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Joan Swirsky's Memorial Day release chronicles the shocking history of one of our bravest and finest warriors, who has been deliberately scapegoated for the purpose of catering to the howling far left anti-war hyenas. On this day, and in the days to follow, you will want to send this exposé of inexcusable abuse of our military justice system to your contact lists. 1st Lt. Michael Behenna's story must be known, so that this travesty of justice can be reversed. Thanks to our "Joan of America," a grotesque wrong can be made right. It is up to We, The People to make our voices heard. We can not tolerate abuse of our courageous military, for the sake of appeasing a minority of "blame America first" far left liberal ideologues.
Something Terrible Has Happened To Michael
Joan Swirsky, Canada Free Press.com
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/11336
Imagine that you’ve learned in your local newspaper and on TV that a serial murderer is stalking and killing people in your community. Anxious and concerned for the safety of your family, you buy a gun.
Then your worst nightmare happens. Lying in bed and drifting off to sleep, you hear a loud sound downstairs – the unmistakable explosion of your front door being battered down and the menacing footsteps of an intruder climbing the stairs to your bedroom. You cock your already-loaded gun, and when the thug lunges at you, you shoot.
Now dead, he is positively identified as the man who murdered the other people in your town… and you are hailed as a hero.
You don’t consider yourself a hero at all, but simply a regular citizen protecting his family. When polls are taken about what you did, 90 percent of people say they would have done the same thing, six percent say they would have “reasoned” with the intruder, and another four-percent said, “I don’t know.”
THEORY VS REALITY
The contempt liberals and leftists have for physical self-defense is wedded to their rigid obeisance to non-violence. Last December, when my next-door-neighbor’s 48-year-daughter and mother of three was gunned down in her own home in Missouri by two teenagers, her Leftist parents thought the solution to this kind of violence was gun control. When I told them that I wished their daughter had had a gun and “blown those thugs away,” they said – in defense of their indefensible position – that “she couldn’t have gotten a gun out fast enough.” Huh?
But theory has no place in the real world of American soldiers who have volunteered to protect and defend our country and are faced not with neighborhood thugs but with Al Qaeda terrorists who have told the entire world that their Number One mission is to kill all the “infidels” – particularly Americans – who disagree with their Islamist agenda of establishing a Muslim-driven Caliphate of Islamic “law” in the Western world.
We saw this in all-too vivid action when 19 Saudi Arabian jihadists murdered nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, in the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City. We saw this when we witnessed our enemies dancing in the streets as New Yorkers were burned alive or leapt to their ghastly deaths from the highest floors. We saw this as the stalwart defenders of American freedom were annihilated in the Pentagon, and as hundreds of innocent airline travelers plunged to the ground in Pennsylvania.
And we applauded the heroism of the men and women who immediately enlisted to fight this threat to our country, and continue to do so today.
One of those volunteers was Michael Behenna, who heard the call in 2006 while attending the University of Central Oklahoma. From a prominent family of public servants – his mother Vicki is an Assistant United States Attorney and his father Scott a retired Special Agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation – Michael arrived in Iraq in 2007 and quickly rose to the rank of First Lieutenant.
TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE
But there are rare instances in which a member of our military is punished for doing what he was trained to do – subdue or, if necessary, kill the enemy. This is what happened.
In May 2008, a known member of an al Qaeda cell, Ali Mansur, was suspected of having organized an attack on the young Army Ranger’s platoon, which killed two U.S. soldiers and injured two more under Lt. Behenna’s command. For some unfathomable reason, Army intelligence ordered that Mansur be released and ordered Lt. Behenna, who was then 24, to escort the terrorist to his home.
On the way, Behenna questioned Mansur in an effort to learn additional information about other members of the terrorist cell, as well as who was financing it. During the interrogation, Mansur attacked Lt. Behenna, who killed the terrorist in self-defense.
But instead of expressing relief that one of their own had survived the attack, the government cast Mansur as the “victim” and prosecuted Lt. Behenna for premeditated murder! The following timeline was taken, in part, from the website that has been established in support of Lt. Behenna – Defendmichael.com – and confirmed by his mother, Vicki.
On February 23, 2009, Behenna went on trial. During the trial:
The government argued that Behenna executed Mansur while he was sitting on a rock, while Behenna said that he shot in self defense after Mansur stood up and tried to reach for the Lieutenant’s gun during the interrogation.
