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POPSEngland is 'cesspit' breeding Islamists, says Nobel prize winner Soyinka added: "This is part of the character of Great Britain. Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness." The attempted Christmas Day bombing has helped to raise fears that some British universities are becoming places in which young Muslims are radicalised – Abdulmutallab attended University College, London. But Soyinka, who splits his time between the US and Nigeria, suggested that British Muslims were being radicalised earlier in their lives.
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POPSLAW ENFORCEMENT VS TERRORISM McConnell said that eight years after the September 11 attacks, the nation is continually reminded of the need to remain vigilant. “In September we learned of a plot to bomb the New York City subway,” McConnell said. “Soon after that, there was the tragic massacre at Ft. Hood. Then, on Christmas Day, there was the failed attempt by a foreign-born terrorist to kill nearly 300 innocent civilians in a commercial airliner in the skies over Detroit. “Our elected leaders have no greater duty than that of protecting the American people from harm, The Obama administration’s policy of having the FBI read the Miranda rights to terrorists captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan is “outrageous,” Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) told CNSNews.com. “To me, this is the most outrageous notion I have ever heard,” said Inhofe. “These people are terrorists, they don’t have rights, they don’t belong to a country that is identifiable.”
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POPSTorture Not Needed to get Info Just reported is that the FBI using civilized techniques of investigation, have been able to get some real useful info from the would-be Christmas Day bomber. They brought in his family. Still....success is not enough to quiet the Republican critics and the lie that 'torture works,' is still popular http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_04/017875.php It seems -- although it's a sick justification to use anyhow -- but it seems that all the claims of torture working on getting real and useful info are Lies. False. BS. Tsk. Tsk.
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POPSCats of Blockaded Leningrad "The family had cat Maksim and a parrot which was called Jack. Almost every day, their uncle that lived together with them wanted to make a meal ofthe cat and each time the rest of the family went out they always locked the cat into the storeroom. As time passed by, the cat began growing malnourished and sicky because of poor food. Once, Maksim managed to jump onto the cupboard and opened the cage where the parrot Jack lived in. Family thought thatthe cat would eat Jack, but instead of doing so two pets huddled up to one another for warmth and fell asleep. After that, the uncle didn’t try to make anything bad tothe cat. Soon after the parrot died but Maksim survived and happened to be one of the few cats that lived through the blockade. Maksim died in 1957. Of old age"
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POPS Napolitano stirs uneasy memories The calls were predictable. Somewhere in the world, a bombing had occurred or a threat (real or imagined) had been reported by the media and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security would kick into high gear.
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POPSHamilton and Kean reprimand Pres. Obama on terrorism FTA: " despite the Obama administration's attempt to -- what else? -- blame Bush for the intelligence failings, the commission chairmen testified that 80% of their panel's recommendations have been implemented since they made them. Almost all of those changes happened during the Bush administration.
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POPSThis is what the terrorists did to me -- and why they should be tried at Gitmo Louis Pepe was a federal prison guard at Manhattan's MCC when he was ambushed and blinded by two terrorism suspects, later linked to Osama bin Laden. "It went three inches into my brain. These people want to kill and go to Allah and have 10 girls. That's just the way they are." "They want to become martyrs. They want jihad. They want to kill people. And that's all they want." Hey, here's an idea: let's throw water on their faces, lock them in a cell with a caterpillar, and make them promise never to stab you in the eye and lodge a comb in your brain. And maybe if we ask nicely and say "pretty please," they'll oblige.
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POPSBrit Commandos Gun Down Mossad Agents
This evening, I was watching the BBC series MI-5 and it concluded with a British SWAT team gunning down Israeli Mossad agents at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in London. Oh my -- Reality: 'The times they are a-changing.' Of course the Brits were dealing with Jewish terrorist before most of us were born so it's perhaps easier for them to consider such story lines. (Like the bombing of the King David Hotel by right-wing Zionist in 1946) This TV plots was much like that early incident at the start of the Zionist invasion of Palestine -- an attack upon a hotel, like the recent Mumbai attack in India. Pretty good series. Shown in dozens of countries. Award winning. And the chance to be a religious wacko murderer, war profiteer, terrorist, etc. is equally distributed among many extremist groups: Crazy Christians. Evil Venezuela. USA CIA plots. Mossad. Arabs. Basque Separatist. The IRA. Red Army. Shining Path. All more real. Like the USS Liberty will be acknowledge one d
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POPSThe System Worked.........Janet is a NO SHOW! Democrats openly expressed their dismay with Napolitano as the hearing proceeded. Rep. Chris Carney (D.-Pa.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Management, Investigations and Oversight, said during his question period: “I am very dismayed that the Secretary herself isn’t here. I mean it’s probably fair to ask: “Where the Hell is Secretary Napolitano?”
