Showing posts with label underwear bomber. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Are the Al Qaeda 7 Just John Adams Wannabe's

In the Atlantic today I found a rather slanted article titled Not Believing in America "Liz Cheney and company tear at the legal system that makes this country free and exceptional by targeting the rights of the accused and their attorneys"

It's about time we let the left professorial elite know that trying to fit a round peg in a square hole to call it a 'fitting historical example' just isn't cutting it with us any more. We know the truth and we will report the truth. I couldn't take it anymore. I wrote the author the following:

Dear Mr. Edwards,

While I agree with the majority of your article and we are of the same generation, I am just not sure I get your point on the “Al Qaeda 7”.

To the overall patriotism of your article, I couldn’t agree more. I am astounded when I hear a 20-something say what a horrible country we are and verbally ponder why anyone would ever want to emigrate here. I wonder what KoolAid their professors are feeding them to cause them to think this way, as we are still the most forgiving and free nation on the face of the earth. The United States of America as a whole with her people and her history is exceptional without a doubt. Aside from the fact that I am watching our government trying to run our “exceptionalism” into the ground and I see them working hard to make us “just another European Nation” with every bit of power they have in their arsenal, while engaging in interference with other nations (such as Honduras and others) where we have no business, we are not yet without exceptionalism.

But to your argument concerning the “Al Qaeda 7”, I am not seeing it the way you do. What exactly is your point about Cheney and Kristol? I think in this case they are correct in what they are saying.

Yes, John Adams defended the British soldiers. What you aren’t remembering is that those soldiers of the Boston Massacre were tried prior to the revolution. They were here by order of the crown, acting as the “policemen”, or if you will, the “tax-enforcers” in the colonies. We were still British Subjects in the eyes of the crown, and they were sent here to quell the growing anger of “taxation without representation”.

The Boston Massacre occurred in 1770, prior to any physical separation between the British government and the colonies, during a time of great unrest. We may have been rebelling, may have declared our intention to separate, but we had not yet won separation. Adams, perhaps to the consternation of many sympathizers, stated he felt it was his duty to defend them, to show our colonies as fair in our justice to the crown.

Your argument is more equal to a modern day analogy of an attorney choosing to defend a National Guardsmen after a riot which had gone so badly that in self defense, he felt rightly or wrongly compelled to kill many rioters. The guardsman would require defense because he fired the first shots killing rioters who he felt threatened him. He has the ability and the right to defend himself with the specific defense that he was threatened in some physical way, and he was acting in defense of his own life or those of his fellow guardsmen. He and the rioters are all citizens of the same nation. There was civil unrest. There was a physical assault. There was an even greater threat by those behind the original attacker and the escalation became a tragedy. He would deserve a defense, although the wounded parties or their sympathizers may not agree and it may be an unpopular defense to them. That was what Adams did.

That’s a bit of a different scenario than Panti-bombers and other war criminals who come here to blow up airplanes full of travelers above cities, or to fly those planes directly into people’s work places, don’t you think?

In this case, it is not our own countrymen we are fighting (unless in a few cases they became citizens prior to deciding to blow us up). We are not subjects of those suicide bombers who believe themselves to be “soldiers”. We are not a nation attempting to reason or to separate from the motherland through which they hail. Moreover, we are currently at war with their countries or at the very least their religious misconceptions which cause them to become fighters for those countries for the sake of jihad. They were not threatened by a mob of people rioting against them. They boarded planes with the strict intent to kill all aboard for reasons of hateful intentions to prove a point without regard to those “unbelievers”.

You are comparing apples and oranges with your argument.

Another key point about Adams is that he didn’t enter the federal government for another 19 years after trying those soldiers, nor did he take any position within the government that had anything to do with continuing to defend the similarly accused leading up to, during, or after the war. These attorney’s came straight from those unfinished cases to Justice. That’s a huge difference.

Overall, this whole war is a deeply complex and difficult issue. That and our agreements or differences as to why we are in it aside, we are in a war. That makes the cards in your argument play quite differently. On the one hand you have the inequality of the comparisons, on the other, the average American’s mindset on the whole deal. I am not talking Harvard or Princeton’s intellectually elite mindset; I am talking the average American’s mindset.

