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Under the Nuclear Deluge: Practical Planning for the Unimaginable

Under the Nuclear Deluge:
Practical Planning for the Unimaginable

by Ronald John Godlewski

Paper Originally submitted to American Military University
HLSS 233 Explosive Incident Assessment
Professor Dawkins 
July 7, 2009

I am incensed, and I think we should all be incensed, that the courageous passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 were the White House’s first and only line of defense on September 11—not the CIA or the FBI or the Immigration and Naturalization Service or any other office or agency that we pay our taxes to support.   (Baer 2002, xix)

    The evolutionary nature of terrorism dictates that its practitioners will utilize the most destructive weapon at their disposal and when this option finally reaches the nuclear stage, the subsequent evolution of society may become its first casualty. With the United States firmly pegged as Islamic terrorism’s ennemi public numéro un, America’s leaders have emulated the character Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark – desperately trying to outrun the nuclear “boulder” at the expense of merely getting out of its way. Stepping aside of nuclear terrorism may not seem politically palatable, but until the United States Government seriously considers proactive response to the threat, even simple blackmail could significantly disrupt America’s future  (Ferguson and Potter 2004, 5).  Such a future may, therefore, rest entirely within the hands of ordinary citizens.

Alice through the cooking gas.

    High-casualty terrorist attacks on American interests have had “significant strategic outcomes” for the benefit of those perpetrating such heinous crimes  (Merari 1998, 192). Nothing, however, could be considered more strategically “significant” than a nuclear attack upon American soil. Although few terrorist groups can be considered sufficiently motivated to unleash nuclear horror upon the United States  (Ferguson and Potter 2004, 6), this does not preclude the existence of a rogue state inspiring a non-state partner. Nor does it dismiss the reality that prior to September 11, 2001 few considered the use of commercial aircraft as guided missiles capable of taking out one of the world’s most recognized landmarks.

    In fact, the events of 9/11 may have been a low-cost, low-tech alternative to using a crude nuclear device to topple the World Trade Center  (Hughes 1996, 56).  Would the “next 9/11” progress further up or down the technology scale? The world will not know until it actually happens. Fortunately, there is some historical precedence in terrorists using tried and true methods to enact their craft  (Ellis 2007, 118-151). This would seem to suggest that the nuclear option is not considered practical enough for experimentation. Having said that, we need to consider not only September 11th – which took vehicular borne attacks to literally new heights – but also the Chechen separatists’ use of cesium-137 in Moscow  (Aloise 2007, 6).

    Nuclear devices thus represent the epitome of terror weapons and, therefore, symbolize the Holy Grail for any organization that seeks to grab the attention of the world’s political, media, and public bodies. Just the mere thought of vaporizing tens of thousands, if not millions, of innocent souls is sufficient enough to safeguard the objective of any terrorist organization. Moreover, a nuclear weapon in the hands of a rogue organization need not be as accurately delivered as its Cold War superpower cousins. A simple device touched off within the confines of any metropolitan area will far exceed the total death and destruction of both the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks in 2001.

    The lethality of a nuclear explosion rests with the combination of blast, thermal, and radiation energies unleashed upon the target environment  (Glasstone and Dolan 1977, 588). The significant difference in comparsion with conventional explosives being that those caught outside during a nuclear attack are more susceptible to radiation exposure than those safely tucked away in office buildings  (Glasstone and Dolan 1977, 588). The awesome power of even a relatively small Improvised Nuclear Device (IND) warrants considerable attention from the federal government. Yet, the question remains, has the United States Government effectively planned for this potentiality?

To defend or not to defend, that is the question…

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Everyone involved with the Flight 93 Memorial knows that the Crescent of Embrace points to Mecca

Thanks to Error Theory:

In 2007, Flight 93 Advisory Commission member Tim Baird told Alec Rawls (the author of these blogburst posts) that everyone at the meetings he attended is fully aware that the giant crescent, originally named the Crescent of Embrace, really does point almost exactly at Mecca. Professor Baird says they all just assume (himself included) that the Mecca orientation must be an innocent coincidence.

Pretty crazy, when they have also been told the meaning of a crescent that Muslims face into to face Mecca. Every mosque is built around a Mecca-direction indicator called a mihrab, and the classic mihrab is crescent shaped. Geometrically, the Crescent of Embrace is the world’s largest mihrab.

However honestly Project Partners believe that the Mecca orientation of the crescent must be a coincidence, this is not what they tell the public. When reporters asked Memorial Project Superintendent Joanne Hanley about the Mecca orientation, she denied it:

"The only thing that orients the memorial is the crash site," she said.

Thinking that the Mecca orientation of the crescent must be a coincidence in no way justifies lying to the public about this explosive information. If Baird’s account is accurate—that the dozens of Memorial Project Partners all know that the giant crescent actually does point to Mecca—then the Memorial Project has a lot of explaining to do. Now an overlooked article from 2007 corroborates Professor Baird’s information.


Dr. Glenn Kashurba

It turns out that a Pennsylvania psychiatrist who has been intimately involved with the memorialization of Flight 93 (writing two books on the subject) argued to a reporter before the July 2007 Memorial Project meeting that the Mecca-orientation of the giant crescent (which he took as a given) should be seen as coincidental:

“When you calculate angles to Mecca - I'm going to be in Washington, D.C., this week, and I'm sure if I calculate angles of the monuments, at least one points to Mecca,” Kashurba said. “I don't know if it will be the White House or the Lincoln Memorial, but at least one will. People looking for a way to support their way of looking at things will look at this in this way for ever and ever.”

If Dr. Kashurba was getting his information from the Memorial Project’s public statements, he would have denied that the crescent points to Mecca. Here is what Memorial Project Partner Patrick White told the press 9 days before the Kashurba story:

Rawls, of Palo Alto, Calif., contends that the centerpiece of the design points toward Mecca.

Rawls’ claims are untrue and “preposterous,” according to Patrick White, Families of Flight 93 vice president. “We went through in detail all his original claims and came away with nothing.”

Kashurba knew better, as did Patrick White himself. The week after his public denial, a local woman asked White how he could be okay with the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent. This time White did not deny the Mecca orientation, but argued that it cannot be seen as honoring Islam because the inexactness of the Mecca orientation would be "disrespectful" to Islam. xs9adzwi2c

"Stay at home and pray"

China bans prayer in Mosques, saying "Stay at home and pray".  That's what an unnamed government official told the Associated Press news agency that people in Xinjiang should "stay at home and pray", rather than gathering in mosques, according to the BBC.  I guess those Uighur's in Bermuda, formerly of Gitmo, are feeling pretty good right now.  Also, can you imagine what would happen if we banned prayer in any mosque here in the US?

The order comes after several days of ethnic violence between Uighur Muslims and Han Chinese. At least 156 people have been killed so far.

Thousands of troops remain in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province, to try to maintain order.

The Chinese authorities have vowed to administer "severe punishment" to those involved in the riots......

'Al-Qaeda links'

The violence began on Sunday when Uighurs rallied to protest against a deadly brawl between Uighurs and Han several weeks ago in a toy factory in southern Guangdong province.

Security has been high in the city since the recent unrest

Officials say 156 people - mostly Han - died in Sunday's violence.

Uighur groups say many more have died, claiming 90% of the dead were Uighurs.

More than 1,400 people are thought to have been detained.

On Thursday, China said it had "a great deal of evidence" that some of those involved in the violence had "training from foreign terrorist groups including Al-Qaeda".

Foreign ministry official Qin Gang did not say what the evidence was, but said the groups were "inextricably linked with three vicious forces from abroad".

Cyper Attacks

From Prometheus' Clarion

North Korea Suspected of Cyber-Attacks on the USA and South Korea

DEVELOPING NEWS!

North Korea has been blamed for an attack on dozens of websites in South Korea, paralysing banks, government agencies and internet portals.

Read more here: Telegraph

Posted by Aukmuntr 

Massive Cyber-Attack Hits US Government Agencies and Others

DEVELOPING NEWS!

The United States and South Korea have been under a sustained Cyber-Attack since the 3rd of July.

As of 12:00 EST today the attacks continue unabated creating chaos in the halls of the U.S. Defense establishment and it's South Korean counterpart.

U.S. Targets have been identified as; The US Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department, the National Security Agency, Homeland Security Department, State Department, the Nasdaq stock market and The Washington Post. Also targeted are the White House, the Pentagon and the New York Stock Exchange.

Amy Kudwa, spokeswoman for the Homeland Security Department, said the agency's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a notice to federal departments and other partner organizations about the problems and "advised them of steps to take to help mitigate against such attacks."

South Korean intelligence officials believe the attacks were carried out by North Korean or pro-Pyongyang forces. U.S. officials so far have refused to publicly discuss details of the attack or where it might have originated.

The unprecedented scope of the attack illustrates the fact that we as a nation remain under-protected and vulnerable to Cyber warfare. It also confirms the urgent need for new cyber-security measures to be adopted on the National, Municipal, and Corporate level.

Read more as this story develops at: BBC News

Posted by Aukmuntr

We are what we do

The truth is, people notice what we actually do rather than what we say, "actions speak louder than words."  Star Parker writes "When color trumps Christianity", directed at Black Christians.  She points out that Obama equated the homosexual political movement to the black civil rights movement saying,  "Obama sees the black community as being a little slow on the uptake to grasp that homosexuality and same sex marriage are okay. There still are those, according to him, "who don't yet fully embrace their gay brothers and sisters..."

President Obama hosted a reception at the White House celebrating LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Pride month Black Christians should take note and learn a few things about our black President.

As they say, we are what we do.

It tells us something that Mr. Obama had no time to host an event for the National Day of Prayer.

Nor did he have time to accept the invitation to convey greetings and a few remarks to the couple hundred thousand who came to Washington, as they do every January, for the March for Life.  (continue reading)

Indeed we are watching United States President Barack Obama, watching what he says and what he does.  He seemed to have plenty time for Muslim events, yet no time for Christian events. 

He claims to be a strong Christian, yet can can't seem to find a church that he and Michelle can comfortably join.  He had no problem staying in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church year after year.  Yes, you are what you do Obama, and your actions are loud and clear.

Obama and Michelle snubbed French President Nicolas Sarkozy and wife while in France, refusing a dinner invitation.  Obama had no problem bowing down to Saudi King Abdullah, yet he displayed the souls of his shoes (an insulting action) to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Obama has a record of being for live-birth abortions and all abortions -- heaven forbid anyone should be burdened with a baby -- Obama's words not mine.  But no concern for Iranian women and men being shot in the streets of Iran as they protest rigged elections and pray for freedom and democracy.  I guess it's no burden for Iranian women to be arrested, beaten, killed -- or for Israeli women and children to have missiles shot at their homes from Gaza.

Obama is buddies with dictators, but tells Americans he doesn't want to take over private business, as he does just that.  He's for free and open elections [yet ACORN seems to have helped get him elected and are now doing our census, which will affect upcoming elections].  Words and actions ...

I could go on and on, but you get the idea.  There was a time when our word was our bond, but that certainly does not go for politicians these days.  No we don't listen to their words any more,  we watch their actions.  Anyone planning to run for office in 2010 and 2012 needs to take need -- You are what you do and I've got my eye on you!