A government expert, an Iraqi doctor who performed the autopsy, said that the bullets had a horizontal trajectory, suggesting a direct confrontation and not a scenario in which a defenseless Mansur sat helplessly on a rock while a standing Behenna shot him at a downward angle. In fact, both government and defense experts agreed on the trajectory of the bullets that killed Mansur.
In short order, the prosecution decided not to call to the stand another government expert, Dr. Herbert MacDonnell, but instead sent him home. But not before Dr. MacDonell told Behenna’s defense attorney that he would have been a good witness for the defense.
While Dr. MacDonnell was picking up his coat in the prosecution room on his way out of the courthouse, he told the three prosecutors: “The explanation that Lt Behenna just testified to was the exact same scenario I told you yesterday. Lt Behenna is telling the truth.”
Referring to Dr. MacDonnell’s statement that he would have been a good witness, the defense counsel, Jack Zimmermann, asked the prosecutors if they had any exculpatory evidence that should be provided to the defense. (This is evidence favorable to the defendant in a criminal trial, which clears or tends to clear the defendant of guilt.) But the prosecutors denied having any such evidence despite having been told by their own expert witness that Lt Behenna’s explanation was the only logical explanation of the events that had transpired.
Because this evidence was withheld, the prosecutors were able to argue that Lt. Behenna executed Ali Mansur while the “victim” was seated on a rock – in spite of the testimony of forensic experts, including Dr. MacDonnell, who agreed that Mansur was standing with his arms outstretched when he was shot.
On February 27, 2009, Lt. Behenna was convicted of unpremeditated murder and assault by a military panel of seven officers – none of whom were combat arms.
Following the trial, Dr. MacDonnell contacted the prosecutors again, asking that the information he provided them be given to the defense.
After Dr. MacDonnell’s e-mail was provided to the defense counsel, Mr. Zimmermann moved for a mistrial.
Judge Theodore E. Dixon promptly ordered both sides in the case to file briefs relating to a possible mistrial, and, after reading the briefs, set a date for an additional hearing and ordered additional briefs, including one from the defense requesting a new trial.
But on March 20, Judge Dixon denied the defense motions to declare a mistrial and to order a new trial and sentenced Lt. Behenna to serve 25 years in Leavenworth penitentiary.
Lt. Behenna’s attorneys are appealing the verdict. It is Vicki Behenna’s understanding that the General of the 101st Airborne will review Michael’s case in the next several weeks, in which case he can set aside the findings of guilt, order a new trial, or reduce Michael’s sentence. After the General’s decision, Michael’s case will be docketed in the appellate court, a process that can take from one-to-three years for the appeal to be heard.
HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?
There are those who believe that Michael was “sacrificed” for political reasons. Is it possible that the motive for failing to provide the exculpatory information had anything to do with our military’s desire to be able to tell the Iraqi government that they had convicted an officer, the better to actualize some kind of quid pro quo arrangement or smooth over some ruffled feathers?
In my opinion, it’s a miscarriage of justice for a soldier who is fighting for the Constitutional rights we hold dear – the right to due process and a fair trial – to be denied those rights in his own trial! And what about the demoralization this causes other U.S. troops, who continue to fight on behalf of the freedom and security of our nation? Whether they are U.S. border patrol agents, members of the armed forces, or FBI agents, no individual who is serving on the frontlines in the War on Terror should be afforded anything less than a fair trial.
The Behennas and their many supporters have mobilized to help Michael and they urge everyone to contact his or her elected official to make sure that justice is done. And because the government has limitless resources but they don’t, they’ve established a Legal Defense Fund to help their efforts.
1LT Michael Behenna Legal Defense Fund
c/o Jack Dawson, co-trustee
100 Park Avenue, Second Floor
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102-8099
Rachel Lawrence Mor, co-trustee
3037 N.W. 63rd Street, Suite 251
Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73116
Please read Legal Disclosure before donating.
They’ve also promised to send a Defend Michael Wristband
Monday, May 25, 2009
CHENEY’S SPEECH — THE TOP 10 LINES
Dick Cheney is unbowed and unapologetic for the actions taken by the Bush Administration. At least someone these days has moral and political clarity to see our enemies for who they are.
CHENEY’S SPEECH — THE TOP 10 LINES
Former Vice President Dick Cheney spoke Thursday on national security at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank. Here are the top ten lines in the speech, as compiled by the editors of FOX Nation:
No. 10: The administration has found that it’s easy to receive applause in Europe for closing Guantanamo . But it’s tricky to come up with an alternative that will serve the interests of justice and America ’s national security.
