U.S. Army Pfc Naser Abdo, a Moozlum who was granted conscientious objector status this year because he refused to fight Moozlum terrorists on a deployment to the Middle East, was arrested at a hotel Wednesday just a few miles from Ft. Hood.
Abdo went AWOL during the July 4th weekend and was under investigation for possession of child pornography. After his arrest, he confessed to planning an attack on Ft. Hood.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Anti-American Activities: A Cold War-Style Effort to Root Out Civilizational Jihad
Here's a great and timely article by Frank Gaffney and Townhall.com. As Michael Savage often says, it makes little difference at this point if BHO is deliberately weakening our national security or if his misguided liberal/socialist policies are inadvertently weakening our national security. Either option is having the same effect and a case can easily be made by anyone with any rational thought or common sense that BHO is an America hater and an enemy of the State.
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Anti-American Activities: A Cold War-Style Effort to Root Out Civilizational Jihad by Frank Gaffney
7/20/2011
It is not exactly news that the Obama presidency is determined to go to unprecedented lengths to mollify, appease and otherwise pander to what it calls the "Muslim world." But the question has begun to occur: At what point do these efforts cross the line from a misbegotten policy to one that is downright anti-American – hostile to our values, incompatible with our vital interests and at odds with our Constitution?
The evidence is rapidly accumulating that we have reached that point. Our representatives in Congress must have the courage to re-discover a lost vocabulary, one that is conscious of the fact that subversion of our counter-terror institutions—[and, indeed, our very understanding of the threat we face]—is a goal of our enemy in the War on Terror. The danger entailed cries out for congressional oversight, and corrective action.
What is needed is a new select committee modeled after the much-vilified, but ultimately vindicated, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). (This vindication is comprehensively documented in Yale University Press' groundbreaking Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, and expanded in M. Stanton Evans' 2009 Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies. Members of Congress and their staff can only benefit from reading these studies to have a better understanding of the history of their own institution.) Such a panel needs a mandate to investigate in particular the extent to which the Obama administration’s anti-American activities reflect the success of the toxic Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan) in penetrating and subverting both U.S. government agencies and civil institutions.
Consider a few examples of what appear to be such successes:
On June 30, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that the Obama administration will "welcome...dialogue with those Muslim Brotherhood members who wish to talk with us."
As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has observed, Eric Holder's Justice Department appears to have basically stopped prosecuting alleged material support for terrorism. That was certainly the practical effect when it blocked prosecutors from bringing charges against Muslim Brotherhood fronts listed as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation money-laundering case.
Such dereliction of duty would seem to be the practical upshot of President Obama's much-ballyhooed "Muslim outreach" speech in Cairo in the Spring of 2009 when he pledged to eliminate impediments to zakat. Mr. McCarthy has noted that the only impediment to such Islamic tithing is the prohibition against the sort of material support to terror that is commanded by the Islamic political-military-legal doctrine known as shariah – which requires 1/8th of zakat to underwrite jihad.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported on 8 July that prosecutors in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia have asked a federal judge to reduce the twenty-three-year sentence of convicted terrorist and al Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi. Before he was arrested for plotting with Libyan dictator the assassination of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Alamoudi was one of America's top Muslim Brotherhood operatives.
In that capacity, this self-professed "supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah" helped found and operate dozens of MB front organizations. One of these, dubbed the Islamic Free Market Institute, had the mission of influencing and suborning the conservative movement. During the Clinton administration, Alamoudi was given the responsibility for selecting, training and credentialing chaplains for the U.S. military and prison system. (Not to worry about the obvious peril associated with such an arrangement: After his arrest, Alamoudi’s responsibilities were transferred to the nation’s largest Muslim Brotherhood front, the Islamic Society of North America.)
It is not clear at this writing what the justification for reducing this al Qaeda financier's sentence might be, or to what extent his prison time will be reduced. We should all be concerned though that such an individual might be turned loose in our country. Even more worrisome are reports that the Muslim Brotherhood is making a concerted effort to get the rest of their operatives and allies out of U.S. prisons, as well.
