Written on March 11th, 2010 by adminno shouts
Could this be considered a case of political correctness, or, simply a case of “some ideas are so stupid that I’m not sure how you actually did this“?
Saskatchewan’s opposition New Democratic Party is slamming an advertisement distributed in a government-held constituency announcing a fundraising dinner that includes an image of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in flames and refers to a pig roast.
The poster is for Saskatchewan Party member of the legislature and provincial Environment Minister Nancy Heppner.
The MLA for the rural seat of Martensville, north of Saskatoon, says she brings in a motivational speaker — and serves roast pig — every year.
The guest speaker in April will be a firefighter who was trapped in the World Trade Center on 9/11, but escaped.
Heppner is part of the Saskatchewan Party, supposedly a “center-right” party full of “Progressive Conservative and Liberal Party” members. In other words, lefties. (If anyone more familiar with Canadian politics wants to rebut me on that, I am open. I did not simply take Wikipedia’s word for it, but searched other sites. Their politics sure seem far left). Unsurprisingly, she and another do not get it
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and Heppner have both apologized for any hurt feelings.
Heppner says she had no idea anyone would find the poster offensive.
Then she is a complete idiot.
She said the posters have already been delivered to mailboxes in her constituency and she has not heard from anyone with a complaint about the content.
“We feel badly if anybody has been offended by this,” Heppner said. “It was never our intention. It was one of the most tragic days in our collective history, not just for the United States but for Canada. And it would make me feel horrible if people were offended by this.”
And there you get the typical liberal non-apology apology, with a dash of “it’s all about me”.
I understand why they had the graphic of a burning WTC, as their special guest is a surviving firefighter, but, still, the whole idea of the poster is more reminiscent of a bunch of people getting really drunk, followed by those famous pre-hospital words “hey, y’all. Watch this!”
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Written on March 7th, 2010 by adminno shouts
American-born Taliban commander Adam Gadahn has been captured by Pakistani intelligence officials. There seemed to originally be some confusion as to whether or not it was Gadahn who was captured, but it looks like it’s been clarified that Gadahn is indeed in custody. He’s already been charged with treason… the first American to be charged with treason since World War II.
Not so long ago, Adam Gadahn, who has both Jewish and Catholic ancestry, was growing up on a goat farm in Orange County, California. Now he’s been charged with treason against the United States — “perhaps the most serious offense for which any person can be tried under our Constitution,” according to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty.
But Gadahn, aka Azzam al-Amriki or “Azzam the American,” 28, is accused of deliberately making the choice to leave his country and join al Qaeda, providing “aid and comfort” to the country’s most determined enemy.
Announcing the charges at an afternoon press conference at the Justice Department Wednesday, the Deputy Attorney General asserted that “in fact Mr Gadahn is the first person to be charged with treason against the United States since the World War II era.”
The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Santa Ana, California, includes a second charge of providing material support to a terrorist organization.
But it is the treason charge that is most serious; in fact, it is so unusual that it is the only crime specifically mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. In the entire history of the country, only about 40 individuals have ever been charged with the crime. The charge of treason carries a maximum possible penalty of death, but the decision whether to seek the ultimate penalty will not be made until Gadahn is apprehended and brought into court.
The FBI has him listed as one of their Top Ten Most Wanted Terrorists, and also lists his many aliases:
Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki, Abu Suhail Al-Amriki, Abu Suhayb, Yihya Majadin Adams, Adam Pearlman, Yayah, Azzam the American, Azzam Al-Amriki
And now, he’s been captured.
Coincidentally, a video featuring Gadahn was just released today. You can see it here; in it, he praises Nidal Hassan (the Fort Hood shooter) and encourages other Muslims in the military to follow suit. JWF has a pretty good timeline of events.
The question now is, what will happen to Gadahn? If he’s handed over to the United States, it’s hard to not be worried when we have a president like Obama in office. It’s undeniable that he has, at the absolute least, given aid and comfort to our enemy. Will Obama be sure to get him a lawyer first? Read him his Miranda Rights and make sure he’s got a teddy bear to keep him comfy in his prison cell? The penalty for treason is death, but what are libs going to do? To them, even lethal freakin’ injection is cruel and unusual punishment. Frankly, if I had my way, Gadahn would be castrated, hung, and then drawn and quartered. Publicly, too.
But where should Gadahn be tried?
Knowing Obama, he’ll probably give him a nice civilian trial in federal court. Or will he? He’s reversed Eric Holder’s decision to give KSM and the other 9-11 conspirators a federal trial. In this case, though, would a federal trial be the best option? Considering the indictment for treason against him from 2006, a federal trial might not be a bad idea. He is a civilian, after all, and proving treasonous activity won’t exactly be difficult. The problem would be the sentencing. Even if he is convicted and sentenced to death, will he be able to just sit in a jail cell for decades until we finally get around to executing him? Jose Padilla was tried in a federal court and only got sentenced to 17 years and 4 months in prison. There’s also the possibility of an appeal with a federal trial. That can’t be allowed to happen. He needs to be convicted quickly and executed even more quickly. Would a military tribunal accomplish that?
