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UK deports more terror threats!, Jihad Watch

All right. So they deported some Methodist eighth graders, but surely this time the British authorities are going after Anjem Chaudary, or Abu Qatada, or Abu Izzadeen, or any of the 4,000 other jihadists in Britain?

Nope. This time they're deporting a Coptic Christian family that faces persecution once back in Egypt. Please sign the petition.

Another Absurd Britannia Alert: "Appeal to save the Mansour family from deportation," from GoPetition, July 4 (thanks to Ibrahim):  (continue)

Welcome to the Police State: 20,000 uniformed troops inside U.S. by 2011, Jihad Watch

It's for our own good

And it will be an Orwellian Police State, too: Thoughtcrime is already subject to ostracism and vilification, and what with the UN ready to codify it, and Obama signaling that he wants to increase the importance and influence of the UN, how long will it stay out of the U.S.?

And why is this necessary? Primarily "to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack." Of course, to call the Muslim community in America to account and compel it to stop teaching Sharia supremacism and hatred of Jews and Christians -- that would be "bigoted." Of course, to halt Muslim immigration in light of the impossibility of distinguishing peaceful Muslims from actual and potential jihadists -- that would be racist. Of course, even to institute some kind of screening of Muslims who enter the country in order to determine their adherence to Sharia principles and to make agitation for Islamic law (stonings, amputations, no free speech, no freedom of conscience, etc.) in this country grounds for deportation -- that would be "Islamophobic."

So if we can't do all that or even anything close to those things, what is left? What can we do? Why, become a Police State, with armed troops roaming the streets. After all, the next terror threat could just as easily come from the local Methodist church as from the local mosque. Better have that Wesleyan Center adequately covered.

"Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security," by Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson for the Washington Post, December 1 (thanks to Anne Crockett):  (continue)

OSAMA BIN LADEN’S TRIP TO L.A. REVEALED, The Last Crusade

Al Qaeda Leader Spent Weeks in USA

By

Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

thelastcrusade.org.

After years of speculation, the rumors finally have been confirmed.

Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were not the only top al Qaeda operatives to spend some time in the U.S.A.

Osama bin Laden made the trek from Saudi Arabia to the land of the free and the home of the brave in 1978 with his first wife Najwa and his son Omar.

The account of the trip is reported by Najwa bin Laden, Osama’s first wife, in Growing Up Bin Laden, soon to be published by St. Martin’s Press. (continue)

Video: Olbermann: We Have To 'Legally Stop' Glenn Beck,

On the June 30 editon of Beck's show, former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer said: "the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to detonate a major weapon in the United States." Apparently Scheuer thinks that's what it would take to shock the country and its leaders back to their senses. Olbermann was infuriated that Beck didn't "scream at him" or otherwise jump down Scheuer's throat, choosing instead to nod gravely while suggesting that would be the last thing OBL would do.

posted by : Nancy George on July 8, 2009, Family Security Matters

Amendments to the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act, which has already been passed by the House, would empower the Attorney General Eric Holder to define gun owners, anti-abortion activists and tax protesters as domestic terrorists in light of recent federal reports that classify millions of Americans as “extremists”. (more at ATS)

Obama's AG Holder to decide who is a 'domestic terrorist' and who is not.....What?

An amendment to a bill swiftly moving through the US Congress will allow the Obama Administration’s Attorney General to classify Americans as domestic terrorists if they are pro-life, pro-gun and anti-big government.

Impeached Florida judge — now a Democrat Party member of the House of Representatives — Rep. Alcee Hastings introduced what some claim is a disturbing piece of legislation. Hasting’s amendment calls for the Attorney General to have discretion over who is called a terrorist and what groups will be treated as terrorist groups.

Hundreds of Troops Become Citizens

American Forces

Press Service Donna Miles

Vice President Joe Biden and Army Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of Multi-National Force - Iraq, presided over a July 4 naturalization ceremony in which 237 service members deployed to Iraq became American citizens.

Republicans gather to fight Obama health care... I'll believe it when I see it.

The weekly  Watcher’s Council Nominations represent some of the most scintilating stuff in the blogsophere.

Join us on Friday for the winning entries.

Council Submissions

• The Provocateur - How Bonds Work (and How Current Policy Will Wreck Them and the Economy With It)
• Right Truth - Pride Or Lack Thereof
• Rhymes With Right - In Re: Palin
• The Glittering Eye - Haeckel and the Development of Nations
• Mere Rhetoric - Prominent Jewish Democrats Double Down On Obama.Unpersuasively.
• Wolf Howling - The Pot Simmers
• Soccer Dad - Extra! Extra! get Your Paper
• Bookworm Room - The Declaration of Independence . . . and chickens?

Non-Council Submissions

• Submitted By: Right Truth – Star Parker - When Color Trumps Christianity
• Submitted By: The Provocateur – Ralph Peters - The Moscow Giveaway
• Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Reclusive Leftist - Feminists and the mystery of Sarah Palin
• Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Diana West - Allies Don’t Declare Victory Over Each Other”
• Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – Michael Totten - The Real Quagmire in the Middle East
• Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Rick Richman / Commentary - The Coming U.S. Peace Plan
• Submitted By: Wolf Howling – Seraphic Secrets - The Great Obama Moscow Give-away
• Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Rubin Reports - The Middle East is a place where wishful
  thinking gets people killed but makes careers for politicians, diplomats,
  academics, and journalists
• Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Investor’s Business Daily - Canada’s Single-Prayer Health Care

Comments

[Maggie Thornton]

Now that is a post chocked full of information. I'm amazed that Britain has deported every one but Muslims so no surprise there but the troops in the U.S. - I'm assuming not on their bases??? but out in the streets and shopping centers ----like in Caribbean countries or third world countries??? It sounds like a natural goal that Obama might want to achieve but I didn't expect it to be our military. I expected it to be his military.

[MK]

All this and so much more that is not in our interests is happening all around the world and yet what is the western media fixated on, because westerners themselves are too. That's like the death of a has-been celebrity, wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast, dawn-to-dusk.

[Kris]

It's amazing what one can miss.

[Angel]

I did miss this Deb..thank u!