Duncan Hunter Posts on LGF

H/T to my sister site, United Conservatives of VA
Yes I am an avid Fred Thompson supporter, but I have friends I respect who like Duncan Hunter, and this is an interesting read.

Sen. Fred Thompson in Richmond This Weekend

2007 Commonwealth Gala
with special guest
Former Senator of Tennessee

Fred Thompson
Saturday, June 2, 2007

Greater Richmond Convention Center

5:30 p.m. -

Leadership Reception for Gala Sponsors with

Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling

Attorney General Bob McDonnell

Speaker Bill Howell

RPV Chairman Ed Gillespie

Photo opportunity with Fred Thompson

6:30 p.m. - Dinner (Business Attire)

We Need to Show More Sympathy

We need to show more sympathy for these people!

They travel miles in the heat!
they risk their lives crossing a border!
they don't get paid enough wages!
they do jobs that others won't do or are afraid to do!
they live in crowded conditions among people who speak a different language! they rarely see their families, and they face adversity all day every day!

Doesn't it seem strange that the Government is willing to lavish all kinds of social benefits on illegals, but won't support our troops and are now threatening to de-fund the troops--and not the illegals?

Contemplating the Gift of Freedom

by Nancy Salvato

In Taranto’s, "Best of the Web Today," is a mention about U.S. military officials who, while raiding an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, discovered crude drawings depicting torture methods such as a "blowtorch to the skin" and "eye removal." Soldiers involved in the raid seized torture implements like meat cleavers, whips, and wire cutters. Photos were taken documenting injuries sustained by captives of the safe house. (1)

Considering the focus of numerous mainstream news reports centered on the inhumanness of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques; some described as being told to stand up or sit down but not being allowed to sleep or lie on the floor, or being forced to listen to rap artist Eminem's "Slim Shady" album -used by US military interrogators -it would seem that this should have been front page news. However, this finding didn’t make the headlines. (2)
Waterboarding, an interrogation technique that makes the person being questioned feel as though he or she is going to drown without physically harming a person, has proven a useful way to determine information about those waging a war of terrorism against western civilization. No one is killed or maimed and critical information needed to win the war against terrorism is gained. After looking at the photos of those held captive in the safe house, how anyone can say that U.S. soldiers are inhumane is beyond me. Americans should be asking themselves what kind of animals would cut out the eye of another human being and for what?

Recently, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D) visited Damascus, Syria, a country which, "strictly limits freedom of expression, association, and assembly." (3)
She was seen roaming the streets of Damascus flaunting a Hijab, which when worn outside the mosque, symbolizes that men control women by forcing piety. "Pelosi just reversed the work of the Syrian civil society and those who aspire for women's freedom in the Muslim countries many years back with her visual statement." (4)
The damage done by her trip to Syria is not really any different to that done by Jane Fonda during her l972 visit to N. Vietnam, where she had her photo taken while sitting on an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and spoke on radio broadcasts telling US soldiers they were war criminals for which they could be tried and executed. (5)
Both of these women provided aid and comfort to the enemy. Although US soldiers were brutally tortured, Fonda referred to the US as the enemy and considered the N. Vietnamese, "peaceful patriots." (6)
I wonder if these women would be willing to take up residence in either of these countries and live under their rule of law. Would they be so willing to cavort with such human rights abusers? To both of them, I say, "If you are going to talk the talk, you ought to be willing to walk the walk."

When concentration camp detainees were liberated by US soldiers during WWII, average Americans were exposed to horrific details and images of the atrocities to which these prisoners of Hitler’s warped pursuit of genocide were exposed: hypothermia, sun lamp exposure, blistering hot water forced into the stomach, bladder, and intestines, tortuous medical examinations, live cremation, and more. (7)
After such discoveries, no one denied that the American entrance to the war was good for mankind.

Prior to WWII, Americans had not seen such systematic mass extermination of a people since the Spanish Inquisition. Yet, this sort of religious intolerance, and the belief in the superiority of one group over another, remains today. A recent headline reads, "Saudi officials have arrested a man in Mecca for being a Christian, saying that the city, which Muslims consider to be holy, is off-limits to non-Muslims," the Jerusalem Post reports. (8)

Sometimes during my morning jog, when I feel the gentle warmth of the sun on my skin and these old bones aren’t complaining about a front moving through, I give thanks for this beautiful country; for medicine; for plentiful food; and for the wisdom to appreciate what we have been afforded here in the United States. Is it any wonder so many people want to live in this great country of ours? Then I remember it could all be gone in the blink of an eye, if terrorists succeed in detonating a nuclear bomb on our soil.

On this Memorial Day, take a moment to thank those who give some, and some who give all, to protect the natural rights and freedoms acknowledged in the founding documents and provided for under the US Constitution. No one understands better than those who have been denied their freedom or those who serve protecting our freedoms, that our country (my home) is a shining beacon providing hope to the oppressed, and that the United States sets the standard for freedom around the world. Try to imagine a world with no dreams and then remember those who sacrificed to set our dreams free.


