cared so much about citizenship, they'd have at least started paperwork somewhere. Remember the illegals I interviewed during the last pro-illegal rally? None of them in 5, 10, or 15 years had ever bothered to apply for citizenship. Too hard, too much work. And why bother - when they get what they want without it?! American citizenship is NOT what really matters to illegal aliens. What is sacred and meaningful to true Americans is nothing more, to them, than convenient access to the world's largest labor market. That's it.

But nevermind, because "earned citizenship", as President Bush cozily calls it, will not cut it anyways. Illegal aliens and their advocates don't have any intention of settling for having to earn their way, no matter how easy the Senate reform may make it for them. They want ever-so-much MORE than that!

"We want full amnesty, full legalization for anybody who is here (illegally)," Rodriguez said. "That is the message that is going to be played out across the country on May 1."

Ace In The Hole acknowledges the blatant slap in the face:

"And so it goes... Want in one hand and SPIT in the other...

If our politicians and lawmakers want to keep their jobs, they'd better remember THIS: there's a hell of a lot more than 12 million AMERICANS that ARE here legally, and we VOTE...

Short of taking to the street and engaging in ARMED confrontation, the voting booth is our ONLY option, but something else the politicians had better consider, there are MANY Americans, right now, that are armed and ready, this nation is on the verge of open hostilities, armed conflict committed by our CITIZENS against ILLEGAL INVADERS, and I can't say that this is at all an unimaginable option to be honest about it...

IF the PRESIDENT of the USA would do his job, instead of kissing every Mexican ass he can find, this could ALL be avoided...

Close the border, deport the ILLEGAL INVADERS and restore order to this nation... Wake up President Bush, YOU are personally destroying the southwestern United States with YOUR inaction and incompetent administration of this nation...

Mr. Bush had better decide which side of this fight he's on, because at the moment, it appears he's damn sure on the side of the Mexicans and IF the voters of the USA have ANY sense at all, we will vote OUT any politician that supports Mr. Bush on this amnesty debacle, no matter WHICH party they belong to..."

Frustration with our do-nothing government abounds. Publius Rendezvous states: "The debates within our Senate pertaining to illegal immigration do nothing but illustrate what many have ascertained for quite some time - our Senators know how we feel on this issue, but have blatantly ignored our concerns. What has been glossed over by our 'thorough' MSM is that Congress' approval ratings are worse than President Bush's. And, I assert that their utter disregard for our sentiments directly correlates with such."

AmboyTimes asks: "So what can a poor gringo do? How about 'Nothing Mexican Day'? ...Our leaders in government may be spineless, but we still have control over our own spending, and we can send a message to illegals and the Mexican government that we're not going to take this lying down. There is no reason why this won't work, and we can do it (si ,se puede) without protesting, breaking laws, race-baiting or even calling names."
BobGriggs.com has taken that concept even further and suggests 'Nothing Mexican on Cinco de Mayo'. As seen on Fox and Friends: "This year, Cinco de Mayo will be a celebration of my hope that America will repulse the current invasion of illegal aliens. I will not patronize my favorite Mexican restaurant nor any other Hispanic-owned or “Mexican-themed” business on May 5 or the week thereafter. Neither will I employ the services of any company that I know to employ illegal aliens. If you feel as frustrated and as voiceless as I do, please join me in my mini-protest and support America’s sovereignty with your dollars on Friday, May 5."

The Independent Conservative respectfully disgarees:

"I must say that while I feel his anger, given we live in the same county that is loaded with illegals. I think his response should be a little more measured than an all out boycott of all that has Mexican heritage. The protesters that favor illegal immigration are not representative of all Mexicans. While far too many are on their side, we should be careful not to respond to their anti-American/anti-White actions by treating all Mexicans as if they are in agreement with the activity of the Mexican protesters.

So how does one separate those who are in league with condoning illegal activity, from those who do not? Simple, you ask. Just as I’ve shown via my own actions, I think all Americans should strive to do the same every day. I know it may not be doable for all purchases, but try as best you can to always only support businesses that do not employ illegals and do not take part in these protests.

I think instead of boycotting a Mexican restaurant on Cinco de Mayo, that it would have a far greater impact if Americans walked into a Mexican restaurant, asked to speak to the owner and asked 'were you open on May 1?' If they say no, then leave. Also ask 'do you employ illegals?' If they say yes, then leave. That will show them you are serious about taking your money elsewhere. And alternatively, you might find a business owned by people who have Mexican heritage, but wish to be 100% American and respect our laws."

Kender's Musings has yet another perspective, one I call the "Stay Home and Stay Stupid" strategy:

"I agree with this boycott...because [it] is going to backfire on these people, and the disruption they cause to millions of LEGAL CITIZENS who, in the course of living their legal lives of doing their duty to make this country great are going to have to endure millions of whiny criminals and their supporters blocking the streets and taking up airtime on our TV's, making their day that much harder.

Anyone that takes the day off to protest should be fired. But that may only happen in a handful of cases. On the other hand, this protest is going to hurt the educations of the kids that are out in the middle of this, and that is fine by me.

Outlined below is my support for this boycott. As far as I am concerned these people can boycott for the rest of their lives. They are much cheaper to hire when they are legal citizens without a decent education.

I Agree with the Boycott

That's right, I agree with the boycott.

Especially for the kids.

Everybody listen up, on May 1st stay home from school.

Do NOT go to school. Stay home and sleep, go protest and work on that car in your driveway while hanging clothes on the line tied between the apartment building and the dead tree, and I will tell you why:

Because when you stay home from school your school loses valuable money that is used to educate your stupid asses, and maybe if your education drops to a low enough level you will be forever stuck cleaning the toilets, washing the cars and mowing the lawns of the people that know what it means to be an American, and your lower economic status will be assured, hence your power in society will be limited to threatening to leave the rest of us with long grass and dirty dishes at the restaurant.

Jarhead's Firing Range agrees with the boycott too, but for different reasons:

"Illegal immigrants plan feeble attempt to strike back at the hand that feeds them. Border jumping criminals are rallying behind a plan to boycott all things American on May 1st. This will include not going to work, and not spending money at any American owned business establishments. It will also be carried out inside the cesspool known as Mexico.

These idiots fail to realize that American owned companies are the largest source of employment in Mexico. They whine that the wages paid there are not enough. -Then don't take the job?

As far as their boycott here in the states, I'm all for it. I hope that those that employ these criminals will actually be hurt by this. Perhaps they'll not hire criminals in the future. Hopefully, every illegal that doesn't go to work on May 1st will be fired. I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen though."

Speaking of protests south of the border, Independent Conservative points out that if the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico keeps this up, they might end up causing the pro-illegal crowd to realize that their massive protests have been the best recruiting tool for all of us who wish to send illegals back over the border:

US Lobbyists Denounce Mexico’s ‘Nothing Gringo’ Boycott (WSJ.com registration required to view the entire article)
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“This is like shooting oneself in the foot,” Rubin said. “U.S. companies have been the first to lobby, launching a huge lobbying effort for immigration reform. … Why hurt something that is helping you?”
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South of the border, Mexicans are targeting American stores and chain restaurants - “That means no Dunkin’ Donuts, no McDonald’s (MCD), Burger King (BKG.XX), Starbucks (SBUX), Sears (SHLD), Krispy Kreme (KKD) or Wal-Mart (WMT),” reads one email making the rounds.

Wal-Mart/Walmex is the biggest private employer in Mexico. Huge shocker there, huh? Wal-Mart is like the slum lord of the planet.

Amber and Chaos offers sound advice for furious Americans watching the legislative branch of our government get hi-jacked: "If you are angry as I am about the demonstrations going on [today], then [today] is the time to express your outrage. Write your Senators and Congressperson...do something that could, potentially, put some backbone into our congresspeople on the issue of Immigration Reform. Tell them that if they do NOT vote for a strong secure-border plan, nothing else they do has any meaning for you, and you are going to vote against them, when you get a chance."

While you’re at it, remind them of our laws. Woman Honor Thyself has a quick synopsis of the laws our lawmakers are so willing to overlook [Title 8:Section 1325. Improper entry by alien]: "Know THE LAW, my dear friends. Knowledge is power. What part of LAW do the folks up in Washington and the lefty do-gooders fail to comprehend?"

Meanwhile, A Cool Change has his own plans for boosting the economy that will supposedly be staggering without the contributions of illegal aliens: "Illegal aliens and their supporters have been urged not to buy anything on May 1 to demonstrate just how important they are economically to the United States. (So they buy extra on April 30 or wait until May 2. Big deal.) I’m participating in my own way. I’ve been postponing a much needed trip to Sam’s Warehouse for about two weeks now, and boy do I have one heck of a shopping list."

Third World County scoffs at how seriously the illegal alien lobby takes itself: "... the boycott scheduled for tomorrow in support of Reconquista is B.S.... BTW, I’ve scheduled a shopping trip for tomorrow (May 1). I figure it’s time I bought some Mexican flags to burn on May 5."

On a related subject, Freedom Folks reacts with epithet-laced fury to a Hispanic Marine who has defiantly chosen to side with lawbreakers:

"If any American serviceperson finds their loyalties divided they are in the wrong goddamn job!
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I reiterate, should you find your loyalties divided, here's a thought...Get the fuck out! Go back to the country you seem to feel an allegiance for. When you don that uniform you become an exemplar, what that means, and I'm gonna type this slow because clearly you're an idiot, is you cannot then wave your fucking uniform as a banner for LAW-BREAKING, you ignorant sack of shit!!

If you think I'm being too hard on this individual, I would retort -- I don't think I'm being hard enough. When you swear an oath it either means something or it doesn't, if it doesn't mean anything to you that tells me you are a faithless motherfucker not worth pissing on if you were on fire.

I truly cannot tell you how upset I am with this "Marine." This alleged "hero." Because to me when you start advocating for law-breaking you lose hero status pretty goddamn fast.

Is this the price of granting the children of illegals entrance into the proud tradition of the most fearsome fighting machine in the history of mankind? That we must grant them special --above the law -- privileges?

That price is too high for any nation to pay and remain a strong nation.

Quietly, but presciently, Bear Creek Ledger reminds us of some serious national security concerns and cautions us that amid all the hullaballoo, we are still perilously vulnerable: “As Senators and the Administration diddle over amnesty for illegal aliens (which will include members of Hezbollah and MS-13) they are leaving our US borders unprotected. There is no intent by these Senators to stop the flow of illegal aliens over the border thereby ignoring the National Security of our country. All the Republican Senators consider is supposedly "cheap" labor and the Democrats are trolling for votes. Guess with the first suicide bomber (if that truly is the first) all the same Senators will come out pointing the finger at anyone but themselves. I think as we will see in the coming weeks Rep. Hastert will also abandon any veneer of protecting the borders by the House of Representatives."

That is, unfortunately, a very probable prediction.

So...now you know what the Guard the Borders Bloggers think about this, and what some plan to do about it. What about you?

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This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It was started by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we’re going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration facing our country, join our Blogburst! Just send an email with your blog name and url to euphoricrealitynet at gmail dot com.

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Die Terrorists Die!

Iran is rattling sabers?

Al Qaeda wants a truce?

Heh...here's America's response.

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I'M MOVING!!

To my 4 regular readers, and any accidental visitors...

I'M MOVING!!!

I will no longer be regularly posting new articles to this blog. I have made the exciting decision to move over to Euphoric Reality as a full-time writer and help add a full-scale Illegal Immigration Hub. While we're working to build the new Hub (articles, eyewitness reports, pictures, video, and Minuteman updates) for eR, we're changing format and adding new features.

I know you're used to my unique *ahem* tone here at "HE!D! says...", and none of that will change. I'll still write about the things that matter most to me - our military, the War on Terrorism, and the compounding illegal immigration problem. I intend to have an impact on these issues, and consolidating my efforts at my new blog home will help further that goal.

Please change your bookmarks to point to www.euphoricreality.net.

See you over there!

HE!D!

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Enough already about the stupid Qurans!

Now the Israelis are accused of tearing the pages of a Quran.

How absurd is this?! Arab women can walk into a crowded restaurant and blow people to smithereens, but if a page in a Quran is torn somewhere it makes global news?! Palestinian teenagers strap explosives to their bodies, climb onto a bus, and blow themselves and everyone on board sky high, and we get outrage that a Quran is "defaced" somewhere on the frickin' planet?! I swear to God, this is the most infuriatingly absurd crap I've ever heard! This is even more stupid than decrying panties on a terrorist's head at Abu Ghraib when civilian heads are literally being sawn off in full view!!


Can I get any radical Muslim volunteers to
rampage upon viewing this "desecration"?
Please...?

The militant Islamic Jihad on Wednesday presented pictures of torn copies of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, claimed they were taken inside an Israeli prison and said soldiers were responsible for the desecration. Israel denied the charge and said the pictures were a fabrication.

"Presented"? To whom? A reporter of course. As if anyone but the mentally disordered care! Really - first of all, who gives a flyin' rip? Everyone knows these "atrocities" are regularly staged events. These prisoners deface their own Qurans in an attempt to set someone up. I'm still waiting for them to get struck by Allah's lightning, but so far, no such luck. And second of all, what if it DID happen? Will someone please grow a pair of balls and say, "Yep - we did it, and who gives a damn?"

It's enough to make me go out and buy a Quran just to tear it up and "present" it as toilet paper in my local BBQ dive. [Hey, I just did a quick check on eBay. Did you know that you can buy an official "Holy Quran" for $14.95 and less? And there's some antique 17th century Quran crap starting at a mere $50. There's even a few No Reserve penny auctions for this "holy" stuff. Tsk. Tsk. Some Muslims aren't revering their "holy" stuff very well, if they're peddling it online in the Great Satan's favorite flea market!]

This makes me ponder...I'd like to take a moment to earnestly suggest a universal 'Deface a Quran' Day - kinda like 'Hug a Tree' Day, but a lot more fun. They're cheap...they're everywhere...we could even have a universal cook-out...I'll bring the BBQ pork...
Sorry, just thinkin' out loud.

The Islamic Jihad transmitted the pictures by e-mail to a reporter in the West Bank. They show two Qurans with torn pages. The militants said prisoners took the pictures with cellular telephones sent them electronically to militant leaders.

OK, ignoring the fact that the idiot reporter thought this was news, I have to ask: how the hell do prisoners in an Israeli prison in Megiddo have camera phones - with working cellular service, no less?! Come to think of it, how come Megiddo gets working cellular service inside prison cells, but I can't get cell service inside an office building in downtown Houston?

The militants said Wednesday that soldiers desecrated six or seven Qurans as they searched Palestinian prisoners' cells... The prisoners were outside the cells at the time but could see what was going on, the Islamic Jihad militants said.

And we're supposed to believe it straight up. Or should we hold our breath while the radical Muslims of the world unite to rampage through the streets again, killing their own people? Come to think of it...if we stage enough 'Deface a Quran' days, maybe the rioting radical Muslim thing will take care of itself...

The [Israeli] authority showed reporters the book they said was at the center of the affair. The pages that were replaced were larger than those in the rest of the book, and the Prisons Authority concluded the whole matter was a fabrication by the Palestinian prisoners.

"They have staged things like this in the past," [a Prisons Authority official] said. "This is staged."

*yawn* Yes, yes, of course it was.

The pictures transmitted Wednesday showed Qurans with several pages torn in the middle. It was impossible to tell from the pictures themselves where they were taken or when.

Oooh - a deep, dark mystery. Yeah, and I'm all a-quiver to "unearth the truth".

Enough already about the stupid Qurans!

Militants Display Pictures of Torn Qurans

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Newsweek Lutefisk Story Sparks Fury Across Volatile Midwest

Uff da! It has come to this, eh?

You must read this hate-inciting article first, and then come back to read my reaction!

Newsweek Lutefisk Story Sparks Fury Across Volatile Midwest

My reaction follows...

Born in Minnesota and raised in Wisconsin, I am deeply offended by this article's obvious stereotyping of ALL Midwesterners as dangerous fanatical Lutherans. The Lutheran Liberation Organization (LLO) is not a terrorism unit, dontcha know. They are merely devout men and women seeking to return the land of their fathers to its fundamentalist roots. Transplanted Lutherans around the country host bake sales and car washes to funnel money into the LLO, so that it may promote it’s agenda of Peace.

The media bias has portrayed ALL Midwestern Lutherans as violent, failing to differentiate between the fringe element and the moderates. The tragedy is that now ALL innocent Midwesterners will suffer Christian profiling. As a Midwesterner living quietly in Texas, I’ve already suffered the stares, the nudges, the looks wherever I go. People study me for clues of my religious preference. I know they’re wondering if I’m just a plain Midwesterner or from the fundamentalist Missouri Synod. They are afraid that I might snap and go into a violent Polka or Chicken Dance!

Oh ya sure, the “fringe element” managed to ransack the entire Midwest region, but after all, it’s really because they’ve been oppressed and mistreated for so long by the steady encroachment of the Southern Baptists - who should’ve known better and stayed below the Mason-Dixon line! Not to mention the fact that the Methodists and Episcopalians have actually defiled the carefully manicured neighborhood blocks by placing their own houses of worship on opposite corners. I mean, the Catholics even STOLE Bingo night and have seduced the elderly into their cathedrals on Friday nights when everyone knows that is the sacred Friday Night Fish Fry!! Is it any wonder there is no peace, eh? How on earth are the Lutherans, after being oppressed for so many decades, supposed to live in peace and harmony with infidels, eh?

Furthermore, to add grave insult to injury, the presence of the evil war-mongering California National Guard is proof of an insidous conspiracy for the environmentalists to rape the land of its wheat and corn! Everyone knows how much grain those hippies eat! And corn! They need more and more crops to support their depraved vegan lifestyles. Especially now that their bagels have gotten so huge, and rely on only whole grain wheat! This is really all about WAR FOR WHEAT! Oh ya, you betcha!

Lord knows, it’s been a trial, and the Lutherans have suffered greatly, dontcha know. It really would be best for the world, if they are given the land for their own. Oh ya, the world owes it to them! In fact, though I am a moderate Midwesterner and not at all part of that tiny fringe group of fanatical Lutherans, I certainly do understand their reaction. It is everyone else’s fault, fer pete’s sake!!

Oh, ya hey dere: if you disagree with me, then you’re a hate-monger and a racist.

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UPDATE: For a richer understanding of the build-up of violence in the Midwest, please read this background article on the origination of tensions:

Peace Elusive in Strife-Torn Midwest

Hat tip: Euphoric Reality

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Unite to Fight Summit - Las Vegas

Here is an excellent inside story from a Minuteman who attended the Unite to Fight Illegal Immigration Summit in Las Vegas last weekend. Please bookmark his link to the Minuteman Party. It is a new site, still under construction, but you'll need to keep an eye on it.

Viva Las Vegas: The Minuteman Party
By Tim Donnelly
Jun 1, 2005, 22:46

Driving home from the "Unite to Fight Summit" in Las Vegas this past weekend, my friend, Gregg made a comment that summed up the entire weekend:

"They shouldn't be sitting at a table with guys like us," he said, referring to a meal we shared with John and Barbara March, parents of Deputy David March executed by an illegal alien that Mexico refuses to extradite, and Peter Gadial and Joan Molinaro, who both lost a son on 9/11.

"They should be sitting at the President's table, getting daily updates on how he is working to secure the borders and fight for justice for all their sons."

Gregg is a man of few words, but when he speaks, I have learned to listen.

We were honored to sit at the same table with those who, in spite of their staggering loss, still love this country so much, that they refuse to stop fighting.

Gregg is not an activist, but attended the conference largely at the insistence of me, his friend, a minuteman. I have become a reluctant activist simply because I can no longer sit idly by in the face of such a massive threat to the security, economy, and yes, even the very sovereignty of my beloved country, while our leaders do nothing.

I do not understand how President Bush, after hearing the heart-wrenching story of her son's execution, could look Barbara March in the eye and tell her, "We have to get this guy." And then do nothing about it. Of course, that was an election year. I guess America can put a man on the moon, put a missile into a tiny vent 9,000 miles away, put 150,000 soldiers, endless tanks and humvees on foreign shores in less than a month, but we cannot get a single policeman's murderer returned from a "friendly" nation.

It is funny how a Mexican journalist helped me to see what President Bush seems unable to see. While working my first night shift on the Naco border road, what we called Sector 5, on the Minuteman Project, a van pulled up at about 1:30 a.m. Seven journalists were carpooling, including reporters from as far away as the Chicago Tribune and as nearby as Mexico. The Tribune photographer translated for a woman from a small cable news station, whose name I never got. After answering the usual incendiary questions about why I was an armed racist, I asked her a question.

I explained to her that the average American citizen was tired of the "migrants" abusing his generosity. With hospitals closing at record rates due to illegal aliens getting treatment for which they are not required to pay, with schools being overrun, and budgets cut, and programs slashed for citizens in every district in order to have enough money to build more schools, mainly in illegal alien communities, most Americans, especially in border states, have had enough.

After explaining the frustration and suffering of the average American citizen, who watches as his government feeds, clothes, houses, and educates her people at his expense, I asked her if she had any empathy for him.

"No," she said, "I am not American."

There is an entire industry devoted to securing rights for illegal aliens. Over 500 Political Action Committees (PAC's) are lobbying my government on behalf of people who do not even have the right to be here. The American citizen concerned about illegal immigration has maybe 2 or 3 fighting PAC's for his interests - America?s interest.

After the conference ended on the drive home, he was so animated that I feared for our safety. He just reached the point where he could no longer abide tyranny. He has become an activist now and doesn't even know it yet.

He asked me what I thought our founding fathers would think of what has become of our nation.

"Sick to their stomachs," I said, and then added: "What we need are modern day George Washingtons, Thomas Jeffersons, and Ben Franklins."

He responded, "Yes, but all we get are modern-day Benedict Arnolds."

The rallying cry of the original Minutemen was: "Taxation without Representation." The inverse is becoming the rallying cry of the modern day Minutemen: "Representation without taxation."

We used to wonder why, no matter how often we called and wrote, our congressman never seemed to hear us, the citizen. Now we know. The will of the people, once the heart of democracy has been sold to the highest bidder, and right now, that is the open borders lobby. It should be no surprise that I receive a dozen e-mails a day from people wanting to get involved.

The Minuteman Party is an idea that was born out of that night patrol in Naco.

It is an idea whose time has come. We have formed an organization whose main purpose is to advance a single-issue agenda, as laid out by Jim Gilchrist of the Minuteman Project at the Unite to Fight Summit in Las Vegas. This idea is being advanced as the Minuteman Campaign.

Although we are a separate entity, we support it 100% and will work with any willing groups or individuals to see that it is carried out. One of the great things that came out of this weekend?s summit was that small groups springing up all across the nation are linking up and forming a powerful web. The Minuteman Campaign will serve as a single thread to tie the web together.

The idea is to hold every elected official in the country, at every level of government, whether local, state, or federal, from dog catcher to school boards to the President accountable to a simple idea: enforce our immigration laws, all of them, now. Period.

If you find yourself among the 85% of Americans who have been disenfranchised by groups that are the enemies of America, join us. If you are tired of financing the takeover of your country, join us.

If you are, in the words of Barbara March, so committed to fighting to return America to the land of our forefathers, that you are willing to "die trying," we want you.

We are looking for a few good men and women to join our party. There are no membership fees. We seek no donations. Unapologetic love of country is all that is required to join.

Go to Minuteman Party to learn more.

Godspeed.

Tim Donnelly
California Minuteman

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LT Pantano Resigns his Commission from the USMC

Today the military lost one of its finest.

LT Pantano had a hellish year defending his honor, and was finally cleared of all charges. He wanted nothing more than to pursue his passion - continuing his service to country in his beloved Marine Corps. All indicators showed that he was prepared - even eager - to re-enter combat in Iraq, despite the bruising legal battle he led against his detractors. So we were surprised, saddened and shocked when he contacted us privately and told us of his intent to resign his officer's commission and end his careeer in the USMC:

The support of your network has been tremendous and I hope you can help me express how much I still love the Corps to your vast readership. Leading Marines in battle has been the pinnacle of my professional life. There are so many things about being a Marine that I will miss now that I have submitted my resignation, but my priority must be taking care of my family after what can only be described as ‘one hell of a year’.

Molon Labe
Ilario Pantano

When Kit notified me of Ilario's email we both sat in stunned disbelief. And then waited for the rest of the world to find out the news when Pantano went public.

Today was that day. LT Pantano submitted his resignation of commission in the USMC.

I understand why Ilario has made his decision, though I deplore the mess that brought him to this point. His family has suffered greatly this year. So it's no surprise that his priority is other than himself. The AP reports his reasons:

2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano said his fight against military punishment has been draining and heartbreaking for the former Wall Street trader who fought to return to the Marines after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

"This is the best thing for my family, and I think it is the best thing for the Marine Corps, too," Pantano said Thursday.

The intense publicity generated by his case, he said, makes him a high-profile target with a resulting potential not only for danger to himself if he continues fighting but also to other Marines, Pantano said. His wife, Jill, asked that he end his military career, he said.

LT Pantano has also written a letter to Congressman Jones, his vocal supporter in Washington, expressing his gratitude. In his letter, Ilario presented the Congressman with his two most precious possessions - first, his innocence, and second, his sword.

As my family and I faced our darkest hours you fought for us, and in doing so…You fought for every man and woman in the uniform, past present and future - not because of the opportunity to challenge the military, but for the opportunity to protect it from itself.

Day and night you appealed to any that would listen. You were tireless in your defense of me, and for that I will be eternally grateful.

My family and I want to thank you for your courage and your leadership.

First, I present to you my innocence, known to you and many many others from the outset, but proven finally by our justice system after a yearlong investigation and prosecution.

And finally, from one warrior to another, I present to you my most cherished possession: my sword. My love of corps and country will never be broken or diminished, but now it is my love of family that I must honor most with my decision to resign.

Kit has written a masterful tribute to Pantano's honor and courage in service, and throughout this ordeal. If her writing doesn't move you to tears, as it did me, then I don't know what to say. Even more importantly, she expounds on the overall impact Pantano's case and subsequent resignation has had and will continue to have on the Marine Corps and other military branches. The Pantano case is truly a watershed moment in our military's history. Read Kit's words, and you'll clearly see and understand the bigger picture.

The military lost one of its finest today.
Semper Fidelis, LT Pantano.

PS: Should you wish to say anything to LT Pantano, please feel free to leave a comment here or at Euphoric Reality. LT Pantano does read our blogs and will read your comments - and we know that he is deeply grateful for your support.

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Baldwin Park - Re-cap for those who didn't know

Since the Minutemen supporters were attacked in Garden Grove on Wednesday, my post has referred to the Baldwin Park episode. I've since received a lot of requests for more information, and after I spent my time answering numerous emails, I decided it would be best to post it all in one place. The following information is a compilation of everything I could find on the Baldwin Park event, complete with photos, video clips, and eyewitness accounts.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

For information on the disturbing Reconquista movement in the Southwest United States, please go here.

To understand who MEChA is, what is Aztlan, and who is La Raza, go here.

To learn how the militant Aztlan movement (also Reconquista) is openly aligned with al Q'aeda and the terrorist Islamic movement (also virulently anti-American and anti-Semitic) - don't take my word for it, read their propaganda for yourself. It's pretty sickening. That should give you a good idea of where the whole Reconquista idea came from and where it's going. Time to wake up!

I first published this article about Baldwin Park here.

When the following photos first surfaced on ALIPAC and SOS, they went under intense scrutiny because the members could hardly believe they were authentic. In fact, many speculated that the photos were Photoshopped and sent to ALIPAC in order to provoke a reactionary response that could then be publicly ridiculed. The research was careful - I was there when it was going on. SOS sent out a member to Baldwin Park to verify the existence of the monument and the veracity of the photos. Once that was determined beyond a shadow of a doubt, the outrage grew becasue the comments are more than passingly Reconquista, and therefore offensive - much in the same way the Los Angeles, MX billboard was offensive. The demonstration arose from SOS's desire to publicize this monument and its meaning, since all correspondence to the town's leadership was unanswered. I personally emailed every member on the City Council, and never received a response. For what it's worth, the contact info of said politicians is included at the bottom of this post.