Then, there is Hillary Clinton's announcement in Istanbul last week that the United States would find common ground with the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on a resolution that the OIC has been pushing for years aimed at curbing free speech that "offends" Muslims. The United States has already co-sponsored one somewhat watered-down version of this initiative at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The Islamists who see the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference as a kind of new caliphate uniting and advancing the interests of all Muslims (the ummah) will not be satisfied, however, with anything less than the realization of their ultimate objective: an international directive to all United Nations member states to prohibit and criminalize expression that is deemed offensive by the MB, OIC or other shariah-adherent parties.
To "bridge" the gap between the OIC agenda and our constitutional freedoms, the OIC is pressuring Secretary Clinton to agree that we join Europe in considering the "test of consequences," not just the content of speech. That way lies censorship and submission.
The Pentagon recently gave conscientious objector status to a Muslim soldier who claimed that, according to shariah, it was impermissible for him to kill his co-religionists in places like Afghanistan. No one has explained how the Pentagon proposes to square its acquiescence to that stance with the oath every serviceman and woman takes to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
For that matter, it is hard to see how Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Holder and, indeed, their boss, President Obama, can deem actions like the foregoing as consistent with their oaths of office. At best, they are acquiescing to far-reaching concessions to the Muslim Brotherhood and its ilk. At worse, they are enabling the MB’s efforts to destroy the West from within.
So pervasive now is the MB's "civilization jihad" within the U.S. government and civil institutions that a serious, sustained and rigorous investigation of the phenomenon by the legislative branch is in order. To that end, we need to establish a new and improved counterpart to the Cold War-era's HUAC and charge it with examining and rooting out anti-American – and anti-constitutional – activities that constitute an even more insidious peril than those pursued by communist Fifth Columnists fifty years ago. Critics of a new select committee with such a mandate have an obligation to propose another approach to address this manifestly growing problem.
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is President of the Center for Security Policy, a columnist for the Washington Times and host of the nationally syndicated program, Secure Freedom Radio.
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Anti-American Activities: A Cold War-Style Effort to Root Out Civilizational Jihad by Frank Gaffney
7/20/2011
It is not exactly news that the Obama presidency is determined to go to unprecedented lengths to mollify, appease and otherwise pander to what it calls the "Muslim world." But the question has begun to occur: At what point do these efforts cross the line from a misbegotten policy to one that is downright anti-American – hostile to our values, incompatible with our vital interests and at odds with our Constitution?
The evidence is rapidly accumulating that we have reached that point. Our representatives in Congress must have the courage to re-discover a lost vocabulary, one that is conscious of the fact that subversion of our counter-terror institutions—[and, indeed, our very understanding of the threat we face]—is a goal of our enemy in the War on Terror. The danger entailed cries out for congressional oversight, and corrective action.
What is needed is a new select committee modeled after the much-vilified, but ultimately vindicated, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). (This vindication is comprehensively documented in Yale University Press' groundbreaking Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, and expanded in M. Stanton Evans' 2009 Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies. Members of Congress and their staff can only benefit from reading these studies to have a better understanding of the history of their own institution.) Such a panel needs a mandate to investigate in particular the extent to which the Obama administration’s anti-American activities reflect the success of the toxic Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan) in penetrating and subverting both U.S. government agencies and civil institutions.
Consider a few examples of what appear to be such successes:
On June 30, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that the Obama administration will "welcome...dialogue with those Muslim Brotherhood members who wish to talk with us."
As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has observed, Eric Holder's Justice Department appears to have basically stopped prosecuting alleged material support for terrorism. That was certainly the practical effect when it blocked prosecutors from bringing charges against Muslim Brotherhood fronts listed as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation money-laundering case.
Such dereliction of duty would seem to be the practical upshot of President Obama's much-ballyhooed "Muslim outreach" speech in Cairo in the Spring of 2009 when he pledged to eliminate impediments to zakat. Mr. McCarthy has noted that the only impediment to such Islamic tithing is the prohibition against the sort of material support to terror that is commanded by the Islamic political-military-legal doctrine known as shariah – which requires 1/8th of zakat to underwrite jihad.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported on 8 July that prosecutors in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia have asked a federal judge to reduce the twenty-three-year sentence of convicted terrorist and al Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi. Before he was arrested for plotting with Libyan dictator the assassination of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Alamoudi was one of America's top Muslim Brotherhood operatives.