The American public is typically of the “You want to fight us? Bring it on” mindset when somebody brings acts of war to our shores. Blowing up planeloads of regular folks is an act of war. Our intent is to make war fair and square, military to military and we will fight it. There are accepted Rules of Engagement. Don’t be setting off bombs in your panties on a Christmas Day flight full of regular families who are just going to observe their familial traditions, and certainly don’t take plane loads of workers, children and women hostage and fly them into tall buildings on a bright blue day, and expect us to feel sorry for you if you get caught before you succeed in blowing us all up. You deserve trial, but in a military tribunal if you are caught. If you are guilty, then you deserve to be incarcerated for life in a military prison or sentenced to death.

American citizens culturally loathe unfair fights, especially when it involves killing innocent citizens in acts of mass murder, whether or not you take yourself with you, rather than engaging our trained and paid military. We have words and phrases for acts like that, one of which is baby killers. Just like our decades of fighting the similar war of Barbary Bay where they would take hostage our shipments overseas or our transits, holding innocent Americans hostage for ransom, we cannot continue to pay bribes, do business with, or to use these murderous fanatics with the one hand and fight them with the other. Thomas Jefferson had it right – cut them off financially, realize our mistakes, don’t repeat those mistakes, fight to win the war fair and square – battle by battle – and get back to the business of America. On the Shores of Tripoli and all that.

In reality, what you are saying is nothing new under the sun. Every young attorney truly covets a high profile cases such as these. It makes those 100 hour weeks go by quickly. It assures them stature in all the right places to further their careers and make the big bucks, just like the shining stars they believe themselves to be. It catapults them into partner like nothing else. It garners those awards, promotions, the visibility, and accolades at every turn. But it should not catapult them into a governmental position so powerful as to ensure justice for Americans against the very ones they just finished defending or were hired away from defending!

It is a conflict of interest to come off a defense team and turn around to take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States while agreeing to serve as US prosecutors to those very cases of which you are intimately familiar. The Al Qaeda 7 attorney’s obviously have a soft spot for these prisoners (or a keen eye for the fast track) or they wouldn’t have agreed to defend them in the first place. A Dept of Justice attorney’s job is to ensuring Justice first and foremost to those very same work-a-day folks who died that day and to defend the constitution, not provide civilian criminal trials to war criminals when we are at war. They aren’t citizens; they are jihadists who would no sooner look at you and me than kill us. In the case of KSM, he had already admitted guilt. He was on his way to court and Obama stopped it. Imagine how those families of the USS Cole feel. Just imagine had it been your son or daughter.

Let’s look at it another way. Let’s say I am a business who is entangled in a patent case. I am being accused of stealing a patent. You are one of the young attorney’s at my defense teams firm. Let’s say you have prepared briefs for my attorney’s, doing what young and bright attorney’s do. Later, while the case is still active, but long and drawn out, you quit the firm I hired to defend me, and go to work for the firm who is working for my accusers, or even another firm who is later brought in as 2nd chair to my accuser’s firm.

Is it a conflict of interest for them to hire you? Would my defense team think it would be a conflict, knowing that you know a goodly amount of the defense that I am bringing? Could you potentially build a case around all that known evidence in my defense to help my accuser’s team win the case? What kind of fight would ensue from my defense team against you and your new firm? I would venture to say huge, even if only hired by the newly appointed 2nd chair firm. I would venture to say they would be at that bench for hours convincing the judge that you cannot be anywhere near my case – they would fight that your new firm cannot be anywhere near my case regardless of whether you are officially on the case or not. Who knows what pay off you may have received. Who knows what damage you may cause my case in back door deals, or even how much damage you may cause to the other side if you were so inclined to subvert their case against me. Who’s to know you aren’t playing both sides for some unknown third party interest?

Am I wrong?