No. 9: In the category of euphemism, the prizewinning entry would be a recent editorial in a familiar newspaper that referred to terrorists we’ve captured as, quote, “abducted.” Here we have ruthless enemies of this country, stopped in their tracks by brave operatives in the service of America , and a major editorial page makes them sound like they were kidnap victims, picked up at random on their way to the movies.
No. 8: If fine speech-making, appeals to reason, or pleas for compassion had the power to move them, the terrorists would long ago have abandoned the field. And when they see the American government caught up in arguments about interrogations, or whether foreign terrorists have constitutional rights, they don’t stand back in awe of our legal system and wonder whether they had misjudged us all along. Instead the terrorists see just what they were hoping for – our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity.
No. 7: Yet having reserved for himself the authority to order enhanced interrogation after an emergency, you would think that President Obama would be less disdainful of what his predecessor authorized after 9/11. It’s almost gone unnoticed that the president has retained the power to order the same methods in the same circumstances. When they talk about interrogations, he and his administration speak as if they have resolved some great moral dilemma in how to extract critical information from terrorists. Instead they have put the decision off, while assigning a presumption of moral superiority to any decision they make in the future.
No. 6: To completely rule out enhanced interrogation methods in the future is unwise in the extreme. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness, and would make the American people less safe.
No. 5: This recruitment-tool theory has become something of a mantra lately, including from the President himself. And after a familiar fashion, it excuses the violent and blames America for the evil that others do. It’s another version of that same old refrain from the Left, “We brought it on ourselves.” It is much closer to the truth that terrorists hate this country precisely because of the values we profess and seek to live by, not by some alleged failure to do so. Nor are terrorists or those who see them as victims exactly the best judges of America ’s moral standards, one way or the other.
No. 4: Intelligence officers of the United States were not trying to rough up some terrorists simply to avenge the dead of 9/11. We know the difference in this country between justice and vengeance.
No. 3: To the very end of our administration, we kept al-Qaeda terrorists busy with other problems. We focused on getting their secrets, instead of sharing ours with them. And on our watch, they never hit this country again. After the most lethal and devastating terrorist attack ever, seven and a half years without a repeat is not a record to be rebuked and scorned, much less criminalized. It is a record to be continued until the danger has passed.
No. 2: In the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground, and half-measures keep you half exposed. You cannot keep just some nuclear-armed terrorists out of the United States , you must keep every nuclear-armed terrorist out of the United States . Triangulation is a political strategy, not a national security strategy.
No. 1: Critics of our policies are given to lecturing on the theme of being consistent with American values. But no moral value held dear by the American people obliges public servants to sacrifice innocent lives to spare a captured terrorist from unpleasant things. And when an entire population is targeted by a terror network, nothing is more consistent with American values than to stop them.
CHENEY’S SPEECH — THE TOP 10 LINES
Former Vice President Dick Cheney spoke Thursday on national security at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank. Here are the top ten lines in the speech, as compiled by the editors of FOX Nation:
No. 10: The administration has found that it’s easy to receive applause in Europe for closing Guantanamo . But it’s tricky to come up with an alternative that will serve the interests of justice and America ’s national security.
No. 9: In the category of euphemism, the prizewinning entry would be a recent editorial in a familiar newspaper that referred to terrorists we’ve captured as, quote, “abducted.” Here we have ruthless enemies of this country, stopped in their tracks by brave operatives in the service of America , and a major editorial page makes them sound like they were kidnap victims, picked up at random on their way to the movies.
No. 8: If fine speech-making, appeals to reason, or pleas for compassion had the power to move them, the terrorists would long ago have abandoned the field. And when they see the American government caught up in arguments about interrogations, or whether foreign terrorists have constitutional rights, they don’t stand back in awe of our legal system and wonder whether they had misjudged us all along. Instead the terrorists see just what they were hoping for – our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity.
No. 7: Yet having reserved for himself the authority to order enhanced interrogation after an emergency, you would think that President Obama would be less disdainful of what his predecessor authorized after 9/11. It’s almost gone unnoticed that the president has retained the power to order the same methods in the same circumstances. When they talk about interrogations, he and his administration speak as if they have resolved some great moral dilemma in how to extract critical information from terrorists. Instead they have put the decision off, while assigning a presumption of moral superiority to any decision they make in the future.