In that capacity, this self-professed "supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah" helped found and operate dozens of MB front organizations. One of these, dubbed the Islamic Free Market Institute, had the mission of influencing and suborning the conservative movement. During the Clinton administration, Alamoudi was given the responsibility for selecting, training and credentialing chaplains for the U.S. military and prison system. (Not to worry about the obvious peril associated with such an arrangement: After his arrest, Alamoudi’s responsibilities were transferred to the nation’s largest Muslim Brotherhood front, the Islamic Society of North America.)
It is not clear at this writing what the justification for reducing this al Qaeda financier's sentence might be, or to what extent his prison time will be reduced. We should all be concerned though that such an individual might be turned loose in our country. Even more worrisome are reports that the Muslim Brotherhood is making a concerted effort to get the rest of their operatives and allies out of U.S. prisons, as well.
Then, there is Hillary Clinton's announcement in Istanbul last week that the United States would find common ground with the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on a resolution that the OIC has been pushing for years aimed at curbing free speech that "offends" Muslims. The United States has already co-sponsored one somewhat watered-down version of this initiative at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The Islamists who see the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference as a kind of new caliphate uniting and advancing the interests of all Muslims (the ummah) will not be satisfied, however, with anything less than the realization of their ultimate objective: an international directive to all United Nations member states to prohibit and criminalize expression that is deemed offensive by the MB, OIC or other shariah-adherent parties.
To "bridge" the gap between the OIC agenda and our constitutional freedoms, the OIC is pressuring Secretary Clinton to agree that we join Europe in considering the "test of consequences," not just the content of speech. That way lies censorship and submission.
The Pentagon recently gave conscientious objector status to a Muslim soldier who claimed that, according to shariah, it was impermissible for him to kill his co-religionists in places like Afghanistan. No one has explained how the Pentagon proposes to square its acquiescence to that stance with the oath every serviceman and woman takes to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
For that matter, it is hard to see how Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Holder and, indeed, their boss, President Obama, can deem actions like the foregoing as consistent with their oaths of office. At best, they are acquiescing to far-reaching concessions to the Muslim Brotherhood and its ilk. At worse, they are enabling the MB’s efforts to destroy the West from within.
So pervasive now is the MB's "civilization jihad" within the U.S. government and civil institutions that a serious, sustained and rigorous investigation of the phenomenon by the legislative branch is in order. To that end, we need to establish a new and improved counterpart to the Cold War-era's HUAC and charge it with examining and rooting out anti-American – and anti-constitutional – activities that constitute an even more insidious peril than those pursued by communist Fifth Columnists fifty years ago. Critics of a new select committee with such a mandate have an obligation to propose another approach to address this manifestly growing problem.
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is President of the Center for Security Policy, a columnist for the Washington Times and host of the nationally syndicated program, Secure Freedom Radio.
Hezbollah Training Drug cartels on the U.S. Border
I received an email from ACT! for America alerting me to the fact that Mexican drug cartels are now working with and receiving training from Hezbollah! Typical of our politically correct DHS to deny reality and shirk their responsibility to protect us.
Cartels are now using car bombs and IEDs rather than their traditional tactic of guns and knives. Where would they have learned these tactics? We knew the cartels were deadly. Now they're becoming more deadly with terrorist tactical training. And the threat is right on our southern border.
The cartels get expertice in smuggling and weapons, as well as cheap cocaine and heroin from Afghanistan. Hezbollah gets the proximity of the lawlessness of Mexico right next to the porous U.S./Mexican border, as well as a base to attack the U.S.
Here is the text of the email with a link to the Fox News report:
For years, ACT! for America president Brigitte Gabriel has been warning Americans about terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah partnering with Mexican drug cartels.
Rep. Sue Myrick, recipient of our top legislative award the past two years for her courageous efforts to protect our national security from radical Islam, has relentlessly pursued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on this matter.