So why is this any different? Is it because it is an “unpopular” defense? Not really, because those attorneys became shining stars to the far left’s ideology. Is it because of liberal bias that this case is somehow different? Is it because it is the popular thing to think that jihadists are somehow different than other war criminals? Is it because CAIR is mixed up in here somehow as an interested third party? The same questions my defense team would be raising are the very questions that are arising in the minds of the American people - and frankly, it is pi$$ing us off.

Justice may be blind sir, but she isn’t stupid. She knows when a conflict of interest exists. From my perspective, it is these “Al Qaeda 7” that represent the very definition of a conflict of interest. Our family was fortunate on 9/11, in two cases, with my husband in the air on a different flight (which we thought was flight 93 due to a misstatement made by a reporter) and my brother in law at the Pentagon (who went dark and we didn’t hear from for 2 weeks), we thought we had lost our loved ones and in both cases, thankfully, we hadn’t. But not losing anyone doesn’t make it much better. We still watched those planes loaded with innocents turned into bombs that killed thousands more innocents.

To us, these attorney’s pictures could be laid right beside the word listing “Conflict of Interest” and the definition would speak for itself. I believe that nearly every red-blooded American feels the same as well.

Taxpayers already pay for the war, we already give untold monies to feed the jihadists, Hamas, and the Taliban themselves, and we repatriate them here. To know this, all we must do is to remember the storehouses of undistributed goods and foods we sent to the Iraqi’s during Saddam’s reign. We are losing our special relationships with Israel and the UK. That’s quite enough of the right hand playing the left, don’t you think? We don’t want to add paying for public trials that will give these self-admitted murderers (who call themselves righteous warriors) a pulpit to sound the battle cry anew. The majority of us don’t want them in our prisons proselytizing and recruiting our prisoners. We want them separate and we want them prosecuted by military tribunals. Don’t you get that?

It isn’t undoing what made this a great country, it is doing governments #1 job, protecting the citizens of the United States against all known or perceived threats from inside or outside the Union.

Somehow, I think both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would agree.

Friday, January 8, 2010

America's Mop Up of the Underwear Bomber and the Ensuing Presidential Disaster

Mr. president? You are Fired!



I am going to start with this report:



Obama Report: We Knew Extremist Was On Detroit Flight “Administration officials initially had tried to downplay the incident. But in the past week, a litany of errors emerged that enabled a 23-year-old Nigerian with known terrorist inclinations, who paid for his ticket with cash and checked no luggage on an international flight, and who had an explosive device hidden in his underwear…..There is no indication, however, that U.S. officials attempted to alert the crew of Flight 253 that a potential security risk was abroad the aircraft.” [italics mine]



Well heck, if we didn’t have so many of our highly trained CIA agents stationed in the Arctic watching the Polar Ice Caps melt while we working citizens were being cataloged on the DHS Watch List for disagreeing that this president has ANY business being in office AT ALL, perhaps we could have had our sh!# together enough to catch him. He didn’t have a passport either by the way, Man aided terror suspect onto plane without passport. And BO’S POLLS AREN’T BEING AFFECTED? Really?



And these related: De Borchgrave: Obama's Weak Response to Airliner Attack Increases Threat to U.S. and
Administration Knew of Tactic Used in Airliner Attack Since October

FLASHBACK: For Immediate Release May 21, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON NATIONAL SECURITY “…my single most important responsibility as President is to keep the American people safe. It's the first thing that I think about when I wake up in the morning. It's the last thing that I think about when I go to sleep at night.
And this responsibility is only magnified in an era when an extremist ideology threatens our people, and technology gives a handful of terrorists the potential to do us great harm. We are less than eight years removed from the deadliest attack on American soil in our history. We know that al Qaeda is actively planning to attack us again. We know that this threat will be with us for a long time, and that we must use all elements of our power to defeat it.
Already, we've taken several steps to achieve that goal. For the first time since 2002 (blame Bush), we're providing the necessary resources and strategic direction to take the fight to the extremists who attacked us on 9/11 in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We're investing in the 21st century military and intelligence capabilities that will allow us to stay one step ahead of a nimble enemy. We have re-energized a global non-proliferation regime to deny the world's most dangerous people access to the world's deadliest weapons (really, is that what you call this?). And we've launched an effort to secure all loose nuclear materials within four years. We're better protecting our border, and increasing our preparedness for any future attack or natural disaster. We're building new partnerships around the world to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and its affiliates. And we have renewed American diplomacy so that we once again have the strength and standing to truly lead the world.”