WINDOW INTO FATE OF WOUNDED AND ARRESTED IN ISLAMIC IRAN

From Anti-Mullah: 

Afshin, a shopkeeper from south-west Iran, alleges that one of his male friends was beaten and repeatedly raped after being arrested at an opposition rally after last month's disputed election. He gave this account to Esfandiar Poorgiv, a journalist and academic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"They gave us warm water to drink and one meal a day. Repeated smacking was a regular punishment. In interrogations, they kept on asking if I was instructed from abroad. I believed I was going to be sent from the detention centre to prison. But they sent me to where they called Roughnecks' Room. There were some other youths of my age in there. I asked a guard why I am not sent to prison and the reply was: 'You have to be our guest for a while.'

"I refused to confess during interrogations. They said: 'Ask your friends what we'll do to you if you don't co-operate.' Others in the room were also arrested on 15 June. I was tempted to confess at this point but I didn't. On the third and fourth day, they beat me up again. They insisted we were instructed from abroad. I kept on saying we were only protesting for our votes.

"It was on Saturday or Sunday that they raped me for the first time. There were three or four huge guys we had not seen before. They came to me and tore my clothes. I tried to resist but two of them laid me on the floor and the third did it. It was done in front of four other detainees.

"My cell mates, especially the older one, tried to console me. They said nobody loses his dignity through such an act. They did it to two other cell mates in the next days. Then it became a routine. We were so weak and beaten up that could not do anything.

"Then the interrogations started again. They said: 'If you don't come to your senses we will send you to Adel Abad [another prison in Shiraz] to the pederasts' section so that you receive such treatment every day.' I was so weak I did not know what to say. Then they asked for my contacts. I told them I had no contacts and I was informed about the demonstrations through the internet.

"The same routine was continued till this morning when I was released. In the last week, there was no interrogation, no beating. Only rape and solitary confinement."

This is what he recounted. But he couldn't articulate quite like this. He was in much physical and mental pain as he talked. I asked him to tell his story in the hope of making a difference to those still detained.

Congress impatient with Obama on Iran, North Korea

Good.

Washington - Some members of Congress, increasingly impatient with the Obama administration's "give diplomacy a chance" stance toward Iran and North Korea, are pressing for new punitive measures against those countries.

This week the House Appropriations Committee attached an amendment to the 2010 foreign operations appropriations bill that would direct the Export-Import Bank to cut off US loan guarantees to certain companies doing business with Iran, particularly in the petroleum sector.

On Wednesday, Sen. Sam Brownback (R) of Kansas called on the Obama administration to use measures included in the Patriot Act to designate North Korea a "primary concern" of the US over its money-laundering networks. That would authorize the Treasury Department to take steps on the issue.

The two measures follow several months in which congressional attempts to sanction the regimes stalled as the Obama administration argued for time to see if international diplomacy would produce any results. The overriding concern in both cases is the regimes' nuclear programs.

But Iran's recent crackdown on protesters disputing the June 12 presidential election has galvanized many in Congress, especially Republicans critical of President Obama's initial response to the Iranian repression. North Korea's unabated belligerence in the wake of toughened UN sanctions – in particular Pyongyang's threat to launch a missile toward Hawaii – has had a similar effect.  (continue Christian Science Monitor)

Related from Instapundit:

ADVICE TO THE REPUBLICANS: “They need to become hard line zealots against the ‘public option’ health care ‘reform’.”

New Detention Plan

Obama's new terrorist detention plan same as G. W. Bush's detention plan, except here on American soil.  Oh my:

The Nation -- The Obama administration is rushing towards a unilateral plan to imprison people without trial, according to a huge, new joint article from the Washington Post and ProPublica. The proposal would completely cut Congress out of the process by using an executive order to essentially bring Gitmo stateside:

The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations. Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush  that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods under the laws of war. Obama advisers are concerned that bypassing Congress could place the president on weaker footing before the courts and anger key supporters, the officials said.  (continue)

I bet the Obamaites are not very happy!

Experience, Judgment, and Character: The Road from Eisenhower to Obama

Experience, Judgment, and Character: The Road from Eisenhower to Obama

By: Paul A. Ibbetson
(Right Truth Exclusive)

I recently found myself in the childhood home of Dwight D. Eisenhower in Abilene, Kansas. It was a tremendous experience to hear the creek of the floorboards, to see the handcrafted furniture, and to feel the texture of the wallpaper (even though that is probably against the rules for visitors) in the boyhood home of one of the most important historical figures of the United States. They say that the Eisenhowers lived on the wrong side of the tracks, but you can’t tell that today. What you can tell, is that the Eisenhower family home was not a place of extravagant frills, but of family necessity, with a delicate dash of austere country beauty.

It was from my visit to Abilene, Kansas, that I thought myself bold enough to compare the man they called “Ike” to the newest sensation on the presidential stage, Barack Obama. Some would say that it is not fair to make the comparison of these two presidents and that the list of reasons might possibly reach infinity - and to some degree that’s a valid argument. However, there are some situations in the country now facing Obama that are very similar to those which were faced by Eisenhower that had defined him as a leader.  That is, the current threats to the national security of the United States, and the manner in which the President is dealing with them. Let’s throw political parties to the side and talk about what really matters in the crunch from a leader: experience, judgment, and character.

The United States is once again faced with a foe that desires our total destruction. This time the foe is radical Islamic extremists, and it is here that we see a tremendous separation between the experience, judgment, and character, of Barack Obama and that of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Barack Obama seems all too willing to talk to our enemies about America’s wrongdoings, and then appears to be overly restrained when freedom-seeking people challenge those same totalitarian regimes. If the same situation of election violence that has recently taken place in Iran were to have befallen Eisenhower, would we see the same vague and flaccid statements of condemnation that have sprung forth from the lips of Obama? I seriously doubt it. In fact, if we are honest, Eisenhower had probably made more clutch decisions before becoming President than Barack Obama or most people have had to make in their entire life.

This is not to say that Eisenhower was a war hawk, because that would be far from the truth. Eisenhower had the same distaste for war that entails most soldiers, but he had a keen eye for sizing up the enemy. He had celebrated abilities that are entrusted to a special few that bear the burden of momentous decisions that will affect the nation, where failure is not an option. It was this kind of tested judgment, combined with Eisenhower’s internal character, which placed him in the historical position of Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War II. With a humble grace, Eisenhower shined in this harsh war environment with its extreme pressures that require not only experience and good judgment, but also the strength of character that comes from knowing the righteousness of freedom, and the rightness of America.

It is in this arena that Eisenhower excelled and that, I believe, Obama will fail us. As Barack Obama spends his precious time talking about the challenges of the day by noting the shortcomings of the past administration, Eisenhower went to work. As Obama rubs shoulders with Hollywood elites and runs the late night talk show circuit, Eisenhower addressed the bottom line needs of the country. As Obama triples the country’s debt and nationalizes the free market system, Eisenhower gave us economic prosperity after the bloodiest of wars.

There is no doubt that Obama would win an oratory flare contest against the thirty-fourth President of the United States, and would most likely come off more flamboyant after an evening of chit chat with Jay Leno or David Letterman; but when it comes to substance, and a leader for troubled times, I still like Ike.

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Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the books Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World. Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008 and 2009 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 FM. For interviews or questions, please contact Ibbetson91.9@gmail.com or go to www.IbbetsonUSA.com.

Patient Evil, Chapter Fifty-Six

Patient Evil

An R.J. Godlewski and Right Truth Blog Exclusive eBook

 

Chapter Fifty-Six   

April, 20xx
Institute of Nuclear and Chemical Applied Research
Outside Moscow

Muhammad stood silently, observing the stout Russian with the enticingly boyish face go about his description of the device that lay upon the table in front of the Arab. The physicist never once stopped for a breath, never once glanced up towards the tall visitor to see if his words were comprehended or not.

“As I have said,” Dr. Gavril Gerasimova waved his hand across the dark brown canvas duffel, repetitively covering his thirty-minute discussion. “This case contains the replica of a thirty-kiloton enhanced fission weapon. Inside of the barrel, which you see depicted by this large metallic canister, is a series of one hundred thin disks, each comprised of explosive/uranium wafers.

“The disks are divided into half; the fifty on the left from your perspective contain explosive-uranium sandwiches while the others would be uranium-explosive. In other words, the uranium fuel remains towards the inside whereas the explosives are outside.

“The disks themselves are slightly skewed and the explosives, RDX, are detonated from the top as within your standard flying plate design. The shock wave travels from the top down, forcing each disk to assume a true vertical position and thrusting the uranium fuel away from the explosion.

“As we have one hundred thin uranium wafers compressing in upon one another – fifty from either side – critical mass is achieved at a higher rate than if we were to employ a standard gun-type weapon.”

Muhammad’s face smoothed into a faint smile as he envisioned the hands of Allah compressing the fuel together in order to annihilate Jerusalem.

“The simplest way to describe the process,” spoke another Russian, taller and thinner in physique but retaining the same wretched comb-over hairstyle of his companion. “Is imagining the thin uranium fuel as the surfaces of bubbles being compressed into a more solidified mass. In a sense, we have simply taken the critical mass and shaved it off into one hundred uniform disks.”

“Thank you Sasha.” replied Dr. Gerasimova, before turning his attention back towards the foreigner. “As Dr. Vargunin alluded to, your standard gun-type weapon, such as that which the Americans used upon Hiroshima during the Great Patriotic War, utilizes two halves, one fire into the other. Our design shortens criticality significantly because less force is required to impart initial momentum.”

Muhammad deepened his awkward smile, but remained silent. He ran his hands along the handle of the duffel bag and observed the presence of cables sewn into the fabric.
“Those are the detonating wires,” explained Gerasimova. “The operator merely has to set the bag down, squeeze the handle tightly while yanking upward abruptly, and the timer is activated.”

“How long before detonation?” questioned Muhammad.

“Theoretically, as long as you would like. But we would recommend no more than one-half hour depending upon local security and nearby observers.”

“Yes.” Muhammad thought about the Israelis. They were too good to permit a long exposure, but he did not want to allow the hint of suicide attack nonetheless. The Russians were suppliers – businessmen – they were not therefore privy to his entire plan. “Thirty kilotons?”

“As designed.” reassured Vargunin. “Our country had only detonated one of these devices before operations ceased in the 1990s. The model that you see before you is slightly modified based upon computer simulations that we received from the Americans following their offers to aid with the safeguarding of our own arsenal. We guarantee at least twenty kilotons regardless.”

Muhammad retreated effortlessly towards the wall of the conference room, disappearing into a shadow as his thoughts scaled the expectations of his organization. Twenty or thirty kilotons unleashed within Jerusalem would severely punish both the Jews and the Christians while employing Palestinians, as always, as martyred pawns for the cause.
Tens of thousands of dead would certainly shift the balance within the Middle East, but Muhammad wanted to reap the propaganda benefits of attacking the cultural center for the world’s three great religions as well. His main target, however, still remained New York City; a city that he did not just want to bloody but to annihilate.

The attack against Israel was simply a means to deflect the chance that they might assume the power vacuum left by a rapidly silenced America. It would not be time to destroy Israel. Not yet. Not until they served his ambitions. Only then would Muhammad seek to lay waste to the entire State of Israel.

First, America had to be dealt with. Years of fashioning the Great Satan into a weak giant left them on the edge of indecision. Americans had rebelled against war, rebelled against the desire to fight, and had the concept of peaceful negotiation thrust down their throats.

Their security apparatus was insufficient to handle an adversary hell-bent on victory at all costs. Americans simply preferred to play by the rules. Rules that Muhammad understood more than could they. The tall Arab simply bided his time until circumstances in America were ripe to vaporize one of their proudest and most storied cities and the timing that presented itself could not have been any more perfect.