DHS’s response has been “we see no evidence of Hezbollah partnering with drug cartels in Mexico.”
Astonishing.
Check out this short news story, just the latest on the growing threat Hezbollah poses to the United States.
Cartels are now using car bombs and IEDs rather than their traditional tactic of guns and knives. Where would they have learned these tactics? We knew the cartels were deadly. Now they're becoming more deadly with terrorist tactical training. And the threat is right on our southern border.
The cartels get expertice in smuggling and weapons, as well as cheap cocaine and heroin from Afghanistan. Hezbollah gets the proximity of the lawlessness of Mexico right next to the porous U.S./Mexican border, as well as a base to attack the U.S.
Here is the text of the email with a link to the Fox News report:
For years, ACT! for America president Brigitte Gabriel has been warning Americans about terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah partnering with Mexican drug cartels.
Rep. Sue Myrick, recipient of our top legislative award the past two years for her courageous efforts to protect our national security from radical Islam, has relentlessly pursued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on this matter.
DHS’s response has been “we see no evidence of Hezbollah partnering with drug cartels in Mexico.”
Astonishing.
Check out this short news story, just the latest on the growing threat Hezbollah poses to the United States.
DHS Reports on Jihadis and White Guys
The Patriot Post
Digest · July 22, 2011
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The Department of Homeland Security issued a new intelligence report Tuesday, titled "Insider Threat to Utilities," outlining the possibility of terrorist attacks in the form of internal sabotage at a major utility facility. We know that al-Qa'ida is aiming to hit the U.S. again on the coming tenth anniversary of 9/11, and an attack on our infrastructure is high on their list. According to DHS, "violent extremists have, in fact, obtained insider positions," and "outsiders have attempted to solicit utility-sector employees" to carry out damaging physical and cyber attacks.
Furthermore, the DHS report says, "Based on the reliable reporting of previous incidents, we have high confidence in our judgment that insiders and their actions pose a significant threat to the infrastructure and information systems of U.S. facilities. Past events and reporting also provide high confidence in our judgment that insider information on sites, infrastructure, networks, and personnel is valuable to our adversaries and may increase the impact of any attack on the utilities infrastructure."
DHS officials may be aware of this threat and working to thwart it, but they are also appallingly politically correct. A recent training video depicts suspected terrorists as average, middle-aged white men. In fact, as the narrator makes clear, ethnicity, age and religion should play no role in judging acts of terrorism. DHS already vilified conservatives in 2009 with its report, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment." So which is it? Is DHS battling Islamist jihadis or merely smearing "rightwing" Americans?
Digest · July 22, 2011
National Security
The Patriot Post (www.patriotpost.us/subscribe/)
The Department of Homeland Security issued a new intelligence report Tuesday, titled "Insider Threat to Utilities," outlining the possibility of terrorist attacks in the form of internal sabotage at a major utility facility. We know that al-Qa'ida is aiming to hit the U.S. again on the coming tenth anniversary of 9/11, and an attack on our infrastructure is high on their list. According to DHS, "violent extremists have, in fact, obtained insider positions," and "outsiders have attempted to solicit utility-sector employees" to carry out damaging physical and cyber attacks.
Furthermore, the DHS report says, "Based on the reliable reporting of previous incidents, we have high confidence in our judgment that insiders and their actions pose a significant threat to the infrastructure and information systems of U.S. facilities. Past events and reporting also provide high confidence in our judgment that insider information on sites, infrastructure, networks, and personnel is valuable to our adversaries and may increase the impact of any attack on the utilities infrastructure."
DHS officials may be aware of this threat and working to thwart it, but they are also appallingly politically correct. A recent training video depicts suspected terrorists as average, middle-aged white men. In fact, as the narrator makes clear, ethnicity, age and religion should play no role in judging acts of terrorism. DHS already vilified conservatives in 2009 with its report, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment." So which is it? Is DHS battling Islamist jihadis or merely smearing "rightwing" Americans?