No. 6: To completely rule out enhanced interrogation methods in the future is unwise in the extreme. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness, and would make the American people less safe.
No. 5: This recruitment-tool theory has become something of a mantra lately, including from the President himself. And after a familiar fashion, it excuses the violent and blames America for the evil that others do. It’s another version of that same old refrain from the Left, “We brought it on ourselves.” It is much closer to the truth that terrorists hate this country precisely because of the values we profess and seek to live by, not by some alleged failure to do so. Nor are terrorists or those who see them as victims exactly the best judges of America ’s moral standards, one way or the other.
No. 4: Intelligence officers of the United States were not trying to rough up some terrorists simply to avenge the dead of 9/11. We know the difference in this country between justice and vengeance.
No. 3: To the very end of our administration, we kept al-Qaeda terrorists busy with other problems. We focused on getting their secrets, instead of sharing ours with them. And on our watch, they never hit this country again. After the most lethal and devastating terrorist attack ever, seven and a half years without a repeat is not a record to be rebuked and scorned, much less criminalized. It is a record to be continued until the danger has passed.
No. 2: In the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground, and half-measures keep you half exposed. You cannot keep just some nuclear-armed terrorists out of the United States , you must keep every nuclear-armed terrorist out of the United States . Triangulation is a political strategy, not a national security strategy.
No. 1: Critics of our policies are given to lecturing on the theme of being consistent with American values. But no moral value held dear by the American people obliges public servants to sacrifice innocent lives to spare a captured terrorist from unpleasant things. And when an entire population is targeted by a terror network, nothing is more consistent with American values than to stop them.
Conservative Values - Plain and Simple
These simple, powerful words (check Citizens for Limited Taxation) say exactly what conservatives think and believe. They must be spoken over and over in private and public conversations to the many who just don't understand these values. Our schools, media and socialist "leaders" are largely to blame for poisoning the minds of two generations of whining, ungrateful citizens who now only "know" that somebody else is responsible for troubles in their lives which "government" needs to fix.
Delivered at the Lubbock, Texas, TEA Party
by Dr. Donald May, Tax Day, 15 April 2009
AT THE TEA PARTY, a black man, Dr. Donald May delivered this message from the courthouse steps in Lubbock . He electrified the audience like I haven't seen in a long time. His delivery was masterful. I am sorry you could not see him in action. Anyway, I thought you might enjoy his words. The news media were there, but not one word of this man's appearance ever appeared on TV or in print, even though he completely dominated the scene. - Ralph McLaughlin
This is A Time For Courage April 15, 2009 - 11:49 pm
"Ladies and gentlemen, This is a time for courage. "We are gathered here today on the Plains of West Texas in common purpose. We are here to remind our government that this is our country, We the People are still in charge, and our government is still our servant and not our master. "Our Nation's founding document is The Declaration of Independence. It tells us that our rights come from God and not from a small group of elite men and women. "Our Constitution starts with the words "We the People." Our Constitution was written for ordinary Americans like you and me. Our Constitution protects us from our government and from the politicians. "Our President has complained that our Constitution gives ordinary people too much protection. He has ridiculed us for the high value we place on our Bibles, our guns, our personal property, and our liberty. He tells us we do not deserve to keep the money we have earned. We are told freedom has not worked. Personal responsibility, free enterprise, and Liberty have not been effective. Our government will now make more of our decisions for us.
Other than our military, I can think of not one government agency I have ever found to be helpful. "And speaking of our military, how about those Navy Seals blowing the heads off those three terrorist pirates? Don't you just wish our entire government would function with such efficiency, professionalism, and courage? We watch in disbelief as our beloved United States is weakened economically, militarily, and morally by a radical President and his eager accomplices. What has taken generations to build is systematically destroyed and replaced with the same Socialist evil that brought poverty, destruction, and despair to untold hundreds of millions. "The problems we face today have occurred because we have not defended our Nation from Socialism. For too long we have allowed the wrong people to make the worst possible decisions.
The Bible warns us of class hatred. The radical leadership of our government daily fans the evil flames of class envy. Our European and Canadian friends beg us to not make the same Socialist mistakes they did. The President of the European Union warned our President that his Socialist economic plans are taking the world down the 'Road to Hell'. "The path to power for Socialists includes taking God and guns from the citizens. Without spiritual and physical protection, people cannot defend themselves and their liberty. They soon become slaves. We are angered that our President apologizes for the exceptionalism and heroism of the United States of America . We are deeply troubled he told others the United States is not a Christian nation. We are angered that we have been called cowards and racists because we oppose Socialism. Socialism is not racial. Socialism is an equal opportunity destroyer.