The sad part about all of this is that we should be celebrating. Unfortunately, we have a president who we know is not concerned first and foremost for the safety of the country. Were President Bush still in office, no one would be worried that the president would be hemming and hawing about what to do. Obama, right about now, is probably worried about who he should betray: the American people or the liberals he represents. Obama has a serious chance here to redeem himself with the public. He needs a political victory, and bad. This would give it to him, and it would give him the patriotic, tough, strong appearance that Bush always had. Obama comes across as a pansy ass; this could be the first step towards changing that. The pathetic thing is that his reputation and a political victory are probably the only reasons he would act tough on this issue. If he thought being lenient would make him look better, that’s probably what he would do.
Here’s hoping that, for once, Obama will forget about his socialist liberal base and do the right thing for the country.
UPDATE: UPDATE: There’s been confusion over whether or not Gadahn is who was captured. It seems that if it wasn’t Gadahn, then it was some other American traitor who deserves to get executed mercilessly. The AP has updated their story, and Pakistani officials are saying that an American who has been charged with treason was captured. Sounds like Gadahn, right? But US officials haven’t confirmed the story.
Two Pakistani officers and a government official said Sunday that an American charged with treason for working with al-Qaida had been captured, a development that could deliver another significant blow in the U.S.-led battle against the terror network.
U.S. defense, intelligence and law enforcement officials could not immediately verify the reported detention of Adam Gadahn, a 31-year-old spokesman for al-Qaida who has appeared on videos threatening the West, including one that emerged earlier Sunday.
The reported arrest of Gadahn follows the recent detention of several Afghan Taliban commanders in Karachi, including the group’s No. 2. Those detentions have been seen as a sign that Pakistan, which has been criticized as an untrustworthy ally, was cooperating more fully with Washington.
Some observers were cautious about giving credence to the claim that Gadahn was in custody as reports emerged that the man arrested might instead be a Taliban militant leader. There was no way of independently verifying the arrest or identity, and detentions of terror suspects in Pakistan are often surrounded by conflicting reports.
So, is it Gadahn or isn’t it? Frankly, if Pakistani officials are saying it is an American who was charged with treason, it sure as heck sounds like it is Gadahn. And if US intelligence operatives weren’t involved in this capture, then how would they know whether it is or isn’t Gadahn?
Either way, an American traitor was caught and that’s reason to celebrate, whether it is Gadahn or not… unless of course Obama messes it all up and throws away an opportunity to execute a traitorous dirtbag.
Cross-posted from Cassy’s blog. Stop by for more original commentary, or follow her on Twitter!
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Written on March 5th, 2010 by adminno shouts
Good thing the Nanny State jumped on this quickly!
To the little boy’s mother, it was just a 6-year-old boy playing around.
But when Mason Jammer, a kindergarten student at Jefferson Elementary in Ionia, curled his fist into the shape of a gun Wednesday and pointed it at another student, school officials said it was no laughing matter.
They suspended Mason until Friday, saying the behavior made other students uncomfortable, said Erin Jammer, Mason’s mother.
Whew! That made everyone safe, eh? Just because “He’s only six and he doesn’t understand any of this” is no reason to take action against this violent child, who is probably anti-IRS, too. And this wasn’t the first time he displayed this behavior! I bet he makes crayon posters comparing Obama to the Joker, as well!
Speaking of actual crazies, the NY Times has their story about the Pentagon shooting, and just can’t be bothered to make the connections
A gunman described by police officials as well-dressed, well-educated and well-armed for his minute-long shootout with police on Thursday just outside the Pentagon has died from his wounds.
Law enforcement officials said they still had not determined a specific motive for the gunman, identified as John Patrick Bedell, 36, but officials said he “had issues” and that there were records of previous brushes he had had with law enforcement officials.
Seeking clues for what prompted the suspect to open fire at a Pentagon entrance, police and F.B.I. investigators were examining a series of Internet postings thought to have been his work.
Still looking, eh?
Messages posted on the Web under the username JPatrickBedell seemed to share some biographical details with the shooter and pointed to a distrust of the military and the government at large. “I am determined to see that justice is served in the death of Colonel James Sabow, as a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions,” the user wrote, referring to the suicide of an Army officer in 1991.
So, a Truther. Kudos to Charles Johnson for finding more about Bedell’s Trutherism, bad boy for going the normal route and attempting to insinuate that Bedell was a right winger by writing “Another anti-government loon?”, as well as writing that Bedell is “a devotee of libertarian icon Ludwig Von Mises.” His brain washed followers took the hint, and ran with it.
The Times provides more
A 2006 arrest report for a man identified as John Patrick Bedell, then 33 years old, appeared to connect to the user JPatrickBedell, who wrote: “My desire for justice led me to violate what I think is one of the most unjust laws, cannabis prohibition, by growing 16 cannabis plants on my balcony in Irvine, CA from March 2006 to June 2006.”
And a pot user. He was also an anti-Bush nutter (via Patterico). I wonder, how will the media attempt the LGF spin to paint him as someone on the right?
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Written on February 21st, 2010 by adminno shouts
Sigh
Ron Paul has ended Mitt Romney’s three-year run as conservatives’ favorite for president, taking 31 percent of the vote in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s annual straw poll.
There are good and bad things to say about Paul on the issues, but, personally, I only know of them generally. Until such time as Ron repudiates the 9/11 Truth wackos in his base, and he, himself, states that he doesn’t believe in the the Truth movement while hooked up to a polygraph machine, I do not want to know any specifics about him. That is more than enough to remove him from serious consideration.
His belief that 9/11 was partly our fault, and his wanting to treat Islamic terrorism like pirate attacks, not to mention his early 20th century like isolationist policies makes him completely unsuitable to be a US president in the 21st century.
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