These are the photos that have drawn this intense backlash in the community:


Monument in Baldwin Park, CA


Mexican once...and will be again.


Really? It was better before "we" came? Then what's the problem with Mexico?

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Here is the public statement from Save our State.org that prompted their vigil at the monument on

The Battle for Los Angeles
Seditious monument language on public property

(Baldwin Park, CA) - SaveOurState.org demands that the city of Baldwin Park immediately remove seditious anti-American language (pictures below) from the “Danzas Indigenas” monument located at the Baldwin Park Commuter Rail Station. Taxpayer funded and situated on public land, the monument promotes the radical and militant belief in the “econquista of Aztlan.” One passage on the monument laments the presence of whites in America by stating, “It was better before they came.” The most offensive passage is a quote from Gloria Anzaldua, which reads:

“This land was Mexican once,
was Indian always
and is,
And will be again.”

Californians are tired of radical revisionist history and militant separatist rhetoric calling for the return of the Southwestern United States to Mexico as proclaimed by radical organizations like Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA). SaveOurState.org proudly stands in opposition to this propaganda.

Californians are tired of watching their communities turn into Third World cesspools as a result of a massive invasion of illegal aliens. Joseph Turner, Executive Director of SaveOurState.org responds:

“This divisive monument is funded by our tax dollars and we will not tolerate its anti-American message. This is not art. This is not freedom of expression. This is government-sanctioned sedition. This is our land. This is our fight.”

We call upon the city of Baldwin Park to voluntarily remove these offensive passages by Friday, July 1st, in advance of the American Independence weekend. This will clearly demonstrate their commitment to America and their disapproval of treasonous sentiments. If this situation is not remedied, SaveOurState.org will take additional steps to ensure that the passages are removed.

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Protest Report from the Social and Public Art Resource Center
Baldwin Park, CA
May 16th, 2005

Despite having various radio talk show pipelines for the past week to continuously publicize their opposition to “Danzas Indigenas,” a 13 year old, city sanctioned and approved Metro station monument created by Judith F. Baca for the City of Baldwin Park, CA. Save Our State (SOS) anti-illegal immigration group garnered only a handful supporters (approximately 12- 20 people) in their protest against the Monument in Baldwin Park, CA. on Saturday My 14th, 2005.

“Save our State”, with ties to the vigilante Minutemen Border Patrol, erroneously believed that quotes on the “Danzas Indigenas” monument were racially charged, seditious and anti-American in nature. The residents of Baldwin Park believed otherwise, along with numerous high schools, universities and peace organizations, and quickly mobilized into a group of nearly 1,000 people in a counter protest on Saturday. The Save Our State demonstrators wearing inflammatory minuteman and border patrol garb were highly outnumbered by monument supporters.

The large crowd of local men, women and children of all ages faced the small yet vocal crowd of protestors from as far away as Ventura county, Upland and Orange County, who declared the MTA and city-commissioned artwork, Artist, and counter protestors all to be un-American. Counter to the claims of Save Our State who has called the work “reconquista” (reconquest advocates) no supporters of the monument advocated for the return of California to Mexico but instead proclaimed the protesters “neoKlan racists who were launching an attack on their community as a whole. As tax paying citizens the supporters of the monument declared their right to artistic representation within public space. The supporters carried signs such as “art confuses racists” and “racists go home”.

Saturday’s demonstration was estimated to have cost the small city Baldwin Park $250,000 dollars in police overtime and helicopters to insure the protection of the Save Our State group’s right to protest. The City of Baldwin Park protected the freedom of expression of the SOS at a great cost to their community’s limited budget. Local councilman Mr. Bill Van Cleave greeted Save Our State’s self-proclaimed “grass roots activists” by stating that “there is no race problem in Baldwin Park,” but that the Ventura-County based organization “was bringing one”. As the only white person on the City Council he said “they threatened my life and told me they were going to bury me in brown soil”. All members of the council have received death threats and are investigating prosecution of the hate calls and mail. Threats against the monument have been made claiming that after the SOS July 1st deadline, given the city officials and artist to remove the offending statements, the group would take further steps.

One of the most alarming aspects of this unexpected turn of events for us at the Public Art center is that as artists who work in the field of public art there is a new level of risk associated with creating public artwork being evidenced here. An artist can be commissioned by MTA and a local city to create a public monument. Through a thoroughly democratic process, such as the one commissioned by the MTA and Baldwin Park the work can be designed and approved by all public entities. Twelve years later the same artist can be personally attacked and threatened, when a fringe group decides to view part of the artwork out of context and make unfounded accusations. All public art is in jeopardy and all artists who have participated in the creation of MTA stations or other public works can be subjected to and essentially be required to defend themselves for the privilege of working in the public interest. Public art has suffered a tremendous set back in the last few days as has our hopes for the creation of civil public spaces .

Four members of the City Council of Baldwin Park and the Mayor as well as the Artist Judy Baca issued statements at the protest saying that the monument would not be altered and they intended the monument to stand for years to come.

An older minuteman t-shirted woman was hit in the head by a plastic water bottle and taken to the hospital. She was released after observation overnight. No other injuries or arrests were reported.

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ARTIST STATEMENT
By Judith F. Baca
May 12, 2005

An “anti-illegal immigrant” group, Save Our State, of Ventura County, emboldened by their recent victory at the removal of a billboard referring to “Los Angeles, Mexico” is now demanding the removal of the wording on a twelve-year old monument in Baldwin Park, California, entitled Danzas Indigenas. I was commissioned to produce this work in 1993 by MTA and the City of Baldwin Park in collaboration with the Kate Diamond Architectural Group.

The monument consists of a 20 ft arch, 100 ft plaza and 400 ft train platform. Produced with extensive public input, the monument includes five languages: English, Spanish, Gabrielino, Chumash, Luiseño and is a layering of indigenous, Spanish and mestizo history, which is associated with the site.

Included also are the contemporary voices and diversity that is indicative of contemporary Baldwin Park. Asked to produce a work that was “mission in theme” that reflected the majority population of Latinos in the City of Baldwin Park, and in keeping with my practice as an artist for inclusion of community members in my design process, I designed this work to include the “past” and “present” of the region and the voices of local residents. Of particular interest to me was the sites proximity to the mission of San Gabriel. The arch in the Plaza is conceived of as a fragment of a mission arch. Its intention was to become a site of public memory for the people of Baldwin Park; to make visible their invisible history.

Local residents sentiments were included in the “present” side of the monument, with verbatim quotes sandblasted into the surface of the arch. Local residents of all ages and ethnic groups were recommended by the arts committee and the city council and interviewed. They were asked about their hopes for the future of Baldwin Park.

Additional statements from community members on the arch – which are not included in the discussion of the monument by the Save Our State group – include “Use your brain before you make up your mind”, “not just adults leading but youth leading too", “a small town feeling”, "when the Indians died the villages ended” and “the kind of community that people dream of rich and poor, white, brown, yellow all living together”. These statements all represent the community’s desires, and are featured prominently in the work of art.

The work is not a work of a lone artist working without relationship to the community, but rather a representation of community sensibilities and sentiment of the time. While this group has cast the artwork as part of a “Reconquista movement”, it is in fact neither advocating for the return of California to Mexico, nor wishing that Anglos had never come to this land. This statement “it was better before they came”, was deliberately ambiguous. About which “they” is the anonymous voice speaking? The statement was made by an Anglo local resident who was speaking about Mexicans. The ambiguity of the statement was the point, and is designed to say more about the reader than the speaker – and so it has.

The quote “this land was Mexican once, was Indian always, and is, and will be again” is by a critically acclaimed Chicana author, Gloria Anzaldua. On the Save Our State website, she is referred to as a “dead Chicana lesbian.” I chose this quote because the mission is one mile from the Mission San Gabriel, and descendants of the Gabrielinos still live in the region, making Anzaldua’s text particularly relevant to the increasing indigenous population. A correct reading of the quote makes it clear that this is not about Mexican “reconquista”, but about the land returning to its origins.

This is not a question only of my rights as an artist to not have my copyright violated, but also a question of “revisionist history” carved out twelve years after an extensive democratic public process produced this work. It is the collective vision of the people of Baldwin Park that is under attack by this Ventura group. What is most deserving of respect are the voices that are represented in the monument. Also deserving of respect, are the voices of the ancient indigenous who say in the first person “memory and will power” is how we retain the knowledge of our culture.

Our capacity as a democracy to disagree and to coexist is precisely the point of this work. No single statement can be seen without the whole, nor can it be removed without destroying the diversity of Baldwin Park’s voices. Silencing every voice with which we disagree, especially while taking quotes out of context, either through ignorance or malice, is profoundly un-American.

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Eyewitness/Camaraman report:

"This is what happened. Despite what they want you to think with their supposed analysis of our behavior, our events are always peaceful. Theirs never are. A bottle is thrown during the second set of clips, that hits an older lady on the head, who then must go to the hospital.

The video clips are in order and a timeline is very apparent. "

Links to 3-9MB video clips:

Click here to watch SOS_BP1

Click here to watch SOS_BP2: Water bottle is thrown in this clip.

Click here to watch SOS_BP3: Police tell peaceful SOS demonstrators that they cannot ensure their safety when they leave.

Click here to watch SOS_BP4.1: Watch carefully the demonstrator in the black T-shirt in the middle of the clip - he's carrying the [only] American flag for the illegal alien supporters (which is telling in and of itself). He drops it on the ground, scuffles over it, then kicks it.

Listen to the cheers when this happens. And then think about this: As a true American, would you EVER desecrate our flag, knowing all that it stands for?! Never in a million years would I do what that Mexican man did (and he IS Mexican, if you can believe his T-shirt) - not even if Hillary were President with Kerry her VP, and the entire country went down the drain. The flag is precious and represents the blood of all the heroes that ever bled for the birth, unity, and peace of our country. I hope this demonstration helps exhibit how these people are NOT Americans, don't WANT to be Americans, and HATE America. The actions and words of the protestors at this event speak volumes.

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More video clips (short):

Disrespect of the police
"We didn't cross the border, the borders crossed us"
Elderly lady hit on the head with a full bottle thrown from the other side of the street
Racists get out of "our country" (Aztlan)
SOS hugely outnumbered
Flanked
Baldwin Park Rally Footage (3.8 mb RealMedia)
Here is some footage of Old Glory being desecrated by the "Mechistas" at Baldwin Park:

Kicking the Flag (Strong Language)

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Eyewitness: "Even all these great photos cannot convey the strue scope and numbers of our enemies. They surrounded us on all sides at one point and were as angry and hateful as I have ever seen any mob.

I swear, I felt like I was in Mogadishu. It truly was if we were in a hostile foreign country. I was absolutely convinced there was going to be violence and am actually surprised it didn't happen. The cops did a good job."

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Eyewitness:

"In the bizarre world that we live in, merely opposing illegal immigration and all the peripheral issues that go along with it is justification for being labeled a racist, bigot or a vigilante.

In countless interviews, I am asked my thoughts when our opponents accuse us of being a racist organization. I constantly wonder why reporters simply regurgitate unsubstantiated claims and in the process perform the devil's bidding.

Yet, as evidenced by today's happenings, it is so crystal clear that our opponents are projecting their bigotry and hatred onto us. Today, we saw some of the most vile hatred and bigotry expressed towards us by the Mechistas.

Everything that we argued the monument stood for was reinforced by the hundreds of activists who opposed our presence in Baldwin Park. Numerous times we were told that this land is Mexico and that they were taking it back. Numerous times racists epithets were hurled away. One person even hurled a full water bottle at our side and sent one of our activists to the hospital with bleeding in the brain. Unfortunately, she is now in the intensive care unit and we are all praying and hoping for the best.

What started as a rather peaceful and uneventful protest on our side ended in sheer hostility. The counter demonstrators were supposed to rally at the other end of the metrolink station, but proceeded to outflank the Baldwin Park Police Department and traveled through a local neighborhood so that they could formally confront us at the intersection allocated to us for our protest.

In waves they came. Soon outnumbered 500-50 in a community that is 85% Hispanic, crowd control soon became an issue. Rants, chants and Mexican flags filled the air. Their spit and a dragged and kicked American flag covered the ground. It is imperative to note that that was the only American flag displayed by our opponents.

At the conclusion of the rally, a twenty year veteran of the force shared that today's rally was the most intense and largest he has seen in his career. And intense it was for at one point, I was informed by BPPD that they could no longer ensure our safety. Mind you, there were upwards of 70+ officers on duty in riot gear. Emergency reserves were summoned from various local agencies. A police helicopter circled above for the entire duration. Officers with sniper rifles rest on a roof above.

In fact, we were told that a credible source of intelligence suggested that violent attack on our group was in the making and that two hundred more demonstrators may be in route (which would have presumably overwhelmed the already taxed resources). Surrounded by hostile forces on all sides, we were evacuated by the police department to the police station one block away until the crowd dispersed.

We did not hurl racist epithets or make bigoted hate-filled comments. We did not hurl objects at our opponents or resort to violence. Yet, we are racist vigilantes!

It is of utmost importance to emphasize one singular point. Everything that we stated that monument stood for, emodied and represented was reinforced and confirmed by the actions of those opposing us today. To suggest that the monument doesn't reinforce the reconquista of Aztlan and hatred toward whites is simply delusional."

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Injury of older lady in the SOS demonstration:

Launch of the bottle.


Lady that was injured when hit on the head with a full bottle

Updates as to her condition:

Posted: May 14 2005, 08:09 PM:
SOS

Hello All:

I have just received word from another SOS activist at the hospital with our injured protestor. Unfortunately, the cat scan came back with some bad news.

There is some bleeding of the brain and she has been taken to the Intensive Care Unit.

This is all the information I have at the moment and will keep you updated. Please put her in your prayers if you are the praying sort.


Posted: May 15 2005, 10:06 AM: SOS

She is still in ICU and they are going to give her a comparative cat scan today. Basically, to determine whether or not the condition as worsened or gotten better over night.

Hopefully will have more information later on today.

Posted: May 15 2005, 01:47 PM


THE NEWS WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR....

Dottie has been released from the hospital and the doctors expect a full recovery.

The comparative CAT scan came back with good results - no bleeding. She'll have some residual effects for a while such as headaches, etc. but they expect she'll be just fine.

Thanks for all of your prayers and well wishes. I know that they have helped.

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Former resident of Baldwin Park: "aml"

I'm sorry to hear about the person that got injured, hope everything
turns out ok.

I saw the protest on the news, they made it sound as though only a small insigificant group had any objection to the monument. The sloppy looking women that was speaking for the artist was trying to convince the media that the writing on the monument is a historical writing, yeah right!

I grew up in Baldwin Park when it was a quaint little town. It was a nice place to live. I was totally appauled when I revisited the city a month ago. The city seems like a place in a third world country no one spoke english. The once beautiful Catholic Church called Saint Johns now has pink walls and pews and the art work and
statues were replace by these filthy tapestries, unbelievable. I visited a store I used to work at as a teenager, it was trashed and again nobody spoke english. Also, Morgan park used to have a monument dedicated to world war II vets, that monument was gone, wonder what happened to it. All the once nice neighborhoods with great little craftsman houses were gone. In place of those nice houses were dirty unkept yards with a slew of cars all over the place, or apartment complexes with clothes hanging on the roof and all over the place.

This is happening to cities all over California, I hope that people will wake up and start calling and writing our so called elected officials. To make matters worse, the DOD base closure situation is going to make even more cities Vulnerable. This brings to mind the H-1B visa problem, those soon to be out of work DOD workers will
need the jobs intended for those foreign workers. The Corona base workers are engineers and IT personnel who many of which will not be able to move.

Anyway, I really hope that people start getting together to stop any legislation that enables the promotion of more immigration, we really don't need anymore, it is destroying the vary culture that made this country so great!!!!!

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PHOTOS of the Baldwin Park Protest:


I guess the statement here is that THEY belong, and we don't. Classic Reconquista.


Aztlan T-shirts - "stolen lands"?!!


"Fuck the Alamo"? Hey - that reminds me, let's rewrite history about the Alamo - oh wait, that's already being done...


*sigh* Yes, we got it the first time. Eloquent and original...NOT.


Ohhh - banditos! Macho or just plain silly?


Mas banditos!


"White trash?" - they can't seem to get past the name-calling and slurs. Intelligent.


The reference to Nazism is again an over-used, pathetically misused slur.


Welcome immigrants. Sure - AS LONG AS THEY'RE LEGAL, PLEASE!!!


They are over-using and mis-using this slur - it has no meaning anymore!


Crowds really outnumberd the SOS demonstrators.


Lots of Mexican flags - not one American flag. Telling, isn't it?


Plenty of American flags here!


No hate speech - sounds reasonable. So why are these SOS demonstrators cast as the villains?!


Legal Latino makes a statement: This is America's land!


Another legal Latino with a profound statement.


Another legal Latino who understands the dangers behind the Reconquista movement.


Another legal Latino with a heart for America - NOT Mexico.

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Contact Baldwin Park City Officials:

Mayor: Manuel Lozano
626-813-5201
mlozano@baldwinpark.com

Council Member: Bill Van Cleave
626-337-4601
bvancleave@baldwinpark.com

Council Member: Marlen Garcia
626-813-5201
mgarcia2@baldwinpark.com

Mayor Pro Tem: Ricardo Pacheco
626-813-5201
rpacheco@baldwinpark.com

Council Member: David Olivas
626-813-5201
dolivas@baldwinpark.com

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Governor of Texas to allow Minuteman vigil at border

Well, I'll be...

I wasn't expecting this at all. Though Governor Perry managed to couch his "allowance" of the Minutemen along the Texas border in terms that fall far short of approval or acceptance, I still have to hand it to the guy - he's doing the right thing.

"I fully understand and can appreciate the frustration that many Texans and others across the nation have with illegal immigration, its potential impact on our national security and the unacceptable burden it is placing on taxpayers, and state and local criminal-justice, education and health care systems," Mr. Perry said in a statement.
"The federal government can and must do more to close the border to illegal immigration," the two-term Republican said. "Until that happens, these kinds of citizen-initiated efforts likely will be the result. If you want to send the Minutemen home, I urge you to make sure we have enough federal agents on the border to secure it."
Mr. Perry, who said 1.4 million illegal aliens live in Texas, warned that the "continued flow of a significant number of undocumented immigrants into the United States is not acceptable, especially in the post-September 11 era."

Admittedly, the Governor is saying things that NEED to be said. And his words are clear, to the point, and dead right.

On a tangent... Who can call Governor Perry a racist, a bigot, or a "vigilante" for what he said? No one, I wager. So how come the Minutemen and people like me are called those names and worse becasue we demand the SAME EXACT THING Governor Perry does: better border security and law enforcement?!!!!

The name-calling doesn't bother me so much anymore, because I know that it's a cheap shot, an ad hominem argument for those with less sense than vitriol. The typical brainless tactic of "ttack the writer/speaker when you can't attack the message". So the names don't register anymore. The liberals and the OBLs have so over-used their slurs that the meaning is lost in their shrill rhetoric.

Anyways...here's the link to the original article:

Governor of Texas to allow Minuteman vigil at border - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - June 02, 2005

Hat tip: ALIPAC

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SO much fun: Making a pitiful, wanna-be man cry...

Remember my nomination for the Drooling Moron of the Year? Well, largely due to a scathing reprimand from spitfire Kit, Michael Crook betook himself to the corner to sulk and lick his wounds, away from our scornful eyes.

While writing the expose of Crook, his sites, the public response, and ultimately the pitiful reasons for it all, I simply couldn't stand to linger in the cess pit of his rantings. But Kit braved the filth long enough to inform him of our public expose on the pathetic, sniveling motivation for his hate campaign.

There hasn't been any other article on the web that followed the story from the very beginning when Crook first oozed onto the national scene, through the public response (both support and outrage), his murder hoax, the Hannity and Colmes TV appearance, his background and motivation, and his future plans. There was plenty of blogging going on about Crook, but not onesingle article out there that tied it all together - except mine. [Frankly, I did a pretty damn fine job.]

Looks like it freaked him out. Now the silly little man is cowering in his corner, slapping anyone who wanders by, and wearing out his favorite swear word. No doubt his spanking from Kit hurt like hell, and he got a good long look at himself in the mirror of public scorn.

I can almost see the rivulets of greasy mascara pouring down his sunken face. Oh, the sheer delight of making a dick-less, anti-military weenie cry!! Mwah -hahahahaha!

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Anatomy of a Troll: The True Story of Jane Howard

Anatomy of a Troll: The True Story of "Jane Howard"
by Kit Jarrell and HE!D! (acid-dipped and cold filtered for your enjoyment)

[The following story is cross-posted from Euphoric Reality.]

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

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

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

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

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

While most of us initially paid no attention to what we figured were the ravings of a potentially undersexed, incontinent older woman with no social life, we soon found that Jane was far more motivated than your average insomniac troll. Theories abounded: Who was Jane? Coburn’s wife? Sister? Aunt? And who was dvldog36? Was this really her son? I talked to quite a few journalists working the case, and we theorized much about who Jane could be. We got satellite photos of her location through IP traces and turned them over to authorities, since she expressed a desire to see Pantano killed. Basically, we did the research so you don’t have to. And now, we can finally let you all in on the secret.

Jane was telling the truth. Her son is a Marine officer stationed at Pensacola, currently undergoing pilot training. After Jane spent most of her waking hours bragging about her son, even going so far as to email me a photograph of him as “proof” that he existed, [Note: The photo showed a Marine officer in dress blues, standing over a coffin while wearing sunglasses. Yes, I said “dress blues” and “sunglasses” in the same sentence.] Jane accused us of “outing” her son, insisting that people were coming up to him on post and “targeting him”. [I haven’t quite figured out what they actually did to him that was considered “targeting”, but this will be way more amusing to you once you’ve read the whole article.] As much as it pained us, we were not able to claim responsibility for that, for one simple reason: Her son was slated to testify for the prosecution. Regardless of what we knew at that point, we were bound by the rules of integrity not to release his name during the hearing. Now that the court proceedings have ended, and her son was dropped from the witness list (we’ll get to why in a moment), we feel that the time has come to go ahead and make Jane happy by doing what it is we were accused of months ago. You asked for it, Jane.

Her son is 2Lt.Graham Hopkins. He was, in fact, a classmate of Pantano at OCS at Quantico, Virginia. During their 6-month course, the officers-in-training were constantly evaluated by superiors and each other. Through painstaking research and a burning desire to know, we were able to obtain knowledge of some of the peer evaluations. It becomes apparent very quickly that Lt. Hopkins had what can only be called Coburnitis; which is a debilitating disease characterized by cowardice, self-servitude, and an overwhelming sense of envy at the success and admiration enjoyed by those who are both better troops and better men than fools like Coburn and Hopkins will ever be. I bring you some tidbits for your amusement:

Lt. Pantano is very experienced and has great knowledge of tactics. He has a tendency to be very pompous as well as micromanage situations. He also tends to “throw people under the bus” when his plan does not work out.

Lt. Hopkins, in an anonymous peer evaluation of Lt. Pantano

Now, let’s take a look at Jane’s blathering:

[My son] served with Pantano in Officer Candidate School…[he said] Pantano was pompous and had rated him in his bottom three of most qualified officers in his class at TBS…

And here’s a comment from dvldog36, who we now know is Lt. Graham Hopkins:

Lt. Pantano is everything that his friends say in the dorm; he is a great guy, looking out for and willing to help everyone. But in the field he is egocentric, pompous and a micro-manager. He was told that if he kept that it up that his Marines would see right through him and maybe one day they might frag him..

By now you’ve noticed the running theme. We believe that Coburn did attempt a “legal fragging” of Lt Pantano, and Lt Hopkins was eager to get in on the action. Unfortunately for Hopkins, his own poor service record eliminated him as a credible witness for the prosecution.

Lt. Hopkins goes on to belatedly engage in some classic CYA behavior later:

I have no opinion on the guilt or innocence of Lt. Pantano, but I can see, and I am not surprised, that someone from his own platoon would turn him in. I would caution you before you characterize the Marine as disgruntled and is motivated by revenge. He may or may not be. He could just be unwilling to back up Lt. Pantano’s story after he lost confidence in him. This is just some background information on Lt. Pantano from someone who has been through intensive training with him.

Now here’s where things get fun.

Lt. Hopkins refused to sign his peer evaluation of Pantano; however, he is the only officer in that class to rank Pantano so poorly. Why? Pantano’s peer recommendation of Hopkins sheds light on the reason:

Lethargic. Uncommitted. Sloppy. Seemingly allergic to training-IGP.

LT Pantano's signed peer evaluation of Lt Hopkins

As you can see, Pantano had no problem putting his name down on the eval. In fact, sources who were there at the time tell me that Pantano considered Hopkins a “disgrace to [the] uniform”, and told him so – often and in public. It was no secret that Hopkins hated Pantano.

Perhaps the most telling evidence of Hopkins’ lack of credibility comes from the final scores of the class of officers that graduated that training cycle. Out of a class of 192 officers, Lt. Graham Hopkins graduated with a rank of 175. His leadership score, considered the most important of the class, was lower still. Lt. Hopkins graduated at the absolute bottom of his class – last place at #192. Even in training, he failed to secure the respect and trust of his fellow officers. The only thing that saved Lt Hopkins from failing out of the course was his academic ability – his “booksmarts”, and I’ll leave you to decide how important that is when you don’t have the respect of your men or the physical skills necessary to carry out your duties. The court received a dozen letters from former classmates attesting to Hopkins’ hatred for Pantano and his complete uselessness as an officer, calling him an “embarrassment”. This combined with Hopkins’ personnel jacket making it into the hands of the prosecution eventually caused them to remove Hopkins from the witness list. Apparently they felt one substandard Marine with a grudge was enough.

Once you know the whole story of Hopkins and his performance at TBS, it becomes eerily self-descriptive to re-read his comment:

I would caution you before you characterize the Marine as disgruntled and…motivated by revenge.

So where does Jane fit into all this? It’s obvious that the bitter, “blame others” tactic that Coburn perfected seems to have permeated her parenting skills, since it’s obvious her son subscribes to the same lack of integrity. Her son’s exclusion from the witness stand didn’t stop her crusade, however, and she even contacted reporters during the hearing to gain some more attention for Hopkins and his oft-repeated story of Pantano’s perceived incompetence.

What’s satisfying for us is to know that our initial impression of Jane (aka Mom of 2 Marines) and dvldog36 was so gratifyingly accurate. On the other hand, when it really comes down to it, it’s nothing more than the sordid tale of yet another whiny, disgusting, cowardly excuse for a Marine that somehow gets to wear a uniform that he will never be worthy of. The saddest part of all this is that an exemplary officer was taken away from the front, where we so desperately need him, and put through a hell above and beyond his time in Iraq – and for what?


[Editor’s Note: Pantano ranked fifth in his class, by the way.]

UPDATE: For those of you looking for the interview with Pantano, it is coming - just delayed while he spends some much-needed time with his family.

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Corruption crosses the border with agent bribes

MCALLEN - The Border Patrol checkpoint on a remote stretch of South Texas ranchland was the ideal route for a drug trafficking ring to move tons of marijuana.

To make sure their product got through, traffickers paid $1.5 million to U.S. Border Patrol agent Juan Alfredo Alvarez, 35, to wave trucks loaded with a ton or more of marijuana through checkpoints outside Hebbronville.

Can I just say that's like letting the Fox (pun intended) guard the hen house?

Alvarez, who awaits sentencing, joined nearly a half-dozen federal agents on the Texas border who have been convicted or charged in the past few months of taking bribes from drug dealers or human smugglers. Two weeks ago, members of a U.S. Justice Department sting operation arrested 17 current or former military and law enforcement officers who allegedly were paid $220,000 by undercover agents to allow counterfeit drugs to cross check- points on the Arizona border.

The most recent Texas corruption convictions include:

•Gerardo Diaz, a 43-year-old U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector who pleaded guilty in El Paso to accepting a $15,000 bribe to allow five kilos of cocaine to enter the Ysleta port of entry. He was sentenced in March to eight years in prison.
•In April, U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector Fabian Solis, 41, was convicted of taking $300 for each undocumented alien he allowed to enter the country at international bridges in Roma and Rio Grande City. He is awaiting sentencing.