We are angered that a recent Department of Homeland Security report has singled out our military men and women who are returning home as being radical threats. The report also characterizes you and me as right-wing extremists and radicals because we favor smaller government and lower taxes. "You and I are average citizens who believe just like most of our fellow Americans. We want our government to leave us alone and to keep it's hands off our money, our religion, our guns, our private property, and our lives.
We demand that our government stop spending money it does not have. "Stop confiscating our money and private property. "Stop printing money. "Stop subsidizing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the other failed financial institutions and companies. "Mr. President, stop appointing tax cheats to positions of power and influence. "Mr. President, secure our borders. "Mr. President, do not divert money from our missile defense, F-22 Raptors, and other vital military equipment. This gives encouragement, aid, and comfort to our enemies. Protecting us is your number one job. "Mr. President, do not give voting rights to millions of illegal aliens and felons. You have no more right to create new voters for your benefit than you do to use our money to buy the 2010 and 2012 Elections.
"We gather peacefully here today because there is a growing concern for what our government is doing to us and to our future. We fear for the very survival of our Republic. Yet there is much to make us hopeful and to fill our hearts with optimism and courage. This is still our country! The Constitution of the Unites States belongs to We the People. Our Constitution still protects us from our government. "Call every possible elected official, including our President, Vice President, and the Speaker of the House. Demand that they stop stealing our money and giving it to ACORN and their other political supporters in order to buy votes.
Call Senators Cornyn and Hutchison, and (your) Representative. Thank them. Urge them to do much more. Remind them now is a time for action and not for campaigning. "Volunteer to work on our 2010 Census. Confront ACORN. Keep our Census honest. We must not allow our President to take control of our Census for his political advantage. "We must replace as much of our far left Congress as possible in 2010. Get involved. Do not let ACORN control our 2010 Election. "Talk with someone every day who does not understand our nation's history and our great heritage. Tell them why the United States is a good and prosperous nation. It still remains that brightly lit city on the hill. It still is the best hope for all mankind.
"Talk with all of the young people you can find. They are our future. Many do not understand what they have and that their future is being destroyed. "Encourage your elected State officials to pass legislation that will protect us from our Federal government. Governor Rick Perry and others are doing that right now for Texas . Thank them and pray for them. "This is a time for strong peaceful action. Let us pray that 'We the People' can quickly return our government to it's Constitutional responsibilities.
Our President and Congress were elected to be our servants and not our masters. "May God help our President and Congress to quickly realize the error of their ways and stop their reckless and unwarranted spending, cut our taxes, and reduce the size of our Federal bureaucracy. If they do not, may God grant us the courage and determination to vote them out of power next year. "May God richly bless and protect each of you, and our Constitution, as together we pursue Liberty!"
Delivered at the Lubbock, Texas, TEA Party
by Dr. Donald May, Tax Day, 15 April 2009
AT THE TEA PARTY, a black man, Dr. Donald May delivered this message from the courthouse steps in Lubbock . He electrified the audience like I haven't seen in a long time. His delivery was masterful. I am sorry you could not see him in action. Anyway, I thought you might enjoy his words. The news media were there, but not one word of this man's appearance ever appeared on TV or in print, even though he completely dominated the scene. - Ralph McLaughlin
This is A Time For Courage April 15, 2009 - 11:49 pm
"Ladies and gentlemen, This is a time for courage. "We are gathered here today on the Plains of West Texas in common purpose. We are here to remind our government that this is our country, We the People are still in charge, and our government is still our servant and not our master. "Our Nation's founding document is The Declaration of Independence. It tells us that our rights come from God and not from a small group of elite men and women. "Our Constitution starts with the words "We the People." Our Constitution was written for ordinary Americans like you and me. Our Constitution protects us from our government and from the politicians. "Our President has complained that our Constitution gives ordinary people too much protection. He has ridiculed us for the high value we place on our Bibles, our guns, our personal property, and our liberty. He tells us we do not deserve to keep the money we have earned. We are told freedom has not worked. Personal responsibility, free enterprise, and Liberty have not been effective. Our government will now make more of our decisions for us.
