This is an interview with San Diego Assistant District Attorney, Steve Walter from the local Public Broadcasting Service's local station.
(A link to the original source, which includes an audio version can be found after the full text.)
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): Now what constitutes the difference between a drug dealer and a legitimate provider of medical marijuana?
WALTER: It’s a very difficult question. The law itself, when I say the law I’m talking about Prop 215, SB-420, and the AG’s guidelines, as well as the case law. In essence, you have to be either a user or a qualified patient or a caregiver for such a patient.
Wow. So according to the San Diego District Attorney's Office, "a user" is "a legitimate provider of medical marijuana." That's really disturbing as I have obtained/do obtain all of my medical cannabis from Medical Cannabis Caregivers/ Legal Patients. These are the ones that Walter himself oversaw the aggressive arrests of. I guess going on the above quote, he believes that any one ELSE, just so long as they 'use marijuana' is a responsible, law abiding, trustworthy source for the medication I use for my healthcare. Great.
This morning as always I was watching the news and I heard the news about the two terrorists that almost blew up a federal court house and a sky-scraper in Houston, Texas. One came into America When he was fourteen and recently went back for an Al Quada training camp in Afghanistan and returned and made bombs out of things he bought from a beauty store! The other was an illegal immigrent from Iran. God Bless the men and women who found these two and stopped them before billions of HEARTS were broken.
Your Friend,
Erin
Terrorist Attacks On Medical Cannabis Patients Continueby 921 » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:34 pm Unfortunately it appears that despite her claim to care about "Medical Marijuana Patients", San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and her armed militia continue to wage war on San Diego's most defenseless...I received this report from an anonymous Medical Cannabis Patient/ Co-Op Member just today:A narcotics officer came in last night and demanded the administrators personal information. he would not leave until we gave it to him. he said he was getting all admins personal info for records and that the "task force" was going to be sending letters, that's why he needed it. I know he went to Mother Nurture and a couple others in SD. I feel it is a ploy to get their personal info so they can raid their houses along with their businesses. If you could post this all over for me, it would help others.I fear that those suspicions may be correct. In addition to above report and what I perceive are truly medical cannabis patients asking for help, I have noticed a whole new influx since 9/9/2009's raids. People I have never met or even "chatted with online" are emailing me asking where to get medical cannabis, asking where I live and telling me about buying marijuana off the street. People are posting "reviews" on the BCC section on WeedMaps insinuating that the Collective was anything but a legitimate Medical Collective. I post about BCC possibly opening back up and the suspicious emails increase instantly and the forum is hit with what I assume are links to possibly illegal, pornographic websites. And even though I've done countless hours of volunteer work to support local law enforcement families & officers and even though I may not live to see next year thanks to Cirrhosis (and other currently fatal health issues) - I am afraid that at any moment the door to the apartment I can't afford will be kicked in and I will be put in a jail cell even though I have not knowingly broken any California State Law.If this is how Bonnie Dumanis CARES for me and other Medical Cannabis Patients, I'd rather she ignore us, because she's far worse than any of the diseases that are killing me.~ "921"
Terrorist Attacks On Medical Cannabis Patients Continue
by 921 » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:34 pm
A narcotics officer came in last night and demanded the administrators personal information. he would not leave until we gave it to him. he said he was getting all admins personal info for records and that the "task force" was going to be sending letters, that's why he needed it. I know he went to Mother Nurture and a couple others in SD. I feel it is a ploy to get their personal info so they can raid their houses along with their businesses. If you could post this all over for me, it would help others.
http://www.sandiegobcc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=50
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Organizing for America,
While the President was expressing the need for our nation to reform its' inhumane Health Care system, some of San Diego, California's most vulnerable, suffering citizens were subjected to organized terrororism inflicted upon them by their own City and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies.
I am referring to San Diego District Attorney, Bonnie Dumanis' continued persecution (not a mis-spelling) of those who benefit from legal medical cannabis. Lies are being told about the Collectives operating for profit and not being caregivers to its' members.
Please Mr. Stewart and OFA, we're already victims of our ailments, diseases, handicaps and inflictions. Members of these particular Collectives, at least one that I know, is an amputee U.S. Soldier. Isn't the pain he brought back from the war enough punishment and sacrifice for his country? Does he really need to suffer through prescription opiates that are highly addictive and less effective than medical cannabis? These voices need to be heard. Please look into the facts of this. People's lives are at stake.