(1) (8) Best of the Web Today http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110010125
(2) CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1322866
(3) Human rights in Syria; Pelosi's silence http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/04/06/syria15665.htm
(4) Has Pelosi Gone Bonkers? http://www.reformsyria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=282&Itemid=66
(5) (6) Discover the Networks.org: A Guide to the Political Left http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1326
(7) Concentration Camps and Other Places Where Experiments Were Performed http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/deathcamps.html


Copyright © Nancy Salvato 2007

Nancy Salvato is the President of The Basics Project, (http://www.blogger.com/www.Basicsproject.org) a non-profit, non-partisan 501 (C) (3) research and educational project whose mission is to promote the education of the American public on the basic elements of relevant political, legal and social issues important to our country. She is also a Staff Writer, for the New Media Alliance, Inc., a non-profit (501c3) coalition of writers and grass-roots media outlets, where she contributes on matters of education policy

American Muslims Ready to Attack USA?

Sher Zieve

I have waited for about a week to comment on a new Pew poll that queried over a thousand Muslims living in the United States. The reason I held back from commenting on the unnerving (some publications have called them hair-raising) results, is that I was waiting to see if ‘moderate’ Muslim leaders would officially comment. Sadly—as has become the norm—they have not done so in or with any large or even medium-sized numbers.

The mainstream media still largely continue to ignore the imminent threat posed by the terrorists in our midst. Instead, they report that a new Pew Poll suggests American Muslims are "largely assimilated, happy with their lives and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world." The dangerous and present problem with this is that the media discounts or ignores the intensely disturbing Pew Poll findings. Those findings include and divide out the response of 26% of American Muslims’—between 18 and 29 years of age—to one of the poll questions regarding the efficacy of homicide (AKA "suicide") bombings. This middle-class American Muslim population said that suicide bombings on US soil could be justified! Some have calculated that the Pew poll-cited 26% of these 18-29 year old Muslims currently in living the US constitutes a minimum of 200,000 individuals who currently believe that the bombings are not only acceptable to them but, necessary if meant to ‘protect’ their religion. However, having no truly accurate figures as to how many Muslims are now in the United States—let alone those between 18 and 29—this figure is highly speculative and may even be higher. In an apparent attempt to lull the public into a life-threatening complacency, the consistently left-leaning mainstream media has chosen to play these facts down—or not report them at all. They, instead, choose to run stories on ‘Islamophobia’. Sorry old media but, a fear based upon the worldwide substantive perpetrations of horrific acts upon others by adherents of Islam and the Muslim religion is not irrational.

Do these Pew poll data mean that this group of young American Muslims is ready to attack the USA? No—not by these data, alone. But, this poll is not the only indicator of the growing in-country threat from Islamists. For years, something very alarming has been steadily growing upon the shores of the United States. It is the development and expansion of Islamic paramilitary compounds. Three of these, according to Greg Copley President of the International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA), include "Islamberg in New York, Ahmedabad in Virginia, and Holy Islamville in South Carolina, and so on are places which have been formed largely by Jamaat ul-Fuqra—which is a fundamentalist jihadist movement, which has been involved in terrorist activity and supporting terrorist activity." Copley continues with: "The U.S. government, for example, claimed that ul-Fuqra members were involved in more than a dozen bombings and arson attacks during the 1980s and 1990s" and adds that members were "possibly responsible for a couple dozen homicides, and possibly linked to the murder of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was killed in Pakistan." These fortresses are closed to the public and consist of Muslims from Pakistan, men who are said to have converted to Islam while in US prisons and their families. In Paul Williams’ compelling article "Springtime in Islamberg", a sentry at the fortification is quoted as saying: "Our community is not open to visitors!"

These strongholds are also said to consist of many who have threatened the US with violent acts and were or are currently on terrorist watch lists. And, apparently, their children are being raised to embrace and emulate the hatreds and radical tenets of their parents. It is unclear how many of these paramilitary enclosures exist throughout the country and/or where they are strategically located. But, considering the ideologies of those who operate them the purpose and mission seem clear. And their goals do not give the impression of being at all positive to or for non-Muslim US citizens. The areas involving violence perpetrated by the group Jamaat ul-Fuqra is shown in the map below. With Islamic separatist militaristic training compounds appearing across the country, we can only guess at when their followers will begin to implement their training. One item, however, remains extremely curious. In the past, the US government has arrested, burned out or blown up other militaristic compounds on US soil. The most recent notable example is the Clinton Administration’s burning of the Branch Davidians religious cult headquarters. Yet, this in-the-USA reported Islamic multi-branch paramilitary movement is allowed to continue. What’s that all about? Do you think Pew’s 26% figure might actually be low? One thing that is a certainty is that young terrorists or terrorist-supporting individuals are now being raised, taught and trained on American soil. Considering the fact that radical Islam has loudly sworn time and time again that it will destroy us, does the fact that this is being allowed to occur make any sense—any at all—to you? Perhaps radical American Muslims won’t attack today. But, from all challenge indications being thrown down in front of us, they certainly seem to be gearing up for tomorrow. And while our courageous and dedicated men and women overseas are fighting and dying to keep them there, we are letting the terrorists in through our back door and, all too often, even the front.