Other than our military, I can think of not one government agency I have ever found to be helpful. "And speaking of our military, how about those Navy Seals blowing the heads off those three terrorist pirates? Don't you just wish our entire government would function with such efficiency, professionalism, and courage? We watch in disbelief as our beloved United States is weakened economically, militarily, and morally by a radical President and his eager accomplices. What has taken generations to build is systematically destroyed and replaced with the same Socialist evil that brought poverty, destruction, and despair to untold hundreds of millions. "The problems we face today have occurred because we have not defended our Nation from Socialism. For too long we have allowed the wrong people to make the worst possible decisions.
The Bible warns us of class hatred. The radical leadership of our government daily fans the evil flames of class envy. Our European and Canadian friends beg us to not make the same Socialist mistakes they did. The President of the European Union warned our President that his Socialist economic plans are taking the world down the 'Road to Hell'. "The path to power for Socialists includes taking God and guns from the citizens. Without spiritual and physical protection, people cannot defend themselves and their liberty. They soon become slaves. We are angered that our President apologizes for the exceptionalism and heroism of the United States of America . We are deeply troubled he told others the United States is not a Christian nation. We are angered that we have been called cowards and racists because we oppose Socialism. Socialism is not racial. Socialism is an equal opportunity destroyer.
We are angered that a recent Department of Homeland Security report has singled out our military men and women who are returning home as being radical threats. The report also characterizes you and me as right-wing extremists and radicals because we favor smaller government and lower taxes. "You and I are average citizens who believe just like most of our fellow Americans. We want our government to leave us alone and to keep it's hands off our money, our religion, our guns, our private property, and our lives.
We demand that our government stop spending money it does not have. "Stop confiscating our money and private property. "Stop printing money. "Stop subsidizing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the other failed financial institutions and companies. "Mr. President, stop appointing tax cheats to positions of power and influence. "Mr. President, secure our borders. "Mr. President, do not divert money from our missile defense, F-22 Raptors, and other vital military equipment. This gives encouragement, aid, and comfort to our enemies. Protecting us is your number one job. "Mr. President, do not give voting rights to millions of illegal aliens and felons. You have no more right to create new voters for your benefit than you do to use our money to buy the 2010 and 2012 Elections.
"We gather peacefully here today because there is a growing concern for what our government is doing to us and to our future. We fear for the very survival of our Republic. Yet there is much to make us hopeful and to fill our hearts with optimism and courage. This is still our country! The Constitution of the Unites States belongs to We the People. Our Constitution still protects us from our government. "Call every possible elected official, including our President, Vice President, and the Speaker of the House. Demand that they stop stealing our money and giving it to ACORN and their other political supporters in order to buy votes.
Call Senators Cornyn and Hutchison, and (your) Representative. Thank them. Urge them to do much more. Remind them now is a time for action and not for campaigning. "Volunteer to work on our 2010 Census. Confront ACORN. Keep our Census honest. We must not allow our President to take control of our Census for his political advantage. "We must replace as much of our far left Congress as possible in 2010. Get involved. Do not let ACORN control our 2010 Election. "Talk with someone every day who does not understand our nation's history and our great heritage. Tell them why the United States is a good and prosperous nation. It still remains that brightly lit city on the hill. It still is the best hope for all mankind.
"Talk with all of the young people you can find. They are our future. Many do not understand what they have and that their future is being destroyed. "Encourage your elected State officials to pass legislation that will protect us from our Federal government. Governor Rick Perry and others are doing that right now for Texas . Thank them and pray for them. "This is a time for strong peaceful action. Let us pray that 'We the People' can quickly return our government to it's Constitutional responsibilities.
Our President and Congress were elected to be our servants and not our masters. "May God help our President and Congress to quickly realize the error of their ways and stop their reckless and unwarranted spending, cut our taxes, and reduce the size of our Federal bureaucracy. If they do not, may God grant us the courage and determination to vote them out of power next year. "May God richly bless and protect each of you, and our Constitution, as together we pursue Liberty!"
The Riverdale Plot and Our Dreyfus Moment
The real battle and actual need for victory.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/11304
The Riverdale Plot and Our Dreyfus Moment
Bruce Walker Friday, May 22, 2009
The foiled attack on the synagogue in the Riverdale district of New York City should bring home with devastating force an argument that I have been making for a long time: evil in this world is not divided according to some imaginary ideological spectrum, but rather upon a division of camps. In one camp are Jews, Christians, America, and Israel. These are peoples who want, most of all, simply to be left alone.