Oh, ok. Umm...I have a few questions Mr. Present ...er...a...Mr. president,

  • Is that why you sent our CIA to watch polar ice melt because you were up day and night worried about our safety? CIA Resources Diverted to Climate Change


  • Is that why you took 3 days to address the nation, An Absentee and Complacent President but you stopped your golf game right away for your friend’s hurt child? Terrible thing to have happen, a hurt child, but it’s not 300 people who are all probably suffering PSTD over what might have been their last Christmas Day on this earth!


  • Is that why you aren’t demanding resignations yet because you are so concerned about our safety?

Here, let me help you. I’ll start the list and list the reasons for you…


  1. Hillary Clinton – Besides the fact that Hillary Clinton's Agency Issued the Terrorist's Visa, she decides she wants to take more of our safety, not to mention our Constitutional Rights away by committing her intention to sign the UN Small Arms Treaty. Hillary Clinton Commits To UN Small Arms Treaty. She just needs to go. She doesn't do anything unless somebody asks her about her husband, only then do you see some emotion! Never though, I repeat NEVER does she show any strength when it comes to AMERICA'S safety! Rather, she runs around with Overcharge buttons!


  2. Janet “The System Worked” Napolitano with her “what she says” BS….Napolitano: No indication of larger terror plot (which means our beliefs at this point in time must be exactly the opposite)! Especially considering this little gem ….Warning on Detroit suspect didn't rise above the 'noise' OH! And this, Homeland Security’s National Operations Center ‘Unable’ to Do Its Job, Inspector General Finds, who couldn’t manage to implement National Security (Secretary Napolitano Delays Implementation of Crucial National Security Law). Then this lovely statement, as if she finally figured out we aren’t all as stupid as she looks Napolitano Now Says Airline Security System Failed.


  3. Souther’s - before he ever gets back in front of the Senate, simply because he is not ethical TSA Nominee Misled Congress; White House Defends: and he wants to unionize the biggest cluster#^@% ever to be formed (Caught: TSA pick boasts of 'joining' security with unions) which most of those genius’s in Congress wrote and approved.


  4. Whoever is in charge of TSA currently – “Arrest em” Hawley (Traveller detained by TSA for calling head of TSA an idiot) or whoever is in acting head of that disaster continuing to happen (Attacks on screeners could endanger passengers, TSA workers say). Oh and by the way, while you are firing what's his name, don’t blame DeMint on your own failures as a president with-a-little-p because we know You Waited 8 Months To Appoint a New TSA Head. You weren't in too much of a hurry to do your duty…must not have had too many sleepless nights....


  5. Eric Holder, because he is one of the biggest detriments (White House: Justice Dept. made decision to hold Detroit bomber in civilian justice system) to your performance as Trainee in Chief with his hell bent "read ‘em their Miranda rights" dictates. So much so that NYC Mayor Bloomberg Has to Say Security for KSM Terror Trial to Cost $216 Million of which charges I’m pretty sure will mean that besides completely offending the majority of Americans also will be deducted directly out of our paychecks. You remember we the people? The taxpaying citizenry, whom as you say, it is your most important job to protect, right? Meanwhile he tops that little gem off (by your direction) by ordering the arrest Navy Seals, Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted ...! Those guys are over there, WILLING TO DIE IN THEIR DUTY TO PROTECT US, and you are REALLY going to try them for slapping an enemy combatant? Really? And you dare call yourself presidential? Can I just say SIR, The Judiciary is No Place to Make National Security Decisions! Fire him! Otherwise we wonder exactly what you are trying to say here with this absolute nonsense of trying terrorists in American courts... I don’t know - are you trying to say that you are Muslims and you don’t want to sign the death decree should they be sentenced in war court because that will go against the Koran, perhaps? You can be like Herrod in the civilian courts, wash your hands of it, don't have to sign the decree...hmmm. I wonder...