With Border Patrol agents like this, who needs enemies?

The reasons for corruption are varied, officials say, and include the experience of living in close-knit border communities where future drug smugglers grow up and attend school alongside future police officers.

Criminal cases against corrupt officials climbed from four in 2001 to nine cases in 2002, 15 cases in 2003, and 17 last year, he said. Shelby expects this year's prosecutions of corrupt officials will exceed last year's.

The public officials are a wide and varying group, including not only border law agents but county commissioners, school board administrators and trustees, city managers, zoning inspectors, state prosecutors, defense attorneys and constables.

This reminds me of a few years ago in San Antonio. The majority of the City Council was indicted for bribe-taking. And this was small-time, petty stuff. A $250 bribe here, a measly $3000 third-party contract there. I swear, it was like living in backwater Mexico! Those City Council members were trying to run the city of San Antonio like it was the village of Bacalar in the Yucatan! ( A small village where we lived and worked - impossible to do without petty bribery! It had a figure-head "mayor", but it was really run by the PRI "union".)

Former prosecutor Reed, who grew up in Brownsville and has handled corruption cases over the past decade, said agents frequently are corrupted by old friends.

"In so many of these cases, it seems like the law enforcement officer has a prior relationship with the trafficker," Reed said. "Or a relationship with someone who introduces them, or they have a girlfriend who introduces them."

In-bred corruption. Even the best, most straight-arrow families in Mexico have members involved in illegal activities - drug trafficking, human smuggling, poaching, etc. It was considered part of business, and not unusual. Nor was it a secret.


Corruption crosses the border with agent bribes
May 29, 2005, 10:35PM
By JAMES PINKERTON
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

Hat tip: Junction Jim

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Memorial Day Tribute Video

NEVER FORGET

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Original news articles about the attack on the Minutemen in O.C. - Thursday's news

This post compiles the original news articles about the attack on the Minutemen in O.C. on Wednesday night. The first article, written by Marin and Reyes for LA Times, is incredibly flawed and got just about ALL of the facts wrong, including the timeline of events. (Don't ask me how two guys working on one project can get it so entirely wrong, but they managed.)

The second article by the Orange Country Register, is better, and less biased than the LA Times articles, but you have to be a subscriber to acces it. :( So I've reposted it in it's entirety here.

More AP articles followed during the day yesterday, but they mainly followed the LA Times story almost verbatim and I felt no need to duplicate them here.

ALIPAC has an open forum on this topic - huge response! (Their front page article.)

To do less infernal scrolling I've placed the updates in another post for faster access. If you already know the whole backstory, skip this postand go here for real-time updates (including photos, video clips, and eyewitness accounts).

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LA Times news article (highly flawed): Violence Erupts at O.C. Protest: Crowd gets rough and police swarm in after a Minuteman event in Garden Grove.
By Monte Morin and David Reyes, LA Times Staff Writers

Wednesday night, Minutemen supporters gathered privately at the Women's Civic Club of Garden Grove (in O.C.) to hear a discussion lead by James Gilchrist, the founder of the Minutemen Project. About 300 protestors, charging that the Minutemen are a racist group, gathered outside to protest the meeting. When the Minutemen supporters tried to leave the event, at least two of their cars were attacked by dozens of protestors. The protestors hit the vehicles with placards and other objects until one of the drivers moved his car to get away from the crowd. He was arrested, though I'm not sure what for yet. (*See the updates for more on this arrest.) The driver of the second vehicle "injured" 3 people as he tried to inch through the crowd. (*Update: this second vehicle was driven by an elderly couple who had their rear window completely bashed in! Eyewitness account here.) The "injured protestors" were taken to a local hospital, but none had any serious injuries, even though the reporters made it sound like it in the opening sentence of the article.

Three people were injured and at least eight arrested Wednesday in Garden Grove after a motorist drove into a crowd of 300 demonstrators protesting a speech by the founder of the Minuteman Project, authorities said.

Quite a spin! It sounds like the motorist deliberately crashed his car into a group of protestors! That's not what happened at all!

Once the second car hurt 3 protestors as it was trying to leave (which is bound to happen if you're swarming a moving vehicle!) (Update and clarification: these "vehicular injuries" happened on the way INTO the event, not upon leaving. The LA Times story got more than a few details WRONG! Truer depiction of timeline of events here.), the crowd erupted into violence and attacked the assembled police officers (Update: this actually happened because the police were trying to hold back the protestors from damaging more vehicles).

Garden Grove Police Lt. David Kivler said the crowd grew increasingly boisterous after the injuries.

He said protesters began throwing filled soda cans at the assembled Garden Grove, Anaheim and CHP officers. At least eight people were arrested on suspicion of felony assault, while others were booked for disturbing the peace.

PICKETING: Police and protesters face off outside the
California Commission for Immigration Reform meeting
in Garden Grove.
Mark Avery, The Orange County Register


Here's a statement from a witness, as written by the LA Times reporters:

A witness, Eric Garcia, 22, of Anaheim said the evening turned ugly about 9 p.m. after the talk.

He said some protesters were in a driveway when someone in a car tried to leave and made contact with the group. "Then all hell broke loose," Garcia said. "People started throwing things, like rocks and bricks and stuff."

Notice how the reporters make it sound like the evening was just lovely up until that point, as if everyone were out on a stroll and just happened to be in the driveway when they were "contacted" or HIT by the drivers who were trying to leave. (Update: clarification from eyewitnesses here.)

Were the Minutemen supporters just supposed to just sit there while hundreds of howling illegal alien supporters banged away on their vehicles? What would you have done? Would you have stayed there or tried to leave? How would you have felt about the damage to your vehicle?

The tensions around this topic are deep and will inevitably erupt like they did in O.C.. I wonder how much more of this American citizens will put up with, and how much longer our political authorities will ignore it.

If we were worried about this in the "future", the future is now...

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News article in the Orange County register, with less BIAS: Event turns hostile

An event honoring an anti-illegal immigrant leader Wednesday night was marred by altercations between anti-immigration activists and protesters, resulting in an arrest when two demonstrators were hit by a slow-moving van.

The driver was Hal Netkin of Van Nuys, said Barbara Coe, chairwoman of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform.

Protesters were blocking a driveway when Netkin tried to drive through and knocked two demonstrators to the ground, Deputy Police Chief K.J. Raney said.

Yeah, that's slighty different than the first article that implied that the driver recklessly DROVE into the crowd!

Billy Hall, a member of Coe's group, said shortly afterward that his car window was broken by a protester. Hall said he filed a police report.

I wonder what I would do if my car were surrounded by angry protestors who were banging on it and throwing things so that my windows broke!

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I guess this begs the question I asked earlier: Is there an illegal alien uprising brewing in CA?

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Minutemen Supporters Attacked in the O.C.

STICKY

If you are not completely aware of the story, please go here to read the news coverage first. This post below contains all the ongoing updates.

[Editor's Note: I've added photographs, eyewitness accounts, and video clips. I am updating this story in real time, as I find out more and more information. Everything is being added at the bottom of this article, so please stay tuned for continual updates.]


Latest Updates:

6/2 02:48 Who are these protesteors, really?! You'd be surprised to know!

5/27 16:54 LA Times article: After Minuteman Melee, Protesters Have New Beef

5/27 00:19 Eyewitness account from female MM attendee.

5/26 22:31 NBC 4 News Article

5/26 18:00 FBI Investigation in Vegas

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UPDATE 5/26 09:30:

Eyewitness account:

The way the LA Times wrote this differs from the account of the driver, Hal Netkin. He was interviewed on the radio this morning, and he said his car was surrounded by protestors, people were pounding on his car, ripped one of his windshield wipers off, and police watched nearby but did nothing. So he merely tried to move closer to the police. He was actually put in a jail cell with other protestors who were arrested!!! At the end, he was not charged and was released.

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UPDATE 5/26 09:42:

VIDEO CLIPS: Hastily assembled video clips of the protest here and here. (Hat tip: 1inchgroup at SOS.)

Here's another eyewitness account from Old Preach at SOS:

About 75-100 protestors showed up to basically try to disrupt our 1st amend rights. Jim Gilchrist put it well tonight when he said, "What is this country coming to when you have to have be in back of a line of riot police to excersize your 1st amend rights?" That is exactly what it was like...to the letter.

Protesters tried to block the driveway by walking back and forth in front of it. One of them was clipped by an incoming car. Perhaps he walked into the car purposefully. He fell to the ground which enraged the other goons. The next car coming is was pounded upon, then one of the goons busted out the back passenger window ! I mean busted it all the way in, glass flying on the elderly couple within. The driver of the car that clipped the goon was arrested, and the goon was taken away by EMT's.

During the speaking by Gilchrist, the protesters tried to get as loud as possible to disrupt the event. Fire trucks were being called constantly, and more riot police, this time on horseback were called in.

It turned really ugly when the police closed down the street to form a line of riot police across the entire street so that the folks at the event could leave. This way, the driveway was free and they could not get near our cars. Then , one or more of the goons started thowing bottles (according to one officer i asked) at the police. This resulted in arrests. On Cebeda's KPFK show, this was referred to as "unprovoked attacks" on the goons. I got on the phone to Cebeda , and got thru as his show was going off. One nut said there were 500 protesters, and only 25 minute men. The real #'s were 75 to 100 protesters ,about 250 CCIR folks including their guests, 20 minuteman volunteers, and the media. ALL the buzz on Cebeda's show was MMP , SOS , Baldwin Park, Garden Grove...SOS SOS SOS MMP SOS...on and on. One thing is for sure, What is going down recently with MMP and SOS is THE BUZZ in their world, period.

Cebeda's going away line on his show was.... " from occupied Mexico, AZTLAN, we are in a war and being attacked, so we must respond!"

So I guess it's all a myth ? They are not interested in "taking it back"?!

Uh huh, and I have a bridge for sale...

NOTE: The Baldwin Park incident was when Save Our State protested the monument that is clearly Reconquista. Here's the link.

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Photographs from the riot (Hat Tip: 1inchgroup at SOS):


Milling crowds


Remember the Baldwin Park story? Well, those words are not empty. Read the big white sign in front.


Police in riot gear tried to hold back the protestors so the MMP supporters could leave their meeting


"Terrorism"? Who attacked whom tonight?


Notice the protestor flipping the bird. Not sure what "self-defense" is about...


Classy rhetoric


MECHa representatives joined the rally (woman and amn at far right of photo). And you thought they were legit?


Police on horseback and in full riot gear.

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MORE UPDATES:

From the President of ALIPAC:

I'm in Vegas for the summit.

The local news, CBS 8 is running the story about the MMP/Gilchrist event over and over again.

They are saying that a memember of the MMP ran over protestors and was arrested. They are showing a picture of him being taken away by a police officer.

They ARE NOT mentioning that his car was surrounded and attacked. They ARE NOT mentioning that at least 8 protestors were arrested.

Then they point out that Gilchrist will be at the summit at the Cashman Center here in Vegas this weekend.

Protests are already planned. With this biased coverage we are in grave danger. Please please get on the phones to all local press and national press and tell them to balance this coverage with the other info!

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UPDATE 5/26 14:16:

Anti-illegals activists threatened
Hispanic group suggests food workers might taint food at Vegas summit

A radical anti-American group working for the establishment of a separate Hispanic nation in the southwest U.S. has threatened attendees of an anti-illegal immigration conference in Las Vegas planned for this weekend, saying Mexican food workers might cause "Montezuma's Revenge" among those they serve.

A news release from La Voz de Aztlan – which sees its struggle for a separate state with Los Angeles as its capital as similar to that of the Palestinians in the Middle East – announces that leaders of the "USA Anti-Mexican Movement" – Aztlan's own term – will be meeting this weekend in Las Vegas.

The release from La Voz de Aztlan ends with the threat:

"What the bigots who will be meeting at the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas don't know may not harm them, but the fact is that most of the personnel who work in the hotel's kitchens are Mexican. We pray that they don't fall victims of 'Montezuma's Revenge' from eating the food."

Hispanic activists for years have sought a separate state from the area they believe was unjustly taken by the U.S.

"If in 50 years most of our people are subordinated, powerless, exploited and impoverished, then I will say to you that there are all kinds of possibilities for movements to develop like the ones that we've witnessed in the last few years all over the world, from Yugoslavia to Chechnya," University of California at Riverside professor Armando Navarro told WND in 2002.

"A secessionist movement is not something that you can put away and say it is never going to happen in the United States," he continued. "Time and history change."

Aztlan, the mythical birthplace of the Aztecs, is regarded in Chicano folklore as an area that includes California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas. It is this area – lost when Mexico signed the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican-American War – that activists want to make into a sovereign Hispanic state that could eventually merge with Mexico.

On its website, La Voz de Aztlan, which means the Voice of Aztlan, identifies Mexicans in the U.S. as "America's Palestinians." Many Mexicans see themselves as part of a transnational ethnic group known as "La Raza," the race. La Voz de Aztlan declares on its site that "both La Raza and the Palestinians have been displaced by invaders that have utilized military means to conquer and occupy our territories."

NOTE: La Voz de Aztlan is VERY HEAVILY pro-jihad, anti-America, and anti-Semitic. They completely identify with Al-Qaida and Hezbollah. Their rhetoric is incredibly inflammatory.

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UPDATE 5/26 16:48: Headlines and photos from this site, on the other side (LA Independent Media):

Reports of arbitrary arrests of peaceful protesters in Garden Grove - The protest was peaceful and non-violent until the police rushed the crowd and arrested people for no reason.

Protesters attacked in Garden Grove

The pictures have been debunked as phony. And, if this protester report is to be believed (if you can stomach the spin), most of those protesting were Chicano(a) and at least one leader of MEChA was there.

All links are from The Immigration Blog

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UPDATE 5/26 18:00:

Alert: The FBI has an active investigation into specific terroristic threats against the food supply for the Summit in Vegas. There is a real Aztlan threat.

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UPDATE 5/26 20:18:

Man Freed After Driving Into Minuteman Protesters

Harold Edmund Netkin, 69, was initially handcuffed Wednesday night, but was later released without being cited, said Garden Grove Police Lt. Mike Handfield.

Netkin's car was surrounded as he arrived at the Garden Grove Women's Club, 9501 Chapman Ave., and demonstrators rocked the vehicle and banged on it, Handfield said.

"We determined it was reasonable for him to move forward," Handfield said.

Two people who were standing in front of Netkin's car fell down when he moved forward, the sergeant said. One complained of knee and shoulder pain and was taken to a local hospital, he said.

According to broadcast reports, the other also went to the hospital.

Police were aware of the demonstration and had five dozen officers on scene "expecting to keep the peace," Handfield said. But some of the estimated 300 demonstrators were there "not to protest but to commit criminal acts," he said.

"A small contingent of people that were troublemakers had backpacks filled with full cans of soda that they were throwing and also cans filled with marbles that they threw," Handfield said.

Some of the protesters wore rubber gloves and donned sweatshirt hoods pulled tightly so only a small portion of their faces could be seen, he said.

Those arrested were identified by police as Hugo Sarmiento Vanlid, 24, Ivan Obed Silva, 26, Shane William Sparks, 21, Fernando Chirino, 23, and Kurt Takeshi Isobe, 18.

In that same article, the official spokesperson for the protesting group had quite a different story - completely oposite ALLLL the police officers there:

Jan Tucker, chair of the California Association of Licensed Investigators, said he accompanied state and local leaders of the League of United Latin American Citizens to the talk. He said the atmosphere inside the meeting "was the flip side" of what was happening outside. "It was extremist inside," Tucker said. "The audience was so hostile inside we were afraid to ask questions."

Attendees who were not members of the club were charged $5 and reportedly had to write down their names, addresses and telephone numbers to get inside.

OOOHHHHH. Thats sounds about as terrible as my local PTA meetings or bunco group!!!! Of course you pay if you're not a member of a private club. Geez! That clown thinks it was racist. I, personally, would've charged $500 - might've gotten something out of his self-righteous presence...or deterred it, which would be preferable, anyways.

Tucker said he was not disruptive, but was still asked to leave. After refusing, an officer came over and spoke to him, but Tucker said he still plans to sue the California Coalition for Immigration Reform for allegedly violating his rights "because they tried to get me arrested."

Tucker said members of LULAC were outside demonstrating, but were strictly cautioned to remain non-violent and to refrain from provoking police.

Tucker said none of the people he spoke to after the event mentioned that Netkin's van was surrounded or was being hit, but insisted that he gunned the car at people. Police did not witness the vandalism, and no arrest was made.

Obviously, "his people" didn't listen too well about "remaining non-violent and refraining from provoking police", if they came armed with cans full of marbles to throw!

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UPDATE 5/26 00:18:

Here is an emailed report from a female attendee of the MM event that was attacked by protestors (Again, a Hat Tip to 1inchgroup):

*************Emailed report of the meeting from Robin**************

TO PEACEFULLY ASSEMBLE...
MMP founder Jim Gilchrist CCIR keynote speaker


When we arrived at the CCIR meeting, there were about 60 sidewalk protesters. The police were onsite. Some in riot gear. The protesters brought their bullhorns. Their drums. Their signs.

Media swarmed.

It was daylight when we arrived, which added an element of security. The police had yellow-taped the entire parking lot so that only CCIR attendees could enter. It was well guarded.

Jim Gilchrist gave a spontaneous, rousing, speech. From the heart Which drew many standing ovations. What an inspirational event! Even though, at times the protesters' pitch would rise so high we could hear them inside, Jim defended the protesters' right to assemble.

After the meeting, under the shield of darkness, about 60 protesters raged.

Under a near-full moon, the protesters were rapidly marching in an ellipse on the sidewalk. With bullhorns, frenzied, screaming repeatedly:

"Racist scum go home!"

If that's not hate speech, what is?

I stood transfixed, under the moonlight, as a police helicopter flashed light down on the frenzied protesters. The protesters marched behind police tape, on the sidewalk as well as the taped off driveway exit.

By now it was time for the CCIR 200 or so attendees to exit the parking lot in their vehicles.

Initially, a showing of police attempted to get the frenzied marchers to step away from the driveway as cars were lining up to leave the parking lot. But the protesters screamed at a more fevered pitch, "Racist scum go home," and continued to march in their ellipse that included the driveway. Blocking the exit.

Lined up drivers in their vehicles, were asked by police to turn off their headlights and wait.

First, a line of riot police, attempted to get the protesters to move away from the driveway.

The protesters marched more ferociously. They screamed, "Racist scum go home," as they blocked the exit to the homebound attendees - NOT allowing them to go home.

At this point, about six police officers mounted on beautiful horses carefully strode toward the stubbornly marching protesters. With horse power and riot police, officers were able to slowly and deliberately move protesters away from the driveway.

Mind you, they weren't trying to get the protesters to leave per se, just free up the exit.

Next, the protesters' focus turned away from the CCIR attendees to the police. The street was closed. But now the ferocious yelling targeted the police. Riot police and mounted police contended with the protesters. There was commotion. Howling. Yelling. Screaming.

Then one protester was dragged off, his legs limp, by two policemen in riot gear.

But police in riot gear and mounted on horseback were slowly getting the protesters corralled in the street, freeing up the exit, ringing the protesters, surrounding the protesters with police. The police force worked in tandem - calm, confident and ultimately triumphant.

One of our attendees summed up the scene well - savage.

Vehicles turned on their headlights and cautiously began to exit. We were routed one direction as squad cars, lights blazing, riot police, and mounted police forced the protesters back.

Thank goodness for that police protection! Without it, a rampage would have occurred.

And I ask myself, who was allowed to peacefully assemble at this gathering?

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After Minuteman Melee, Protesters Have New Beef:
The man who drove his van into demonstrators outside an event in Garden Grove won't be charged. One activist says that's unfair.

By Jennifer Delson and Mai Tran, Times Staff Writers

Still not able to get ALL the facts straight, another LA Times article again touts the story about a van "hitting" several protestors in a crowd. You can read the whole article, which doesn't give out much new info that I hadn't already posted in the form of updates. But this quote from an attorney who was "flung upon the hood of the vehicle", if you read the rather dramatic comment of a non-witness Indymedia hound (in the comments section of this article), is really pretty funny:

James Lafferty, director of the National Lawyers Guild in Los Angeles, said he was among those struck by Netkin's van. He said staging protests at Gilchrist's events was necessary, even if it increased his profile. [Riiiiight, 'cuz lawyers never want to increase their profile!]

"I'm glad there were people there saying something [Wednesday night]. We need to have this debate," said Lafferty, who said he was not injured. "We can't just stand and watch this."

I'm thinkin' that lawyer could give lessons of how to get "injured" by a vehicle. I posted my thoughts on this scenario in the comments.

Here's what the LA Times article got right:

The protesters blocked the entrance and tossed soda cans and cans packed with marbles at police and attendees, Handfield said. They kicked, banged and threw rocks at cars; some wore latex gloves and hoods so they wouldn't be identified by police, Handfield said. Some attendees decided not to enter the building because they feared violence.

Some of the protesters paid $5 for admission to the event and alerted protesters outside when attendees were leaving the building.

Arrested were Fernando Chirino, 23, of Irvine; Kurt Isobe, 18, of Laguna Beach; Juan Obed Silva, 26, of Buena Park; Shane Sparks, 21, of Altadena; and Sarmiento Valid, 24, of Los Angeles. They face various charges, including assault with a deadly weapon and misdemeanor disorderly conduct, Handfield said.

Lafferty said the arrests were unfair.

Have you ever heard an attorney say an arrest was fair?! Can this guy possibly sound any more like a cliche than this?

Gilchrist and his followers "are mainstreaming hate," Kahn said. "They are creating and disseminating a message of hate. They put these messages into the public and harass and intimidate people.

"Mainstreaming hate?" Who was outside flipping the bird, cursing and screaming, and holding placards blaring "Racists go to hell!" and "Vigilante Terrorists"? Umm... that was your side, dude!

"This movement is gaining national momentum, and we need to build solidarity," Kahn added.

Yes, we can all see that, and that's why we're worried. Because your side does not love America, and your side wants Reconquista. We can all see the momentum you're creating, and the traction your are gaining. It is worrisome to many of us.

For those who need to do something, go to ALIPAC and get busy.

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UPDATE 6/2 02:48

Who are the protestors, really? Not really who we thought, but MORE than we thought.

While searching for the "other side" of the story, I saw a telephone number on a number of protest posters on the photos on Heidi's site. I called and got the machine for the LA chapter of "ANSWER Coalition", an anti-war group. Odd. So I Googled the number and found that the same number is apparently used by a variety of left-wing groups such as the Coalition for Equal Marriage Rights Los Angeles and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

My reason for pointing this out is not an attempt at an ad hominem argument. We can disagree about what to do about illegal immigration just as much as I might disagree with some Minuteman/SOS types who hold racist/protectionist/English-only views on the same subject. However, it is hard to approach a subject expecting a credible public argument when one party of the discussion not only turns violent, but ends up apparently being the sort of people who are out protesting everything but sunshine.

Hat tip: Richard at Randomize

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Exclusive Interview with Pantano's Attorney

Kit has published her exclusive interview this morning with Charles Gittens, LT Pantano's attorney. You won't read this anywhere else!

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It's Official - Pantano is free!

Well, people, I guess that's it. For those of you who were following the LT Ilario Pantano trial as closely as I was, you'll be glad to know that the court of MG Huck, commander of the 2nd Marine Division based at Camp Lejeune, has agreed to follow LTC Winn's recommendation to drop ALL charges against Pantano, and has also dropped ALL specifications.

Winn wrote in his recommendation that Pantano should face nonjudicial punishment for allegedly desecrating the bodies by reloading his weapon and repeatedly shooting them. Pantano said he shot the men until they stopped moving.

Huck could have accepted Winn's recommendation, given some form of administrative punishment or gone ahead with a court-martial. He decided that Pantano should face no punishment for any of his actions.

"The best interests of 2nd Lt. Pantano and the government have been served by this process," the Marine Corps said in a statement.

Supporters of Pantano said troops should not be second-guessed for decisions made in fleeting seconds of combat.

So, if the best interests of the Marines have finally been served, I guess that begs the question of why they went through all this in the first plac? Charles Gittens, Pantano's attorney, said: "Down at the unit level, there was never a question about Ilario's conduct and whether or not he did the right thing. It was up in the higher echelons. The people removed from combat situations needed to put more trust in their officers rather than assuming they're guilty."

So, it's over, but Kit at Euphoric Reality has EXCLUSIVE interviews with both Gittens and Pantano. I'll post everything as soon as I get it from her. Stay tuned...

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Radio DJ wins $10.6 million in stink over perfume

Ya know...sometimes I wonder what lawyer in his right mind thinks "Yeah! This is a slam dunk case!" How could an attorney hear the feeble, whiny facts of this case and arrive at the conclusion that he could win millions? What did he know about the lobotomized jury of freaks that makes no sense to the rest of us? The jury's verdict awarded the whiner/plaintiff $7 million in punitive damages, $2 million in mental anguish and emotional distress and $1.6 million for past and future compensation!! (?!)

Erin Weber, whiner/plaintiff, contends in her suit that she was fired in 2001 after she complained about being exposed to Tresor perfume, which is described by Lancome as a combination of rose and lilac. She said she was sickened by the fumes, a condition that began when a co-worker exposed her to spilled nail-polish remover. The perfume was worn, her suit said, by another employee.

Listen to this woman's "complaints":

Weber claimed exposure to Tresor caused her to lose her voice and take lengthy absences from work. She also said she once "felt an electric shock quell through my entire body" and required heavy medication to combat the effects.

I suggest that her "heavy medication" addled what few brain cells she had to work with. Obviously, the word 'quell' is inappropriately used and proves that this silly woman is using words too big for her tiny brain. Maybe that's really why she had to stay home from work - her feeble mind was overtaxed.

Her doctor, Martin Charles, "warned (Weber) that further exposure to perfume could even result in death," a brief from her lawyers said.

Her doctor said Weber shouldn't be exposed to co-worker Lee's Tresor perfume.

"Death" by Tresor, huh? *snort* Riiiiiight. So...what's his cut? 20%?

Weber claimed Lee, who is co-host of the Edwards & Lee afternoon show, intentionally exposed her to her perfume. WYCD said it specifically required Lee to stop wearing any perfume in response to Weber's complaints. The station said in its response that it modified Weber's schedule so they wouldn't come into conduct during shift changes.

Sounds overly reasonable to me. Like they bent over backward to accomodate this whiny ding-bat.

In a May 2001 e-mail to the station manager, presented as evidence, Weber said Lee's perfume caused her to lose her voice and that Lee intentionally walked by her at the Downtown Detroit Hoedown -- a popular annual country music festival. "Linda nearly brushed past me and a cloud of perfume trailed behind me," Weber wrote.

"To have brought the perfume with her suggests forward planning. This appears to be a premeditated attack which was entirely unprovoked by me in any way," Weber wrote. " Please tell me what steps you plan to take to ensure my safety."

Egads! Somebody slap this woman before I sue her for giving me a headache with all her whining!


Radio DJ wins $10.6 million in stink over perfume - 05/24/05

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Drooling Moron of the Year: "Forsake the Troops! Forsake the Police! The United States Sucks!"

OK...where do I start? How do I talk about this blithering idiot without giving him the validation of more attention that he so obviously craves? He's been bragging about the hits his sites have gotten since his story went national - and his moronic motives are outlined below. I hate to jump on the pile, but I cannot let this guy slide without saying something.

I absolutely will not embed links to his sites, so I'm sorry to make it slightly less convenient for you. It's the principle of the thing. His sites are Forsake the Troops, at .net and .info. You can also .com his name: Michael Crook, but I suggest you don't bother. I don't want to send traffic to his sites, so I've given you all of the pertinent info below.

Let me start off by saying thank God for freedom of speech. I've often encouraged the Lefties to exercise their freedom to its fullest so that they can prove their stupefying idiocy to the rest of us. But, obviously stretching that freedom past the breaking point is Michael Crook, the village idiot from Syracuse, NY. You've probably heard of him by now. Allow me to piss you off with examples of the rhetoric from his websites:

"Forsake The Troops" believes that as it stands currently, the compensation, benefit, and retirement packages that our active duty and retired military personnel get is outrageous, obscene, unearned, and above all.....undeserved.