In the other camp are those people who nurse and cherish an unquenchable hatred for Jews, hatred for Christians, hatred for America, and hatred for Israel. This includes clusters of people normally considered to have nothing in common: Nazis, Bolsheviks, radical Islam, modern “progressives” (of, if you will, Leftists), slave overlords of Kim Jong Il or the Castro brothers, and the cynical appeasement snobs of European elitism.
In fact, the only thing which divides these groups is how to parcel up the spoils of conquest and plunder. Nazis and Bolsheviks were bosom buddies for a good part of the Second World War, and even before the Second World War began, it was the Left in Britain which most passionately demanded that Britain not rearm (which the 1945 book, The Left Was Never Right, describes in precise detail.)
When the Holocaust happened, Bolsheviks and radical Moslems did not care: Christians and Americans, however, were horrified. When the Nazis began their war on Christianity, many Jewish authors in America called attention to that crime. When radical Islam ponders the problems of the world, it looks to Judeo-Christian America (aka “The Great Satan”) and Jewish homeland Israel (aka “The Little Satan”) as the centers of the enemy. When their comrades in bitterness, “progressives” in America look for enemies, they invariably look first at the “Christian Right” as the foe, soldiered by such scary people as Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean.
All call all these enemies of Judeo-Christian moral tradition simply “Sinisterists,” and I wholly reject the notion that these have any real differences except for a sort of tribal loyalty and a greed for more shares of booty (think of Stalin and Hitler carving up Eastern Europe in 1939.) These are our eternal enemies not because we – Jews, Americans, Christians, Israelis – want to be their enemies but rather because we are, by our lives, an affront to them.
My wife’s parents, who both spent their youth in the Hell of the Holocaust, lived in Riverdale. They went to a synagogue there regularly. The four monsters lusting for the blood of Jews wanted to complete what Hitler began. Does it matter that my wife’s mother would have always given them money if they had asked her on the street? No. Does it matter that my wife’s father devoted the last decades of his life in volunteer work to provide a happy and safe park for these assassins young relatives? No.
Does it matter to these apprentices to assassination that the Air National Guard pilots who these convicts (and then converts to Islam!) wanted to murder risked their lives to liberate Afghans and Iraqis? Does it matter than in both Iraq and Afghanistan there are now, thanks to brave American soldiers, democracies in which Moslem majorities choose their governments? No. It does not matter at all.
Alfred Dreyfus was hated by the French Army because he was a Jew. It did not matter that he was a loyal Frenchman or a brave solider. His wrongful sentencing to Devil’s Island persuaded Theodor Herzl that only a Jewish homeland could truly liberate the Jewish people. We in the West have, I hope, come to a “Dreyfus Moment” – recognizing what we do not wish to know but grasp that we must.
We who take Christianity and Judaism seriously, we who view America and Israel as blessed refuges of those hated for the sake of hate, will never persuade our foes to stop being our foes. The most innocent answer of Carrie Prejean will always provoke savage vitriol, the least offensive proposal of Israel will always be smeared as genocidal Zionism, and – Mr. President – the most groveling apology for imaginary past offenses will never sate a rage which lives for rage itself.
Our charity convinces our enemies that we have exploited them. Our listening to a nauseating cacophony of hissing lies persuades our enemies that somehow their vile arguments matter. Our trust in a blessed Creator defames those who find a loving God intolerable in their grim universe of Marx, Allah, and Gaea. When we are happy, peaceful, and prosperous, they feel offended. If America was on Mars, hermetically sealed from contact with Earth, their misery would still be our fault. If Israel had, like much of Holland, been reclaimed from the sea by Jewish engineers, the reclaimed land still would have “belonged” to the Palestinians.”
Whether we know it or not, we have reached and we have gone past our “Dreyfus Moment.” During the Second World War, we knew that peace with Hitler was not an option. The only option, as Churchill understood, was: “Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.” During the Cold War, President Reagan proposed the same strategy - and American Thinker contributor, Herb Meyer, who worked for Reagan then told us then that it would work - “How about this? We win. They lose.”
Confronting evil is never easy. That is why often only truly great men like Churchill and Reagan can do it. But confronting and defeating evil is the only way to survive. We will win or we will lose the war that we are in right now. Every Jew, every Christian, every American, and every citizen of Israel had better hope we win.
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The Riverdale Plot and Our Dreyfus Moment
Bruce Walker Friday, May 22, 2009
The foiled attack on the synagogue in the Riverdale district of New York City should bring home with devastating force an argument that I have been making for a long time: evil in this world is not divided according to some imaginary ideological spectrum, but rather upon a division of camps. In one camp are Jews, Christians, America, and Israel. These are peoples who want, most of all, simply to be left alone.