  6. Jim “shock a day” Jones – your National Security Advisor! Don’t “tweak” terrorism, confront it! What an obvious CYA yesterday's press conference was! Makes me sick!


  7. Michael “gee, I think I’ll take a ski trip” Leiter, the director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Who knew what under investigation, and his boss, John "It was my fault" Brennan - Man in Charge of Analyzing Terror-Threat Info Did Not Interrupt Ski Vacation After Attempted Airplane Bombing, Report Says


  8. And Finally, YOU SIR! Mr. Barack Hussein Obama! You are A Constitutional National Security Crisis of Your Own Creation . You should resign effective immediately. As sad as it is, we would be safer with that Gaffmaestro you named as your Second-in-Command and whom you obviously now so despise. Your Knee Jerk reactions and your lies, dodging and weaving has left us wanting. EDITORIAL: Obama denies crotch bomber conspiracy. Oh, but there's many more reasons than that, here's just a few of the cream of the crop:




You are one lucky man for whatever reason there Barry, who Has Had A Very Lucky Escape With the Detroit Bomber, but you know what? Your luck has run out. The majority of Americans would dance in the street if you resign. We don’t want you in the Oval Office anymore. We want a REAL President. America Waits For Leadership. We want you out of the office and back to your community service where you belong, with the groups who all just think you are as sick minded as they are. MEET THE EVIL ANTI-AMERICAN...ANTI-CONSTITUTION...THE SHADOW PARTY...! DEEP, DARK AND PERVASIVELY EVIL...! We want you to live forever with your failures. We don’t want terrorists or enemy combatants tried in OUR courts, Nigerian Indicted in Terrorist Plot unless their names are Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Timothy Geithner, James Jones, Michael Leiter, Ben Bernanke, Janet Napolitano and a whole bunch of bankers, congresspeople and senators.



We don’t want Gitmo closed, Mr. Obama, Those Are OUR Prisoners at Gitmo, Not Yours; Leave Them Where They Are.



We are DONE apologizing to people who hate us simply because we aren’t like them, Radicalization is alive and well in the U.S. we are non-muslims and for that they hate us so badly (Ex-CIA agent: Threat From Al Qaeda Greater Now Than on 9/11) that they would blow 300 people out of the air on Christmas day who are just trying to get to their homes to visit family, children, women, men, AMERICANS! What If the Bomb Had Gone Off?



What is wrong with you?! What PART of You is BROKEN? Why aren’t you OUTRAGED! Why the "review" instead of just the truth? Transparency indeed! You know the truth, you just can't HANDLE the TRUTH! Could this actually be the greatest and potentially the deadliest of your screw ups so far? You betcha! This is your nail buddy, the one that split wide open your little Alinsky-loving shriveled walnut of a soul. 'You Mr. Obama get an 'F' for protecting Americans'!



NO MORE! We've Got You Figured Out! You just want the news doled out piecemeal to us, find a way to say you did it better than Bush (The Politics of Incompetence) so we won’t freaking notice exactly how incompetent you are, or what bullshit you are cramming down our throats, but guess what SIR, for all your brains, you deeply underestimate the intelligence of the American people and our will to keep our borders safe and our country free.

Your job SIR is not to REVIEW, IT IS LIKE YOU SAID, FIRST AND FOREMOST PROTECT THE CITIZENS from our enemies! In other words, it is to know how to do it out the GATE! That little thing we like to call experience…. We want a Man in Charge, Dude. Don’t send your girlie men, your bullies, your joke of dog wagger or your new manly girls anymore because they provide
No Comfort At All!



Go back to Chicago and run as Deputy Mayor with Rahmmy boy! Better yet, go back to Kenya and find a surrogate mom to re-read the constitution to you first thing every morning again because you obviously didn't understand it the first time around! Just get out of our WHITE HOUSE! We don't want a president who MAKES TOP 10 LIST OF CORRUPT POLITICIANS! FREAKING RESIGN ALREADY!!!!! Sort of a god, sir? More like shades of the devil himself. Resign!