These scumbags, who probably could not hack it in the civilian work force, made the choice to leech off of the American taxpayer, therefore we must do our part as taxpayers to recoup our funds, or at the very least stop this obscene abuse of our taxes, even if that means rounding up a group of concerned citizens to approach Congress to suggest the abolishment of our military.

Our goal is to eventually approach Congress about completely revamping the military pay structure and eliminating retirement benefits for the "retired" military scum...that is..personnel. That's right...Forsake The Troops is calling for an end to all forms of benefits for veterans. Shut down the VA hospitals, and make these scumbags pay their own way. It's just that simple.

# This website is proudly dedicated to the following ideals: The excessive base salaries must be reduced.

# All of the extra allowances must be eliminated. Soldiers should be made to pay all of their expenses (food, rent, uniforms, etc.) from base salary, just as it is in the real world. The soldiers should be made to pay 100% of the cost of medical insurance, and co-pays should be doubled from their current rate.

# If a soldier chooses off-base housing (and is eligible) he/she should pay for it out of base salary. We, the taxpayers, should not pay their rent. Isn't it enough our taxes pay for barracks? We'd be better off with pup tents.

# No soldier should get a tax break, as referenced to in IRS Topic 853-- No amount of money earned overseas by a US soldier should be exempted from taxes.

# The taxpayers should not have to pay for burial. If life insurance won't cover it (i.e. war) then the family should pay for it, just as it is in the real world. How is it our fault they chose to die?

Our underlying problem is this: the military is a lifestyle these morons chose. What idiot risks their life for a country? It's what they chose. Hopefully, they knew in their hearts this is abusing taxpayers' money, and they enlisted anyway. So...Forsake our Troops! Let 'em die in combat-- we don't need their ilk in this country!

Then, erroneously thinking he's radically clever, he posts this vile tagline:

U.S. Soldier= Poster child for retroactive abortion

Belatedly, he's added a wink-wink "disclaimer" to the bottom of his mission statement: Despite common opinion, we are not a hate group to the degree that we do not (officially) condone acts of violence, or any illegal acts towards military facilities or personnel.

Throughout his site, Crook labels soldiers "pukes", "scumbags", "idiots", "punks", "leeches", "dumbasses", and "criminals" - and says that they all deserve to die. He posts a running account of recent deaths in Iraq and rejoices over every one: Number of US soldiers killed in the Iraq War, of their own doing, because they CHOSE to be leeches: 1,587. These scumbags asked for it, and got it. Simper Cry. Then, under the title, "Punk Soldiers", Crook has posted photos of dead or injured soldiers and sneers:

This soldier was not a victim of anything else but his own poor choices. Forsake The Troops spits on him and all other "veterans" who died because of something that they chose to do. No sympathy here.

You can imagine the feedback this guy gets on his website, but he's gleefully posted a few comments from fans of his sick philosophy:

"Bluey" says: Great job on the website. I commend you for telling the truth. Somebody needed to do it because our government won't...I shouldn't have to pay for the enlisted to live like kings and queens. I appreciate that a lot of those guys have put their lives on the line, but that was their choice.

Here's winner from "Audie Murphy": First off, I would like to congratulate you on your courage. I'm glad that someone has the strength to stand up and point out the "wrongs" of the United States military.

I am totally against the military too, I know a lot of people will say that's unpatriotic, but when I think about it, do we really know what these so- called "soldiers" are doing there?

The media definitely is reporting a one-sided version of the war. Sure, some American's were dumb and got killed. How many Iraqi's and Afghani's get killed every day by some hot shot soldier? "Here are some bullets, go shoot up some poor family" That's what the Army General says to these soldiers. I know for a fact that the government spends billions of dollars for armor and huge guns for the soldier.

Compare that to a poor starving Iraqi. The Iraqi probably has an old broken rifle and a thin shirt. Suddenly these "American monsters", and that's definitely what the Iraqi's think Americans are now, bust into the man's house and start shooting up the place. Is this fair?

So I say, keep it going!

You getting the picture here? Well, it gets worse. For more attention, this Crook faked his own death. This hoax was recently posted on his site:

On Monday evening, the webmaster of Forsake The Troops was brutally assaulted by two men, thought to be members of the military, in response to their opinions about this website. Mr. Crook had been the target of numerous death threats and trespassers at his residence. All of these threats were saved and have been turned over to the authorities.

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UPDATE:
'At 6:19pm Eastern time, Michael Crook died of his injuries, after being rushed by ambulance to the leading hospital in the area for head trauma. The two men who allegedly assaulted him are currently in the custody of police. Mr. Crook died with his wife and infant daughter present.

'It is therefore the decision of his family, and associates that Forsake The Troops goes offline, to prevent further incidents of violence and threats against his family. Therefore, this domain will permanantly go offline at around 5pm Eastern time, on Tuesday, May 17th, 2005.

'Comments, and well-wishes may be addressed to noc@smishosting.com. Media inquiries (no interviews with family at this time), or sincere inquiries from well-meaning people may be directed to (315) 558-4372.

'Leave a voice mail message and your call will be returned by our media representative. The family requests privacy at this time."
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I am a member of Michael Crook's family...we do not have the passwords needed to update this website, but he did make me an account on this blog.

As it mentions on the Troops site, today at 6:19pm EST, Michael Crook died at an area hospital as a result of head injuries sustained from an assault by people upset with his website.

Michael died with his wife, and baby present. He was 27. The assaulters are in custody.

We ask for privacy at this time.

As you can probably imagine, the Democratic Underground (DU) instantly pissed their pants at this "news". Silly idiots. They freaked out, since this news of the "anti-war webmaster's assassination" only confirmed their fear and hatred of the military AND the Right (I kid you not!):

MADem freaks out: Holy Shit! It IS happening here. This is frightening.
tjDee opines: Well of course it is. Freeper types are usually violent thugs. I'm surprised they didn't use guns, since they're so obsessed with them. I'm nominating too. How not surprised yet utterly disgusted I am. I feel for his family and children.
Gman drones: That's how the RW [Right Wing] operates. That's how they intimidate.
lonestamot whines: Do you know the 10 steps to genocide?
Tyler Durden warns: And so it begins...The fate of Michael Crook is the future for all who oppose the new Nazis and their new Hitler. Make no mistake.
ben burch growls: I get death threats all the time. This is why I am a Fully Armed Liberal.
Old Leftie Lawyer moans: Oh, dear god. This is what that ratbastard in the White House has brought us to. This is beyond shocking. Speech has its price now, according to idiot thugs.
clem_c_rock prophesies: WE'RE ENTERING THE REALMS OF THE BROWNSHIRTS! We are entering some VERY VERY DARK TIMES. Fucking hell...

heh heh. Ok, now that's pretty funny - a full-on parade of Dumb and Dumber. The DUmmies only calmed down AFTER they snooped the Conservative and milblogs and "discovered" the hoax. For the life of 'em, they couldn't figure it out for themselves.

Anyways, after trying to frame soldiers for his "death", Crook has since showed up on Hannity and Colmes and various radio broadcasts. You can download the video of Crook's interview on Hannity & Colmes at The Political Teen. Crooks is reveling in the notoriety, and lest you assume that this publicity stunt is all a hoax, he goes out of his way to assure his readers:

A lot of e-mail messages have poured in, asking if this site is a "joke" or "hoax". That most certainly is not the case; Forsake The Troops is very serious about its mission, and its founder, Michael Crook, stands behind every word that appears within the site.

So, yes, this website is very serious, and death threats, foul language, meaningless petitions by a bunch of whiners, and mean instant messages will not stop the site."

Going on to emphasize his mortal retardation, Crooks adds this bit of silly fluff: "Forsake The Troops politely suggests a boycott of heavy metal group Metallica, due their obvious pro-military stance."

To ensure that his cancerous rhetoric doesn't stop with the military, he is creating more sites: Forsake the Police, and The United States Sucks! He's recently opened a forum, which you must register for in order to read or post (and I won't, so I didn't read the 71 current posts), and proudly proclaims: Thank you for visiting Forsake the Troops-- where we make the pro-military pukes our bitches!

A few personal observations...I'm thinking Michael Crook would be a welcome and celebrated dinner guest in Linda Foley's or Eason Jordan's households. They'd get along famously, I'm sure. And though he claims to have a wife and daughter, he sounds and acts highly effeminate, making me doubt that.

Furthermore, Crook hates the military because he desperately wanted to get in, and, not surprisingly, couldn't hack it! Ha Ha - the Ultimate Loser!

Lastly, Crook has a motive. He has performed a number of elaborate scams in an attempt to sell off his domain packages. The outraged publicity carries traffic to his sites, which he then uses to boost the price of his domains. His first site, Citizens Against the Troops, was run under the alias of Scott and Lori Vogel. You can go here to read an interview the Dread Pundit Bluto had with Crook in April. He discusses some of his many aliases:

The Dread Pundit Bluto: Is "Michael Crook" your real name? I've seen allegations posted that your name is really "Michael Delany-Vogel" or "Michael Delany".

Michael Crook: Michael Crook is my legal name. Mike Vogel-Delaney and Mike Delaney were names that I was known as in high school, and derive from family surnames.

And now, with the escalating public furor his Forsake the Troops site has caused, he is once again trying to sell the domain:

Now, he decided to start Silent Mike’s Internet Service, which hosted forsakethetroops.info. Once again, he started a ruckus by getting a bunch of people in an uproar and then posted a page saying that Silent Mike’s had pulled the site down for offensive content and once again he is offering to sell the domain off to the highest bidder.

There is no Scott or Lori Vogel. The whole scheme was thought up and carried off by Michael Crook. In addition, the man is a racist who is currently offering “discount” hosting packages to white supremists.

So there you have it: white supremacist Michael Crook made a notoriously offensive web site about an anti-military movement, and then he faked his own death and freaked out the DUms. The bad part about all this is that people are still falling for it and driving a steady stream of traffic his way. Worse still, there are losers out there who actually agree with him, elaborate hoax or no! No matter what, this guy is one sick fool.

What a filthy scumbag. What a contemptible waste of oxygen. What a [insert most vile metaphor you can think of here].

Ok, I'm sick of this already. Can we just Forsake the Moron?!

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Now that's my kind of pilot!

Here's a pilot that knows a deterrent when he packs one. (Make sure your speakers are on.)

If only we were so lucky...sounds like my kind of pilot!

Hat tip: Tabatha

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Blogosphere erupts over Foley Gate

The overt, anti-American bias of the media has never been more grotesque than lately, with accusations from media leaders that our American soldiers are targeting journalists.

Earlier this year, Jordan, CNN's chief news executive, suggested at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that some of the 63 journalists killed in Iraq had been specifically targeted by U.S. troops. Jordan quickly backed off his suggestion, but constant exposure from political weblogs led to his resignation. He also admitted last year that CNN withheld news of atrocities taking place in Iraq under the regime of Saddam Hussein because the network was afraid it might lose access to the country.

Now, Linda Foley, President of the 35,000 member Newspaper Guild, has echoed the claim. According to a video tape of her remarks, Foley said:

"Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted verbally or … ah, or … ah, politically. They are also being targeted for real, um … in places like Iraq. What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq."

Foley continued, "They target and kill journalists … uh, from other countries, particularly Arab countries like Al -, like Arab news services like al-Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity. ..."

The comments were aired by Mark Hyman on his commentary segment "The Point". He has called for Foley to present evidence of her outrageous claims or resign over her irresponsible allegations:

"Unfortunately, the damage may have already been done," [Hyman] said. "Her remarks could lead to further bloodshed, including against Americans."

Hyman concluded: "The question is whether Newspaper Guild members will hold Foley accountable or will they give her a free pass in endangering American lives with inflammatory remarks without any proof?"

My educated guess is that the media, who honestly does believe the American military is evil and is trying to kill them , will give her a free pass. Andi, at Andi's world, has a strong opinion:

I'm left stunned that anyone could publicly say the things that you said, Ms. Foley. But, I realize that you spoke those words because you believe them, and you want others to believe them. The America that afforded you the opportunities that you enjoy, and built that platform from which you spew your hatred against fellow Americans, is the same America that you trample on with your irresponsible claims.

In a paltry, ineffectual effort to back away from her crystal clear accusations, Foley has weakly re-stated:

When asked if she believed U.S. troops had targeted journalists in Iraq, she said, "I was careful of not saying troops, I said U.S. military. Could I have said it differently? There are 100 different ways of saying this, but I’m not sure they would have appeased the right."

LaShawn Barber has contacted the Newspaper Guild (202.434.7177), and initially heard an interesting voicemail, which has since been changed. She's not holding her breath for a response, but you can stay tuned, just in case hell freezes over between now and then.

Red State has a great analysis of the actual numbers of journalist deaths in Iraq from 2003-2005. (Most interesting is that, BY FAR, most of the journalists are killed by Iraqi suicide bombers.) Foley Gate says that it will "watch left-wing journalists so that you won't have to." Considering the mounting evidence, that could turn into a full-time job!

Trey Jackson has video of Foley when she made this statement. You're welcome to it, if you want to watch her crap for yourself. And if you can't get enough on the blogosphere's hey-day with this left-wing nut job, visit The Word Unheard for LOTS of links. Finally, Kit, at Euphoric Reality, has a great idea for how Foley can spend her soon-to-be (if there's any justice in this world at all!) free time:

I volunteer to begin a collection to send Ms. Foley to Iraq, where she will be free to wander around without the protection of the “brutal and cavalier” U.S. military. Of course, the other side would be happy to put her up for a few days. She’s a friend of theirs, anyway.

An officer in Iraq has stepped into the ring with an an open letter in response to Linda Foley’s baseless accusations. His letter was posted in comments (#19) at PoliPundit.

Dear Newspaper Guild,

Serving here in Iraq, and having previously served in Afganistan, I am deeply offended by Ms. Linda Foley’s crystal clear allegation that the U.S. military conducts targeted killings of foreign journalists. Of course, she has no evidence. The U.S. military liberated these nations, and is providing security to facilitate the development of democratic governments that encourage such freedoms as that of the press.

On the other hand, however, there is plenty of evidence that there are journalists, or people posing as journalists, who are actively supporting the insurgents and, therefore, their terrorist tactics. For example, there was recently a CBS journalist who was firing at U.S. troops. Interestingly, when he was first apprehended, many of the newspapers you represent breathlessly reported that the U.S. had wounded a CBS journalist. After a brief investigation that revealed the man’s actual role in attacking U.S. troops, many of the same papers changed their decription to say only that it was a man who carried the credentials of a CBS journalist.

Another example of journalists who actively support the insurgency occurred recently at the 14th Street Bridge in Baghdad. This was the site of a spectacular car-bomb attack several months ago and there is an abanodoned building that stands alone near the site. One morning, the Iraqi police guarding the bridge noticed an abandoned car near their checkpoint. Upon investigation, they found that it was filed with explosives. After safely moving the dozens of innocent civilians who would likely have otherwise probably been killed by a blast, the police neutralized the car bomb.

Within minutes, a television camera crew, emerged from the abandoned building. When the Iraqi police questioned them, they simply showed their Al-Jazeera ‘journalist’ credentials, said they were filming the river and knew nothing of the car bomb. They then drove north toward the next bridge, where thirty minutes later a different car bomb detonated, killing Iraqi civilians. To the surprise of no one, the footage was aired on Al-Jazeera that night. Obviously, the crew had been informed of the terrorist plans, and even back-up plans, then actively supported terror against Iraqi civilians by filiming and broadcasting it around the world.

Another example, which does not yet rise to the level of evidence, is the photographer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his photo of insurgents executing Iraqi poll workers in the middle of a busy street, before the January 30th elections. From the perspective of the photo, it is clear that the photographer is close to the killers, there are thirty of them as described in the caption, and likely in the middle of the street with them. It begs the question of whether the photographer was collaborating with the killers.

That question is unikely to be answered, though, because Associated Press, the news organization who paid him, refuses to give his name, and explained that they were doing so in order to protect his ’safety.’ I ask you, if he was comfortable enough to be that close to the men who were executing those poll workers in broad daylight, exactly who is it that might pose a danger to this man?

The men and women of the U.S. military are risking their lives to end tyranny and bring freedom to these countries. It is insulting for the leader and chief spokesperson for your organization, which represents journalists from all over the country, to make baseless allegations in order to smear the reputation of the members of our armed forces.

I ask you to relieve Ms. Foley from her duties, and replace her with someone who understands the importance of having evidence to support sensational allegations, such as saying publicly that the U.S. military murders those from around the world who carry out one of our nation’s most sacred freedoms–the freedom of the press.

Thank you for your attention. Please e-mail a response to this address.

Sincerely,

Major Eric
Camp Victory
Baghdad

Well said, sir; and 'nuff said.

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Western civilization capitulates to jihad

Understanding history is a sure-fire way of not repeating the mistakes of the past. Yet, in our age of revisionism and misinformation, we're denying our heritage in favor of an effete, politically correct embrace of our enemies and inevitably, our own destruction.

Last week riots broke out in Afghanistan and Pakistan over an unfounded rumor, irresponsibly published by Newsweek magazine, that an American interrogator had flushed a Koran down the toilet. In response, the administration has been anxiously assuring the Muslim world that we indeed respect their religion and begging them to please like us.

Meanwhile, in last Friday's sermon televised on Palestinian Authority television the paid employee of the PA described the Jews as an AIDS-like virus responsible for all the world's evils, blamed their economic sabotage of Germany for the Holocaust, and predicted the future triumph of Islam over America, a time when "everything will be relieved of the Jews, even the stones and trees." Yes, this is the same Palestinian Authority whose elected leader, himself a published Holocaust denier, will soon visit the President of the United States and whose organization will receive millions of taxpayer dollars.

I don't know what to say. This is galling and unsupportable, in the very least. When will we learn that no matter what we do or say, the Muslims will hate us and long for our destruction? It's not a secret! It's common knowledge - taught in the mosques every day and screamed from the headlines of the kow-towing MSM. How can our leadership be so blind? How can we allow our leadership to continue down a path of appeasement?

As the final and complete revelation of the divine, Islam feels no need to respect or tolerate other religions or secular notions like "human rights," for they are all the detritus of infidel history to be swept away in the final triumph of the one true religion.

Hence, while we in the West anxiously monitor our words and deeds for even the slightest offense against Islamic sensibilities, we receive in exchange no such consideration; indeed, our eager protestations of respect merely excite more contempt.

I have no such personal compunction about monitoring my words concerning Islam and jihad, as you well know if you've read my blog for awhile. I make no apologies for my views that Islam is lunacy - I can find evidence of such every single day in the global news. For some folks, such evidence is mounting and maybe some day they'll have enough courage to take a stand. For others, no amount of evidence against violent jihad will ever be enough - and those leftist, self-hating liberals will rejoice in the fall of America. In fact, they'll do more than that - they will betray their country and countrymen in word and deed. They already do - every day - and we let them get away with it. Leftists call their tolerance and overt support of Islam "enlightenment", I call it "treachery".

[Their] mentality... is that of a psychological dhimmi, the non-Moslem who concedes Islam's superiority and, hence, right to rule him. That is, the world-view of those for whom...tolerance is the camouflage of moral exhaustion, and respect for the culture of the "other" is merely an expression of disbelief in the value of one's own. In short, like the hand wringing of the administration over an obvious lie only the irrational and ignorant would believe, this willingness to demonize the culture that created you and to extol as superior the culture that wants to destroy you can only be described as suicidal. Certainly the Islamist sees it that way, which is why he feels confident in predicting the ultimate triumph of his religion: he is willing to die and kill for his beliefs, whereas significant numbers of Westerners don't really believe that there is anything worth dying and killing for.

One of my personal favorite quotes, found on the bottom of my every blog page, is by John Stuart Mills: "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." The moral state of our leftist, liberal elites is irredeemably, morally bankrupt. It will take the sacrifice of better people to save their sorry asses. THEY are not worth it - but the freedom and preservation of our country is worth everything.

We are the beneficiaries of a culture created by those before us who forged European civilization in the fires of resistance to Islamic jihad: in Spain, in Sicily, in Eastern Europe, in Greece--the plunder, rape, slaughter, massacres, sacks, kidnapping, and enslavement perpetrated by the armies of Allah were for centuries fought by those whose names now most Westerners have forgotten or would be embarrassed to claim as their own. Don John, Charles Martel, Leo the Isaurian, Prince Eugene, Montecuccoli, Andrea Doria, El Cid, Sobieski, Charlemagne, Suvorov, Boucicaut, Hunyadi, Fernando II of Castile, Alfonso I of Aragon, Guiscard, Harold Hardrada. Who among us knows anything about the men who fought and killed so that Europe, and Europe's offspring America, today looks like Europe and America instead of looking like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or Syria?

Movies like Kingdom of Heaven, an atrocious (not to mention exceedingly boring) revision of the Crusades, spend hundreds of millions to romanticize jihad and demonize Westerners. Only those who KNOW history can identify the obvious lies and distortion of historical fact. Everyone else, pitifully ignorant of history and apathetically unwilling to seek the truth, accepts this revision at face value and in doing so, builds the bigotry against our heritage and the valor of our ancestors and replaces it with tolerance and support of Islam.

Because of the brutal violence of those [Western] warriors against jihad, we in the West today enjoy the luxury of cynicism, cheap irony, effete tolerance, and hedonism. We moral dwarves stand on the shoulders of those giants and spit on their heads, thinking our ingratitude is really an intellectual sophistication superior to the primitive superstitions and naïve ideals that have made our lives of freedom and prosperity possible.

Westerners and Americans are blithely ignoring the lessons of history. En masse, we consider ourselves evolved and enlightened - when nothing could be further from the truth. In truth, we are moral dwarves...stunted in wisdom, prudence, and historical understanding, and pitifully weak in our convictions. We are unwilling to fight an enemy that has openly declared war on us. Our apathy is weakness... and our weakness is suicide.

The One Republic - Bruce Thornton

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Saddam in his Man-Panties

Yes, I know - we've all had a good laugh at the fearsome dictator's expense. Well, at least some of us have. Some of you are humorless and never laugh, and I feel sorry for you.

So there's Saddam in his "man-panties"... Besides the inevitable "Ewwww. Yuck.", I must confess to a rather gleeful snicker. I guess I'm just not serious-minded enough about these kinds of things. I mean, how many of us have used the speech technique of imagining an audience in their underwear in order to overcome stage fear? Why do we use that technique? Because the humor of it is supposed to alleviate the fear.

Suffice it to say that the rhetoric is flying fast and furious - some say that this will "fan the fires of jihad", as if they weren't already burning fiercely. Some say it's well deserved and pretty damn funny to see the hated murderer in his "man-panties". Still others profoundly argue that REAL men wear boxers. That, I must say, is a reasonable argument, and deserving of more public discussion.


Anyways, if you haven't had enough, you can read some of the rhetoric here.

Some Iraqis said the photos are just the latest in a series of insults to Arabs and Muslims. Others said the humiliation is just what the imprisoned 68-year-old former dictator deserved.

He deserved humiliation? That's an understatement!

"It is clear that the pictures were taken inside the prison, which means that American soldiers have leaked the pictures," said Saddam's chief lawyer, Ziad al-Khasawneh.

Is that right? Oh yeah, the "American soldier" is the ultimate embodiment of pure evil, right? All pain and suffering in the world is because of the "American soldier". Puh-lease. I'm so tired of that worn-out old rhetoric I could snooze.

"Regardless of what he did, they shouldn't have been published. This is an insult to humanity, and whoever published them must be prosecuted," Nasr said.

Can we put this in perspective? Do any of these phrases ring a bell: rape rooms, mass graves, chemical attacks, human shredding, millions dead, mass starvation of his own people, feeding girls to dogs, etc.? A photo of an ugly, hairy, pot-bellied Arab in his tighty-whities hardly registers as a crime against humanity! Ok, well, except that it's an atrocity to the senses. But, those more sensitive can always look away, whereas it's kinda hard to escape the blades of a shredding machine when you're fed into it feet first!

Saddam's attorney said he will sue the newspaper "and everyone who helped in showing these pictures."

*Yawn* Of course, I'd expect nothing less. Join the docket like every other grubby civil suit attorney out there.

Aside from U.S. soldiers, the only others with access to Saddam are his legal team, prosecuting judge Raed Johyee and the ICRC.

Ummm...that's still alot of other people. It's easy to assume that the "evil American soldier" did this...but let's speculate for a moment that somone else did. Any low-rung Red Crosser coulda done it just for the fun of it a few bucks; and Saddam's legal team coulda done it to trump up charges and provoke a response. The whole idea of targeting an American soldier is convenient and lazy and cliche. Yet, no matter who did it - it's still damn amusing. Yeah, I know - shallow of me. I'm just not able to work up any fire and brimstone over this.

"Saddam Hussein and his regime were bloody and practiced mass killing against the people; therefore, whatever happens to Saddam, whether he is photographed naked or washing his clothes, it means nothing to me. That's the least he deserves," said Hawre Saliee, a 38-year-old Kurd.

In Bahrain, Ali Yousef, 21, said he "cracked up" when he saw the pictures.

"I don't care about Saddam. He was a ruthless dictator and he deserves worse," Yousef said.
Muhammed al-Sabah, Kuwait's foreign minister, said he has no sympathy for the man who invaded his country in 1991.

"What happened to him on this earth is really of minor consequences. I certainly believe in my heart of hearts that he's going to go to hell," al-Sabah told CNN. "He is a villain."

What they said.

Dudman, The Sun's managing editor, defended the decision to print the pictures.

"They are a fantastic, iconic set of news pictures that I defy any newspaper, magazine or television station who were presented with them not to have published," he said. "He's not been mistreated. He's washing his trousers. This is the modern-day Adolf Hitler. Please don't ask us to feel sorry for him."

There. Now that's a proper, grown-up prespective.

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Star Wars...who cares?

I've fallen behind on my work - imagine that. So I'm playing catch up with deadlines looming today and tomorrow. Thus, I'm taking a day or two off of blogging. Even though I'm worried about missing the goings-on of the world, I've glanced (merely glanced, I tell you) at the headlines and only saw 'Star Wars' this and 'Revenge of the Sith' that. *snore* So, with global headlines blathering on and on and on about 'Star Wars', there's really nothing else going on - forget the wars, the politics, and scandals. 'Star Wars' opened today (or rather, in the middle of the night, for those weird enough to HAVE to see it first), and I'm confident that I can skate for the next day or so without blogging.

I'm not a 'Star Wars' fan, and have actually cruelly mocked it ever since I had the misfortune of seeing the one with JarJar Binks - god-awful, it was. BUT, I do have a 10-year old son and 2 nephews and several brothers who have scarely BREATHED today because of all the coverage of this movie release. As such, I cannot escape the mania, and have to pretend I'm listening when they try and convince me of the sheer genius and historical significance of this movie. Thank god there's no testing at school today because I fear for my son's inattentiveness! My bro-in-law actually skipped work. *sigh* OK, whatever - do what you gotta do, I guess.

I'll admit, I don't get it. I won't go into details about why the whole franchise bores me, for fear of radical retribution. In fact, I fear that more than when I rant about illegal immigration or Muslim terrorism - and I've used some provocative and controversial language when ranting about both those topics. Yet, nothing would probably garner more hate mail than if I were to slice and dice the 'Star Wars' franchise!

If you're reading this, then you're on a computer somewhere, which means that you are genetically pre-dispositioned with a latent "geek" gene to ADORE 'Star Wars' and live for this latest (and last) release. Only a few of us have escaped that neural hard-wiring.

Mytheory is that our ambivalence is due to our 'Star Wars' neurons having been neutralized, probably during a few pregnancies. Yes, that assumes we're female, since I've never actually met a male who didn't care about 'Star Wars'. And, that also assumes we're Moms because most single girls and women I know have succumbed to the hype and have joined the mania. This is completely unscientific, mind you, and I may roam in more techie circles, where the 'Star Wars' neurons are commonly stronger than in the rest of the population at large. Anyways, back to my theory - for those of us who simply don't care, it may be because our 'Star Wars' neurons were washed continuously with all kinds of Mommy hormones until they were rendered benign. Now that's just speculation since most Moms I've talked to (with the exception of a few who are feeding on their sons' and husbands' palpable fanaticism) are bewildered by the inexplicable appeal but magnanimously generous in catering to it. It's kinda like we're immune, but will selflessly care for those so genetically pre-disposed to 'Star Wars' mania.