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POPSNon-Defense discretionary spending freeze...YEA! I wish some of them tea-partiers would stop yelling about how much this government is spending on social safety nets, and think more about how much this government is spending on unfunded wars! You don't see China squandering its wealth on military spending. They have a plan...and that plan is to become the new super-power...and it won't be because of bombs.....except for the carpet-bombing they lay on us everyday at Wal-Mart!
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POPSCan you Believe they "RE-ISSUED IT?" REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of Pan Am Flight 103! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military Barracks in Saudi Arabia ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa ! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE! REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on 9/11/2001 ! REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks!
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POPSTough Questions For Eric Holder On Bombing Suspect
referring to the officials who apprehended Abdulmutallab when the plane landed in Detroit. American agents questioned the accused terrorist briefly before he was taken to a hospital to be treated for burns suffered in the attempt to set off explosives hidden in his underwear. After that, Mueller testified, "in consultation with the Department of Justice and others in the administration," the agents read him his rights. And that was that. "Isn't it a fact, that after Miranda was given ... the individual stopped talking?" Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions asked Mueller. "He did," Mueller answered. But Mueller declined to say who made the decision to grant Abdulmutallab the right to remain silent. The issue is enormously important because Abdulmutallab, newly trained by al Qaeda in the terrorist group's latest hot spot, Yemen, likely knows things that would be very useful to American anti-terrorism investigators. He's not some grizzled old terrorist who's been sitting .....
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POPSErroll Southers TSA Nominee DROPS OUT! Several Republican senators had held up floor consideration of Southers' nomination, expressing concerns about his background. Meanwhile, Democrats have been saying that TSA needs leadership, especially in light of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253. THANKS JIM DeMINT!!!! The HOUSE OF CARDS is starting to FALL!
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POPSAnother Obama blunder unraveling..... Riffing off a Newsweek report by Howard Isikoff, Jennifer Rubin writing in Contentions, notes that Attorney General Holder and Obama may suffer the humiliation of having to reverse their cockamamie decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court and instead try him in a military court as Bush had been prepared to do.
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POPSIsrael and Egypt continue to Squeeze the Lifeblood out of the People of Gaza According to the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli air force bombing attacks killed seven Palestinians in Gaza, including three civilians. Since the ceasefire a year ago, a total of 84 Palestinians, including at least 27 civilians, and one Israeli (a soldier) have been killed and another 160 Palestinians and seven Israelis have been injured in Gaza and southern Israel. Israeli forces have opened "warning" fire at farmers as far as 1,000 meters (3,200 feet) from the border. A parallel ban for Gaza fishermen is applied to sea areas beyond three nautical miles from the coast, though often this distance is less in practice. This week, in nine separate incidents, Israeli naval forces opened "warning" fire at Palestinian fishing boats along Gaza's coast, forcing them to return to shore.
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POPSDarkness Falls ...... by Mark Steyn “We do not negotiate with terrorists. We just accede to their anticipated demands.” Christopher Caldwell also weighs in, apropos the attempt to kill Kurt Westergaard . . . and, in a very explicit sense, intellectual freedom. Few industries congratulate themselves on their "courage" and "bravery" more incessantly than artists and journalists " at least when it comes to plays about a gay Jesus, or joining the all-star singalong for Rock Against Bush. But it's easy to be provocative with people who can't be provoked. Faced with an opportunity to demonstrate real courage, the arts and the media shrivel up like a bunch of dying pansies. As I wrote in my book: If it were just terrorists bombing buildings and public transit, it would be easier; even the feeblest Eurowimp jurisdiction is obliged to act when the street is piled with corpses. But there's an old technique well understood by the smarter bullies.
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POPSWhen is a "terrorist" not a "terrorist"? Great article from Slate.com This article makes a great point. Calling everything "terrorism" is just a method used to justify the so-called "war on terror". But how do you justify the costs in terms of all the lives lost, trillions of dollars wasted that could be better spent, or restrictions placed on our constitutional rights in the interest of safety?
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POPSThat makes sense... ... But does that include countries like Germany and The UK, where there it has been proven that Al-Qaeda operates.
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POPSThey swing with the Pendulum! ABC News' Brian Ross reported that two of the men behind the Christmas Day bombing plot were detainees who had been released from Gitmo. The recidivism rate for the 530 released detainees has risen to 20 percent, and the remaining 198 are deemed hard core.
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