Muhammad knew that the Americans had spent $2 trillion on disrupting their infrastructure for the promise of a new future. They were simply suffocating under the weight of this new domestic bureaucracy and the Sorcerer was now determined to brutally awaken the United States as to the precise nature of this much-ballyhooed future.

EPA comment period closes Tues: tell ‘em no state-establishment of CO2-phobic religion

Thanks to Error Theory, "EPA comment period closes Tues: tell ‘em no state-establishment of CO2-phobic religion" blogburst:

Only a couple more days to let the EPA know what you think of its proposed war against CO2. Just click on the little yellow “add comments” balloon. The following is a comment (ending at "sincerely") that you can copy and paste. (If you choose to roll your own, feel free to leave it here too.)

Dear EPA:

There is overwhelming statistical evidence that the primary driver of natural temperature change is solar-magnetic activity, yet the solar flux is completely omitted as an influence on climate in all four IPCC assessments and in the Obama administration's new "Climate Change Impacts in the United Sates" report. This omission is rationalized on grounds that the existing theories of how solar activity affects climate are still formative. The scientific method rejects this rationalization. Observational evidence is supposed to trump theory, not vice versa, but IPCC is using theory (its distrust of existing theories of the mechanism by which solar-magnetic activity drives global temperature), as an excuse for ignoring the overwhelming evidence that solar-magnetic DOES drive global temperature. Not all religions are anti-scientific, but the demonstrably anti-scientific nature of CO2 alarmism proves that it IS religion, not science.

EPA regulations are supposed to be science based. Imposing restrictions based on an anti-scientific religious doctrine would not just violate the EPA's mandate, but would violate the constitutional prohibition on state establishment of religion.

Solar-magnetic warming: theory and evidence

The sunspot-temperature theory is actually looking pretty solid. A strong solar-magnetic flux is known to shield the earth from high energy cosmic rays which otherwise, according to the theory of Henrik Svensmark and Friis-Christensen, would ionize the atmosphere, seeding cloud formation. Thus the solar wind in effect blows the clouds away, giving the earth a sunburn.

Whatever the precise mechanism, researchers have found that solar-magnetic activity “explains” statistically about 60-80 percent of global temperature change on all time scales going back hundreds of millions of years. On the millennial time scale, see the seminal

1991 paper by Christensen and Lassen (“Length of the Solar Cycle: An Indicator of Solar Activity Closely Associated with Climate”) and the 2003 isotope study by Usoskin et al (“Solar activity over the last 1150 yrs: does it correlate with climate?”), which found: “a correlation coefficient of about .7 - .8 at a 94% - 98% confidence level.”

For longer time scales, see the 2003 paper by Shaviv and Veiser (“Celestial driver of Phranerozoic climate?”), which found that found that the cosmic ray flux explains statistically about 75% of global temperature variation over the last 550 million years.

Omitted variable fraud

Solar activity was at “grand maximum” levels from 1940 and 2000 which, given the historical correlation between solar activity and temperature, could easily explain most or all late 20th century warming. When the IPCC and others omit the solar-magnetic variable from their models, any warming effect of solar activity gets misattributed to whatever correlated variables ARE included in their models.

By sheer coincidence, CO2 reached its own “grand maximum” levels (at least compared to the rest of the Holocene) in the second half of the 20th century. Thus in the alarmist models, whatever warming effect the omitted solar-magnetic variable is responsible for gets misattributed to CO2.

You can find rationalizations for this omitted-variable fraud in every IPCC report. For instance, section 6.11.2.2 of the Third Assessment Report does not question the correlation between solar activity and climate, but dismisses the cosmic-ray cloud THEORY as too speculative to include in their climate models:

At present there is insufficient evidence to confirm that cloud cover responds to solar variability.

But they don't just leave solar-magnetic activity out of their models. Because their forecasts are based entirely on their climate models, they also leave solar magnetic effects completely out of their climate forecasts, despite knowing that there is SOME mechanism (even if the cosmic-ray/cloud theory turns out to be wrong) by which solar-magnetic activity is the primary driver of global temperature.

The only solar variable they do include is solar output or Total Solar Insolation (from long to short-wave radiation), which does not include the solar-magnetic flux. The Fourth Assessment Report does the same thing, looking only at TSI, as do all of the analyses that follow from these reports. For instance, if you look at he “Natural Influences” subsection of the Obama administration’s new report, you will see on page 16 that the only natural influence listed is “solar output’ (or TSI), which is why it is shown graphically to be so tiny.

Solar output is close to constant over the solar cycle (less than 0.1% variation), which is why it is called “the solar constant." Because TSI is nearly constant, it cannot account for the many thousands of years of close correlation between solar activity and temperature. That must be coming from the one solar variable that DOES vary with solar activity: the solar magnetic flux. Every IPCC climate scientist knows this, yet they still omit the solar-magnetic variable.

Proof of omission: page 16 graphic from the June 2009 report by U.S. Global Change Research Program (in effect, the NOAA). The only natural warming effect listed is total solar output, which does not include the solar-magnetic flux. Similar graphics can be found in each of the IPCC's assessment reports, where this analysis originates.

Religion, not science

When the alarmists omit solar-magnetic effects on the grounds that they are not satisfied with with existing theories of HOW these effects work, they are not just committing statistical fraud, but they are contradicting the very definition of science. Observation (the overwhelming correlation between solar activity and global temperature) is supposed to trump theory, not vice versa.

Consider an analogy. Until Einstein developed his theory of general relativity there was no good theory of gravity. Newton had a description of the gravitational force (that it diminishes by the inverse of the square of the distance) but nobody had any sensible account for the mechanism by which massive objects were drawn to each other. Applying the standards of the IPCC, a pre-Einsteinian or pre-Newtonian scientist should have forecast that when a stone is released in the air, it would waft away on the breeze. After all, we understand the force that the breeze imparts on the stone, but we don't understand this thing called gravity, so we should not include it, even though we observe that heavy objects fall.

That is not science, and neither is CO2 alarmism. Data is supposed to trump Theory. By using theory (the proclaimed insufficiency of solar-magnetic theory) as an excuse to ignore the evidence (where solar activity is known to somehow warm the climate), warming alarmism perverts the scientific method.

That makes it religion in the constitutionally barred sense. Not only is this belief system embraced by millions of people WITHOUT EVIDENCE, but it is embraced in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence. Alarmism about CO2 is not just a religion, it is a demonstrably irrational religion, equivilant to believing that rocks will waft away on the breeze.

EPA is supposed to make science-based rulings. If you regulate CO2 based on demonstrably anti-scientific ideology, it will be an unconstitutional state establishment of religion.

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Bodies in Iraq British hostages???

In May 2007 IT consultant Peter Moore and four security guards were captured by armed militants at the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad by a group called the Islamic Shiite Resistance in Iraq.  In January 2007 five Americans were kidnapped and killed in Karbala Iraq under very questionable circumstances.  The attack involved 9 to 12 English-speaking militants who posed as American security forces, had new American uniforms, and traveled in vehicles that looked similar to U.S. government convoys.  They took a laptop containing highly confidential information.

June 9, 2009 I reported that the US military released Laith al Qazali, a senior member of the deadly terror group backed by Iran that has been directly implicated in the kidnapping and murder of the five US soldiers in Karbala, in exchange for some British hostages.  Are these the same British hostages found dead in Iraq?  I don't know.  But if they are, then the release of this killer of American soldiers, Laith al Qazali,  was for naught.

Security experts understood there had been positive diplomatic moves behind the scene to free them.

Mr Miliband [Foreign Secretary David Miliband] said: "This is a very distressing development.

"We have never speculated on the outcome of this case although we have been working intensively on it, so the overriding feeling today is one of deep sadness and fear."

He said forensic examinations are under way to establish the identities of the bodies and how they died.

"Our immediate thoughts are clearly with the families of the five Britons taken hostage in Baghdad in May 2007," he said.  (continue at the BBC)

We will follow this...

Former Gitmo detainee slaughters foreigners in Yemen

So much for releasing those poor innocent detainees from Guantanamo.  From Fox News:

The fate of three of nine foreigners abducted in Yemen last week is known — their bodies were found, shot execution style. The whereabouts of the other six — including three children under the age of 6 — remain a mystery.

But terrorism experts say their abductors and killers are almost certainly not a mystery. They say the crimes bear the mark of Al Qaeda, and they fear they are the handiwork of the international terror organization's No. 2 man in the Arabian Peninsula: Said Ali al-Shihri, an Islamic extremist who once was in American custody — but who was released from the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

And if al-Shihri is behind the gruesome murders and abductions, they say, it raises grave concerns that the scheduled January 2010 closing of the Guantanamo prison and the release of most of its prisoners to foreign countries will galvanize Al Qaeda and compromise American national security.

The nine foreigners — four German adults, three small German children, a British man and a South Korean woman — were abducted on June 12 ... (continue at Fox)

Obama missed his chance

Every United States President has 'his time', his chance to step up and claim his mark in history.  Unfortunately Barack Obama was busy rushing through new programs here at home and missed his moment in history.  Here in the US:  "The more radical and far-reaching the plan, the less time the public gets to debate it.  Is this due to ambition or fear of push-back?"   Why the Rush?  Obviously Obama wants to pull the wool over on as many Americans as many times as he can before they wake up from their collective trance and see him for what he is.  And across the globe brave Iranians await a word of support from the word-master himself, but he is silent.

This revolution will end either as a Tiananmen or as a true revolution that brings down the Islamic Republic.

The latter is improbable but, for the first time in 30 years, not impossible. Imagine the repercussions. It would mark a decisive blow to Islamist radicalism, of which Iran today is not just standard-bearer and model, but financier and arms supplier. It would do to Islamism what the collapse of the Soviet Union did to communism — leave it forever spent and discredited.

In the region, it would launch a second Arab spring. The first in 2005 — the expulsion of Syria from Lebanon, first elections in Iraq and early liberalization in the Gulf states and Egypt — was aborted by a fierce counterattack from the forces of repression and reaction, led and funded by Iran.

Now, with Hezbollah having lost elections in Lebanon and with Iraq establishing the institutions of a young democracy, the fall of the Islamist dictatorship in Iran would have an electric and contagious effect. The exception — Iraq and Lebanon — becomes the rule. Democracy becomes the wave. Syria becomes isolated; Hezbollah and Hamas, patronless. The entire trajectory of the region is reversed.

All hangs in the balance. The Khamenei regime is deciding whether to do a Tiananmen. And what side is the Obama administration taking? None.  [snip]

And where is our president? Afraid of "meddling." Afraid to take sides between the head-breaking, women-shackling exporters of terror — and the people in the street yearning to breathe free. This from a president who fancies himself the restorer of America's moral standing in the world.  (--Charles Krauthammer, Obama Can't Spare Some Change For Iran?)

What happens in the next couple days will be key moments in Iranian history. 

I thought America stood for freedom and democracy?