So, if you're gonna stand in line for half a day, with your precious tickets (which you probably bought online 2 months ago) clutched in your trembling little hands - then you aren't reading the blogs anyway and neither of us are missing anything. If you, like me, are alone and isolated in your complete disregard for the 'Star Wars' release, then maybe you can take this opportunity to read a book or write a letter.

Me? I'm actually gonna get back to work. As I said, deadlines are looming, and I've gotta work for a living.

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Is there an illegal alien uprising brewing in CA?

(Baldwin Park, CA) May 14, 2005 will go down as another day that Americans had an opportunity to see the future of the nation and the vicious undercurrents of hate and separatism brewing in the ranks of illegal aliens in the South Western United States.

Unfortunately, biases in the media once again have asserted their filters keeping most of America in the dark. Those that have had the opportunity to see the local media coverage of the SaveOurState.org protest of the Baldwin Park monument will still find themselves lacking accurate and complete information.

Americans are increasingly turning to black market news sources to learn of the massive high school riots , attacks on law enforcement by illegal alien gangs , the systematic destruction of state budgets, the bankruptcy and closure of hospitals , and other horrific news precipitated by a hidden invasion that the mainstream media (MSM) feels is less important that the Michael Jackson trial. It should come as no surprise then that the MSM did not tell America about what happened at Baldwin Park.

About 50 Save Our State protestors found themselves outnumbered almost 10 to 1 by a violent mob of illegal aliens supported by local politicians and radical leftist groups. The angry mob of illegal aliens and activists were joined by anarchists, socialist, and separatist militants like the Brown Berets. The Brown Berets have been responsible for assaults on Americans during prior events.

The SOS protestors had gathered to bring attention to slogans carved into a taxpayer purchased monument that was discovered during Billboard Gate .

Both the billboards and the Baldwin Park monument, "Danzas Indigenas", contradict the claim that there is no rebellion brewing in the ranks of the illegal aliens flooding America. The LA Billboards showed Los Angeles with a new address in Mexico and the Baldwin Park monument claims "It was better before they came" and "This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is, And will be again."

The most concrete evidence that Reconquista is real and that there is a rebellion brewing in the pro-illegal alien ranks in S. California was on proud display by those defending the monument in Baldwin Park. This angry mob carried messages that the MSM has chosen to exclude from their reports.

Although the SOS protestors were a diverse range of Americans of different races, genders, and age groups, they were confronted with signs that screamed "Racists!" and "SOS Nazis". The press was quick to point these signs out without pointing out the multi-ethnic and demographic diversity of SOS.

The traditional media completely missed the real story! They decided not to tell you of the opposition signs that read "F*** THE ALAMO", "YOU DON"T RULE US", "WHO'S THE ILLEGAL PILGRIMS?", and "MINUTEMEN BEWARE".

They also omitted the fact that the opposition mob had one American flag that was desecrated by some members of the crowd before opposition organizers grabbed it. Mexican flags were abundant in the mob and SOS protestors were told "This is Mexico.", "You stole this land!" and "Get Out!" as the mob clearly chanted "We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us!"

What could put such blinders on the local and national press? Have they been so trained to look in the same direction for racism and hatred all their lives that when confronted with it right in front of their faces on a grand scale they miss the boat? Can't see the forest for the trees?

Although the press originally reported there were no injuries, a 66 year old woman that stood with the SOS protestors was struck in the head by a full water bottle that was arched high into the air from the angry mob. She was taken away on a stretcher front of the media as the pro-illegal mob cheered and made mocking gestures to add insult to her injury. She spent a night in ICU as doctors watched for signs on internal bleeding in her brain.

Near the end of the protest, things almost reached catastrophic levels. Although police in riot gear kept their attention pointed at the increasingly violent mob the opposition protestors surrounded SOS supporters, preventing any safe way to leave at the end. Police then informed the SOS protestors they should leave and they could not guarantee their safety.

The threat of mass violence against the SOS supporters that were exercising their American rights was imminent. Police eventually took them to a secure area where SOS supporters, including a blind lady that came by bus, could be extracted.

This protest illustrated all of the factors we as Americans face with the illegal immigration crisis.

Press that is willing to exclude, distort, and translate information in a way that keeps Americans in the dark or misled about the situation.

Police that can barely keep control of the growing mob of illegals that do not respect our laws, our people, and our national territorial claims.

Local politicians that are a part of the separatist movement.

Messages in governmental and corporate displays that encourage the uprising.

Patriotic Americans that find themselves increasingly threatened with violence, hatred, racism, and intimidation on American soil by angry mobs.

A simmering separatist movement called Aztlan that is gaining strength day by day as 6-10 thousand new illegal aliens enter our nation each night.

The Aztlan separatist movement is real. Reconquista is real. We are in danger of losing part of America thanks to negligent and complicit press and politicians.

Brave Americans that are willing to put their personal safety at risk to warn us all are being maligned and threatened.

Perhaps this protest is a microcosm and gives us a glimpse of the future? There is growing evidence that many Californians, especially the middle class tax base, are fleeing the state already. Do the SaveOurState.org activists represent a much larger group that will be needing an armed escort to the new border when a spark ignites this brewing revolt? The Rodney King riots could pale in comparison to this independance movement.

Those of us that know the facts about the occupied territory of Baldwin Park, CA must warn our countrymen and take action as a nation to protect and defend the United States of America.

Please follow this link to learn more.

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"OOPS - sorry 'bout that!"

Too little, too late, Newsweak. The whole thing was virtually a hoax. In the escalating aftermath of shoddy and inaccurate reporting, Newsweak has fanned the flames of jihad against America, by publicizing an event that they don't even think is true!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newsweek magazine said on Sunday it erred in a May 9 report that U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to the victims of deadly Muslim protests sparked by the article.

Editor Mark Whitaker said the magazine inaccurately reported that U.S. military investigators had confirmed that personnel at the detention facility in Cuba had flushed the Muslim holy book down the toilet.

The report sparked angry and violent protests across the Muslim world from Afghanistan, where 16 were killed and more than 100 injured, to Pakistan to Indonesia to Gaza. In the past week it was condemned in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Malaysia and by the Arab League.

Michael Williams says:

It's not exactly like the Muslim crazies need much of an excuse to riot, kill people, and burn the American flag, but Newsweek is still responsible for fanning the flames that led those deaths and injuries. It's particularly egregious because the magazine obviously intended to set this wildfire, and they're only apologizing because the crap they printed turned out to be false. Is it unpatriotic for an American magazine to purposefully incite hatred and violence against our country? Signs point to yes.

I agree. And Newsweak's weak statement, now that people have died as a direct result of its wrong information, is a lame attempt to cover its ass:

"We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst," Whitaker wrote in the magazine's latest issue, due to appear on U.S. newsstands on Monday.

This is the too little, too late part. It hardly goes far enough, and doesn't do a lick of good now that severe damage has been done.

Whitaker told Reuters that Newsweek did not know if the reported toilet incident involving the Koran ever occurred. "As to whether anything like this happened, we just don't know," he said in an interview. "We're not saying it absolutely happened but we can't say that it absolutely didn't happen either."

Again, Michael Williams has a scathing opinion of such wishy-washy unconvincing statements:

Wow, that's some spectacular content you've got in your magazine. Good thing you respected media elites have editors like Mark Whitaker to maintain that exalted maybe/maybe-not standard that all we bloggers marvel at.

Jay Tea at Wizbang thinks that Newsweak can't be held legally responsible for the collective Islamic Freak Out:

I have to argue against the most severe sanctions people are proposing against Newsweek - in particular, lawsuits for the deaths of those killed in the ensuing riots.

The purpose of such lawsuits is to hold people liable for reasonable and predictable reactions to their actions, and I don't think the riots and deaths fall into that category.

I willingly grant the "predictable" element, but I draw the line at "reasonable." The use of that is to justify the unjustifiable. The riots were a completely irrational and wrong response, and Newsweek should not be held responsible for what a bunch of religious, West-hating whackos do. Those lunatics are simply atrocities waiting to happen, and anything - anything - can be the trigger.

Borg Queen thinks that Jay Tea might be a little soft on Newsweaks' culpability:

It's not the first time these lunatics have gone on rampages, not the second, not the tenth, and certainly won't be the last. How could Newsweek NOT anticipate the likelihood that this is exactly what would happen?

Reporting an incident that actually happened is one thing. Reporting something that is so potentially explosive on the "I think I read somewhere" word of an anonymous source with no other corroberation at all is another.

One thing we all agree on is that Islam, the "Religion of Peace", is anything but. How many people have to die in religious-fervor inspired RIOTS, before the world gives a collective yawn and WAKES UP to the insanity of Islam? You heard it here: they're radically crazy - as a whole. Today's Islam is a crazy-in-the-head mental disorder."

It's a Muslim bloodbath out there! There is not even a modicum of restraint or prudence in a gathering of Muslim fanatics! No other religion on the planet inspires such violence, either toward themselves or others.

As Pirate commented here:

How many Buddhists rioted and killed people when the Taliban blew up Buddhists statues?

How many Jews rioted and killed people when Jewish graves were turned into bathrroms and Jewsish Temples were burned?

How many Catholics rioted when beastiality films were made with Priests and Nuns, or 'art' was made when a Cross was put in urine?

Last thoughts on the universal violence of the "Religion of Peace":

Did you know that out of 23 active conflicts on the planet today, Muslims are warring in 19 of them?! It’s NOT just about us(Americans) vs THEM! It’s about Islam’s stated goal of decimating the infidels. That’s everyone except THEM!

In 2000, 32 armed conflicts were underway; and more than two thirds involved Muslims. Today, only 4 wars do not include Muslims! The violence and reach of Islam is escalating. Yet Muslims are only about one fifth of the world’s population.

Contemporary global politics is in the age of Muslim wars. Muslims fight each other and fight non-Muslims far more often than do peoples of other civilizations. Muslim wars have replaced the cold war as the principal form of international conflict. These wars include wars of terrorism, guerrilla wars, civil wars and interstate conflicts. These instances of Muslim violence could congeal into one major clash of civilizations between Islam and the West or between Islam and the Rest.

The age of Muslim wars will end when its causes change or are changed.

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Internet Vigilante Targets Terrorist Web Sites

A profile of the founder of Internet Haganah from St. Louis' KMOV, "Internet vigilante targets terrorist Web sites," with thanks to Jeffrey Imm.

For most of us the war on terror involves soldiers and federal agents in foreign countries. But one local man is waging his own battle thousands of miles from the frontlines.

In this News 4 Extra, Marc Cox takes us inside that man's war room where his successful campaign is drawing death threats.

It's no surprise terrorist groups uses the Internet to spread the message of hate. It even boasts videos allegedly showing U. S. troops being killed by roadside bombs in Iraq.

But you may be shocked to learn the Web server hosting this site is based in the U.S. Enom.com is based in Bellevue, Washington.

“By and large, it's American companies that provide the services necessary to keep those sites online,” says Aaron Weisburd.

Weisburd takes that personally. This computer programmer now uses his cyber skills full time to root out terrorists. His Web site, Internet Haganah, tracks terrorist sites and shuts them down.

In three years Weisburd and his dozen volunteers have managed to get 650 sites taken offline. Those sites are used for fundraising and recruiting so Weisburd's success led one terrorist leader to issue a death threat against him.

“When you know you're on al Quaida's list, everything else is sort of like, not quite as exciting,” he says...

Hat tip: Jihad Watch

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Pantano's Article 32 Report is out

Kit wrote an excellent article here about LTC Winn's recommendation. In fact she's got the entire 16 page document!

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Current and Future Terrorists - a family tradition.

So is this what YOU thought terrorists looked like?!

Me either.


Current (mother) and future (son) terrorists.

Mohammad Hossein, 4, plays with his toy gun, in front of his mother, who is a member of a suicide commandos unit, during a meeting where more than 200 young men and women volunteers prepared themselves for special training to carry out suicide bomb attacks against Americans in Iraq and Israelis, at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, just outside Tehran, Iran, Thursday, May 12, 2005. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi via Yahoo!.)

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin

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LT Pantano Hearing - Recommendation IN

LT Ilario Pantano

The straight scoop from Euphoric Reality:

2 Lt. Ilario Pantano did not commit murder, and Sgt. Daniel Coburn is clueless.

That’s the nutshell version of Maj Mark Winn’s opinion, given in a 16-page report that I will be posting later today. The key findings of the report were posted at Defendthedefenders:

That the Government offered no credible evidence to contradict Lt Pantano’s statement that he acted in self defense in response to a hostile act;

That Lt Pantano’s shooting of the two Iraqis was justified in accordance with the then-prevailing Rules of Engagement;

That there was no credible evidence that Lt Pantano acted with premeditation;

That Lt Pantano was not derelict in his duties in the handling of Iraqi prisoners;

That Lt Pantano’s use of the “No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy was poor judgment but not criminal and not conduct unbecoming an officer; and,

That Lt Pantano did not act in a manner unbecoming an officer in his handling of the Iraqi prisoners.

However, Maj. Winn did not believe that Pantano acted 100% blamelessly in all areas. He did find that the number of rounds expended was excessive, and due to this only, recommended that Pantano receive non-judicial punishment for conduct unbecoming an officer. [Note: It is interesting that he recommended that, since Pantano was not even charged with this originally.]

Again, when I get the report I’ll post it in its entirety.

- Drudge Report coverage.
- Michelle Malkin has an article that mentions Euphoric Reality’s role in the case.
- The idiot at the AP has another story on the case, and yes, he still thinks Pantano fired because he thought the two men were “launching mortars”.

Cross-posted from Euphoric Reality

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U.S. Government Psy-ops Against Americans!

Why do I call this action psy-ops? Because our government is trying to manipulate public information to get us to believe something that is NOT true! The TRUTH doesn't support their agenda, and so they are manipulating events and actions at the border to suit the image they need to project.

I don't know how high up this action goes, but if Bush or anyone in his administration gave the thumbs up for this, then he needs to be impeached! Nothing says "Welcome terrorists!" more than a wide open border! Deliberately cutting back on border patrols and actively disallowing arrests of border jumpers is an open invitation for terrorists.

You have got to read this article, and then PLEASE forward it to everyone you know!!!

[all emphasis in the following article is mine]

Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona
by James Seper

THE WASHINGTON TIMES, May 13, 2005

U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.

More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration.

"It was clear to everyone here what was being said and why," said one veteran agent. "The apprehensions were not to increase after the Minuteman volunteers left. It was as simple as that."

Another agent said the Naco supervisors "were clear in their intention" to keep new arrests to an "absolute minimum" to offset the effect of the Minuteman vigil, adding that patrols along the border have been severely limited.

Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar at the agency's Washington headquarters called the accusations "outright wrong," saying that supervisors at the Naco station had not blocked agents from making arrests and that the station's 350 agents were being "supported in carrying out" their duties.

"Border Patrol agents are the front line of defense against terrorism," Chief Aguilar said, adding that the 11,000 agents nationwide are "meeting that challenge, head-on ... as daunting a task as that may sound."

The chief -- a former head of the agency's Tucson sector, which includes the Naco station -- said that with the world watching the Arizona border because of the Minuteman Project, agents in Naco "demonstrated flexibility and resilience in carrying out their critical homeland security duties and responsibilities."

But Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, yesterday said "credible sources" within the Border Patrol also had told him of the decision by Naco supervisors to keep new arrests to a minimum, saying he was angry but not surprised.

"It's like telling a cop to stand by and watch burglars loot a store but don't arrest any of them," he said. "This is another example of decisions being made at the highest levels of the Border Patrol that are hurting morale and helping to rot the agency from within.

"I worry about our efforts in Congress to increase the number of agents," he said. "Based on these kinds of orders, we could spend the equivalent of the national debt and never have secure borders."

Mr. Tancredo, chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, blamed the Bush administration for setting an immigration enforcement tone that suggests to those enforcing the law that he is not serious about secure borders.

"We need to get the president to come to grips with the seriousness of the problem," he said. "I know he doesn't like to utter the words, 'I was wrong,' but if we have another incident like September 11 by people who came through our borders without permission, I hope he doesn't have to say 'I'm sorry.' "

During the Minuteman vigil, Border Patrol supervisors in Arizona discounted their efforts, saying a drop in apprehensions during their protest was because of the Mexican government's deployment of military and police south of the targeted area and a new federal program known as the Arizona Border Control Initiative that brought manpower increases to the state.

The Naco supervisors blamed the volunteers for unnecessarily tripping sensors, disturbing draglines and interfering with the normal operations of the agents. They said that their impact on illegals was "negligible" and that civilians should leave immigration enforcement "to the professionals."

Several field agents credited the volunteers with cutting the flow of illegal aliens in the targeted Naco area, saying the number of apprehended illegals dropped from an average of 500 a day to less than 15 a day.

More than 850 volunteers, in a protest of the lax immigration enforcement policies of the White House and Congress, sought to reduce the flow of illegal aliens along a popular immigration corridor on the Arizona-Mexico border near Naco by reporting illegals to the Border Patrol as they crossed into the United States.

Their goal was to show that increased manpower on the border would effectively deter illegal immigration. Organizers said the protest resulted in Border Patrol arrests of 349 illegal aliens.

Area residents, in a half-page ad in the Sunday edition of the Sierra Vista Herald, told the volunteers: "Thanks for doing what our government won't -- close the border to illegal aliens. It was the quietest month we've had in many years ... You made us feel safe because the border was closed."

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Who voted for Vicente Fox?

Did you? Is he some kind of Senator, Congressman, or elected official in the U.S. government? No?! Then why the hell does he think he has ANY SAY whatsoever in our affairs?

Fox's meddling in issues of American sovereignty is a DIRECT RESULT of Bush's leniency and latitude with him. Bush gave him (more than) an inch, and he's grabbed a mile and a half!

Someone needs to put Fox in his place! Will Bush do it? Probably not. But then again, maybe he'll start to see the little Frankenstein he's created in Fox.

GRRRRRRRRR.

And by the way, who's heard of any walls? This following article is from El Universal and I'm trying to figure out if their claim about walls is just hyperbole or if there was language to that effect in the Immigration Reform legislation that was recently in the House. If anyone's got any articles or knowledge to that effect, let me know so I can post it. I'll keep digging here.


El Universal Online:

President Vicente Fox said Thursday his government will formally protest recent U.S. immigration reforms, including the decision to extend walls along the border and make it harder for illegal migrants to get driver's licenses.

Fox didn't give details of Mexico's plan, but officials in his administration have raised the possibility of taking their case to the United Nations or other international organizations.

'We think it is useless to pursue walls, barriers, the use of force and violence,' he said.

Speaking to foreign reporters later Thursday, Interior Secretary Santiago Creel said Mexican officials would meet with the U.S. government before deciding what kind of action to take.

The new U.S. provisions require states to verify that people who apply for a driver's license are in the country legally. They also make it harder for migrants to gain amnesty, and easier to override environmental laws to build a barrier along the Mexican border in California.

They were signed by U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday, and threaten to unravel recently patched relations between the United States and Mexico.

Bush and Fox began their administrations as close friends, but soon parted ways over the U.S.-led initiative in Iraq and the United States' failure to take up a migration accord that would have let more migrants cross legally into the United States.

Relations improved after Bush introduced a scaled-back migration plan that would have allowed Mexicans with U.S. job offers to work temporarily in the United States. But the proposal has stalled.

Fox said his job now was to 'redouble efforts' in achieving a migration accord and 'present corresponding complaints when human rights are violated.'

'I think it is much more constructive the work that we have pending, and that we hope to finalize this year,' he said.

He also said Mexico would fight the new initiatives by presenting 'a formal and firm complaint against the option that has nothing to do with the harmonious development of relations between the United States and Mexico.'

U.S. lawmakers argued the bill was necessary to protect the United States from terrorists.

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Generations of Valor

One of the most moving things I have received in a long time.

Each generation is blessed with real heroes. Here are two.

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Veteran Embrace

Pearl Harbor survivor, Houston James of Dallas, embraced
Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. during a Veteran's Day
commemoration in Dallas Nov. 11. Graunke lost a leg,
a hand, and an eye when he defused a bomb in Iraq last year.

This picture should have been all over the news but few, if any, have seen it.

We truly take a lot for granted. Forget the sports "heroes" and movie "stars". May all truly know the price of freedom.

Photo by: Jim Mahoney of The Dallas Morning News

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Party of NO.

HAHAHAHAHA

I was going to delete this video before watching it, because it's "old news" in my book. But I went ahead and watched it and thought it was kinda funny.

Posting it here for you to laugh at!

The Party of No


No, no, no, no. That's all you hear from the Democrats in Washington these days. From blocking qualified judges to obstructing Social Security reform, they're obstructing the President's agenda at every turn without offering ideas of their own.

Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says Democrats don't need a plan, they just need to stop Republicans. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says they don't care how long it takes, they will never back down. U.S. News and World Report columnist Gloria Borger says the Democrat Party has become the "Party of No."

This little bit of marketing is pretty damn good, even for the Republicans. LOL

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Two part article: 1) How the MSM Sucks - AGAIN! & 2) Muslims Are Crazy!

Follow up to: ...the HOR-ROR...

In an interesting follow-up to the Pakistani outrage that followed Newsweak's (intentionally misspelled) story about Army officials desecrating the Koran by flushing it down the toilet, I found a story yesterday about a riot in Afghanistan over this news. Now, there are two sides of the story I want to address. The first is the MSM's utter inability to get a military story RIGHT - y'all know we've wrangled over this a lot lately. (How do these idiots keep their jobs, fer cryin' out loud?) And the second point is about the psychotic mob mentality of Muslims.



First, here's what the AP (you know, where ALLLLLL the MSM outlets pick up their news) sent over the wire to the rest of the world:

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)
Shouting "Death to America," demonstrators angry over the alleged desecration of the Quran at Guantanamo Bay smashed car and shop windows and stoned a passing convoy of U.S. soldiers Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan. Police opened fire on the protesters, killing four and injuring at least 71. The U.S. troops fired into the air before quickly leaving the area in Jalalabad, near the Pakistan border, provincial intelligence chief Sardar Shah told The Associated Press. It was the biggest outpouring of anti-American sentiment since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

Now, here's what the AP (same nincompoops as above) ALSO sent out over the wire on the same day to the rest of the world - the accompanying photo & caption:

Afghan protest in Jahalabad
University students march in the steets in Jalalabad, Afghanistan in this image from televison Wednesday May 11, 2005. Police and U.S. troops opened fire in an eastern Afghan city to control hundreds of students rioting over alleged desecration of Islam's holy book at the U.S. jail in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, killing two protesters and injuring more than 50, officials said. (AP Photo/APTN)

See any radical differences in the two accounts? (Hint: I emphasized them to make it easy.)
Ok, I don't think I need to editorialize on the MSM's inconsistencies except to point out the obvious: one story makes it sound like the U.S. troops were passing by and fired their weapons into the air; while the other makes it sound like the troops opened fired and killed and wounded a LOT of student protestors.

Well, my indictment of the MSM doesn't stop here. Because ya know what? Neither of the above stories is what really happened - not even close!!! It's almost like they were made up out of thin air. Here's the real story:

From my son in J'habad:

I realize that sensational news sells, and that death sells in the media. I can understand that a story about a middle eastern city in which there are American troops stationed rioting and some of those rioters dying is a story. What I can't understand is why the media hates the US military so much.

I say this because there was an incident today in the city of Jalalabad where there were reports of American military personnel firing (according to some news agencies) into the crowds and according to others firing into the air and then leaving. If they had stuck around to find out what really happened they would have known that there were absolutely no American military personnel downtown where the rioting was taking place. It disappoints me that the news our families are getting is news that isn't accurate and news which serves only to scare our loved ones.

Lest I hear back from anyone that we can't trust the word of one of our own soldiers when the AP is reporting otherwise, let me offer one more news source that apparently got it right (I have to point out that this more accurate version is from Australian news, not our own American muckrakers):

Sydney Morning Herald. Kabul: Three people were killed and at least 60 injured when police clashed with more than 5000 Afghans infuriated by reports that US soldiers had desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

"We have two dead in our hospital and 47 wounded. Three of the people injured are in a serious condition," said Mohammed Ayob, deputy director of the public health hospital in the eastern city of Jalalabad.

"The medical university hospital, the second hospital of the city, has registered one dead and 12 wounded are in hospital. Some other people with light injuries were cared for and have been discharged."

Witnesses said police opened fire as the crowd rampaged through the city yesterday.

Jalalabad police chief Abdul Rehman said: "Initially the demonstrators were peaceful but then a group joined them and the mob turned violent."

Western security sources said the governor's office and those of several aid agencies including UNICEF, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, were set on fire.

The US State Department said on Tuesday that the Pentagon was looking into a report in Newsweek magazine that interrogators at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, kept copies of the Koran in toilets to annoy prisoners.

The protesters, which one police source in Jalalabad said numbered "maybe 10,000", also denounced US-backed President Hamid Karzai, shouting: "Death to America's allies" and "Death to Karzai" as well as "Death to Bush". US troops stationed in the city stayed in their base, witnesses said.

The reports have also infuriated close US ally Pakistan.

Nope - no US troops killed or injured anyone - they weren't even there! Good golly, could the AP BE any more f'd up?!

OK, I guess I made the point I wanted to make about that. Hammered it home so now let's move on to my second point.

Since when does a Muslim riot NOT turn violent? Have you ever hear of a "peaceful" Muslim demonstration anywhere? I mean, damn, they set the aid agencies (including the U.N. Children's Emergency Fund) on fire, fer pete's sake. (Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!) Because Americans in Guantanamo flushed a Koran!!!! Is there no reason, no moderation among these Muslims? Are they simply unable and unwilling to control a response to a desecration of their holy book on the other side of the world? I mean, people DIED in this riot. I wonder if they think it's worth it. The religious fervor that drives these people is like nothing I've ever seen or heard of. All it does is emphasize to me that they're radically crazy - as a whole. [Yes, liberals, I said that and I mean it. Today's Islam is a crazy-in-the-head mental disorder. I'll enjoy watching you go crazy over that statement!]

That's a wrap for now.



Just for your own edification, I thought I'd post the rest of the soldier's email that I cited above because it's good stuff, and I know you'll enjoy the news. Read it here, because I guarantee you won't hear it in the MSM. They simply don't want you to know.

"There are many things that happen in this country (as well as Iraq) that are never reported because they don't have "shock value." It is a sad day when the opening of an all girls school (which in one day has 6000 girls in attendence) in a country that no more than 4 years ago didn't allow girls to attend school can't make the news, especially when the only reason the school was opened was because the American military and contractors paid and protected the people who built it. In one year I have seen my share of nastiness, but I have also seen girls smile who have never smiled before. Kids going to school where there was no school before. Farmers growing crops where before there was nothing but barren rock because they now have an irrigation system and new wells. There are so many things, good things, that have been done here and it is all trashed by one account of careless reporting. I am truly disappointed and frankly disgusted at the news media over all of this. But hey, that is just one soldier's opinion of what I see and have to experience in a city I have spent a year of my life in. Take it for what it is worth."

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What YOU can do

If you are concerned about the consequences of mass immigration on our country and on the environment we are leaving to future generations, you are encouraged to take action. Specifically, this action must be focused on our administration and on Congress who are ignoring existing laws on illegal immigration and are effectively promoting unending U.S. population growth through both legal and illegal immigration. Here's what you can do:


Let's get busy!
For more weekly expose' reports by Frosty Wooldridge, go to NewsWithViews.com, WashingtonDispatch.com and Rense.com.

Dear Fellow American:

It is vitally important that you send this letter out to all your networks. This is how we create an avalanche of public action, protest and 'voice.' We're creating critical mass in the US public and once we do that, Congress and this president will not be able to continue in their destruction of our country. It's gaining by the day and your voice will be a part of this "critical mass" of protest.

You may not be able to do all these points. However, do what you CAN do from all the following points. Work with your strengths! Many only take five minutes per week.