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Hasan to Face Military Trial, Death Penalty
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Digest · July 8, 2011
U.S Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Muslim psychiatrist charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas -- the worst in history at a military installation -- is to be tried in a military court. If convicted, he faces the death penalty. As Hasan opened fire on his fellow soldiers, all of whom were unarmed, he shouted "Allahu Akbar!" which is Arabic for "god is great." Hasan was shot and paralyzed from the waist down by a civilian police officer, but not before killing 13, one of whom was carrying an unborn child.
From the start, the Obama administration and the mainstream media have downplayed his Muslim religion. Indeed, it took the Associated Press until the twelfth and final paragraph of its most recent dispatch to mention it. Had this same political correctness not infiltrated the military to the point that Hasan's superiors ignored his many behavioral warnings, 14 more people would be alive today.
National Security
Digest · July 8, 2011
U.S Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Muslim psychiatrist charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas -- the worst in history at a military installation -- is to be tried in a military court. If convicted, he faces the death penalty. As Hasan opened fire on his fellow soldiers, all of whom were unarmed, he shouted "Allahu Akbar!" which is Arabic for "god is great." Hasan was shot and paralyzed from the waist down by a civilian police officer, but not before killing 13, one of whom was carrying an unborn child.
From the start, the Obama administration and the mainstream media have downplayed his Muslim religion. Indeed, it took the Associated Press until the twelfth and final paragraph of its most recent dispatch to mention it. Had this same political correctness not infiltrated the military to the point that Hasan's superiors ignored his many behavioral warnings, 14 more people would be alive today.
Warfront With Jihadistan: Elevating the Muslim Brotherhood
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Warfront With Jihadistan: Elevating the Muslim Brotherhood
We thought it was impossible for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to top her previous statement calling Syria's Bashar al-Assad a "reformer," but one just shouldn't underestimate the Clintons. Late last week, as most Americans had their attention focused on the upcoming Independence Day holiday, Clinton let loose this howler: "We believe ... that it is in the interests of the United States to engage with all parties that are peaceful and committed to nonviolence, that intend to compete for the [Egyptian] parliament and the presidency. And we welcome, therefore, dialogue with those Muslim Brotherhood members who wish to talk with us." It's bad enough that the usual assortment of useful idiots on the Left advise dealing with the Brotherhood as just another political party. But for the Obama administration to legitimize a terrorist organization in this way is both foolish and dangerous.
There is no way to square the words "parties that are peaceful and committed to nonviolence" with the Muslim Brotherhood's own stated goal of destroying Western civilization and imposing Sharia law at gun point. We should no more be talking to them about Egypt's political future than we should talk to the Revolutionary Guard Corps about Iran's future. The only future the Brotherhood sees for Egypt is the Saudi style of government, but with even less religious tolerance and respect for democratic principles, if that's possible. Steering Egypt toward some kind of modern, democratic government was going to be hard enough. Now Obama and Clinton have invited the sworn enemies of those values into the process.
Digest · July 8, 2011
National Security
Warfront With Jihadistan: Elevating the Muslim Brotherhood
We thought it was impossible for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to top her previous statement calling Syria's Bashar al-Assad a "reformer," but one just shouldn't underestimate the Clintons. Late last week, as most Americans had their attention focused on the upcoming Independence Day holiday, Clinton let loose this howler: "We believe ... that it is in the interests of the United States to engage with all parties that are peaceful and committed to nonviolence, that intend to compete for the [Egyptian] parliament and the presidency. And we welcome, therefore, dialogue with those Muslim Brotherhood members who wish to talk with us." It's bad enough that the usual assortment of useful idiots on the Left advise dealing with the Brotherhood as just another political party. But for the Obama administration to legitimize a terrorist organization in this way is both foolish and dangerous.
There is no way to square the words "parties that are peaceful and committed to nonviolence" with the Muslim Brotherhood's own stated goal of destroying Western civilization and imposing Sharia law at gun point. We should no more be talking to them about Egypt's political future than we should talk to the Revolutionary Guard Corps about Iran's future. The only future the Brotherhood sees for Egypt is the Saudi style of government, but with even less religious tolerance and respect for democratic principles, if that's possible. Steering Egypt toward some kind of modern, democratic government was going to be hard enough. Now Obama and Clinton have invited the sworn enemies of those values into the process.