Sher Zieve is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc. (www.thenma.org). The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1199132.html
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/22/pew-poll-of-american-muslims-chock-full-o-nuance/
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/05/muslim_paramilitary_compounds.php
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/paul-williams051107.htm
http://www.foxcarolina.com/Global/story.asp?S=4560518

MAP: http://www.canadafreepress.com/images/paul-williams-map-large.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh

Fred Thompson Raps "Open Border" Immigration

Fred Thompson, a potential Republican presidential candidate, suggested that the 1986 immigration law signed by President Reagan is to blame for the country's illegal immigrants and he bemoaned a nation beset by "suicidal maniacs."

"Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world," the former Tennessee senator said. "We're sitting here now with essentially open borders."

"We should scrap this bill and the whole debate until we can convince the American people that we have secured the borders or at least have made great headway," Thompson said last week.

His remark about "suicidal maniacs" drew a chuckle from McCain, who said in a telephone interview: "I don't know what to make of it."
(Because you are an idiot)

A spokesman for Thompson, said he was not calling immigrants "suicidal maniacs" but, rather was referring to terrorists who seek to enter the United States through borders that have lax security.
(Because WE didn't know that /sarcasm)

He made the comments Thursday night as he discussed the 1986 immigration reform bill and the Senate's current legislation to overhaul the immigration system during a speech to people attending the annual Prescott Bush Awards Dinner in Stamford, Conn.

Venezuelans march against closure of TV station

You'd think Hugo would know better than to screw with the soap operas.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Venezuelan protesters marched on Saturday to the Caracas headquarters of an anti-government television station, which is being forced off the air after President Hugo Chavez's administration refused to renew its broadcasting license.

Waving flags with the logo of RCTV, demonstrators packed the streets of the capital where news anchors and soap opera stars slammed the imminent closure of the opposition channel.
"What is happening here is simply the silencing of a television station," shouted soap opera actress Gledys Ibarra.

'Noah's Ark' of 5,000 rare animals found floating off the coast of China

So where's PETA?

Endangered, hunted, smuggled and now abandoned, 5,000 of the world's rarest animals have been found drifting in a deserted boat near the coast of China.
The pangolins, Asian giant turtles and lizards were crushed inside crates on a rickety wooden vessel that had lost engine power off Qingzhou island in the southern province of Guangdong. Most were alive, though the cargo also contained 21 bear paws wrapped in newspaper.
According to conservation groups, the haul was discovered on one of the world's most lucrative and destructive smuggling routes: from the threatened jungles of south-east Asia to the restaurant tables of southern China.

NewsMax Poll: Just 4 Percent Favor Immigration Plan

By a margin of more than 23 to 1, Americans overwhelmingly oppose the Senate's plan for
immigration reform, an Internet poll sponsored by NewsMax reveals.

Respondents in the poll - which drew more than 100,000 participants - also said they would oppose any 2008 presidential candidate who supports the Kennedy-McCain plan.

Here are the poll questions and results:
What is your overall opinion of the Senate immigration deal?
Favorable: 4 percent
Unfavorable: 95 percent
No opinion: 1 percent

What should be done with the 12 million illegals in the U.S.?
Deport them: 85 percent
Offer them citizenship eventually: 11 percent
Do nothing with them: 4 percent

Would you vote for any presidential candidate who supported this deal?
Vote for: 5 percent
Vote against: 95 percent

GOP candidates Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have expressed support for the immigration deal.
Are you:
More likely to vote for them: 4 percent
Less likely: 93 percent
No opinion: 3 percent

GOP candidates Mitt Romney and Tom Tancredo oppose the Senate immigration deal.
Are You:
More likely to vote for them: 89 percent
Less likely: 5 percent
No opinion: 6 percent

Rate President Bush's handling of the border and immigration issues.
Excellent: 1 percent
Good: 3 percent
OK: 8 percent
Bad: 29 percent
Very poor: 59 percent

So Where Is Amnesty International?

I ask that rhetorically, of course. We'll not be hearing from these pantheons of justice for the downtrodden, the abused, the tortured. They're only interested in torture when it involves the US and terrorists, (Oops, I meant to say freedom fighters). Darn and my backspace key is broken.
It will be interesting to hear what the "there is no Global War on Terror" group has to say about this.
Will they twist it? Spin it to make it look like a set-up? Or just come right out and accuse the Coalition Forces of making it all up?
Is the "Torture Manual" going to get LSM attention?
When are the asshats going to get their heads out of their collective rear ends and come to terms with the evil we are facing?
My guess as to when that will happen: At the moment the scimitar falls.