Each of us follows in the footsteps of Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison, Franklin, Washington, Susan B. Anthony, Ike, Dr. Martin Luther King, Eleanor Roosevelt or any American who cared about the future of our country. The time to take action is now. I urge you to declare yourself an American citizen who inherited the same responsibilities that Jefferson or any foot soldier from Valley Forge all the way to the jungles of Vietnam and Iraq.

Most people don't realize it, however, it's growing into a huge crisis for our country. We've got over 20 million illegal aliens in this country with around another three million pouring over our borders each year in addition to the 1.1 million who come in legally. We're headed for an added 300 million Americans in 60 years which will leave us struggling with an unsustainable society. Our kids are going to inherit a mess.

At the same time, we must be compassionate, yet, we must ensure our nation's viability so we can help the Third World out of its population crisis.

1. Nationally, check out www.numbersusa.com and become a member of this excellent grass roots organization that works to stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration to a sustainable 100,000 per year. You can join for free and you can send pre written faxes every week and numbersusa.com sends them for you. You'll have up to the minute information. Pass this web site on to all your friends and have them pass it to their friends. It takes five minutes a week.

2. Ask Oreilly at Fox News or Lou Dobbs at CNN or Larry King Live or any other shows to interview Frosty Wooldridge, Terry Anderson, DA King, Dr. Madeleine Cosman, Linda Muller, Dr. William Herron and others. They will debate and create a national discussion. If you have time, write the same letter to all these news commentators:

Joe Scarborough at MSNBC
Heartland at Fox News
Laura Ingraham
Mike at Mike Online
Sean Hannity at Fox News
Bill Oreilly at Fox News
Rush Limbaugh
Lou Dobbs at CNN and
Moneyline at CNN
Chris Mathews at Hardball on MSNBC
Peter Jennings at ABC
Brian Williams at MSNBC
<60 minutes at CBS
NPR Morning Edition or atc at NPR or watc at NPR

3. Also, go to Info at NumbersUSA and ask for a local contact in your state. In Colorado, tell all your friends about www.CAIRCO.org . In California, contact California Coalition for Immigration Reform. We're gaining thousands of ordinary citizens each week who find it unacceptable that our officials do nothing about massive illegal immigration and no one is thinking about the world our children will inherit from our irresponsible actions today.

4. Call toll free to your senators and congressmen and demand they enforce our immigration laws, put troops on the Mexican border, and stop any amnesty of illegal aliens. 1-877-762-8762. Tell them to join the House Immigration Reform Caucus with Tom Tancredo.

5. Illegal aliens bring us thousands of cases of TB, hepatitis, leprosy and other deadly diseases. Our children are at risk as 1.1 million unscreened illegal alien kids attend our schools. Websites that explain diseases and further actions you can take: www.FAIRUS.org and www.CIS.org and www.TheSocialContract.com.

6. Also, you can go to my web site for my editorials and send them around to your friends to wake them up. www.FrostyWooldridge.com.

7. Support organizations that enable impoverished people around the world to stay in their own communities (where they would rather be), create a decent living through entrepreneurship, training, and providing seed money to start home grown business. Examples include the Women's Opportunity Fund, Christian Children's Fund, Accion, Technoserve, Seacology, the Grameen Bank, etc. A search on CharityNavigator.com might reveal many more. This is a 'human dilemma' and we must all work on it.

Also, I urge you to support organizations that provide families with the resources and knowledge that promote family planning via birth control, so that couples can have smaller families and provide a better way of life for their fewer children.

8. BUILDING CODE ENFORCEMENT: (Great tool to use against employers suspected of employing Illegal Aliens). Look around within and or around the establishment for violations, frayed carpets, blocked fire exits, out of ADA compliance restrooms, poor lighting in parking lots, restrooms, etc. In restaurants look for all of the above and add cold water, no soap, paper goods, signage to wash hands before leaving, insects flying around, cold or improperly heated foods (contributes to food borne illnesses and buffets need to keep food maintained at 140 degrees), at a buffet, and see the food forming skins, that’s dangerous and a health violation.

The above is a partial list, if you think there are many, many others we can use against the absconder supporters. In the meantime, if you see or hear of a violation in any of the above REPORT THEM, FILE A COMPLAINT - Especially if you or someone you know gets sick after eating out!

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELFARE Too many people living next door? 10 people in a 3-bedroom house? This is a health code violation and you should/could report such observations to your local Department of Health and Welfare!

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Remember 9/11- the DHS asked us to report suspicious activity such as unusual numbers of persons living or frequenting a home or apartment! So, call and report it to the DHS!

BEFORE DOING BUSINESS WITH ANY LOCAL BUSINESS...

Before consummating any agreement for services to be performed on your home/apartment/business, ASK the owners, managers, etc., to verify that any/all employees that they will be sending to your establishment ARE IN OUR COUNTRY LEGALLY!

A)Have them assure you that they either do not employ illegals, or will not be sending any to your home/business, etc.

B)Mention to them that you cannot have any "illegal aliens" working on your premises. That such a violation, even if only suspected would be cause for an investigation and if he/she is in violation of current immigration law(s) it would result in fines being levied in the amount of $10,000 per offense.

You could even ask them to sign a form to this affect, sort of an affidavit (making a legal statement to that fact).

9. Write President Bush at www/WhiteHouse.gov or fax him at 202-456-2461 and call at 202-456-1414 and demand he deport 15 million illegal aliens and enforce our immigration laws.

10. Additionally, my new book, Immigration's Unarmed Invasion is available at 1-888-280-7715. It is an action handbook that will give you ideas for saving America. It's also on BarnesAndNoble.com and Amazon.com and Authorhouse.com. It will create huge controversy and feature an action list for saving America. It calls for a 10 year moratorium on all immigration into this country. After that, a maximum of 100,000 per year and they must speak English before coming to America.

11. Call the Border Patrol director at 202-282-8355 and demand that Border Patrol maintain sweeps and continue enforcement by arresting illegal aliens and their employers. The more calls the more you effect change.

12. Join TeamAmericaPac.org and help elect leaders who will stop this immigration invasion of our country. That all Americans demand that the US voting system be returned back to a pure paper ballot system that has a verifiable audit trail. To do away with all forms of electronic voting systems. To allow future elections to have any degree of credibility with the American public... We must return to our forefather's way of conducting an election.

13. To report illegal aliens working on a job site to B.I.C.E. Phone 1-866- 347-2423 toll free.

14. These are some of the most important web sites you can support:
NumbersUSA.com
NewFrontierCoalition.org
TeamAmericaPac.org
DefendColoradoNow.com
TheAmericanResistance.com
ReportIllegals.com
UnitedPatriots.com or 1-800-913-9976 in NYC
WakeUpAmericaFoundation.com
StopTheFTAA.org
ProjectUSA.org

A vote on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). If FTAA passes, there will be no borders to protect. The FTAA is the forerunner of a Regional government of the Americas, excluding Cuba, patterned after the EU. We must persuade Congress to vote the FTAA down. Here is the web site: StopTheFTAA.org.

15. Write letters to these powerful people in the media and tell them what you want about illegal immigration. Do it every week. You must be relentless with emails. Email:

Snow at Fox News
Wolf Blitzer at CNN
Schieffer at CBS
Russert at MSNBC
Chris Matthews at MSNBC
Stephanopolous at ABC

16. IllegalImmigrationBumperStickers For those who would like bumper stickers on illegal aliens.

17. Become a volunteer in the Minuteman Project. For info: MinutemanProject.com This ongoing project created a national debate as thousands of military veterans and civilians lined up on the border beginning April 1, 2005 to stand guard.

18. Write letters to the editor, call TV and radio stations and demand they report the realities of this illegal alien invasion.

19. Visit ProEnglish.org and USEnglish.org Our country's English language is under assault. If we lose the most cohesive aspect of our culture, our language, we will lose our country.

20. Report erratic drivers, hit and run drivers as you witness such events. Illegals who drive without a license usually show little respect and or knowledge or our driving rules/laws and this will reveal itself via this disrespectful behavior. I once assisted the capture and arrest of a semi-truck driver who ran a car off the road on the Long Beach Freeway, by calling the CHP (California Highway Patrol), who have a toll free number, 1-800-TELLCHP. NEVADA HAS *NHP - WE NEED TO USE IT!

21. PASS OUT FLIERS (in Spanish and English) to those who loiter at "daylabor" work sites. Advising them of the IMMIGRATION LAWS (chapter and verse) they are violating and the potential consequences of their ILLEGAL presence and continued presence can and will have if they remain undocumented in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Take pictures and send to local newspapers by digital camera.

22. Have that same flier state: "we are photographing and will be reporting" their presence and suspected "ILLEGAL STATUS" to the B.I.C.E. Also, post these pictures on our website, while at the same time alerting/informing B.I.C.E. that we've found what they've had trouble locating - ILLEGAL ALIENS crossing our borders daily!

23. If you are ever in a car accident and either file a law suit, or have one filed against you by a suspected ILLEGAL ALIEN, inform the Judge of their illegal status or suspected illegal status and subsequently subpoena the B.I.C.E.!

The ILLEGAL ALIEN MAY WIN HIS OR HER CASE, but the Judge is obligated to enforce the LAW, AND THE PRESENCE OF A/THE B.I.C.E. OFFICER will be convenient/obliged to take this absconder into custody!

24. On Monday, join me on "America's Broken Borders" a weekly radio talk show with outstanding leaders from across the country who are making powerful strides to stop this illegal alien invasion of our country. It's on the air at 6:00 PM Pacific Time each Monday.
(1.) www.AmericanVoice.com.
(2.) In the middle under 'presents' you will see 'Listen Live'
(3.) Click on that icon
(4.) Look for at the top, 'to listen live right now, click here’
(5.) You'll see a bunch of time zones. Click your time zone
(6.) A monthly schedule will pop up for you and you'll see that 'AMERICA'S BROKEN BORDERS' is on Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific Time.
(7.) Click on your time zone 'listen East' at that time and you'll hear the program that day
(8.) If you want to hear it again on Saturday night, they play it again at 9:00 PM PT

A lot of people feel despair about this crisis. Did they feel despair in 1776? Sure. Did they sit back and feel sorry for themselves? No. Remember: That was their time, this is ours!

"Will you surrender, sir?" "On the contrary," said Captain John Paul Jones. "I have not yet begun to fight!"

"Conviction without action is worthless."

You must be consistent and relentless in your quest to save our country. Also, send more ideas to make this action letter even more effective.

Best wishes,
Frosty Wooldridge

P.S. The United States Constitution

There are rare times and places, in the long human story, when outbursts of human genius supply human civilization with the supreme wonders of human greatness. It is the contemplation of these that raises the mass of mankind to levels not unworthy of the divine image in which we were created. Such moments of supreme achievement are to be found in the Periclean Athens, in the Florence of Medicis, and the London of Elizabeth--and Shakespeare.

However, never before--or since--has political genius burst in such profusion on the human scene, as in the British Colonies in America, in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The period of the American Founding, from the Revolution to the Framing, Ratification, and Inauguration of the Constitution, saw political thought and action in the service of human freedom, of a wisdom and power unsurpassed even by the glory of Greece or the grandeur of Rome. Every human good we enjoy today, is directly or indirectly, a legacy of what the Founders wrought, and Lincoln preserved.

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whew! Press Conference Borders SECURE

Last Thursday, a Minuteman Project organizer who was barred from a Department of Homeland Security press conference on border patrol learned what others who've been barred from the president's Social Security town halls already know: It's not that the Bush Administration is bad at protecting borders. It's just that some borders are more crucial to protect than others.


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Hat tip: Greg Beato at Wonkette

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Why the Left is so Damned Angry!

(Click to enlarge...if you dare.
Some photos are freaky and
may trigger a gag reflex.)

Vonster figured it out: babe envy. Or sheer nightmarish terror. Either one...


OR...

Maybe it's not BABE envy, after all...

Maybe it's another form of envy altogether...


Big Dick Cheney


Now that is a weapons program!

Whoo.

I'd be bitter if I were THEM too.

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Pakistan's panties in a bunch - AGAIN

*sigh*

Pakistan demands ANOTHER inquiry - this time into an "objectionable cartoon" in the Washington Times.

"Pakistan has condemned the publication of this cartoon in strongest possible term. We have also asked for an inquiry to be conducted because this cartoon, the cartoonist and those who allowed the publication have not done any service to the forces of moderation," Jilani said.

"They have committed a kind of insult not only to the American administration but also to the American public," the spokesman noted.

The infamous cartoon that will determine Pakistan's entire foreign policy!

I'm not insulted, are YOU insulted?

I swear, does this Jilani dude have nothing better to do than "objecting" all day long and "demanding inquiries"? Seriously! If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd surmise that Pakistan was in league with the terrorists and scheming to bury us alive under bureaucratic horseshit!

The Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) quoted ruling party president Chaudhry Shujaat as saying:

"The government has taken a strong note of this cartoon published in Washington Times as it has hurt the feelings of the people of Pakistan."

If that's so, then the people of Pakistan need to do us all a favor and get on Prozac, fer cryin' out loud. They're all demanding that Pakistan withdraw it's support for the War on Terror. I guess the cartoon bothers 'em more than muderous rampaging terrorists!

Go figure.

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...the HOR-ROR...

The BBC is reporting that the Americans are at it again - mercilessly torturing the "innocent detainees" of Guantanamo Bay. Even despite the panty-waist PC strictures placed on interrogations, the evil Americans have found a way to subvert the law and *gasp* horribly scar the gentle souls of the Muslim prisoners!!!

Pakistani officials say they are "deeply dismayed" over reports that the Koran was desecrated at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay.

The latest edition of the American Newsweek magazine said such tactics were used to rattle suspects.

"Rattle the suspects"? Wow - I bet crucial information just started POURING out of them once they were "rattled"! Who could possibly withstand such powerful interrogation techniques?!

It says that US personnel on one occasion flushed a copy of Islam's most holy book "down the toilet".

Ohhhhh...the HOR-ROR!

Pakistan was also concerned about "the highly objectionable and regrettable treatment meted out to the detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre".

Mr Jilani said the reported act of sacrilege had shocked people of every faith around the world.

Yeah, we sure "meted out" some regrettable treatment. How will those Muslim men ever survive this attack on their delicate sensibilities? And how will people of other faiths from around the world contain their shock?! It's an escalating tragedy!

"The government of Pakistan condemns the incident and demands that an inquiry should be conducted to bring to justice the perpetrators of this shameful act," he said.

Yes, an inquiry is in order - with lots and lots of bureaucratic paperwork for everyone! Let's pretend there's no War on Terror, and let's forget the backlog of prisoners still to be questioned, so we can focus all our resources on investigating this heinous episode of grisly torture!! I agree - paperwork - we need more paperwork!!!

Mr Dost also said inmates' beards were shaved and the prisoners were shouted at during interrogations.

The tragedy abounds...ceaseless horror...

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LT Pantano Art. 32 outcome - extension requested

The officer in charge of LT Pantano's Article 32 hearing has requested an extension. The decision from the hearing will determine whether LT Pantano faces a court-martial or not. Remember, LT Pantano has personally requested a court-martial, so that ALL the evidence can come to light - he truly wants to clear his name. We'll see if he gets his wish.

The decision is supposed to come this week. As soon as I know you anything...you will.

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Mexico may sue U.S. Army reservist!

I can hardly believe I'm writing this, but in a galling public statement on Friday, a Mexican official said that the Mexican government is considering filing a LAWSUIT against the Army reservist who detained 7 illegal aliens in Arizon last month!!!! Yes, you read that right: the Mexican government wants to sue a private American citizen.

As you know, local prosecutors in Arizona refused to bring charges against Sgt. Patrick Haab, based upon a state law that allows a resident to make an arrest when a felony, including immigrant trafficking, has been committed. Yet, the Mexican government has now announced its intent to sue Sgt. Haab! They are in discussions with a human rights groups in L.A. (I might hazard a guess that it is La Raza), and lawyers are analyzing the best way to proceed. (So says the Mexican deputy foreign secretary, in case you were wondering if this was a rumor or hoax.)

Is there no end to the absurdity - the utter GALL of the Mexican government? What kind of idiocy do they suffer from?

On the other hand, I kind of hope they DO file a suit! It'll be a watershed moment, and force a very public airing of this issue of the rotten and corrupt Mexican government meddling in the U.S.. It would force people out of their numbing complacency and into taking a stand on the issue.

I'd LOVE to see where Bushicano would stand. Would he back the rights of a legal U.S. citizen who has loyally served his country, or would he back the corrupt Mexican government and the illegal aliens? I wish I could say that he'd stand by the American, of course! But I can't...

It is very sad to say I don't know what our President would choose.


Read the whole article in this Tuscon newspaper:
Mexico may sue reservist in migrant detention

Hat tip: ALIPAC

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Zogby poll: Americans fed up with illegal aliens

Majority against Bush plan for workers, 81% think local police should help feds.

Well, the above headline is really no surpirse. The only question is how to get our elected political leaders to DO what they were elected to do - the will of the PEOPLE! There is such an element of suspicion about the disconnect between what the people want, and what our leaders are delivering. Hopefully this poll, by a reputable uninvolved third party, will help to serve notice to those brain-dead officials.

And speaking of brain-dead...please don't forget to sign the petition that is scheduled to be delivered to the White House and the Congress on Memorial Day weekend. The signature count is at 375,977, as of this morning.

The story about the Zogby poll follows...

A new opinion poll by Zogby International indicates Americans are hardly pleased with the Bush administration on the subject of illegal immigration.

The poll, cited on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" program yesterday, noted a huge majority – 81 percent – believes local and state police should help federal authorities enforce laws against illegal immigration. Only 14 percent disagreed.

Voters were also asked, "Do you support or oppose the Bush administration's proposal to give millions of illegal aliens guest worker status and the opportunity to become citizens?" Only 35 percent gave their support, and 56 percent said no.

"A majority opposed illegal immigration," pollster John Zogby told CNN. "In fact, when you combine those two terms, 'illegal and immigration,' it really conjures up a considerable amount of negatives. And, in fact, we find that it's really across the board."

According to the report, the greatest opponents of illegal immigration are Democrats, African-Americans, women and people with household income below $75,000, those with the most to lose in the job market.

When it came to the status of the nation's borders, respondents were asked, "Do you agree or disagree that the federal government should deploy troops on the Mexican border as a temporary measure to control illegal immigration?" A clear majority – 53 percent – agree, while 40 percent disagree.

"The Minuteman program highlighted the fact that we need more tighter border security," Phil Kent of American Immigration Control Foundation told the network. "So I think these numbers again are good. It's a good civics lesson for the American people. It shows our elected leaders that we want action."

In summing up her report, CNN correspondent Lisa Sylvester noted, "So, while the public wants tougher borders, politicians are pushing to leave them open. A real disconnect."

Dobbs responded to that statement, saying: "The disconnect that you referred to, Lisa, between our elected officials and the people of this country is on no other issue any more dramatic than on the issue of illegal immigration. The Zogby poll is just simply the most recent in a string of polls that show that the American people want their borders secure, they want immigration laws to be enforced, and to clean up what has become an atrocious mess on the part of our elected representatives serving better the interests of U.S. multinationals than the people who are working for a living in this country."

Within a week of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the U.S., Zogby polled Americans on border security and immigration issues.

When asked whether the government was doing enough to control the border and screen those allowed into the country, 76 percent said the government was not doing enough.

Regarding future threats to the U.S., 72 percent of likely voters in 2001 said a dramatic increase in resources devoted to border control and enforcement of immigration laws would help reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in the future.

Hat tip: ALIPAC

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It's Pakistan, Stupid!

On March 25th, I blogged about the announcement of our agreement to sell F-16 fighter jets to Paksitan. I've got a serious problem with that, and said so, depsite the White House's position that Pakistan is our "greatest ally" in the Middle East in the War on Terror. (!) And I guess the acquisition of dozens of our top fighter jets is their just reward!

My exact comments at the time were: "My gut is telling me this cannot be a good thing. Honestly, when I heard the news on the radio today, my first thought was: " Greeaaat, now the terrorists won't need to hijack our commercial aircraft, they've got their own flying bombs, courtesy of the good old US of A."

Now, I feel even worse about my suspicions of Pakistan - because I was more right than I knew at the time...

Paul Sperry, author of the book Infiltration (a must-read), says America needs to wake up to the fact that al-Qaeda, alive and well, has relocated from the corridors of Afghanistan to the welcome hills of Pakistan - our "best ally" in the War on Terror. While we all contentedly wallow in "Condition White", 3 1/2 years distant from 9/11, al-Qaeda is busily recruiting from a most willing source - Pakistan and Pakistani-Americans.

Law enforcement has a term for the period after a crisis when things revert to norm -- condition white. Well, the American people are just about there, three-and-a-half years after the 9/11 attacks.

But as the media obsess over Michael Jackson's favorite lubricants and Paula Abdul's dalliances with Idol wannabes, al-Qaida is "very active" recruiting and planning to attack the United States again. "As months and years pass," Vice President Dick Cheney warns, "they are hoping that our country will grow complacent" and forget the horror of 9/11. And they're getting their wish, judging from the picayune issues that are catching the nation's attention now.

Even Bush warns us to not let down our guard, "One of my concerns after September the 11th is the farther away we got from September the 11th, the more relaxed we would all become and assume that there wasn't an enemy out there ready to hit us."

Right. So do they know something we don't know? Well, of course!

According to the closely held intelligence bulletins, officials worry Pakistanis trained in the camps are trying to sneak into America to carry out terrorist attacks. In fact, U.S. border authorities are reminded each day in shift musters that Pakistanis pose the No. 1 terrorist threat to America right now. And for the past several months, they have been under orders to increase scrutiny of travelers of Pakistani origin.

The latest advisory puts authorities on high alert for Pakistani terrorists trying to enter the U.S. with fake British passports.

"A number of Pakistani-based young men in their 20's may be traveling to the U.S. with altered United Kingdom passports in order to engage in terrorist-related activity," says the highly sensitive DHS action memo. "Of most interest may be individuals fitting this description traveling to Washington D.C., Houston, Chicago or New York."

Pakistani-Americans returning from visits to their homeland were subjected to special screening...that is, until their Embassy complained about it! (Of course, we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings! Is anyone else getting as pissed off as me about our wishy-washy, panty-waist, PC, non-offensive "tactical strategies"?):

Fearing some may be returning from terrorist camps in their ancestral homeland, customs officials have been directed to not only question them about their trip and activities but to also search their arms and legs for signs of having had terrorist training. They've been told to look for anything from rope burns to bruises to possible injuries suffered from using firearms or explosives. The body searches stopped after the Pakistani Embassy complained, but they are still being asked a battery of questions.

Yeah, 'cuz a "battery" of questions will do the trick - that'll break 'em! Ptooie! I spit on that! Wait until the ACLU advises the Pakistani Embassy that a "battery of questions" is, indeed, an abusive humanitarian rights violation! Then, on their behalf and with the vocal support of Amnesty International, the ACLU will sue our government AND the individual customs officials involved in the "abuse and torture" of poor innocent Pakistanis, and then our government will roll over and pay millions of taxpayer dollars in damages to those poor innocent Pakistanis. Don't shake your head as if that is far-fetched - you KNOW you can see that happening!

Just so you don't think the Pakistani threat is rhetorical, take a peek at these two pages from the Intelligence Driven Special Operation (IDSO) 2001-022: Page One and Page Two. Information about special counter-measures have been redacted by Sperry for security's sake.

And, can I just say, I told you so?":

Pakistanis account for most of the OTMs -- other than Mexicans – crossing the U.S. border with Mexico illegally from countries considered high risk for terrorism. And officials fear some may try to smuggle nuclear or radiological weapons across the porous border into America.

I'm about to have another tantrum about our open borders pretty soon. You can see that I've taken a breather this week, but I feel another rant coming on! BTW, I hope any of you who feel the same way I do about our pitiful border control will copy and forward this article to any of your friends and family who favor an Open Border policy. Help them WAKE UP!!

Anyways, back to Paksitan...

Pakistan, which husbanded al-Qaida and served as a base of operations for the 9/11 plotters, has long been a hotbed of terrorist activity. The war on terror started in Pakistan, and many officials believe it will end there.

But for that to happen, they say Bush must pressure Islamabad to shut down the terrorist camps in Pakistan, because U.S. forces can't do it unilaterally. Islamabad refuses to allow our troops based in Afghanistan to cross the border into neighboring Pakistan.

Ya know, this I don't get... Our Special Forces have whipped through Afghanistan, summarily wiping out the Taliban (which is a good thing), and shutting down the terror camps there, but the terrorists scattered like roaches into Pakistan - where we can't touch them. And what do we do? Do we make the same demands of Islamabad that we made - and enforced - of the Taliban in 2001?! Or do we play nicey-nice, because heaven forbid we offend our "greatest ally" in the War on Terror?! Take a wild guess...

After the 9/11 attacks, President Bush demanded the Taliban close terror camps in Afghanistan. On Sept. 20, 2001, he warned: "Tonight the United States of America makes the following demands on the Taliban ... Close immediately and permanently every terrorist training camp in Afghanistan."

Yet Pakistan, the cradle of the Taliban movement, gets no such ultimatums regarding its own terror camps.

So, who out there has some common sense? Tell me: doesn't it make MORE sense to go into Pakistan, where we know for sure the terrorists are plotting and training, than to chase them willy-nilly around airports in America's major cities? I mean how many terrorists need to slip the customs net for Americans to die in a terrorist attack? Only ONE. So why not crush them at the source?! Why waste resources chasing amorphous false identities when the source is thriving and growing in the arms of our "ally"?

"What gets me is while we were going after the Taliban in Afghanistan, there were a lot of training camps in Pakistan. I mean, there was like a ton. That was where the terrorists were getting most of their training -- in Pakistan -- and they're still getting training there," says John M. Cole, who until last year worked at FBI headquarters as program manager for foreign intelligence investigations covering Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.

While the arrest of al-Libbi was a blow to al-Qaida and a win for our side, untold numbers of terrorists are still plotting and training inside Pakistan -- and preparing to launch attacks against America. Cole and others don't understand why Washington is taking the unnecessary risk of trying to catch the bad guys here when Islamabad could be doing more to stop them over there -- or at least letting our troops help stop them.

I'm getting to the point where I believe that common sense has FLED our political leaders. It's a classic case of not being able to see the forest for the trees. What happened to our tough stance on terrorism? What happened to Bush's doctrine of "If you're not with us, you're against us"? I think it's abundantly clear that the War on Terror is a euphemism that has no real meaning, especially in this cozy feel-good era of Condition White. We're more concerned about offending our enemies than we are about annihilating them. THEY, on the other hand, have no similar compunctions. They're not quite as sold out as America is to the ACLU and other such groups (from HELL, I tell you!) who make it their sole mission to slice off the balls of the greatest nation on the planet. [I'd previously written "Achille's tendon" instead of "balls", but that turn of phrase just wasn't strong enough.]

Who feels safe now, knowing that the War on Terror is subject to political correctness? I'd rather piss off a ktrillion Pakistanis than lose ONE AMERICAN life. To hell with them...


For the whole story, free of my editorial commentary, read It's Pakistan, Stupid! by Paul Sperry.

Hat tip: Jihad Watch

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To break a soldier's heart...

This was the horrifying aftermath of a terrorist bombing
attack on a U.S. military patrol in the northern Iraqi city
of Mosul — but the victim, this time, was a little innocent
child.

...the moving photo shows a gallant U.S. soldier, clearly
distraught, cradling the dying child in his arms.
-New York Post / - Niles Lathem

Writer Michael Yon is in Iraq, embedded with the Stryker Brigade, and took the heart-breaking photo above. Here is his blog account of the tragedy:

Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack, took some of our soldiers and rushed this little girl to our hospital. He wanted her to have American surgeons and not to go to the Iraqi hospital. She didn't make it. I snapped this picture when Major Bieger ran to take her away. He kept stopping to talk with her and hug her.

The soldiers went back to that neighborhood the next day to ask what they could do. The people were very warm and welcomed us into their homes, and many kids were actually running up to say hello and to ask soldiers to shake hands.

Eventually, some insurgents must have realized we were back and started shooting at us. The American soldiers and Iraqi police started engaging the enemy and there was a running gun battle. I saw at least one IP who was shot, but he looked okay and actually smiled at me despite the big bullet hole in his leg. I smiled back.