A Growing Terror Threat: Hezbollah in Latin America
Hezbollah in Latin America? That fact couldn't possibly be a threat to us in the U.S. could it?
According to Katie Pavlich's article, "According to testimony given on Capitol Hill yesterday, Hezbollah, the most extensive terrorist organization in the world, is operating along the U.S.-Mexico border and has vast influence in Latin America."
'“Hezbollah makes Al Qaeda look like a minor league team,” Chairman of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.) said.'
"Hezbollah is the most prevalent terrorist organization in the world. The group operates in over 40 countries and on 5 continents, including operations in at least 15 U.S. cities and four major Canadian cities."
You have to ask, how can an organization that the U.S. State Department lists as a terrorist organization have operations in the U.S.? Do you feel safe knowing that Hezbollah is allowed to operate in the U.S.?
According to Katie Pavlich's article, "According to testimony given on Capitol Hill yesterday, Hezbollah, the most extensive terrorist organization in the world, is operating along the U.S.-Mexico border and has vast influence in Latin America."
'“Hezbollah makes Al Qaeda look like a minor league team,” Chairman of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.) said.'
"Hezbollah is the most prevalent terrorist organization in the world. The group operates in over 40 countries and on 5 continents, including operations in at least 15 U.S. cities and four major Canadian cities."
You have to ask, how can an organization that the U.S. State Department lists as a terrorist organization have operations in the U.S.? Do you feel safe knowing that Hezbollah is allowed to operate in the U.S.?
Beware of Dr. Jihad - "Those who cure you will kill you"
Michelle Malin's article, Beware of Dr. Jihad, is a reminder that the "Religion of Peace" will stoop to any level in order to kill infidels. Moozlum doctors are now implanting bombs inside jihadists.
Add to this the news from Thursday, June 30, 2011, that Olajide Noibe passed through TSA security last Friday with an expired boarding pass which wasn't even in his name, and an invalid passport, and traveled from New York to Los Angeles. The Virgin American flight crew realized they had an extra passenger in the air, but the man was allowed to disembarque the plane and was not arrested. The trick worked so well he tried it again on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, and was arrested by the FBI. When arrested, he had in his possession a stolen ID and boarding pass, and 10 other boarding passes with various names.
The grossly incompetent TSA can strip search 95 year old cancer patients, but can't stop a Nigerian national with an invalid passport an expired boarding pass from boarding a flight and traveling across the nation. You should trust them implicitly to prevent practitioners of "The Religion of Peace" from doing us harm.
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Digest · July 8, 2011
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TSA Nightmare Continues
The evidence of the incompetence of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) just keeps rolling in. The recent case of a 95-year-old cancer patient forced to remove her adult diaper by TSA employees is now well known, but this week's story tops that. Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi is a 24-year-old Nigerian immigrant who was recently allowed to board a plane and fly from New York City to Los Angeles using an expired boarding pass that didn't have his name on it. Noibi apparently got his free ride using a Virgin American boarding pass that a New York resident had lost. Even though the pass was for June 23, Noibi used it on June 24 and easily cleared the TSA's checkpoint at JFK. His screener was suspicious enough to call her supervisor, but the supervisor didn't notice that the boarding pass was not for Noibi, so he continued to the gate, where the Virgin Atlantic gate agent then cleared him to board.
During the trip, passengers complained that Noibi smelled bad, and airline officials finally figured out that he was sitting in an unsold seat and they alerted authorities from the air. Los Angeles police, TSA officials, and an FBI agent met Noibi when the plane landed but, incredibly, he was released without being charged. Noibi was eventually arrested a week later for trying the same scheme to board a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta. He had more than 10 boarding passes in various people's names.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration warned airlines that terrorists might try to surgically implant explosives into people to try to beat airport security measures. Who knows what the TSA will have passengers do to clear that hurdle, but the safe money says it won't be foreign nationals that receive increased scrutiny. Rather, it will be normal American people, including the elderly and children, who feel the invasive hands of the TSA.