Following events in Iran closely, I could not help but dwell on the plea of one contact, "I thought America stood for freedom and democracy?"  Expressing the desperation of Iranians, he says the "situation is really dire,...  appreciate any help you can give us to prevent a major disaster from happening, ... All foreign media have been ordered to leave Iran, even the last three remaining.  I am afraid of real massacre while Obama and Hillary continue to remain silent.  I thought America stood for freedom and democracy?"  (see images below, hat tip Michael Travis)

While protesters take to Iranian streets, President Obama remains silent. “It’s not productive given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations to be seen as meddling.” As Iranian young people fight for “hope” and “change” in Iran, the president who rode to power with those slogans remains uncharacteristically silent.  [snip]

While the Jewish vote went solidly Obama’s way last November, it has not restrained him from publicly hectoring Israel at every turn. Obama may be timid in his approach to America’s enemies, touring the world apologizing for America’s alleged misdeeds, he has no problem slapping around its friends in Israel, the UK and even Canada.  --The Razer

But it does not have to be that way.  Dan Senor in the Wall Street Journal suggests five ways Obama could promote freedom in Iran, saying, "Helping the Iranian people change a government they appear increasingly to loathe will not reduce American standing in the world. To the contrary, President Barack Obama has the chance now to break the string of slow U.S. government responses to moments of democratic opportunity and peril."

The WSJ's first suggestion is that, Mr. Obama should contact Mr. Mousavi to signal his interest in the situation and Mr. Mousavi's security.  I ask why?  Mousavi is no better than Ahmadinejad when it comes to Iran's nuclear program. 

What Barack Obama needs to do is speak out in support of the Iranian people.  He sure doesn't mind sticking his nose in every where else.

China Confidential Reporter says:

Obama and his advisers are opposed to regime change in Iran. A secular republic or constitutional monarchy would threaten Saudi Arabia's dysfunctional royal family and derail Obama's drive toward a Grand Bargain with Islamist Iran for pacification (and possible partition) of Pakistan and Afghanistan.  [snip]

That people who call themselves progressive support Obama's outreach to the world's most reactionary, repressive, and imperialist regimes and ideology is beyond belief.  [snip]

Jewish backing for Obama is worse than a shandah; it is boosha v'cherpa.

American Thinker reports:

  ... the turnout was massive, a near record high 85 percent of Iran's 49.2 million eligible voters. Based on the information from Mousavi's website , a group of Interior Ministry employees have leaked out the following results which seem to be closer to reality than the one released by the establishment:

Total eligible: 49.2 Million
Participated in the election: 75% to 85%
Mir Hussein Mousavi: 45%
Mehdi Karoobi: 33%
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: 13%
Mohsen Rezai: 9%
Cancelled votes: 3%

It is clear that Mr. Mir Hussein Mousavi won the election by a large margin.

R.J. Godlewski thinks this would be a perfect time for Israel to take out Iran's nuclear sites.  I agree.

 

 

 

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False AP report: Obama did NOT say that Iran must respect voters' choice - Blogburst

Thanks to Error Theory:

Obama's comments were mushy, yes, but at least he said the most important thing, according to AP:

He said it's up to Iran to determine its own leaders but that the country must respect voters' choice.

Why then have reputable people continued to pass harsh judgment? And why would AP paraphrase what would have been Obama’s key statement?

Turns out Obama said no such thing. What he actually said is that the VOICES of the Iranian people should be heard and respected, not their votes:

And particularly to the youth of Iran, I want them to know that we in the United States do not want to make any decisions for the Iranians, but we do believe that the Iranian people and their voices should be heard and respected.

This is consistent with the rest of Obama's remarks. He never said a word about respecting votes. Obama did mention "the democratic process," but far from saying anything about this process having to meet any standards of integrity, he instead implied strongly that he will accept whatever result the "process" followed by the Mullahs produces:

I want to start off by being very clear that it is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be; that we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran, which sometimes the United States can be a handy political football...

Democracy means that Iranian sovereignty lies with the Iranian people and that a regime that rigs an election is NOT sovereign. Yet Obama is explicit that he will continue to treat the mullahs as the Iranian sovereign no matter how they judge the election. He even goes so far as to suggest that the only reason he is bothering to comment on the competing claim to sovereignty at all is because it would be unseemly for him not to:

We will continue to pursue a tough, direct dialogue between our two countries, and we’ll see where it takes us. But even as we do so, I think it would be wrong for me to be silent about what we’ve seen on the television over the last few days.

The only operative concerns that he mentions are for: "free speech, the ability of people to peacefully dissent." When he talks about the "democratic process" going forward, all he urges is that the process be peaceful and that dissent be allowed. He says nothing about the process being honest:

...there appears to be a sense on the part of people who were so hopeful and so engaged and so committed to democracy who now feel betrayed. And I think it’s important that, moving forward, whatever investigations take place are done in a way that is not resulting in bloodshed and is not resulting in people being stifled in expressing their views.

It is no accident that Obama ended with the statement that AP paraphrased so egregiously (equating his call for bloodless suppression with a demand for legitimate elections). This was his theme throughout. He views the honesty of Iran's democratic process as something to be judged by the mullahs, who he clearly accepts to be the sovereign power, regardless of the merits of competing claims.


AP covers its tracks, just like they did with the Flight 93 memorial



AP's fraudulent report about Obama demanding respect for voters' choice was the primary print report on Obama's comments. Now that it has already misled millions of people, AP has covered its tracks by filing an update that overwrites the errant statement. This is what AP does when it gets caught putting out misinformation. To avoid issuing a correction, they flush the misleading story down the memory hole by using the same url for a completely different story. (Google only finds AP's original article still posted at Fox News.)

AP did the same thing last year after it was taken to task for failing to check the most basic facts in a story about the controversy over possible Islamic symbolism in the Flight 93 memorial. Ramesh Santanam reported a number of conflicting factual assertions, like the 44 blocks:

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1979.

1979.

By R.J. Godlewski
© June 16, 2009, All Rights Reserved

November 4th, 1979. For most people alive today, the date does not mean very much. While President Barack Obama boldly announces that he will now provide federal health benefits to gay partners of federal employees and Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor attests to the world that the all-women organization that she belonged to did, in fact, include men, the people of Iran remain in turmoil, eagerly awaiting aid from distant lands to finally overthrow the brutal Islamic regime that openly discriminates against both gays and women.

    November 4th, 1979. I was a simple high school junior. I planned to attend the Florida Institute of Technology to earn my degree in Geological Oceanography. The oceans were my love and I wanted to spend a career studying them, learning of their secrets and resources. Jimmy Carter was our president and, well, economic conditions were steadfastly heading south as our nation suffered through the highest interest rates and inflation we had seen since the Great Depression.

    November 4th, 1979. Iranian “students” led by the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran – our sovereign territory – tearing down our flag and holding our citizens captive for 444 days until their release upon Reagan’s inauguration on January 20th, 1979. Islam had declared war upon the United States and its citizens.

    Quite revealing, not much has changed today. Jimmy Carter is still screwing the pooch in the Middle East; his latest outrage being that Iranian-backed Hamas should be taken off the terror list. Our current president has even less knowledge of military affairs than had the peanut farmer from Georgia and instead of the United States versus the Soviet Union and Islamic Iran, it is now the United States versus Opportunistic Russia and China, Kim’s North Korea, and Islamic Iran (Not to mention Iraqi insurgents, Afghani Taliban, and Bin Laden’s al-Qaida).

    The two gravest threats to our peaceful existence – that involving North Korea and Iran – highlight decades of ill planning on the part of progressive America. The Korean war of 1950-1953 had never ended; it was just buried beneath literally tons of diplomatic red tape. Instead of President Carter immediately pounding post-Shah Iran into submission for their attack upon our soil, we continually allowed them to develop an entire region of hate and vile anti-America rhetoric and terror. November 4th, 1979 gave way to the Marine Barracks and embassy bombings of 1983 and continued on through the World Trade Center attack in March, 1993 and ultimately September 11, 2001. The litany of Iranian-sponsored and supported attacks against America since the takeover of our embassy in Tehran is quite too lengthy to recite here.

    November 4th, 1979. My life changed forever. As a spontaneous class project, inspired partially via a dream experienced during one late night of fitful sleep, I envisioned a rescue mission to retrieve our friends and neighbors from that chaotic country. My plan utilized helicopters, bombers, aircraft carriers, indigenous personnel, and psychological warfare. Before my junior year was out, I was still so angry over the Islamists in Iran that I “designed” a large multi-megaton thermonuclear device – a significant achievement for a simple high school student in otherwise heavily censored 1980. My physics teacher was so impressed when a classmate showed him the plans that he posted them on the class board. Later, some “people” came and took them down.

    November 4th, 1979. I did not fully know then, but the date ushered in my counterterrorism career, a way of life that still exists within me today all these years later. I served within the U.S. Navy on active duty from 1981 to 1985 and upon my release from active service (being honorably discharged in November, 1987) I turned my pursuits to the paramilitary/counterterrorism field for which I am still very much part of. What I took from the events of 1979, was that the federal government would not always be resourced, utilized, or positioned sufficiently to take out the bad guys wherever they may be. I wanted to change that.

    Today, I am the director of the International Nuclear Emergency Response Team [INERT]. Don’t bother looking for us on any map, we prefer to remain like smoke upon the water. The U.S. Government spreads itself everywhere, openly mostly, and we all know how their actions turn out. The best way for dealing with bad guys is keeping the good guys from knowing who, what, and where you are at any given moment. This is the way that it has to be.

    Regardless, by now many people already know where I stand on the issue of Islamic terrorism. That, I do not have to shy away from. Nor do I have to keep anyone happy by avoiding thoughts of regime change within Iran. A true democracy – if not a republic – in Iran would benefit the entire planet but the opposing forces aligned against the despots in Tehran are finite and must be utilized efficiently. Europe, the United States, and Israel could tip the scales in favor of humanity but with unchecked Muslim immigration in Europe and our unchecked Muslim apologist in the White House, I am not holding my breath. Perhaps Israel will seize the moment and take out Tehran’s nuclear program now but I’m afraid that President Obama is more worried about how many trillions he could spend on developing pastel battle fatigues.

    I have worked for Iranians, so I know their culture. They are a proud people, more determined and capable than their Arab brethren are. The small but faithful minority who seek to call back upon their rich Persian heritage deserve our support. If we do not do “something” to aid them quickly, then we are merely watching another Tiananmen Square erupt before our very eyes. That would be tragic. That would be unconscionable. That would be suicide for the West.

    1979. Thirty years later, we still have an administration in power that likes to dabble in the Middle East. I think that it’s high time that we finally took out the trash…

R.J. Godlewski is a member of the National Military Intelligence Association, the National Rifle Association, Golden Key International Honour Society, a veteran of the United States Navy and Navy Reserve, and a scholar of Middle East Terrorism and Explosive Ordnance Disposal operations. He is the author of the Independent Counterterrorist training modules.

Il Califfo: The Most dangerous President in U.S. history…

Il Califfo: The Most dangerous President in U.S. history…

By R.J. Godlewski
© June 15, 2009, All Rights Reserved
(Right Truth Exclusive)

    I would like to know how many federal employees currently serving in high office have changed their names a half dozen times, associated with known felons during their youth, traveled indiscriminately through the world prior to employment, and reneged on showing their birth certificates, because I do not believe that there are many. At least overt employees. Even my credit report is tagged with an “alias” because some computer somewhere innocently dropped my first name and chose to identify me by way of middle name instead. Surely, national security is far more important than what is read on my credit file.

    Yet, I wonder about our illustrious president, the new owner of General Motors, Wall Street, and, coming to a clinic near you, your health. Certainly, a person whose background is as widely disputed as his own could not be all too concerned about national security, but what do I know.  My background is not within community organizing, politics, or having been a lawyer. I am merely a scholar of Middle Eastern terrorism and explosive ordnance disposal operations and my classes never deal with such demanding topics as family law, contract negotiations, and certainly not criminal defense. Mine simply involve unimportant subjects as tactical intelligence, covert operations, counterintelligence, Arabic, spycraft, cyber warfare, illicit finance, and, oh yes, there was that one involving assassinations, but I only received a B+ in that class so let’s not count it as a significant accomplishment.