One thing seems certain; the people in that neighborhood share our feelings about the terrorists. We are going to go back there, and if any terrorists come out, the soldiers hope to find them. Everybody is still very angry that the insurgents attacked us when the kids were around. Their day will come.

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin

And from Pardon My English, these are words from General Douglas MacArthur:

Duty, Honor, Country.

The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and, I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.

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This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war."

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But when I think of his patience under adversity, of his courage under fire, and of his modesty in victory, I am filled with an emotion of admiration I cannot put into words. He belongs to history as furnishing one of the greatest examples of successful patriotism. He belongs to posterity as the instructor of future generations in the principles of liberty and freedom. He belongs to the present, to us, by his virtues and by his achievements.

In twenty campaigns, on a hundred battlefields, around a thousand campfires, I have witnessed that enduring fortitude, that patriotic self-abnegation, and that invincible determination which have carved his statue in the hearts of his people. From one end of the world to the other, he has drained deep the chalice of courage.

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Always for them: Duty, Honor, Country. Always their blood, and sweat, and tears, as we sought the way and the light and the truth.

Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory, that if you lose, the Nation will be destroyed, that the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country.

Others will debate the controversial issues, national and international, which divide men's minds. But serene, calm, aloof, you stand as the Nation's war guardians, as its lifeguards from the raging tides of international conflict, as its gladiators in the arena of battle. For a century and a half you have defended, guarded and protected its hallowed traditions of liberty and freedom, of right and justice. Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government: whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financing indulged in too long, by federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by taxes grown too high, by extremists grown too violent; whether our personal liberties are as firm and complete as they should be; these great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. Your guidepost stands out like a tenfold beacon in the night: Duty, Honor, Country.

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UPDATE: Los Angeles Billboard upset!

In a stunning turn of events, Clear Channel Communications has released this statement today regarding the 75 offensive billboards...

"In response to community feedback, Clear Channel Outdoor spoke with the local advertiser and reached agreement on revised ad copy. That copy is expected to be posted by 5/6/05. Anyone seeking further comment is invited to contact the TV station directly. Channel 62 phone 818-563-5722 from Lawson, Layne LayneLawson@clearchannel.com"

A press statement released by WilliamGheen, President of Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC):

To the legal citizens of Los Angeles and the great state of California. Today we have won a hard fought yet small battle in the broader effort to secure our borders and enforce our existing immigration laws.

These billboards were offensive because it has become apparent that there are large corporations encouraging rampant illegal immigration and there is a separatist movement within the illegal alien community that has stated on many occasions “It’s our land and we are taking it back.”

Please know that in the absence of significant national media coverage, most of America has been kept in the dark till now and is just waking up to our national illegal immigration crisis and the plight of our border states.

Word is getting through to the rest of us and we are now aware of your plight in California. Our hearts go out to you. Your state budget is destroyed. Your tax base is fleeing the state, your hospitals are closing and your schools and communities are becoming unstable under the weight of the largest wave of illegal immigration in our nations history.

Many others states are next in line to suffer the fate of California if we do not take action to secure our borders and enforce our existing immigration laws immediatly.

Please know that we stand with you California. Help is on the way from your fellow countrymen in the sovereign nation of the United States of America.

The home of the brave and the home of Los Angeles California.

Press converage:

INVASION USA
Public outrage kills 'L.A., Mexico' sign
Clear Channel says 'community feedback' prompted firm to rework billboard copy
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Posted: May 3, 2005
4:38 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Citing "community feedback," the advertising company responsible for a Los Angeles area billboard that places L.A. in Mexico has announced it will revise the ad by Friday.

As WorldNetDaily reported, a billboard ad for KRCA, channel 62, a Spanish-language news station, has the "CA" abbreviation after "Los Angeles" crossed out and the word "Mexico" added in its place in bold red letters.

In the center of the billboard, placed within the L.A. skyline, is an image of the Angel of Independence, a well-known monument in Mexico City, further suggesting the merging of Los Angeles and Mexico.

It also says, "Tu Ciudad. Tu Equipo," or "Your City. Your Team."

Activist group Americans for Legal Immigration first publicized the presence of the billboard along a Southern California freeway, prompting outrage from many in the L.A. area and across the country. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger weighed in last week, saying the billboard should come down.

"I think they should take it down immediately," Schwarzenegger told KFI radio.

William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration, is declaring victory after receiving an e-mail from Clear Channel. The note said:

"In response to community feedback, Clear Channel Outdoor spoke with the local advertiser and reached agreement on revised ad copy. That copy is expected to be posted by 5/6/05. Anyone seeking further comment is invited to contact the TV station directly. Channel 62 phone 818-563-5722."

A poster on the group's message board referred to Clear Channel's use of words in the e-mail, saying, "Community feedback? Ha! What a PC statement! More like community OUTRAGE."

Americans for Legal Immigration says there were 75 billboards placed in various places in the L.A. area.

Yesterday, the organization noted someone had placed a U.S. flag over the word Mexico on one of the billboards in protest.

In March, ClearChannel, announced a "Multicultural Sales and Marketing Initiative" to expand its focus on "serving the fast-growing U.S. Hispanic and African American population."

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Americans Liberate Los Angeles from Mexico!

UPDATE 13:42 CST: Another protest is being held today at 3pm PST at 15436 Ventura Blvd. organized by KFI 640am’s John & Ken Show.


Counter-billboards bought by KFI640 talk radio -
home of the John and Ken Show:
"You've told us you are outraged.
On your behalf, we've responded."


Concerned citizens are encouraged to attend this second protest today! Signs and flags will be made available or you can bring your own.

For questions or additional information, please contact William Gheen, President, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, at Tel: (919) 787-6009 Toll Free: (866)329-3999
Williamg@alipac.us

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Ok, last week I posted a story on a little known billboard in L.A. that claimed California for Mexico. Since then, the story has grown much larger, and yesterday there was a protest at Channel 62, the Spanish-language news channel that is marketed by the billboards (apparently there are quite a few in and around L.A.!).

Read on for more of the story, and photos of yesterday's protest!


Americans Liberate Los Angeles from Mexico!
5/1/2005
by William Gheen, President of ALIPAC

While we wait for the MSM (Main Stream Media) such as CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN to show America the offensive billboards in LA to America, concerned citizens and activists (over 150) protested outside of the TV 62 KRCA studios today to demand they remove the Los Angeles, Mexico billboards. Now we have a new breaking story!

SaveOurState.org and Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) have worked with other organizations to arrange the protest. During the peak of the protest a supporter of both groups raced with his camera to the billboard (located at Orangethorpe and State College in Fullerton) to take the picture presented below.

Please assist us with another ALIPAC Action Network (AAN) release. We will keep blowing the horns till the MSM tells the nation about these historic events!

Some patriotic Americans have climbed this sign and draped Old Glory over the word 'Mexico' providing America with another picture worth a thousand words. Thus Los Angeles’s correct address as part of the sovereign territory of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is now displayed for all to see. It appears that patriotic Americans are liberating Los Angeles today.

Original billboard that started it all. There are dozens more just like this in L.A.!


Now THAT is the correct address!


Crowd was loud and angry, but controlled and well behaved. Everyone was very nice, but completely fed up.


Clear Channel owns the billboards, Channel 62 owns the content.


Latino protestor: A legal immigrant. "You probably get mad when someone cuts in front of you line at the grocery store, imagine how I feel!"


For those who were confused about what country L.A. is in!

I've read enough. I'm ready to join the fight against illegal immigration.

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Pantano Prosecutor Says Coburn is "A Bit Slow"

Pantano Prosecutor Says Coburn is “A Bit Slow”
by Kit Jarrell

The chief accuser in the Pantano case spent six hours on the stand today finishing up his cross-examination at the hands of Pantano’s chief civilian counsel Charles Gittins, and from what the Jacksonville Daily news reported, it was pretty much another session of “Coburn-as-the-football”.

Sgt/ Coburn, who was considered Pantano’s chief accuser, said “I don’t remember” or “I don’t recall” more than 50 times during his testimony in the pretrial hearing at Camp Lejeune.

Fifty times? They gave the guy immunity just so he could sit on the stand and say “I don’t know” fifty times? I started chuckling at this point. Didn’t you?

Oh, but dear readers, it gets better.

Throughout his testimony Saturday, there were times Coburn couldn’t recall some details about the shooting that took place April 15, 2004, in Mahmudiyah, Iraq. At times, he couldn’t remember what he did just a few days ago.

At the start of the cross-examination, he couldn’t recall whether he read newspaper articles about the testimony given at the Article 32 hearing this week. He initially told Charles Gittins, Pantano’s civilian defense counsel, that he only “glanced” at the newspaper coverage. He then said he read several articles on the Internet.

So he doesn’t remember the details of the shooting, even though that’s the reason we’re all here? And did he read coverage or not? Something tells me he spent at least some time over here seeing all the great things we have to say about him.

When questioned about the amount of firefight going on in Iraq in April 2004, Coburn’s testimony differed from all the Marines who testified for both the prosecution and defense. They all described a several-hour ambush on April 11, 2004, and an increase in car bombs and other explosive devices during that time.

“I don’t think it was bad,” Coburn said when he was asked about it.

Well, since Coburn said it, I’m sure it must not have been bad, right? Since he’s a pillar of credibility and all. Then again, if you’re in the back with the radio, I guess it could be hard to see what the Marines up front are doing [hint for Coburn: They were fighting. You know, since there’s a war on and all.]

And just in case you still think Coburn is worth anything as a Marine, allow me to dispel that notion for you:

Gittins asked if Coburn was ever yelled at because he talked to the press about the case. Initially, Coburn said he wasn’t given an order. Then he testified that the 1st sergeant he reports to informed him that he was given an order not to speak to the media, but he didn’t really pay attention to what his superior was telling him.

“I understood some of the words he said. But, yes, I was not paying attention to most of what he said,” said Coburn, who pushed out his bottom lip and rolled his tongue around in his mouth whenever he had to think a minute about a question.

I literally started laughing at this point. Coburn is so incredibly unintelligent that he doesn’t even realize how transparent his arrogance is. Here’s more about Coburn the fantastic Marine:

Coburn was counseled twice by Capt. Bradley Weston, his company commander, for sleeping when his squad should have been training. In the fitness report, Weston cited Coburn for “failure to use guidance provided to him.”

In the report, Weston said Coburn, who had been in the Marine Corps nine years, didn’t understand the significance of his demotion from squad leader to radio operator - a job typically held by new Marines.

Coburn failed to realize the demotion “was a signal that he had lost the faith and confidence of the command,” Weston said in the report. Coburn testified he was moved to radio operator because he could do the job better than anybody else.

Riiiight. We’re not talking about Forrest Gump here, are we? Judging from his distinct lack of writing capability in his comments on this blog, one must wonder. And sleeping? While he’s supposed to be training his squad? And then people wonder why Pantano demoted him.

And, of course, we have the token denial of what has come to be known as “The Grudge(tm)”.

Coburn denied accusations that he had a grudge against Pantano as well as statements to fellow platoon members that he hated Pantano and wanted him gone.

One could almost add on to his statement, “…so just ignore the statements I’ve been making the entire time I served with Pantano and since then. Especially ignore the ones all over the internet and in the interviews I gave.”

But the icing on the cake was this tidbit, taken from the closing statement of the prosecution:

"Yes, he’s a bit slow,” Keane said. “No, (Coburn’s) not the model Marine…”

Well, isn’t that just the understatement of the year.

I can’t believe this has gone on this long.

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Sgt. Daniel Coburn Gets Immunity in LT Pantano Hearing

After a lot of starting and stopping yesterday, LT. Pantano's Article 32 hearing kind of fizzled due to Sgt. Coburn's refusal to re-enter the stand. Despite being assured by the court that he would not be prosecuted for violating direct orders, Sgt. Coburn still insisted upon immunity from future prosecution. Since he was scheduled for a 5-6 hour cross-examination by Gittens, who planned to focus on the events of last April, this effectively halted proceedings (again), and the judges called for a recess until Saturday morning.

Today, we've learned that Sgt. Coburn has been granted immunity by the court, at Charles Gittens' request, and is expected to be on the stand today. I hope that was a shrewd move on Gitten's part. It makes me believe that he feels that he can pull some semblance of the truth out of Coburn! Apparently, he's pretty confident that whatever he needs to ask Coburn about the events in question will vindicate and strengthen LT Pantano's case.

I'm not sure what Coburn's immunity specifically covers. Is it only for the violation of the gag order, or is it a blanket immunity for possibly bringing false charges? We'll have to find out. I sincerely hope it's not the latter - since I don't think Coburn should be able to walk away from all this unscathed!

Also, Kit at Euphoric Reality, has written an editorial concerning Sgt. Coburn's behavior during this high-profile case: Coburn Needs to Stop Being a Coward!

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Toxic River is Highway into the USA

Ok,today is Friday and I seem to be on a health kick discussing the medical effects Third World illegal immigration has on our civilization. Earlier I posted a story about diseases that were long ago eradicated in America or simply non-existent due to our standard of living. Well, in my continuing reasearch I found another health hazard flowing unchecked over our borders...

Toxic River Becomes Path To USA
By Valerie Alvord

CALEXICO, Calif. - The New River gushes north out of Mexico into California's Imperial Valley at enormous speed - a viscous ribbon of green, churning up mounds of white foam from industrial waste, pesticide runoff and raw sewage. Its eye-stinging, toxic stench is overpowering as it swirls by, carrying clogs of trash.

At night, this river also carries people.


Immigrants from Mexico float in the New River to
enter the U.S.A.

Thousands of migrants desperate to cross the heavily patrolled U.S.-Mexico border have stripped to their underwear and slipped into the murky water on the Mexican side. Clutching inner tubes and plastic bags filled with dry clothes, they ride the current past the helpless la migra, their word for the U.S. Border Patrol, and into the USA.

"They know we aren't going in after them," says Roger Carpenter, a Border Patrol supervisor. Though agents aren't prohibited from going into the polluted river, it's generally agreed that it is too dangerous for all concerned. "Until recently, the river was a deterrent. Now they use it as an entry point, and there's very little we can do."

Mostly men, the migrants come in groups of ten to 20. Often they lock arms around one or two tubes and float down the river behind a couple of scouts.

Frustrated Border Patrol agents can only run alongside, dodging thickets and tree branches, trying to guess where the human flotillas might disembark.

Because of the danger of tripping in the dark of night and tumbling into the poisonous water, only a few of the most determined agents will venture close enough to the edge to try to coax out the migrants. That rarely does any good.

If pressed by too many agents, the migrants hide in the cover of muddy, polluted coves for hours. Once they come out, they quickly dress and make the short run to a housing development or a nearby strip mall in Calexico.

"At that point, they're essentially home free," Carpenter says.

Agents estimate that anywhere from 50 to several hundred people use the toxic river each night as a floating freeway into the USA. "It's a thorny problem, in that we have found no way to address it," says Tom Walker, Calexico Border Patrol chief. "We thought of installing a grate that would go all the way to the bottom (of the river). But trash would collect, and anything we pull out of there we have to handle as toxic waste. That means we'd have to find a toxic dump - where, I don't even know."

A Toxic Waterway

Calexico hugs Mexico at the tip of the Imperial Valley in the southeast corner of California, about 150 miles east of San Diego. It is a flat, desert city of about 30,000, straddled by mountains. Irrigation water from the Colorado River transforms the valley into a verdant agricultural hub.


Calexico, CA

Directly across the border is Mexicali, a sprawling metropolis of about 1 million. It's a popular location for foreign-owned factories, called maquiladoras. The New River runs through it, collecting industrial waste and agricultural runoff. The city's sewer system, overwhelmed by growth, routinely overflows into the river.


Cauldron of poison: Refuse covers
the surface of the New River, which
flows from Mexico into the USA

The waterway slices through a Mexican truck-and-auto storage lot and crosses the border at a closed industrial port of entry before continuing 60 miles through the Imperial Valley in California to the Salton Sea. The river has long been a bubbling cauldron of local controversy. Politicians have dubbed it "the dirtiest river in America" and want it cleaned up.

Plans for a new Mexicali sewer system are in the works, funded in part by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. However, completion is years away.

The river presents significant health hazards, says Jose Angel of the California Water Quality Control Board, who has monitored the waterway since 1975.

"It's not a river that carries fresh water," Angel says. "It's dominated by wastewater, indicated by the high levels of coliform bacteria, which are measured there in the millions (per milliliter of water).

High levels of coliform bacteria, Angel says, are indicators of the presence of bacterial and viral diseases, including typhoid fever. "It seems like a miracle to me that we haven't had an outbreak of something," he says.


Clumps of pollution: the
sewer system of Mexicali,
Mexico, often overflows
into the New River.

No one knows exactly what health problems might result from a long dunk in the river, he says, because these illegal immigrants meet up with smugglers and disperse throughout the USA. And while there is no direct connection, recent government reports have noted that California's immigrant populations have the highest rates of tuberculosis in the nation.

Angel says it only stands to reason that people using the river to float into the USA run a tremendous risk of getting sick.

In The River

On a recent night, in the glare of high-powered lights trained on the fence, agents watched the 30-foot gap where the river breaches the border.

"They're getting a late start," says Carpenter, who is standing next to his van on a bluff about 100 yards away. It is exactly 9:01 p.m. when the first scouts, dressed in swim trunks and black muscle shirts, skirt a narrow path from the auto storage lot down to the river.

A few minutes later, a parade of men in white underwear follows.

"Thirteen in the river," says a voice on the Border Patrol radio.

"Eight more in the river," the radio announces 20 minutes later. "Ten in the river," the voice soon adds. As each group floats by, the men look up to the bluff and watch the agents watching them.

Meanwhile, attempts to intercept the first group have failed. Four came out dressed, but when they saw an agent, they dove back in.

Carpenter drives to a bend in the river. He spots an empty inner tube floating by. "They're home free," he says.

He drives back to the bluff and looks at his watch. It's 10 p.m.

"Well, that's 30 in one hour," he says. "And we still have eight more hours 'til dawn. Do the math."

His shift is ending, and he heads back to the station.

"Twenty more in the river," the radio cackles as he drives off.


A never-ending river of illegal immigrants.

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Dust Storms Iraq!

A massive sand storm cloud is close to enveloping a military camp
as it rolls over Al Asad, Iraq, April 27, 2005.

Continue for more photos!


The storm spawned near the border of Syria and Jordan,
leaving a heavy sheet of dust in its wake.


Dust storm across the western desert of Iraq.

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Speaking of health care and illegal aliens - there's more...

New diseases (well, new in the sense that America eradicated them generations ago) carried in the bodies of illegal aliens are only one facet of the impact illegals have on the health and welfare of American citizens. Our health care system is reeling, and in many border states, imploding, due to the crushing burden of caring for illegal aliens that never pay. The medical system in California and Arizona is beyond bankrupt and hospital closings in Texas are more and more common. The long-term impact is catastrophic and no one is doing anything to check the cascading costs. The continue to spiral out of control.


Note: more than half of immigration into the United States is illegal, thus at least half of the impact of immigration on our health care system is due to illegal immigration.

There are over 300,000 estimated anchor babies born to illegal alien mothers each year in the U.S. - babies who automatically attain citizenship. Illegal alien mothers now add more to U.S. population each year than immigration from all sources in an average year before 1965.

FAIR estimates "there are currently between 287,000 and 363,000 children born to illegal aliens each year. In 1994, California paid for 74,987 deliveries to illegal alien mothers, at a total cost of $215.2 million (an average of $2,842 per delivery). Illegal alien mothers accounted for 36% of all Medi-Cal funded births in California that year."

In a recent year in Colorado, the state's emergency Medicaid program paid an estimated $30 million in hospital and physician delivery costs for about 6,000 illegal immigrant mothers - average of $5,000 per baby. Those 6,000 births to illegal aliens represent 40% of the births paid for by Medicaid in Colorado. Those 6,000 babies immediately became U.S. citizens and qualified for full Medicaid services, with a cost yet to be tabulated.

The federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) mandates that U.S. hospitals with emergency-room services must treat anyone who requires care, including illegal aliens. Medical service for Americans in affected communities is being severely damaged as hospitals absorb more than $200 million in unreimbursed costs. Some emergency rooms have shut down because they cannot afford to stay open. Local tax-paying Americans are either denied medical care or have to wait in long lines for service as the illegals flood the facilities. In California, the losses are calculated to be about $79 million, with $74 million in Texas, $31 million in Arizona, and $6 million in New Mexico.

These costs are staggering. The Cochise County, Arizona Health Department spends as much as 30% of its annual $9 million budget on illegal aliens. The Copper Queen Hospital in Bisbee, Arizona, has spent $200,000 in uncompensated services out of a net operating budget of $300,000. The University Medical Center in Tucson may lose as much as $10 million and the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, also in Tucson, has lost $1 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2002.

The Gwinnett, Georgia, Hospital System expects has established a $34 million reserve to cover its anticipated outlay for illegal aliens in 2003. Los Angeles Times columnist Ronald Brownstein wrote in his December 30, 2003 column that the 'Health-Care Storm Brewing in California Threatens to Swamp U.S... the impending Medicaid disaster is not a problem the states can handle alone; their budget shortfalls are too big.'

"The General Accounting Office traveled to southern Arizona to study the impact of illegal immigrants on Arizona and other border state hospitals. In 2002, three hospitals located in Cochise County funded more than $1 million in uncompensated health care costs... The Florida Hospital Association surveyed 28 hospitals and found that health care for illegal aliens totaled at least $40 million in 2002."

For more information, see:

• Illegal Aliens and American Medicine, by Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Ph.D., Esq., The Journal of the American Physicians and Surgeons, Volume 10 Number 1 - Spring 2005
• Pretending Immigration Isn't an Issue, by Phyllis Schafly, September, 2002.
• Track 'anchor babies', by Al Knight, Denver Post Columnist, September 11, 2002.
• The Mexican Fifth Column by Tom DeWeese, January 27, 2003.
• Anchor Babies: The Children of Illegal Aliens, by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
• The Outrages of the Mexican Invasion, by Tom DeWeese, American policy Center.
• Health Care for Illegal Aliens Draining Tax Funds, by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, March 4, 2003.
• Health-Care Storm Brewing in California Threatens to Swamp U.S., by Ronald Brownstein, Washington Outlook, L.A. Times, December 30, 2002.

Article courtesy of: The American Resistance (TAR)

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Contagious diseases re-introduced by illegals into American society

I've read a lot of history and believe that the fabric of our American society is threatening to decay, accelerated by mass unchecked immigration, to the point where we are a sprawling, teeming Second, and even possibly, Third World nation. Yes, I know that sounds dire, but study after study provides indicators that our civilization is DEclining as we lose the hegemony of what made us great in the first place.

Diseases that were long ago eradicated in America are now resurfacing - and with a vengeance. In our First World nation, we've long enjoyed the health our sanitary living conditions and aggressive medical research has promoted. Diseases that most have never heard of remained the scourge of the Third World countries. Not anymore...

Immigrants to our country used to be checked and tested for diseases before being granted entry. If they were sick or diseased they were refused access and returned to their homeland. That was back in the day when immigrants came to our country lawfully and were welcomed. Not today. Millions of unchecked illegal aliens throng into our country every year, carrying untold disease and sickness in their bodies. These formerly Third World diseases are attacking Americans in mutated forms that are often immune to known antidotes!

For more information on the specific diseases our society now faces, read the following article - and see if you don't get just a little freaked out!

HOSPITAL TO THE WORLD
WELCOMES ILLEGALS &
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES

By Dr. Madeleine Cosman, Ph.D., ESQ
4-26-05

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The Ordeal of Unchecked Immigration in Wausau, WI

I read this article a while ago, when the reference to the town of Wausau, WI caught my eye. Though I'm in Texas now, and fondly like to say "I wasn't born in Texas, but got here as fast as I could", I was a small-town girl from the green rolling hills of Wisconsin.

I actually spent a lot of time in Wausau after my first son was born and thought, "What kind of immigration problems could rural Wausau possibly have?" I confess I was a little skeptical before reading the article, especially considering the horrendous problems Texas is suffering due to illegal immingration! But I've read it thoroughly and believe it is a compelling look into how unchecked immigration is impacting a small, close-knit community in Wisconsin.

The immigrants that have thronged to Wausau are the Hmong. This article is VERY objective and there are NO undertones of prejudice, racism, or anything else objectionable. It is simply a very frank recounting of the origination of the problems, and the current state of the town. In fact, much of the blame lies on the shoulders of the U.S. resettlement and immigration "experts" who never warned the residents of the future impact on their town; AND on the community leaders who plunged ahead into hapahzard but well-intentioned programs with little thought of the long-term consequences, and zero planning. Understandably, little was known then how today would turn out, but now they have no options and are trapped by their own good intentions. It is sad, but also stands as a wake-up call for the rest of us who value our American communities. Because they are fast disappaering - just like in Wausau...

So very, very interesting. I do hope that you'll read it to the end - it is well worth it.

The Ordeal of Immigration In Wausau

by Roy Beck
Executive Director of NumbersUSA.com

Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994

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Connecticut town struggles with Illegal Immigrants

DANBURY, Conn. — This middle-class New England suburb is nowhere near an international border but it still has the illegal immigration problems familiar to cities like San Diego and Tucson, Ariz.

Mayor Mark Boughton (search) blames the government for his town's inability to cope with 15,000 illegal immigrants, approximately 19 percent of the overall population.

"This is one community that has been incredibly stressed by failed federal policy and we need help," said Boughton.

Because the illegal residents aren't counted in the U.S. census, Danbury (search) doesn't receive any federal aid for them.

"In terms of our social services, this presents a tremendous strain, particularly on quality of life of our neighborhoods, our schools our health care system," Boughton said.

Residents complain the influx is killing property values. Homeowner Peter Gadiel said neighbors are fed up. "They're blue collar workers and their whole life savings is tied up in their house and they're seeing their neighborhood being destroyed."

The mayor says he wants state police officers to be deputized as federal immigration officers — giving them access to a federal database and helping them track illegal immigrants. But Connecticut's attorney general said Boughton needs the approval of the governor and others before that can happen.

Boughton has set up a task force to inspect neighborhoods that have received a lot of complaints about buildings housing illegal immigrants. In one home, the task force found 30 cots in the basement, each one being rented for $5 a night.

Hat tip: Darlene at ALIPAC

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Pantano Hearing UPDATES

Thursday's events are recapped, and looking ahead to what's expected for today (Friday):


Witnesses for the defense, six of them, all entered glowing testimony of LT Pantano's leadership qualities, conduct, and bearing.

Dmochowski said Pantano embraced the humanitarian element of the military’s mission “almost to the point he endangered himself.” He recalled a time when Pantano went door-to-door shaking hands until he was pulled away by worried colleagues.

Lance Cpl. James Faleris, a machine gunner who worked under Pantano in Iraq, said the officer gave local children candy, toys and soccer balls, and made his platoon study Iraqi language and culture for an hour each day as they prepared to deploy.

“He’s hands-down the best officer I’ve ever had the privilege to serve under,” Faleris said.

Earlier that day, however, a witness for the prosecution recalled a few incidents to try and show Pantano's state of mind, but under cross-examination admitted that he never considered Pantano's behaviour abusive.

Prosecution witness Cpl. Spencer Stringham recalled Pantano mockingly threatening to kill an Iraqi detainee who had feigned an inability to speak English. The man ultimately asked Pantano - in English - not to shoot him.

Stringham also recalled Pantano ordering a pair of detainees to roll off the back of a moving Humvee. He acknowledged under cross-examination that he never considered Pantano’s behavior abusive.

Good - net loss for the prosectution.

As to Sgt Coburn, he refuses to return to the stand unless he has full immunity from prosecution. I guess that begs the question: what's he afraid of prosecution for? Perjury? Perjury may be the least of his problems if more information about his conduct comes to light.

Go here for a recap of Thursday's events.

Ok, now moving onto today (Friday). It looks like Coburn will NOT be charged with violating orders to not speak to the media, since the court has determind that he wasn't given orders. But - GET THIS - he testified under oath, that he WAS given orders from two different Marine officers, Major Keane's senior prosecution council! Draw your own conclusions from that! That is f***'d up. Nevertheless, Coburn has still requested to remain silent for prosecution unless granted full immunity. I'm thinkin' there's something else he's afraid of - more so than the media thing. If the judge himself disregarded official testimony on Coburn's behalf, then Coburn is obviously more afraid of something else.