Add to this the news from Thursday, June 30, 2011, that Olajide Noibe passed through TSA security last Friday with an expired boarding pass which wasn't even in his name, and an invalid passport, and traveled from New York to Los Angeles. The Virgin American flight crew realized they had an extra passenger in the air, but the man was allowed to disembarque the plane and was not arrested. The trick worked so well he tried it again on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, and was arrested by the FBI. When arrested, he had in his possession a stolen ID and boarding pass, and 10 other boarding passes with various names.
The grossly incompetent TSA can strip search 95 year old cancer patients, but can't stop a Nigerian national with an invalid passport an expired boarding pass from boarding a flight and traveling across the nation. You should trust them implicitly to prevent practitioners of "The Religion of Peace" from doing us harm.
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Digest · July 8, 2011
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TSA Nightmare Continues
The evidence of the incompetence of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) just keeps rolling in. The recent case of a 95-year-old cancer patient forced to remove her adult diaper by TSA employees is now well known, but this week's story tops that. Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi is a 24-year-old Nigerian immigrant who was recently allowed to board a plane and fly from New York City to Los Angeles using an expired boarding pass that didn't have his name on it. Noibi apparently got his free ride using a Virgin American boarding pass that a New York resident had lost. Even though the pass was for June 23, Noibi used it on June 24 and easily cleared the TSA's checkpoint at JFK. His screener was suspicious enough to call her supervisor, but the supervisor didn't notice that the boarding pass was not for Noibi, so he continued to the gate, where the Virgin Atlantic gate agent then cleared him to board.
During the trip, passengers complained that Noibi smelled bad, and airline officials finally figured out that he was sitting in an unsold seat and they alerted authorities from the air. Los Angeles police, TSA officials, and an FBI agent met Noibi when the plane landed but, incredibly, he was released without being charged. Noibi was eventually arrested a week later for trying the same scheme to board a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta. He had more than 10 boarding passes in various people's names.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration warned airlines that terrorists might try to surgically implant explosives into people to try to beat airport security measures. Who knows what the TSA will have passengers do to clear that hurdle, but the safe money says it won't be foreign nationals that receive increased scrutiny. Rather, it will be normal American people, including the elderly and children, who feel the invasive hands of the TSA.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
#186 of 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy
Start a rumor:
Following the Fort Hood tragedy, the U.S. military decided to extend its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy to Islamist extremists so that never again will they be harassed or embarrassed as poor Major Nidal Malik Hasan was with awkward, unfair, provocative questions like, "Sir, are you sure it's right that a U.S. army officer should be posting on a Jihadist website?" and "Sir, why are you a pointing that gun at me and shouting Allahu Akbar?"
Following the Fort Hood tragedy, the U.S. military decided to extend its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy to Islamist extremists so that never again will they be harassed or embarrassed as poor Major Nidal Malik Hasan was with awkward, unfair, provocative questions like, "Sir, are you sure it's right that a U.S. army officer should be posting on a Jihadist website?" and "Sir, why are you a pointing that gun at me and shouting Allahu Akbar?"
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Christian Persecuction
Our Priest at today's Mass reminded us to not view going to church or any part of our Christian life as a burden. He reminded us of all the people in the world today who cannot worship freely. He told us of a Jordanian seminarian who told him that his friend's brother was on a bus in Jordan that was borded by two men with guns, who wanted to know who on the bus was a Christian. When the man's brother stood up, he was shot and killed. The Priest related that there are entire Christian villages in Afghanistan that are wiped out by non-Christians. The Priest related that in China, there are two churches, the state sponsored church and the Catholic church. Recently the Catholic church was not allowed to ordain a new Bishop, and the communist government forced the church to ordain one of their people. The thing the Jews most desired in the time of Jesus was the freedom to worship under Roman oppression. Today, all over the world, Christians are still persecuted and forced to worship Jesus and God in hiding. Today in our global community, a Christian is killed by a non-christian every 5 minutes.
As we celebrate our nation's birthday this weekend, be thankful for our religious freedom, and give thanks to God.
As we celebrate our nation's birthday this weekend, be thankful for our religious freedom, and give thanks to God.
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