    As I said, I do not know why I would question President Obama’s handling of the war against radical Islam. I do not know why someone like me who has only been studying the phenomenon since, well, since the 1980s began would not immediately understand the importance of reading the Miranda rights to a bunch of thugs who want to vaporize tens of thousands of American citizens. Perhaps I should have scheduled my Law and Ethics in Intelligence class a bit sooner. Silly me.

    All those years I thought that “War is hell” and “it is fatal to fight any war without the will to win”. Shows you what little I know; I listened to Generals Sherman and MacArthur. I guess that’s what happens when you listen only to winners; you get a skewed outlook on life. President Obama has obviously learned far more from paying attention to the losers that surround him than the victors I wanted to emulate.

    You have to admit, it takes the effort of a true champion to follow in the footsteps of a failed Soviet Union, a failed Muslim Middle East, and a failed British healthcare system and still preach “hope” and a bright future. Obviously, President Obama is an accomplished capitalist for he is buying up all of our important industries while using the advantage of OPM – Other People’s Money – namely ours. Again, silly me. All my years in business I thought that the key to success was living within my means and holding myself accountable for my mistakes.  Who knew that I could simply order others to fork over the money that I needed to survive. That must come later within my illicit finance class.

    Another area where I really screwed up within my studies was learning about how Arab culture descended from xenophobic tribal customs, and consisted of people who hated liars and cheats. I realize now that all I had to do was to tell the good people of the Middle East some concocted history of the United States and spread a few apologies around and they would instantly become our friends. All those years of learning that they seem to appreciate raw power more than anything else seems so antiquated now. Hell, all I had to do was say whatever I wanted and they would have believed whatever I said. Brilliant!

    I’m  so sad that I did not believe Lord Obama, High Master of Common Sense, when he said that all that was required to deal with Islamic extremists was to simply issue an executive order closing Guantanamo Bay. How damn simple is that? Already, we have some Chinese Muslims – honest, I’m not lying; there is such a thing! – sent over to Bermuda to live within paradise. President Obama is so damn smart it makes me sick. Remember that movie, The Running Man, where the three “winners” were rushed off to live in tropical paradise surrounded by babes in bikinis? Wait a minute; those videos were faked by Damon Killian’s business. Scratch that. We wouldn’t want the Islamists to think that the “babes in Paradise” angle is a sham.

    What I believe – and please correct me if I’m wrong – is that President Obama is trying to get our military to act more like unarmed British Bobbys than Sun-tzu qualified warriors. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that!  Of course! It’s so damn simple and we all know that Britain never has any problems with crime or Muslim extremists. Just think about how many lives we could save by having Marines write jaywalking tickets to the Taliban operating between Pakistan and Afghanistan! I bet that we could corral the whole situation with just one Predator watching the orange and white flashing hands telling people to walk or not walk.

    In all reality, perhaps President Obama’s greatest plan to protect us Americans from the Islamic threat is simply to destroy our country beforehand. After all, his union cronies destroyed General Motors without a fight. Now they’re working on taking down General Population. For thirty-six years, they practiced their craft on unborn babies. When they built their confidence up, they chose to work against students, mostly teenagers and young adults in college. Next, they attacked priests, nuns, and other evil Christian foes. Finally, it seems that the Obama war-fighting machine is now fully prepared to take on their most challenging adversary – those under direct oath to listen to those in power. It might be a struggle, but I think that perhaps Obama might just win. Then again, there are people out there just like me – trained, capable, and just a bit too independent-minded to sit back and let a presidential wannabe sacrifice this great nation of ours to the Islamists. My forbears did not bow to the likes of Il duce and I will not bow to the likes of Il califfo (the Caliph). Not in my America; not on my watch.

Patient Evil Chapter Fifty-Five

An R.J. Godlewski and Right Truth Blog Exclusive eBook

Chapter Fifty-Five

April, 20xx
Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci di Fiumicino
Rome, Italy

Seth Carmassi cautiously scrutinized his El Al tickets as his peripheral vision caught sight of the white Boeing 737 with the large blue stripe curving through its midsection.  Flight 386, departs at approximately 10:05 A.M. and arrives in Tel Aviv at 2:30 P.M. weather permitting. His thoughts turned back towards the two Arabs sitting across from him traveling under the guise of Italian diplomats.

He called in nearly every favor that he had to gain diplomatic passports for the three of them, a request that unnerved both friend and foe alike. Seth was now operating within dangerous territory. Familiar, yes, but decidedly perilous for not only was he disobeying Washington’s direct orders, but he was using outright deceit to transport two international fugitives into Israel.

In Seth’s favor was his contacts with Israeli authorities who could, perhaps, be counted upon to overlook the arrival of one terrorist and one wannabe in exchange for the prospect of nabbing an entire organization. They trusted Seth Carmassi and if the American had a plan up his sleeve then it was a well thought out plan and one undoubtedly critical to Western security. At least that’s what he was banking on.
Nothing could be assured anymore, not with the new administration in Washington forsaking decades of alliance on the slippery prospect of unobtainable peace. Seth knew that the ‘two-state’ people were decidedly in control of his government even if he himself rebuked all such efforts. Such bilateral solutions never worked when one group was overwhelmingly hostile and tribal. In America, the Native Indians were soundly defeated and left to mature within numerous reservations set up by the government. They were assimilated into American culture, not sliced off as a separate sovereignty. 

The “Palestine Solution” had to be considered in a similar manner. As a separate entity, it would exist eternally in strife and economic hardship. An isolated people corrupted by the “mass rule” that figured heavily in the decline of America’s own urban centers. Israel, on the other hand, offered a security umbrella, something that could benefit the Arabs as much as the U.S. government did with the Native Americans. Security brought peace, peace brought opportunity, and opportunity separated the law-abiding from the lawless.

Seth lowered his ticket envelope and glanced at the two Arabs again, conversing with one another, each decked out in Western-style khakis and polo shirts. Aside from their decidedly casual attire, the American knew his thoughts were nothing but a pipe dream. The progressive world would not accept the status quo even if peace were guaranteed. Satisfying the Palestinians represented the political Holy Grail and there weren’t many politicians around who sought anything else.

It soured his stomach, knowing that a solution wasn’t what the world wanted; it wanted perfection. A plan that would keep everyone happy even if after sixty-odd years of death upon death it hadn’t produce a soul who smiled. From a Western perspective, it was an unwinnable battle – not that the West ever engaged within winnable battles since Israel first emerged onto the modern scene.

Seth’s war, his now and mostly ever was, private battle against terrorism remained a tiny facet of this overall struggle. Only a handful of others fully understood what the conflict truly represented. Not quite like the attrition wars of the past, this conflict nonetheless was clearly an accountant’s war. Each side would fight on until all the combatants were silenced and the victor would be determined by who had the most appealing balance sheet in the end.

It would be a bloody crusade to silence radical Islam; no war was ever sanitary no matter what the politicians and technologists claimed as being the future. The advent of nuclear weapons, pinpoint accuracy, and network-centric command centers did very little to tarnish the barbarian inherent in all humans. Towards this end, the terrorists were a bit more in tune with their primal condition than were the legions of uniformed techno-commandos arranged against them.

The West had the capability to win – to win all wars nonetheless. It just lacked the will and the patience to do so.

Seth spied a pair of American sailors walking across the terminal in the distance. No, he thought to himself. It was the American government and people who lacked the patience and resolve to defeat an enemy. Its military could defeat anyone if effectively applied.
Americans, as he always knew, tried to remain sporting and fair in every endeavor. This was made more prominent by the new government that tried to square the imbalance between the haves and the have-nots. The government simply tried to tip the balance in favor of those who applied not, sacrificing the struggles and drive of the more resourceful.

He’d seen it all too many times, particularly within major league sports where championship caliber teams collapsed at the hands of less capable and less experienced opponents. He understood that such devices as salary caps, recruiting restrictions, and bureaucratic officiating conspired to turn competition into mere “sport”.

Seth’s own grandfather once played on an American pro football team back in the 1920s and endured an entire game with a broken leg because he was too afraid that by telling his coach he would be sidelined for the duration. Today, he knew, a multi-million dollar player could be placed on the injury list for nothing more than anxiety. Had Americans simply gone soft? Or was it merely that convenience overrode the desire for victory at all costs?

Leaning forward upon his knees, adjusting his spine into a snap, Seth examined the two Arabs talking quietly to one another. Mahmoud, he knew, was a fat slob of a despot elevated into the ranks of deified terrorists much like the former Carlos the Jackal. A few freak attacks and significant media exposure fabricated him into something sinister and unapproachable.

It took Seth and his partner Jonas Prinkler a matter of a few hours to destroy his persona, to turn the infamous assassin into someone who now looked like a shell-shocked grandfather to the youthful medical student next to him.

The two Arabs were just out of reach for Seth’s hearing to detect what words were spoken, but it did not matter. Mahmoud’s skin appeared damp and clammy and his eyes darted around nervously as his head vibrated in low, deep contortions. Seth did not like seeing the reaction out of the elder Arab for he knew that it would arouse suspicion from airport security.

Twice, uniformed security personnel approached the pair but Seth defused any errant thoughts by making it more visible that he was part of the group and that he possessed a diplomatic passport. That, combined with a choice word or two about the safety of modern aviation seemed to detour the professionals.

It was all a sham, though, and Seth understood it. Even with the makeover, Mahmoud al-Walid was a known commodity and it wouldn’t take long for facial recognition software to plaster his kisser all around the planet. Haytham al-Ashab was an unknown suspect himself, but it would not remain that way as long as he was paired with the older Mahmoud.

The debts that Seth called due would enable the three of them into Israel from where they would skip over into Lebanon allowing easy access to Syria. They would cross the length of Syria, a known adversary of the United States, and connect with some private contacts Seth maintained in northern Iraq. From there, it was hoped; the American could convince either Mahmoud or Haytham to give up the details of the Iranian cell of their terror network.

Seth smiled as he leaned back deeply into his chair. Seth, you bastard, you’re just making this up on the fly.

United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters

I like Ralph Peters.  If Conservatives could get someone like him to run for political office, it would be great.  Ralph Peters is a retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel, novelist essayist;  a Foreign Area Officer, specializing in the Soviet Union; Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence; and has appeared on PBS, FOX News, CNN and other networks with commentary on military issues and current affairs. (see here, here,)

This week’s winning entries look toward the Middle East with a particular emphasis on Israel and the White House policy moves that will result in a weaker ally for the lone Democratic nation over there.

Ralph Peters used wit and satire in his NY Post article, What Obama Taught Me. Referring to Obama’s fact challenged speech in Cairo, Peters adopts the Obama claims:

Salaam aleikum, dudes!

I thought I knew a little bit about the Middle East. Boy, was I wrong. Last week, President Obama set me straight. Here’s what our president taught me during his Middle-Eastern pilgrimage:

There is no more terrorism.

Wow, cool! No more security checks at airports, right? It’s unclear which side won, but it’s all over. Obama didn’t mention terrorism a single time in his star-turn speech in Cairo. Only a few “violent extremists” (our own troops?) remain at large.

[...]

“Islam has always been a part of America’s story.” Guess the Founding Fathers missed that one. But I’m assured that George Washington turned to his mullah in the dark days at Valley Forge, that Daniel Boone read the Koran around the campfire, and that al Qaeda stood by us at the Alamo.