In the other camp are those people who nurse and cherish an unquenchable hatred for Jews, hatred for Christians, hatred for America, and hatred for Israel. This includes clusters of people normally considered to have nothing in common: Nazis, Bolsheviks, radical Islam, modern “progressives” (of, if you will, Leftists), slave overlords of Kim Jong Il or the Castro brothers, and the cynical appeasement snobs of European elitism.
In fact, the only thing which divides these groups is how to parcel up the spoils of conquest and plunder. Nazis and Bolsheviks were bosom buddies for a good part of the Second World War, and even before the Second World War began, it was the Left in Britain which most passionately demanded that Britain not rearm (which the 1945 book, The Left Was Never Right, describes in precise detail.)
When the Holocaust happened, Bolsheviks and radical Moslems did not care: Christians and Americans, however, were horrified. When the Nazis began their war on Christianity, many Jewish authors in America called attention to that crime. When radical Islam ponders the problems of the world, it looks to Judeo-Christian America (aka “The Great Satan”) and Jewish homeland Israel (aka “The Little Satan”) as the centers of the enemy. When their comrades in bitterness, “progressives” in America look for enemies, they invariably look first at the “Christian Right” as the foe, soldiered by such scary people as Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean.
All call all these enemies of Judeo-Christian moral tradition simply “Sinisterists,” and I wholly reject the notion that these have any real differences except for a sort of tribal loyalty and a greed for more shares of booty (think of Stalin and Hitler carving up Eastern Europe in 1939.) These are our eternal enemies not because we – Jews, Americans, Christians, Israelis – want to be their enemies but rather because we are, by our lives, an affront to them.
My wife’s parents, who both spent their youth in the Hell of the Holocaust, lived in Riverdale. They went to a synagogue there regularly. The four monsters lusting for the blood of Jews wanted to complete what Hitler began. Does it matter that my wife’s mother would have always given them money if they had asked her on the street? No. Does it matter that my wife’s father devoted the last decades of his life in volunteer work to provide a happy and safe park for these assassins young relatives? No.
Does it matter to these apprentices to assassination that the Air National Guard pilots who these convicts (and then converts to Islam!) wanted to murder risked their lives to liberate Afghans and Iraqis? Does it matter than in both Iraq and Afghanistan there are now, thanks to brave American soldiers, democracies in which Moslem majorities choose their governments? No. It does not matter at all.
Alfred Dreyfus was hated by the French Army because he was a Jew. It did not matter that he was a loyal Frenchman or a brave solider. His wrongful sentencing to Devil’s Island persuaded Theodor Herzl that only a Jewish homeland could truly liberate the Jewish people. We in the West have, I hope, come to a “Dreyfus Moment” – recognizing what we do not wish to know but grasp that we must.
We who take Christianity and Judaism seriously, we who view America and Israel as blessed refuges of those hated for the sake of hate, will never persuade our foes to stop being our foes. The most innocent answer of Carrie Prejean will always provoke savage vitriol, the least offensive proposal of Israel will always be smeared as genocidal Zionism, and – Mr. President – the most groveling apology for imaginary past offenses will never sate a rage which lives for rage itself.
Our charity convinces our enemies that we have exploited them. Our listening to a nauseating cacophony of hissing lies persuades our enemies that somehow their vile arguments matter. Our trust in a blessed Creator defames those who find a loving God intolerable in their grim universe of Marx, Allah, and Gaea. When we are happy, peaceful, and prosperous, they feel offended. If America was on Mars, hermetically sealed from contact with Earth, their misery would still be our fault. If Israel had, like much of Holland, been reclaimed from the sea by Jewish engineers, the reclaimed land still would have “belonged” to the Palestinians.”
Whether we know it or not, we have reached and we have gone past our “Dreyfus Moment.” During the Second World War, we knew that peace with Hitler was not an option. The only option, as Churchill understood, was: “Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.” During the Cold War, President Reagan proposed the same strategy - and American Thinker contributor, Herb Meyer, who worked for Reagan then told us then that it would work - “How about this? We win. They lose.”
Confronting evil is never easy. That is why often only truly great men like Churchill and Reagan can do it. But confronting and defeating evil is the only way to survive. We will win or we will lose the war that we are in right now. Every Jew, every Christian, every American, and every citizen of Israel had better hope we win.
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