However, he does have to return to the stand in order to finish his cross-examination by Gittens, which should take another 5 or 6 hours. He was shredded the other day on cross, so I wonder how he'll fare today! :)

Just one more note I'd like to emphasize before sending you off to Euphoric Reality for more details:

The prosecution has so far brought several witnesses that disparaged LT Pantano's "gung-ho" attitude. One corporal, after stating how Pantano liked to micromanage and always volunteered for missions, commented, "It’s so motivated to a state of retardation".

This is what I'm thinkin': if all the prosecution can do is trot out a few slackers to make fun of Pantano, then their case is doomed. Let me tell you, folks, I LOVE our military, but every single unit has it's fair share of slackers. Those that are immune to motivation and ridicule the HOO-AH! attitude of better soldiers around them. In the Army we used to call them "ate up" - soldiers that just never got their shit toegther.

You'll need to go here to read how LT Pantano reacted to the "retarded" comment! :)

I'll keep the updates coming!

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Bloggers make a difference in the Pantano case!

Kit, at Euphoric Reality, was up early today, committed little trooper that she is! An early morning email from Charles Gittens made the following statement:

Well, yesterday the Government case sort of “blew up” like the IED’s being used against our Marines and soldiers in Iraq. The evidence yesterday demonstrated that the “Marinethatknows” was a perjurer and serial orders violator. He was read his rights, asked to speak to a lawyer, and now is not likely to testify further without being granted immunity from prosecution himself.

FYI — when my client was confronted with the allegation that he unlawfully killed two Iraqi’s, he didn’t ask for a lawyer — he told the truth: that he killed these guys because they were bad guys and he believed they were going to try to attack him and that he told them to “stop” in Arabic before he did it. My client followed the Rules of Engagement exactly and his killing of the Iraqis was justified and lawful under the ROE.

My client asked me to thank all of his supporters, but particularly his fellow Marines, past and present, who have sent him words of encouragement.

Sgt. Coburn's unauthorized statements around the web,specifically at Euphoric Reality, have really come back to haunt him:

“NOTHING that has been in the news about this case is true. The facts are all WRONG!!! The Prisoners were never a threat and they had nothing on them. They were shot AFTER the car was searched….Long after. So before you start to talk trash about this case….Learn the facts”

Kit noticed THIS small detail:

Now, here’s where things get interesting. Note that this anonymous poster mentioned that “they were shot AFTER the car was searched…Long after.” This was a fact that had not been released to the media yet. The people commenting after Marinethatknows (we’ll call him MTK), some of the other Marines, basically ridicule him and call him out, challenging him to explain where he’s getting his info. He then posts this on 17 Feb, on the same article:

“Here’s a little advice, before you make a stupid comment, get the whole story. All you people have read is HIS side of the story. I must say that the lawer(sic) was very smart in putting in a false statement. Now all the stupid people that think they know something about what happend will have his story in their heads and think that he is telling the truth. What person that is up on charges is going to tell the truth that will put them away? They all LIE. How about you all wait till the Marine Corps makes their statement. Until that happens, I can not tell what I know. If you Know anything about the military, you would know that a service memeber(sic) is not authorized to make a statement unless authorized by the legal department.”

Whoops, got caught up in your own tantrum, Danny-boy! Your testimony in court was compromised!

As to the rest of the hearing yeserday, further testimony from Corpsman Gobles claims, "I just felt a sense of security when a situation arose, I knew he would be able to take care of it," Gobles said. "I felt the safest with this platoon, more than any other platoon in our company, more than anything because of Lt. Pantano and his leadership." That is high praise, indeed, coming from an enlistedman serving in the deadliest corridor in Iraq. Pantano had served well and with commendations as a fast-reaction platoon leader in the Sunni Triangle. He was PROVEN, many times over - and his soldiers felt safe with him.

Vindication: a Marine counterintelligence expert identified in court only as Sgt. M testified he believed the detainees were insurgents who lied during his brief interrogation of them about having weapons in the home they had been seen leaving. Soldiers found three AK-47 assault rifles, mortar tubes and stakes used to prop them up during a search. They also discovered several passports and IDs with names that didn’t match up, as well as literature supporting Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Sergeant M said he believed the men were probably insurgents, and they were not going to be released.

The hearing is not over, though the prosecution's case has suffered a serious blow. So stay tuned for up-to-the-minute reports!

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WILD NEW UPDATE: Pantano's accuser pulled off the STAND!!!

Ok, I just got off the phone with THE exclusive blogger source for Pantano updates. Yes, Sgt. Coburn, Pantano's accuser, was yanked off the witness stand and READ HIS RIGHTS! I'm so frickin' psyched I can hardly type. So, go HERE for the full scoop!

We're waiting for further updates from Gittens (attorney) and Steve Fishman (NY Mag. reporter). As soon as Kit gets anything I'll know! We'll be online late tonight. So keep checkin' back in here or at Euphoric Reality!

Gonna go watch Lost while I'm waitin'...

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Tickled pink!

My blogging antics are apparently not escaping the notice of other bloggers. Luckily, they're the GOOD guys, and we're all on the same side.

It totally ROCKS to know that I'm not out here in the blogosphere yakkin' to myself. Yeah - 'cuz that would be crazy, or somethin'.

So read all about it at Vdare.com. I'm not alone!

Thanks Peter!

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Icky. Yech.

What's that old adage say... "Hold your friends close and your enemies closer"? Um...I think Bush may be taking that a bit too literally. I mean, he canNOT be serious.


SMOOCH!
Icky. Yech.




Byron York asks: Has the president read his second inaugural address lately? What message does he want to send to the world by being photographed literally hand-in-hand with the Saudi leader?

Jonah Goldberg has a slightly funnier take on it: Lots of readers are saying it's just a custom in the Arab world for men to hold hands. From a guide to such things:

"Touching, long handshakes, grasped elbows, even walking hand in hand by two males is common place in the Arab world. A considerable number of Arabs touch more between the same sex, to show liking--not sex. They hold hands, hug each other, kiss if close friends. As Arab customs and behavior condones the outward display of affection between male friends, one may see Arab men, even officials and military officers, holding hands as they walk together or otherwise converse with one another. If an individual Arab does not touch you, he does not like you--or he may be trying to restrain himself because you are not used to being touched. A full body embrace, accompanied with hugging, should not be initiated until you are sure that the Arab is a close friend. If the Arab initiates it, participate and consider yourself honored and/or accepted. Contact between the opposite sex in public is considered close to obscene"

I was, in fact, aware of this. However, we have customs here too.

Dudes rarely hold hands, and when they do it's usually because they're cops and one cop couldn't complete his rooftop leap across an alley while chasing a perp and his partner has to grab his hand to pull him up. Also acceptable is when your buddy has been shot by a Columbian drug lord and you hold his hand as you promise to look out for his wife and kids and you vow to exact revenge on Mendoza and his entire organization. When life flickers out of your buddy's eyes, you may continue to hold his hand as you shout heavenward "Mendozzzaaaaaaa!" at the top of your lungs. But most times men rarely hold hands. Even Butch and Sundance grabbed an ammo belt rather than hold hands when they jumped off the cliffside.

I have searched the manual and there seems to be no exception for holding the hand of a theocratic Islamic potentate. But I may not have gotten the latest monthly supplements.

Lastly, Andrew Suttaford says: Forget holding hands, George Bush shouldn't even have shaken hands with that man. Still, it could have been worse...

Ewwwwww. Ickier.



Hat tip: National Review Online

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1 in every 10 CAUGHT border jumpers is an Arab*

* Let's not forget that the Border Patrol only catches 1 in 4 illegals! That means that countless Arabs are entering the country illegally. Are they terrorists? Maybe...maybe not - though it would be prudent to ASSUME SO - racial profiling be damned! If you disagree with me, post a comment explaining WHY any Arabs would need to enter our country ILLEGALLY if they're innocent? Especially when al-Qaeda has already blatantly broadcast its intentions to ally themselves with Latino smuggling gangs to get their agents in! I'd like to read that comment.

We all know that the terrorists bent on our destruction are NOT stupid, nor hasty. They've known for a long time how easy it is to enter our country undetected - millions of Mexicans do it every YEAR! So to think that we can "secure" our airports while totally and completely IGNORING our borders is jaw-droppingly asinine! Because the terrorists ARE here and their numbers are swelling daily.

Meanwhile, I've found a good article on the reality of potential terrorists crossing our borders among illegal border jumpers. I was going to excerpt the story for you, with editorial commentary, but then realized that the whole story was worth your attention. I hope you read it and feel just a little bit galvanized - especially since our government is falling down on the job. Truly, when you actually think about our government's failure to protect our borders, you'll understand the paramount NEED for volunteer groups like the Minuteman Project!




Douglas, AZ: There were illegals in this batch from Brazil, Salvador, Costa Rica,and some Arab countries.


A Border Patrol agent, of supervisory rank, stated, "We are experiencing a tremendous increase in OTMs" – border lingo for "other than Mexicans." When queried about the ethnic make up of the OTMs, he answered, "Central and South Americans, Orientals and Middle-Easterners." Middle-Easterners? "Yeah, it varies, but about one in every 10 that we catch, is from a country like Yemen or Egypt."

Border Patrol spokesperson Rene Noriega stated that the number of other-than-Mexican detentions has grown by 42 percent. "Most of the non-Mexican migrants are from El Salvador and other parts of Central America," she said, but added that "agents have picked up people from all over the world, including the former Soviet Union, Asia and the Middle East."

Arabs have been reported crossing the Arizona border for an unknown period. Border rancher George Morgan encounters thousands of illegals crossing his ranch on a well-used trail. He relates a holiday event: "It was Thanksgiving 1998, and I stepped outside my house and there were over a hundred 'crossers' in my yard. Damnedest bunch of illegals I ever saw. All of them were wearing black pants, white shirts and string ties. Maybe they were hoping to blend in," he chuckled. "They took off, I called the Border Patrol, and a while later, an agent, Dan Green, let me know that they had caught them. He said that they were all Iranians."

According to Border Patrol spokesperson Rob Daniels, "Ten Egyptians were arrested recently near Douglas, Arizona. Each had paid $7,000 to be brought from Guatemala into Mexico and then across the border."

According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, hours after the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, an anonymous caller led Mexican immigration agents to 41 undocumented Iraqis waiting to cross into the United States.

The Associated Press reported that Mexican immigration police detained 13 citizens of Yemen on Sept. 24, 2001, who were reportedly waiting to cross the border into Arizona. The Yemenis were arrested Sunday in Agua Prieta, across the border from Douglas. Luis Teran Balaguer, assistant head of immigration in the northern state of Sonora, said, "The evidence indicates that they have nothing to do with terrorist activities."

The Agua Prieta, Mexico newspaper, El Ciarin, clearly did not agree with Balaguer's assessment. The editor, Jose Noriega Durazo, claimed in a front-page El Ciarin headline, "ESTUVIERON AQUI TERRORISTAS ARABES!" (The Arab terrorists were here!) El Ciarin quoted Agua Prieta police officials as identifying the 13 Yemenis as terrorists. Reportedly, the Mexican immigration police returned the Yemenis to a federal detention center near Mexico City, but new information would indicate that they were "released" and returned to Agua Prieta.

Carlos X. Carrillo, assistant chief U. S. Border Patrol, Tucson Sector, told WorldNetDaily in a telephone interview Monday that nine Yemenis were reportedly holed up in a hotel in the border town of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, across the border from Douglas, Ariz.

"We have passed this tip to the FBI," said Carrillo.

When pressed for more information, he said he could not confirm the number of OTMs or Middle-Easterners apprehended while crossing the American/Mexican border. "We are under OP/SEC and cannot divulge this," the chief said. (OP/SEC is a counter-intelligence acronym for operations security.)

A Border Patrol field patrol agent, who spoke anonymously, confirmed the presence of the nine Yemenis. The agent said, "They can't get a coyote to transport them and they are offering $30,000 per person with no takers."

On Oct. 12, a Mexican national, associated with the hotel in Agua Prieta, abandoned it and moved to Arizona -- to hide out. Speaking on condition of anonymity, he told WND: "There were 13 Arabs there when I left. They were paying the coyotes 30 to 50,000 bucks, apiece, to transport them safely into the U.S. I became so frightened I left. They are genuinely bad hombres." Since Carrillo had reported only nine Arabs at the hotel, it is unclear if the missing five Yemenis made it into the U.S. as reported.

Potential terrorists, stealing across the border, had been predicted well in advance of the World Trade Center disaster. In a May 1, 2000, Report to Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, the General Accounting Office reported, "Alien smuggling is a significant and growing problem. Some are smuggled as part of a criminal or terrorist enterprise that can pose a serious threat to U.S. national security."

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., in an Oct. 9 speech to the House of Representatives, stated, "It's almost incredible to recognize, as part of the overall strategy this government is going to employ to deal with the issue of terrorism, that we would not concentrate heavily on securing our borders and try to do everything humanly possible to stop people, who have evil intent, from coming into the United States."

Terrorists are well aware that the 4,000-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico is easy to cross, with its vast unmonitored stretches. Their crossing directly into Arizona is of special concern. Arizona appears to have been the home of a "sleeper cell" of Osama bin Laden's worldwide terrorist organization, with a select group of operatives living quietly in bland apartment complexes and obtaining flight training, in preparation for the Sept. 11 attack. The organization's known history in the state goes back nine years. Terror experts say the activities of at least three part-time Arizona residents fit the pattern of the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Sealing the border is a daunting task. Perhaps the most valuable asset that the Border Patrol has is the aid of rural Cochise County citizens. Many have attempted to help, in accordance with Arizona law. Through that legal process, landowners may execute a citizen's arrest for individuals or groups trespassing on their property. However, even that has been nullified. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, backed by the American and Mexican media, have characterized citizens who have legally detained aliens as "racist xenophobic vigilantes."

Rural citizens here have met with savage recriminations for exerting their legal rights. Immigration advocacy groups howl in protest, as does the Mexican government. Their lawyers have demanded that the ranchers be prosecuted for false arrest, kidnapping, intimidation, criminal assault and violation of civil rights – anything lawyers can come up with to advance their clients' interests. Illegal immigrants have now sued some Cochise County citizens in American courts.

Ben Anderson, a retired U.S. Army colonel who lives in Sierra Vista, Ariz., has made a detailed study of the border danger since the flood of illegals began through Cochise County in 1997.

"There is only one way to handle this," the colonel says firmly. "In a world now filled with biowarfare agents, backpack nuclear devices and chemical weapons like Sarin gas, we must militarize the border. There is no other way to stop the flow."
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Reporter's personal note: "I do not see how the folks living along this border keep going. I am a former U.S. Marine sergeant, and yet the presence of so much apparent violence spooked me. In researching this story, I went backcountry on quad-runners with a goodly couple, Larry and Toni Vance. The first thing they asked me was if I brought a sidearm. When I said, 'no,' they promptly gave me a wheel-gun to strap on. To tell you the truth, that lump of metal was comforting. It's not wise to travel unarmed in a war zone."

J. Zane Walley is a spokesman for the Paragon Foundation, Alamogordo, N.M., which made this article possible. The Paragon Foundation is "dedicated to preserving the constitutional principles established by the Founding Fathers." Citing Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, Paragon notes: "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion." The Paragon Foundation can also be reached at 1-877-847-3443.

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Iran tests missiles for electromagnetic pulse weapon (EMP)

Iran is not only covertly developing nuclear weapons, it is already testing ballistic missiles specifically designed to destroy America's technical infrastructure, effectively neutralizing the world's lone superpower, say U.S. intelligence sources, top scientists and western missile industry experts.

[The ballistic missiles are for the] deployment of electromagnetic pulse weapons – one of which could knock out America's critical electrical and technological infrastructure, effectively sending the continental U.S. back to the 19th century with a recovery time of months or years.

"A terrorist organization might have trouble putting a nuclear warhead 'on target' with a Scud, but it would be much easier to simply launch and detonate in the atmosphere," wrote Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., in the Washington Post a week ago. "No need for the risk and difficulty of trying to smuggle a nuclear weapon over the border or hit a particular city. Just launch a cheap missile from a freighter in international waters – al-Qaida is believed to own about 80 such vessels – and make sure to get it a few miles in the air."

Detonated at a height of 60 to 500 kilometers above the continental U.S., one nuclear warhead could cripple the country – knocking out electrical power and circuit boards and rendering the U.S. domestic communications impotent.

"An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the American homeland, said one of the distinguished scientists who testified at the hearing, is one of only a few ways that the United States could be defeated by its enemies – terrorist or otherwise," wrote Kyl "And it is probably the easiest. A single Scud missile, carrying a single nuclear weapon, detonated at the appropriate altitude, would interact with the Earth's atmosphere, producing an electromagnetic pulse radiating down to the surface at the speed of light. Depending on the location and size of the blast, the effect would be to knock out already stressed power grids and other electrical systems across much or even all of the continental United States, for months if not years."

"EMP is one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences," the report said. "EMP will cover the wide geographic region within line of sight to the nuclear weapon. It has the capability to produce significant damage to critical infrastructures and thus to the very fabric of U.S. society, as well as to the ability of the United States and Western nations to project influence and military power."

The report describes the potential "cascading effect" of an EMP attack. If electrical power is knocked out and circuit boards fried, telecommunications are disrupted, energy deliveries are impeded, the financial system breaks down, food, water and gasoline become scarce.

As Kyl put it: "Few if any people would die right away. But the loss of power would have a cascading effect on all aspects of U.S. society. Communication would be largely impossible. Lack of refrigeration would leave food rotting in warehouses, exacerbated by a lack of transportation as those vehicles still working simply ran out of gas (which is pumped with electricity). The inability to sanitize and distribute water would quickly threaten public health, not to mention the safety of anyone in the path of the inevitable fires, which would rage unchecked. And as we have seen in areas of natural and other disasters, such circumstances often result in a fairly rapid breakdown of social order."

"American society has grown so dependent on computer and other electrical systems that we have created our own Achilles' heel of vulnerability, ironically much greater than those of other, less developed nations," the senator wrote. "When deprived of power, we are in many ways helpless, as the New York City blackout made clear. In that case, power was restored quickly because adjacent areas could provide help. But a large-scale burnout caused by a broad EMP attack would create a much more difficult situation. Not only would there be nobody nearby to help, it could take years to replace destroyed equipment."

Kyl concluded in his report: "The Sept. 11 commission report stated that our biggest failure was one of 'imagination.' No one imagined that terrorists would do what they did on Sept. 11. Today few Americans can conceive of the possibility that terrorists could bring our society to its knees by destroying everything we rely on that runs on electricity. But this time we've been warned, and we'd better be prepared to respond."

Full Article
Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin

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A repudiation of Islam - by former Muslims

I've had more than I can stomach about how Islam is a religion of peace and that only the radical extremists carry out violence in Islam's name. This is simply not true! Anyone who has ever read the Quran (Koran) can see for themselves what Islam is about. I've read it cover to cover. It is hateful, exclusionary, violent, and merciless.

But don't take my word for it, read the words of apostates of Islam - those that were RAISED in this religion and have turned away from it because of its brutality and deception. With the present world-climate, it is crucial that the motivations and beliefs that Islam instills in its followers become common knowledge. I encourage you to visit Apostates of Islam, Faith Freedom, or Know Islam. Lastly, here is a link to three literal translations of the Quran.

In case you are a fan of Islam and are too "busy" to search for the truth, I’ll go ahead and post a FEW of these "peaceful" verses from the Quran for your edification - and there are a lot more where these came from:

WOMEN:

Quran 4.34 : Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High, Exalted, Great.

NON-MUSLIMS (and tortures that are still practiced today):

Quran 3.85 : If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him; and in the Hereafter He will be in the ranks of those who have lost.

Quran 14.16 : In front of such a one is Hell, and he is given, for drink, boiling fetid water.

Quran 14.17 : In gulps will he sip it, but never will he be near swallowing it down his throat: death will come to him from every quarter, yet will he not die: and in front of him will be a chastisement unrelenting.

Quran 22.19 : These twain (the believers and the disbelievers) are two opponents who contend concerning their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads,

Quran 22.20 : With it shall be melted what is in their bellies and (their) skins as well.

Quran 22.21 : And for them are whips of iron.

Quran 76.4 : For the Rejecters we have prepared chains, yokes, and a blazing Fire.

There are other violations of human rights, which are being done by various muslim countries, such as (again, just a few - there are many more):

In Pakistan and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is prohibited and punishable by law.
In Afghanistan, female employment and education is restricted and in most cases, banned.

Lastly, here are some quotes from former devout Muslims (who, I dare say, would know more than any of us about this religion):

Why Mohammed was not a prophet:

One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives and their “right hand possessions” (Quran 33:50) He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way. Muhammad was a narcissist like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.

Why Quran is not from God:

Muhammad produced no miracles and when pressed he claimed that his miracle is the Quran. Yet a cursory look at the Quran reveals that this book is full of errors. Quran is replete with scientific heresies, historic blunders, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities, grammatical errors and ethical fallacies. It is badly compiled and it contradicts itself. There is nothing intelligent in this book let alone miraculous. Muhammad challenged people to produce a “Surah like it” or find an error therein, yet Muslims would kill anyone who dares to criticize it. In such a climate of hypocrisy and violence, truth is the first casualty.

One last point. If Islam is such a "religion of peace", why are Muslims engaged in 83% of the planet's warfare right now? Did you know that out of 23 active conflicts on the planet today, Muslims are warring in 19 of them?! Our War on Terror has never been just about US(Americans) vs. THEM! It is about Islam’s stated goal of decimating all infidels. That’s everyone except THEM (see Quran quote above)! Not so peaceful, is it?

Here are some quotes from Newsweek that you can ponder:

Contemporary global politics is in the age of Muslim wars. Muslims fight each other and fight non-Muslims far more often than do peoples of other civilizations. Muslim wars have replaced the cold war as the principal form of international conflict. These wars include wars of terrorism, guerrilla wars, civil wars and interstate conflicts. These instances of Muslim violence could congeal into one major clash of civilizations between Islam and the West or between Islam and the Rest.

According to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, 32 armed conflicts were underway in 2000; more than two thirds involved Muslims. Yet Muslims are only about one fifth of the world’s population.

The age of Muslim wars will end when its causes change or are changed.

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LT Pantano Hearing: UPDATE

If you've been following LT Ilario Pantano's story, you know that his hearings commenced yesterday. Kit, at Euphoric Reality, has EXCLUSIVE updates from Pantano's attorney, Charles Gittens. She's earned that privilege because her blog is where Sgt. Coburn (Pantano's accuser) was leaking information about the case under a pseudonym. Kit caught him and turned over all evidence to MAJ Stackhouse, Pantano's military counsel. She's had a direct impact on the case and is now privy to the ongoing details. You will NOT find these updates anywhere else. So, for up-to-the-minute coverage, click here and here and here now!


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"The sky is falling" approach not working for liberals.

Woe, woe, woe...the sky hasn't fallen. "Well, darn it," mutter the liberals. "What does one have to do around here to get a good catastrophe?!"

Here's a snappy article from Robert McCain at the Washington Post.

The lack of vigilante violence in Arizona was the latest (though certainly not the last) in a long history of liberal predictions that failed to materialize. Like name-calling and scandal-hunting, scaremongering is an easy way for liberals to divert attention from the fact they haven't had a workable policy agenda in years.
A partial list of predicted nightmares that never came true:

* In the 1960s, Paul Ehrlich and others predicted tens of millions of people around the world would soon starve to death as a result of overpopulation. It didn't happen, and global fertility rates are now so low (and still falling steadily), that some demographers forecast a decline in world population beginning as soon as 2050.

* In the 1970s, Americans were warned an "energy crisis" meant the world would soon run out of oil. Three decades later, no one predicts exhaustion of the petroleum supply — ever.

* In the 1980s, liberals said evil warmonger Ronald Reagan was on the verge of provoking World War III, with "nuclear winter" wreaking havoc on the planet as a result of the impending thermonuclear holocaust. Didn't happen. The Soviet Union folded like a cheap suit.

* In the 1990s, liberals screamed that poor children would starve to death because of welfare reform and Republicans' "draconian" cuts in social programs. Fast forward to 2005: experts now warn of an obesity epidemic among poor children.

* After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, experts rushed to warn Americans of the dangers of right-wing militias — soon, hordes of gun-toting wackos would goose-step down Main Street. Never happened. The supposedly large and growing "militia movement" turned out to be a handful of kooks in camouflage.

Amazing, isn't it? Liberals haven't accurately predicted anything in 40 years. Yet every time a liberal "expert" gins up a new prophecy of disaster (global warming, anyone?) his phone number is added to the speed-dial of "Nightline" producers, and the New York Times wins another Pulitzer for its five-part series examining the crisis du jour.
With the failure of the predicted "border vigilante" crisis, liberals have maintained their record of being 100 percent wrong — and now press on to new adventures in wrongness.
Liberals have recently predicted proposed Social Security reforms will slash retirement benefits, Tom DeLay's "scandals" will hurt the GOP, and the Terry Schiavo case will help Democrats retake control of Congress next year.
Don't bet on any of it. The only difference between predictions by liberals and predictions by supermarket tabloid psychics is the possibility — however remote — that Bigfoot might be real and Elvis may still be alive.

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The vigilante 'Nightmare' that wasn't

Today I received comments on one of my blog articles below from a slightly hysterical man who is convinced that his Mexican-American wife is now a "TARGET" for the "vigilantes". O.M.G. I think this guy must have been abducted by aliens and not been present on THIS planet for the past month. Nevertheless, with unceasing patience and tolerance, I gently allayed his fears and tried to bring him up to speed on the REALITY. Unfortunately, his email was bogus (HA - surprise!), so we'll just have to hope that he finds his way back here to read my responses. :D

Anyways, I was bewildered that he could've read ANY article on my blog, especially the one he responded to, and still have unreasonable fears for his wife's life!! I mean, he told me she had a gun and would USE it if anyone tried to detain her!! Good grief - the poor man's overreaction could get someone hurt out there!!!

This type of hysteria can't be good for his health, and so in the interest of good American neighborliness, I've decided to ONCE AGAIN post about the Minutemen and their mission. I mean, really, I hate to sound like a broken record, people, but apparently we have some mentally challenged among us that are consumed with irrational fear for their lives and the lives of their loved ones. I simply can't have that, which is why I've selflessly offered to help.

However, that being said, I need to forwarn my readers that the following article is satirical, much like my own that I posted at the beginning of April, and no one should have a heart attack over grisly reports of violence and bloodshed!!!!

[sigh] All the fun goes out of satire, when you have to EXPLAIN the satire...

"Nightmare" that wasn't
By Robert Stacy McCain

It's over now, the carnage on the Arizona-Mexico border caused by violent right-wing vigilantes. No longer are members of the so-called Minuteman Project shedding the blood and violating the human rights of innocent Mexicans whose only "crime" was illegally trying to enter the United States to earn money for their impoverished families.

Weeks of slaughter and atrocities are now at an end, and the Minuteman vigilantes are going home.

Oh, wait a minute. It never happened.

There was no bloodshed during the three weeks when civilian volunteers patrolled the border. No carnage, no human-rights violations, nothing. The closest thing to an "atrocity" was when a volunteer had an illegal immigrant to pose for a photo holding a funny T-shirt. (The horror.)

"Border vigilantes stir fears of violence," was the headline on a March 31 Associated Press article, warning "law-enforcement officials and human-rights advocates are worried about the potential for bloodshed."

A California college professor/"human-rights" activist called the border volunteers "domestic terrorists [who] represent a danger to the country."

Rep. Raul Grijalva, Arizona Democrat, sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, warning that the Minuteman Project "creates a situation for something violent to occur."

Yet nothing violent occurred. What did occur, both U.S. and Mexican officials agree, is that a few hundred law-abiding Americans did what their government (with an annual budget of more than $2 trillion) said it couldn't do: discourage illegal border crossings.

'Nightmare' that wasn't - The Washington Times: Commentary - April 26, 2005

So, there.. there...now, Mr. Jay Keller. All's well. I since