Yeah, there was that misunderstanding with the Muslim Barbary Pirates, when they killed, kidnapped and enslaved American citizens for years - but who’s perfect?

There are “nearly seven million American Muslims.” Who knew? We all thought there were three or four million, max. Is this a preview of the predetermined results of our upcoming census?

You get the point, and it ain’t pretty when you start thinking about it.  (continue reading at The Watcher of Weasels Council)

The votes are in and here are the winners of the Watcher of Weasels Council:

Council Submissions

• First place with 2 1/3 points! - Mere Rhetoric - The WH’s Eight-Step Plan For Detonating The US-Israel Relationship
• Second place with 1 2/3 points - Wolf Howling - Obama’s Cairo Address: What We Needed, What We Got
• Third place with 1 1/3 point - (T*) - The Razor - A Conservative Case for Animal Rights
• Third place with 1 1/3 point - (T*) - Joshuapundit - Live In Cairo - The Lap Dance Of The Seven Veils
• Fourth place with 2/3 point - The Glittering Eye - The Perversity of the Publishing System
• Fifth place with 1/3 point - (T*) - Bookworm Room - Seasick Warriors
• Fifth place with 1/3 point - (T*) - Right Truth - British National Party (BNP) - Are they racist? Anti-semitic?
• Fifth place with 1/3 point - (T*) - Soccer Dad - The cairo context

Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 2 2/3 points! - Ralph Peters - What Obama Taught Me- Wonderful Arabs, American Slavers, Wicked Jews
• Second place with 1 1/3 points - Pajamas Media - The Reckoning
• Third place with 1 point - (T*) - The optimistic conservative - The next phase of WWIV part 2
• Third place with 1 point - (T*) - Christopher Hitchens - When the Extreme Becomes the Norm
• Fourth place with 2/3 point - (T*) - The Jacksonian Party - Straw, Stuffing and Notation
• Fourth place with 2/3 point - (T*) - Real Clear Politics - Geithner Brings the Laughs in China
• Fourth place with 2/3 point - (T*) - Stratfor - West Bank Settlements and the Future of U.S.-Israeli Relations
• Fifth place with 1/3 point - (T*) - Marc Epstein at City Journal - Not Worth the Paper . . .
• Fifth place with 1/3 point - (T*) - Jewish World Review - Frank Gaffney: America’s First Muslim President
• Fifth place with 1/3 point - (T*) - The New Humanist - Free Market Faith

God is my God, Christ is my Savior, and I am your worst nightmare…

God is my God, Christ is my Savior, and I am your worst nightmare…

By R.J. Godlewski
© June 10, 2009, All Rights Reserved.
(Right Truth Exclusive)

    “While the so-called United Nations failed in every attempt to be just that – united – and the American political system remained torn between liberal activism and conservative righteousness, Jason Task decided to throw caution into the wind and do what everyone else wanted to do but couldn’t. He took matters into his own hands.” THE GATESTRIAN KNIGHTS by R.J. Godlewski

    Conservatives will never win another election unless they learn how to fight. The reason that the progressive liberals won during the last election was not that they had some better system in which to safeguard America’s future, but that they had fought dirty and fought to win. Meanwhile, Republicans, reeling from eight years of a Bush Presidency, sought to curry favor with the country by installing the admirable but decidedly non-conservative John McCain as their choice to out liberal the liberals. His own choice for a running mate, authentically conservative Sara Palin, shot some much-needed adrenaline into McCain’s campaign but the lady governor from Alaska came across as too quirky, too popular for most of the nation to digest. We do not need a pit bull with lipstick; we need a piranha with an assault rifle.

    If all is fair in love and war, then politics must not be very far behind because politicians just love to wage war upon the competition. They will pull out every dirty trick envisioned by Sun-tzu and although the public may poll entirely disgusted from time to time the guy that comes out in front is usually the one that adheres to General Douglas MacArthur’s law that “It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it”. Republicans did not have the “will” to win the last two elections and it has been fatal to the party that best represents the will of the American people.

    Our nation has never accomplished much being bilateral or appeasing. We landed men upon the moon not because it was sane or economical, but because we just could not accept a communist flag upon the Sea of Tranquility. We did not unleash nuclear warfare upon beaten Imperial Japan because our nation could not stomach an invasion of their homeland, but because we wanted to make an example to the rest of the planet that we would do everything humanly – and scientifically – possible to remain the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. We did not invent modern revolutionary thought because standing up to King George III had historical precedent; we did so because individual liberty, in our eyes, was far more powerful than the greatest empire upon the planet.

    Our present economy did not tank when the greed of a few malcontents on Wall Street got away with their heinous deeds. It began its slow descent into socialism when the broader greedy decided to sue when no offense had been given, accept that that was not earned through hard work and self-discipline, and elevate the popular into deities worthy of our adulation. America is simply not a nation where the many cater to the few, but where the few were dignified as equals through fostered intent and mere existence.

    Our criminality did not begin because law-abiding citizens sought to defend themselves with their firearms of choice nor with our preference for praising our God in our manner and style, but with the cessation of all efforts to defend innocent human life and the preoccupation with assuming the very role of our God. The world did not begin to hate us because of our “being there” when needed the most but through our insistence that “being there” was subject to political pandering and deceit.

    Conservatism has absolutely nothing to do with destruction and segregation but everything to do with restoration and conservation. Conservatives uphold the values of a nation built upon Constitutional law, a law that is unyielding and steadfast – the only kind of law safeguarded from opportunistic interpretation. Conservatives do not judge based upon race, creed, religion, nationality, or sex, but permit others to freely decide through their individual actions whether they are to become our enemies or not.

    Conservatives do not wave Old Glory as a handkerchief of surrender, but as a beacon for the world that there is a better ideal, a better objective, and a better opportunity for all who seek reward solely upon individual human effort. Our flag was never meant to be a target for assailing projectiles, but an infinitely powerful shield to deflect these very same missiles whether they are verbal, mental, or nuclear in origin.

    We believe in having been created – not indoctrinated, accepted, or procured. We invite all, but do not necessarily accept all into our fold. Our justice is blind, even if its practitioners sometimes aren’t. We accept the frailty of the human condition and are amongst the most eager for forgiveness if penance is honestly sought. Conservatism rests solely within the bounds of our hearts and minds and is not expressed by the quality or caricature of our bodies.

    Because conservatism – good old-fashioned American conservatism – is so infinitely superior to anything envisioned by mortal man, it must be protected the same way that it has always been protected.  We must fight tooth and nail for its survival. We cannot dilute it anymore than we could dilute the very existence of God Himself. We cannot seek popularity because, sometimes, popularity is simply a front for evil. The deceit of the devil that Christ warned us about some two thousand years ago.

    We must stand proud knowing that God’s law is on our side while refraining from characterizing ourselves as god-like. We are not and we will never be. Our earthly existence is but a brief reprieve from the demands of eternity. God has granted us parole in order to see if we could possibly redeem ourselves if left to our own devices. His Son has provided us with complete pardon, but it is entirely up to us whether we accept this infinite gift or not. It is obvious that many deliberately choose not to do so.

    They forfeit humanity’s future by legalizing abortions. By engaging within a culture of death where innocence is but a fashion. They terminate our salvation by dismissing all that Christ – and our forebears – had done to keep us from making the same mistake twice. We can continue to mock God by insisting that we know what is best for people, the environment, and the law. Or, friends, we can stand tall in the saddle and tell the world that it matters very little what happens to us, what we experience, or what others may call us. We are here to protect the Constitution. We are here to protect individual lives and liberties. We are here to extend the Great American Experiment. And we will not take this charge lying down quietly.

Middle East Forum's Libel Lawfare Conference

From the Center for Security Policy:  The Middle East Forum's Libel Lawfare Conference, and more ... (click on the images to view the videos in another window/tab.)  Also go here for full length articles and more videos.

Middle East Forum's Libel Lawfare Conference: Three-hours from the conference, featuring Brooke Goldstein, Allan Dershowitz, Frank Gaffney, James Taranto, Andy McCarthy and others

Nonie Darwish: Blasphemy and Incitement to Violence in the Muslim World: This presentation was given as part of the Ethics & Public Policy Center's series on Shariah and international libel laws

Caroline Glick vs. Leftist Gershon Baskin: The Center's Senior Middle East Fellow Caroline Glick debates Israeli leftist Gershon Baskin on IBA Close Up with Leah Zinder & Steve Leibowitz

Jerusalem, the Eternal Front Line: The Center's Caroline Glick received the 2009 Guardian of Zion Award this week in Jerusalem. The award is presented by the Ingeborg Rennert Foundation. This is her speech

Obama’s filing against 9/11 families: so bad it's good - Blogburst

Thanks to Error Theory:

Bizarre amicus brief totally demolishes the Second Circuit's dismissal of the families' suit, then replaces it with the most mendacious stupidity imaginable. Now the Supreme Court will HAVE to hear the case, just to avoid the implication that it accepted this garbage.



9/11 families were stunned this week to learn that President Obama is asking the Supreme Court NOT to review their effort to recover damages from the government of Saudia Arabia and from several Saudi princes for funding al Qaeda’s 9/11 attack on America. That the defendants did funnel vast sums of money to al Qaeda was accepted as a given by the appellate court, as was the fact that al Qaeda was known to be dedicated to and engaged in violent attacks against America. So what was the Obama administration’s reason for siding with the Saudis?

Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s amicus brief to the Supreme Court had to admit that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its grounds for denying the suit against the Saudi princes. No, the fact that the princes did not actually direct the al Qaeda attack on the United States does not relieve them of liability for attacks that they funded. The precedent on this is clear. As long as the defendant knew “that the brunt of the injury” from his tortious act would be felt in America, then:

... he must ‘reasonably anticipate being haled into court there’ to answer for his actions. [Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783, 790. Cited on Kagan’s p. 18.]

Nevertheless, said Kagan, she could think of a way around the appellate court’s utter failure to get the heart of the case right. The families’ suit falls under the 1976 FSIA law that establishes exceptions to the principle of sovereign immunity. This law does not allow jury trials. Thus while the appellate court was clearly wrong to say that the suit should not be heard, Kagan suggests that there are snippets in the ruling that can be read as the appellate court acting in its role of trier of fact, and thus ruling against the families for providing insufficient evidence.

In other words, instead of seeing the Second Circuit as rejecting the basis of the suit, we should see them as accepting the suit, and ruling against it on the substance. To make her argument that the appellate court actually did try the facts, she quotes the Second Circuit’s statement that:

Conclusory allegations that [Prince Turki] donated money to charities, without specific factual allegations that he knew they were funneling money to terrorists, do not suffice.

(Continue reading below the fold)

Patient Evil Chapter Fifty-Four

PATIENT EVIL

An R.J. Godlewski and Right Truth Blog Exclusive eBook

Chapter Fifty-Four

March, 20xx
Ense et aratro
Near Tuscany, Italy

“Line ‘em up and shoot all down like dogs!”

“Who?” quizzed Jonas.

“Politicians.” snorted Seth, hoisting his coyote tan tactical pack onto his hunched back. “The only good one is a dead one.”

“You can’t be serious.” Jonas never could tell when his highly opinionated friend was speaking his mind truthfully or not.

“Try me.” Seth pulled on his brilliant red Detroit Red Wings baseball cap, giving him more of a casual appearance considering all that they went through during the past several weeks. His smirk was intended to highlight his disgust on the subject. “I’m     tired of bureaucracies. I’m tired of ass-kissing politicians. And I’m tired of a population that forgets the morning news by the time the evening reality shows are turned on.”

Jonas stood up uneasily, never quite figuring out the seriousness of his friend’s refusal to capitulate to Washington’s orders. “I still don’t know about your refuting of Washington. Perhaps it’s still best that you go back and fight for your beliefs from within.”
“I’m tired of fighting.” Seth’s intentional bump of Jonas with his pack as he left towards the office door was intended to show his resolve. “It’s high time that I go back to winning.”

“That I could understand, but don’t forget that you’re leaving me alone to face Meredith’s wrath. I’ll be the one that she’ll take her frustrations out on.”

“Play dumb. Shouldn’t be too hard.”

“Thanks.”

“That’s not what I meant. Meredith understands that you’re basically an office jockey. She’ll know that I’m the one who’d go off half cocked. In fact, I’ll bet that when she blows her top, she’ll cease even listening to your alibi.”

“And then? What’s our plan?”

“First, ol’ Mahmoud is dead meat. We freaked his mind out so much that he’s practically useless for our purposes save for his inherent desire to seek out his own kind. I’ll turn him loose and see if I can track him or, more probably, keep tabs on who he tries to contact. Mahmoud is not the Big Fish; he doesn’t have the balls to be more than your typical Islamist bully.”

“Neither does the kid.”

Seth nodded sympathetically. “Yeah. Usually the kids are the most vicious of them all. Not our Haytham. He got sucked up into this thing for reasons that aren’t fully clear to me. Might just be the same “Allah Good, America Bad” bullshit that all Muslims try to nail upon us.

“At any rate, I don’t care. Haytham will head back towards his own people too but I’m willing to bet that I’ll be able to get him to open up with some damn good Intel that we haven’t been able to retrieve thus far. I just think that after what he’s  been through, the kid has had enough and just wants to get back into med school.”

“Perhaps.” Jonas took the lead, moving ahead of his companion into the great stone hallway that opened up just beyond the small office. The size of the corridor reminded him that he was but a stooge within a much grander play. “If I had my way, I think that I would go back and raise chickens for a living.”

“Beats working with ‘em.” Seth smiled. “At least the birds try to run away even after you whack their head off. Not so with our illustrious leaders. If they’re not smiling with some baby they’re off humping some damn foreign dignitary somewhere. The entire planet knows everyone is lying, yet they still will stand in front of the cameras and argue over who’s better liked by everyone else.

“That’s the only thing that I like about the Islamists. They don’t make any effort to hide their hatred of us. They’ll get the world so resentful over ordinary Muslims that everyone just knows it’s only a matter of time before the whole culture disintegrates and yet they manage to get the entire Muslim world to thank them for the noose. Now that’s gall.”

Jonas’ thoughts retreated into his mind to the point that he never noticed the occasional collision of his bulk with the stone wall. As always, he found himself torn between the desire to safeguard his country and the unrelenting feeling that no matter how hard his effort was, people much higher up in the political food chain would sabotage the progress in the name of personal gain.

Noticing his friend’s navigating the hallway by way of barrier interruption, Seth paused in his walk to aid his friend’s reflection. “Listen, Jonas. Long gone is the time where our leaders were idealistic types who envisioned a strong and competitive nation. I don’t even think that we’ve had that in the last hundred odd years.

“Today, everything is done for personal gain and profit. They have their offshore accounts, their trust funds, and what have you. America could cease to exist tomorrow and they’ll still be able to screw their interns and bribe their wives with positions of power.

“I’m different. Always have been. I feel that America grew into the economic and military powerhouse that it is today because A. we have our Constitution which reigns supreme and B. this Constitution empowers the individual above the State.

“Somewhere following the mid-nineteenth century we lost our way. We allowed government to grow like a fungus upon our liberties and our responsibilities. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned; you can blame my parents for that. Regardless, I look upon a nation where anything goes and kids are raised from scratch to possess no direction whatsoever. It’s a freak; a chance distraction of human nature. It won’t last. Cannot last.

“I just want to keep my nation around just a bit longer until the ‘Nintendo Generation’ and whatever screw-up’s came after them realize that technology is a tool and not a crutch.

    “Only when they realize that feeling good today is simply not sufficient for a truly horrible future will they wise up and take back our government from the assholes who’ve sacrificed everything our forebears fought and died for.”

Jonas calmly and reverently wiped his brow. “You know, Seth? That’s the most you’ve ever said in one breath that I could almost agree wholeheartedly with. I just don’t understand how you expect to survive by challenging these same creeps in office.”
Seth took a step towards the main door of the Ense et aratro complex before turning around and retreating to his friend whom he offered a firm hand upon the shoulder. “Psychological warfare, my friend. I’m one nasty sonofabitch and there isn’t a politician on the planet that cares to go toe-to-toe with someone prepared to call them out in public.”

He smiled broadly towards Jonas before heading back towards the massive wooden doors in the distance. “I’ve been prepared for this for decades. I’ll be a boil on their ass for centuries after I’m gone. Just wait, you’ll see.”

I don’t expect to be around that long, my friend. Jonas waved haphazardly as he watched the younger American disappear into the brilliant Italian sunshine. “May our paths cross again soon, my friend…”

Mumbai Terrorist Freed

Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, founder of the group blamed for the Mumbai India attacks in November 2008, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an organization he says is a charity to help impoverished and disaster-stricken Pakistanis -- yet the United Nations has designated the group a front for the notorious Lashkar-e-Taiba and says it is a terrorist group in its own right, is now freed from house arrest.  (AP, also see  Weekly Standard Blog)

You will remember that these terrorists killed around 200 people including Rivka Holtzberg who was six months pregnant and her husband Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg.  (Guardian)  The Holtzberg's son, Moshe Holtzberg, was saved by his Indian nanny Sandra Samuel who has moved in with his grandparents at their home in the northern Israeli town of Afula and continues to care for Moshe.  (Telegraph.co.uk, hat tip The Naive Abroad) 

Pakistan wants the US to think they are strong on terrorism, but it doesn't look that way.  As Bill Roggio's US intelligence source states:  

"More than six months after Mumbai, there has yet to be a single conviction or even a trial of anyone involved in the attack. Pakistan does not have the capacity to try and convict known terrorists."

"Saeed is untouchable, And don't think the courts and the police don't know this," another official said, warning that the continuous release of leaders like Saeed, Red Mosque leader Maulana Abdullah Aziz, and others is sending a terrible message to those on the front lines against the terror groups.

This is bad news for Pakistan, for Afghanistan, for India and for the rest of the world.  We can continue giving them all the money they want, but we are not seeing any results.

Know The Enemy and Destroy Him

One day after abortionist George Tiller was killed in a church, news breaks of two soldiers being shot by a Muslim in front of an Arkansas recruiting station.

Yet, did the Obama Administration deploy U. S. Marshalls to protect churches? NO! Did they deploy Marshalls to protect Army Recruiting Centers? No! Or to protect the children? Certainly not.

Did they deploy U. S. Marshalls to protect abortion clinics? YES!  (Special Guests)

Arkansas Matters reports: 

Private William Long, 23, of Conway, died from his injuries as he arrived at the hospital. 

Private Second Class Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville, was also shot, and was rushed into surgery after arriving at the hospital. Chief Thomas says he is expected to recover. 

Bernie at Planck's Constant reports:

Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military shot two soldiers outside an Arkansas recruiting station, killing one of the soldiers. Sheikyermami over at Winds of Jihad wonders if Obama will condemn this Muslim as he has the Christian killer of George Tiller.

Excellent question and I'm still waiting to hear Barack Obama say anything in defense of, in honor of, or in sympathy to these soldiers.

The suspect arrested was under investigation by the FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force since his return from Yemen.

The investigation was in its preliminary stages, authorities said, and was based on the suspect’s travel to Yemen and his arrest there for using a Somali passport.

Just after 5:00 this evening, Little Rock Police say Abulhakin Muhammad, also known as Carlos Bledsoe, will be charged with capital murder and 16 counts of terroristic acts after a shooting at an Army/Navy recruitment center on Rodney Parham Road in Little Rock.  (Arkansas Matters via NTA)

Five Character Flaws That Are Destroying America's Future, according to John Hawkins:

1) Lack Of Personal Responsibility;
2) Short Attention Spans;
3) Excessive Self-Esteem;
4) Short Term Thinking/Instant Gratification;
5) Immorality;

I would add at least one more to that list:  Failure to identify, name, and punish our enemies.  Barack Obama is preparing to give his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo.  Robert Spencer writes the speech that Obama should give, but won't.  He may not bow down and kiss the hand of any leaders on this trip, but his words will be the same -- America is bad, we should be ashamed, we'll try to do better.    He will make America appear weak, which we are under his leadership.  Obama does not know the enemy.  Asia Times reports:

Wrong venue for Obama's Muslim speech
By Spengler

Why should the president of the United States address the "Muslim world", as Barack Obama will do in Egypt this Thursday? What would happen if the leader of a big country addressed the "Christian world"? Half the world would giggle and the other half would sulk.

There is no such thing as a Christian world...  [snip]

What does it mean, though, to address the "Muslim world"? As a matter of practice, the Muslim world is just as fractured as the Christian world, even more so in the absence of any religious authority like the Catholic Church, which claims doctrinal authority over a billion people. Muslim religious authority is exercised ad hoc. The quasi-animist Islam of Sumatra and the Wahhabi Islam of Saudi Arabia have about as much in common as Midwest Methodists and Nigerian Pentecostals. But there is a great gulf fixed between the terms, "Christian world", and "Muslim world". No denomination of Islam will abandon its pretensions at official status, and all aspire to world power.

To speak to the "Muslim world", is to speak not to a fact, but rather to an aspiration, and that is the aspiration that Islam shall be a global state religion as its founders intended. To address this aspiration is to breathe life into it. For an American president to validate such an aspiration is madness. [snip]

For his trouble, Obama will get more bloodshed in Pakistan, more megalomania from Iran, more triumphalism from the Palestinians, and less control over Iraq and Afghanistan. Of all the available bad choices, Obama has taken the worst. It is hard to imagine any consequence except a steep diminution of American influence.

The fruits of appeasement continue.

Syed Haris Ahmed, accused of conspiring in 2005 to commit terrorist acts, is on trial this week.  Like others before him, Ahmed's lawyer portrays him as "confused, isolated, searching and not guilty of supporting terrorism".  He had the inclination but did not have the means to carry out any terror acts and in fact never did any terror acts.  I'm waiting for the obligatory "he's such a good boy"...

Abulhakin Muhammad, also known as Carlos Bledsoe, who shot the soldiers at the recruitment center, went to Yemen.  Syed Haris Ahmed bought a one-way ticket and went to Pakistan in hopes he could join the Taliban.  Ahmed along with his cohorts went to Washington D.C. to take pictures of potential terror sites and also traveled to Toronto Canada and visited like-minded individuals at a Mosque there.

Both the killer of Dr. Tiller and the killer of our soldier were already under investigation by the FBI, so their history was enough to get them on law enforcements radar, but not enough to prevent them from killing.  Syed Haris Ahmed was arrested before he could kill.  Good for us, lives were saved, death was prevented.  What will the verdict be?  What punishment if any will Ahmed get for his plan and intention to kill Americans?  Time will tell.

Our prayers go out to the family of Private William Long and to Private Second Class Quinton Ezeagwula, who we hope will have a full recovery.

As for Barack Obama:  Stay home and shut up.

Other reading:

Rearranging the Chairs on the Deck of the Titanic, The Independent Institute

Political "S"elections

I received an email on the Iranian elections where the author referred to them as selections rather than elections, since candidates are screened and must meet all the requirements:  "Only criminals who have moved up the Islamic Republics ranks by murder, rape and torture of the innocent Iranians and have proven themselves loyal to Islamic republic are allowed to run for office."  Closer to home here in the United States I think the same title applies -- we have selections rather than elections.  We the people really don't get to decide who will represent us, because long before we think about going to the voting booth those working behind the curtain have already selected the candidates for us.

One of Rush Limbaugh's listeners called in wondering when a true Conservative candidate would come to light, suggesting that we the people raise such a candidate up.  How do we, Conservatives, do that?    Does anyone think Barack Obama could have risen to President of the United States on his own?  We could ask that question about many previous leaders.  From the time Obama entered college he was supported, tutored, directed toward the office he now holds.  Look back, as we did during the campaign, at those in Obama's life who surrounded him, who had influence on him both physical, emotional, political and most importantly financially.

So, can Conservatives take a lesson from the rise of Obama?  I think we can.  In the last election we had John McCain pushed down our throats.  The many Republicans who ran in the primary elections really did not give Conservatives a true choice, divided the votes, and gave us McCain.  We do not want to be in that position again.  Stuck with a RINO (Republican In Name Only), who is more like a Democrat than Republican, and certainly not a Conservative.

It's never too early to start thinking about the next election.  If we had to vote today, who would our choice be for our Senators, Congressmen, and new President?  Have any ideas?  We need to seriously think about this and start working, supporting, financing, those people who truly believe the way we do.  Getting in true Conservatives on the ground level of politics, supporting them through each office they hold no matter how many years it takes.

Depressed yet?  But wait!  There is serious talk about another party, a third party, but we already have third, forth, fifth, ... parties.  Where has that gotten them or us?  Nowhere.  The Left and Democrats like to point out that the Republicans are divided, yes and the Conservatives are not exactly together either.  We have The Constitution Party, The American Conservative Party,  The Conservative Party US, Libertarian Party , Constitution Party , Green Party , America's Independent Party .  A quick visit to Wikipdeia (which may or may not be complete or accurate) provides a full page of smaller less-known US political parties and groups.  Then there are many sub-groups, just look on FaceBook or other networking sites and see the hundreds of supposedly Conservative groups.  We are organized into so many sub-groups it's both pathetic and encouraging at the same time.

What's the answer?  It takes work, money, notoriety, publicity, and a platform that people agree with to get elected.   We live in a media era when a political career can be ruined with one misstatement;   where a candidate comes from, what kind of accent they have, the type of family life they lead, and how easily they can be smeared seem more important than what they stand for.  Think Sarah Palin...

Honestly I do not have an answer to US selections.  If we had to vote for the next President, and we could vote for anyone qualified, .. I do not know who I would vote for.  I do know that my Iranian friend's statement about selections in that country could be applied to the US.  I know it was true for the 2009 election:  Only criminals those who have moved up the Islamic Republics  party ranks by murder, rape and torture of the innocent Iranians towing the party line or towing the opposition's line, and have proven themselves loyal to Islamic republic the party or useful to the party, and are propped up by the MSM, are allowed to run for be elected to office.  Make that selected to office.  Heaven help us.

NEWS BRIEF: SALUTE TO ISRAEL DAY PARADE IN NEW YORK CITY

NEWS BRIEF: SALUTE TO ISRAEL DAY PARADE IN NEW YORK CITY
 
BY: FERN SIDMAN

 
Thousands of supporters of Israel, both young and old gathered today in Manhattan to celebrate Israel's 61st birthday. A sea of blue and white filled fashionable 5th Avenue, as scores of synagogues, Jewish community centers and schools representing New York, New Jersey, Long Island, Connecticut, etc proudly carried thousands of Israeli flags while paying tribute to the eternal Jewish state. Shouts of "Am Yisroel Chai" (the people of Israel live) echoed through the East Side of Manhattan as marchers paid tribute to the 100th anniversary of the city of Tel Aviv.
 
Another theme displayed prominently at the parade was the campaign to bring kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit home. Close to three years ago, Cpl Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and according to information provided by intrepid Middle East correspondent, Aaron Klein, in his new book entitled, "The Late Great State of Israel", Cpl Shalit may have been held at the Hamas stronghold in Gaza known as the Islamic University. Wearing t-shirts and sporting buttons saying, "Have you seen Gilad Shalit" and "Bring Gilad Shalit Home" Jews and other supporters of Israel gathered in Central Park for the Israel Day concert that was held in tribute of Gilad Shalit. At this event, Noam Shalit, the father of Gilad, addressed the audience of thousands appealing to them to never give up hope of having Gilad released and to continue their zealous campaign of petitioning the Israeli government to continue it's efforts to seek his safe return.
 
Also on hand were a small contingent of anti-Israel protesters whose signs and chants reflected their thinly veiled attempt to promulgate their essential message of rabid Jew hatred. Labeling Israel as an "apartheid state" and calling on the US to end all economic and military aid to the Jewish state, they also called for the tot "liberation of Palestine" while excoriating Israelis as "Judeo Nazis". Other anti-Semitic signs conjured up images of the libelous propaganda once espoused by Adolf Hitler during the Nazi era. "Close Guantanamo Bay and Re-Open Auschwitz" read one sign, while another read, "Lock Up Your Kids: Pedophile Rabbis Are Everywhere". Members of the Revolution Muslim web site were on hand as well, carrying a banner that read, "Every Supporter of Israel is an Enemy Combatant".

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THE LATE GREAT STATE OF ISRAEL - Book Review

THE LATE GREAT STATE OF ISRAEL
 
BY: AARON KLEIN
 
Reviewed by: FERN SIDMAN

 
In his latest book entitled, "The Late Great State of Israel", Aaron Klein, intrepid investigative journalist and Middle East correspondent presents an ominous portent of the future of Israel. This meticulously researched exegesis of the complex world of Middle East politics graphically depicts the pernicious agenda of those forces conspiring to eradicate the Jewish state. As we know, the motto of the New York Times is, "All the News that's Fit to Print" and this book is a thoroughly documented repository of "All the News That's Fit to Print, that the New York Times Wouldn't", or any branch of the mainstream media for that matter.
 
In this eye-opening account of the global machinations that are predicated on the vilification of Israel and surreptitious actions leading to its potential demise, we recoil in horror to learn that in addition to the list of "usual suspects", i.e. Iran, Syria and their proxies known as Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, etc, we find that other such players in the Middle East cacophony are also busy striking their own chords. Despite their declarations of support for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the ultimate two-state solution, the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and other western governmental agencies, Klein informs us, have constructed their own end game as it concerns the viable future of Israel. What is most disheartening is the fact that Mr. Klein explores and spotlights in nuanced detail the sheer masochism of the powers that be in the government of Israel and the fact that it is they that are largely culpable for undermining Israel's survival as a Jewish state.
 
Mr. Klein is indeed a heteroclite reporter who blazes new trails in journalistic doughtiness as evidenced in innumerable and candid interviews he conducted with terrorist leaders representing Hamas, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Hezbollah, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, as well as other covert groups of that ilk. The scope and magnitude of his research illuminates the fact that Fatah, the "peace partner" of both Israel and the United States, is playing a dangerously duplicitous role in this scenario by positing themselves by day as ostensibly legitimate law enforcement officers of the Palestinian Authority and by night as heinous murderers representing the "military wing" of the movement, better known as the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Replete with arms and training from the United States, these Fatah operatives continue to plan and execute terrorist acts directed against Israeli civilians.
 
If that were not shocking enough, Mr. Klein also reveals that Fatah's purported enemy Hamas has successfully infiltrated Fatah to the point of mass confusion within their ranks. This essentially translates into the fact that massive US arm shipments to Fatah are now making their way into the hands of Hamas terrorists and that these very same Hamas members are also recipients of advanced US military training under the leadership of Lt-Gen Keith Dayton. We also learn that Hamas operatives frequently travel to Iran for extended training in guerilla warfare and return to Gaza to re-train other wannabe terrorists, all under the watchful eye of the United States.
 
To add insult to injury, Mr. Klein informs us that Israel too, aids and abets the infrastructure of Fatah while simultaneously turning a blind eye to their penchant for deadly terrorism. Having stationed himself in Gaza during the 2005 disengagement, Mr. Klein laments the fact that despite Israeli intelligence reports indicating that Hamas was planning to use the "newly liberated" Gaza as a launching pad for Qassam rockets into Israel, the government proceeded with this suicidal policy while treating the Jewish evacuees with colossal disdain. He also warns us that any attempt by Israel to negotiate away the West Bank and East Jerusalem in peace talks with the PA will inevitably lead to the creation of a state financed and controlled by Iran, with its day to day operations being carried out by its proxy known as Hamas.
 
Other paramount issues that are examined here is the role of the United Nations is creating the Palestinian "refugee" issue by conferring such status on offspring of Palestinians who fled Israel decades ago and have been residing in such countries as Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Through the creation of the UNWRA (United Nations Work and Relief Agency), the Palestinian demand for the "right of return" can arguably serve as the death knell for Israel in terms of the demographic time bomb that such an influx of Palestinians would represent for Israel's continued existence as a Jewish state.
 
Mr. Klein takes great pains to dissect and analyze the horrific loss that Israel sustained during the summer war of 2006 against Hezbollah; yet another Iranian/Syrian proxy, and gives us an historical backdrop of the region and the sordid Israeli military blunders that paved the way for the humiliating defeat that shocked the world. As the government of Israel remained in a state of obfuscation concerning the clear objectives of this military endeavor, its convoluted polices have lead to a stronger, better funded and infinitely more confident Hezbollah. The burgeoning guerilla organization apparently now possesses lethal weaponry that can wreak deadly havoc on Israel's northern border and beyond.
 
Utilizing concepts and quotes from the Torah and Tanach, Mr. Klein connects the dots for us in terms of the historical and religious connection that the land of Israel holds for the Jewish people. He unabashedly admonishes Israel for relinquishing the vast majority of control of Temple Mount in Jerusalem that miraculously fell into our hands at the end of the Six Day War in 1967. Designating ownership of the site to the Muslim Waqf has emboldened the Muslim claim to Jerusalem and has created a mini theocratic state that seeks to spread it's tentacles far and wide. As it pertains to the Tomb of Joseph in Schechem, Mr. Klein tells us that if we think the partial abandonment of the Temple Mount was bad enough, Israel's complete withdrawal from Judaism's third holiest site is a "travesty" that borders on the reprehensible.
 
Ultimately, Mr. Klein leaves us with sober assertions regarding the political agenda of the Obama administration as it pertains to the Middle East debacle as well as the role that Benjamin Netanyahu's new government can and will play. He warns us of the existential perils of both global jihadist proliferation and the very real threat of a nuclear empowered Iran. Israel, it would appear is on its own, sans support from the West, yet through its own brand of distorted diplomacy is carving its own trajectory to self-annihilation. Klein makes an important point when he concludes that classical anti-Semitism is no longer considered politically correct by the liberal intelligentsia and has been summarily replaced by our enemies with more trendier term "anti-Zionism". He correctly equates the terms as one in the same and draws no differences. His final words might give us some measure of hope and bring us back down to earth at the same time when he opines, "I trust and believe that Israel will ultimately survive - against all odds and in spite of the threats from within and without - only through the grace of G-d. But for now, things don't look good."