I must comment on the idea that pulling down our $100 billion in foreign aid to help other initiatives in the US is somehow going to be “good” for America. This argument pops up every time the US Mindset returns to focus on the disastrous budget deficits we have been running for nearly 2 generations now. Unfortunately, like the ups and downs of our economy, all discussion related to the deficit dies as soon as the economy turns the corner and people go back to focusing on making money in the latest paper bubble. It is also unfortunate that these incredible "peace time" budget deficits do little more than expose the underlying reality that the US economy has become so reliant on consumer spending and non manufacturing "industries" that our bubble to burst cycles have become more frequent (about every 10 years) and more dramatic. Obviously, with the economy based on businesses that have no physical infrastructure and or physical output capacity (the production of intangible products) they are able to grow rapidly when able to exploit the latest economic / financial gimmick and can just as rapidly shrink when that "event" is played out. Consumption as we all know is primarily of foreign made products of all varieties. Getting back to the argument that somehow reducing our "foreign aid" and bringing back a few billion dollars back to the US as having any tangible ability to "enhance" our economic development. This is a completely false argument and even when foreign aid has been reduced during tough economic times, it quickly returns during boom times and is usually a greatly celebrated event stamped by whoever happens to be in the White House as an example of the how "generous American" people are willing to back whatever pop-charity is prevalent at that time. Before I go on, I will preface my argument with my own jaded view of the machine that functions in Washington of ex-piece-corp / lobbyist / international "aid" how to make $200k a year "non-profits" with "do gooder" figurehead cronies "leaders" related to the various politicians, lobbyist, ex-politicians etc., all of whom are very good at raking money out of the Federal Government to feed themselves using their idealistic agenda. These many folk are professional and very good at making carriers for themselves, backed by US Gov money under the guise of "international aid" and normally spend most of their time traveling the world, speaking, living in posh neighborhoods of DC and otherwise justifying their idealistic agenda to other folks who look just like them or aspire to create their "careers" picking up in their footprints. The vast majority of US Foreign "aid" goes in the pockets of these folks and their extended networks and little of it gets anywhere near the end "user" or "target" of the program or individuals it was designed to "help". I could go on but you get the point. In addition, the "International Aid" machine in Washington and associated labyrinth of non-profits (most often not of international focus) are also often the best way to pay for access to the political machine. "Give $50k to my wife's / sister's / friend's / ex-business partner's / other relative's charity and we can talk" kind of politics. Having said all of that, I will go back to the argument that somehow reducing foreign aid is going to better our economy if we redirect that cash. We have directly spent since our pointless invasion of Iraq no less than $1 Trillion. I remember Bush's speech during the height of the financial crises when talk of $700 billion to bail out financial institutions was being thrown around and thinking, "George, why don't you just say it? You know how much $700 billion is, you spent more than that battling your fictitious "enemies" on the other side of the planet for the past 5 years." George could have just said, "T-ain't anything America. Just deal with it. I know the war was a great excuse to use my access to the largest "bank" on the planet to write checks to my friends and buddies, esp. the ones who lost so much money in the .dot com crash and Enron like debacles of the early part of my presidency, but this, well, now we have another "crises" primarily created by my friends and I got no nation to invade so please excuse me if I just hand this money over directly to them this time!" Well, that is reality you know. So what about "foreign aid"? What about pulling our vast military presence out of Japan, 2/3 of it out of Korea and Europe? What about exiting Iraq? Can we get that Trillion Dollars (plus the estimated Trillion or so legacy costs) back? Never. What about the pointless war in Afghanistan? Does anybody ever ask themselves what the real long term ramifications of a decade war against Muslim extremist around the globe will have on the long term desire of these folks to one day actually organize themselves some kind of multi-nation alliance and truly threaten other nations? I mean really, right now and for the years going back to the beginning of radical Muslim movements against nations outside of Israel (the true root of all this mess), was there ever a time in modern history they had the potential to do anything more than cause a bit of terror by blowing something up with some rudimentary explosive devises or come up with more creative ways to use our own technology against us like in the 9.11 "attack"? Come on? Help me out here. How many Americans ever went to bed worried that some "army" from the middle east would invade their shores? We and a few other developed nations feed our "allied" Muslim nation friends all of their military technology for crying out loud. These folks cannot even make a microphone or CD player in their own nations let alone a computer or sophisticated guidance system, navy fleet, air force or any other mass weapon arsenal necessary to threaten other nations. Isn't it true the primary reason we don't want Iran to develop the technology to enrich uranium is that we really don't want any of the nations on the planet that do not align themselves with our capitalist / "democratic" value system to have the ability to create ANY technology or products which could head them in the direction of being able to create real weapons of mass destruction like we do? And so with all this, is taking $25 or $50 billion out of our "foreign aid" going to solve anything? We are directing hundreds of billions of dollars every year to our global military infrastructure; billions more are spent subsidizing our agricultural and agricultural exports; billions more are being spent / or credited to companies for the removal of fossil fuels from all corners of the planet; billions of dollars are being sucked out of our economy, from each individual, by companies operating within pathetically designed regulation / lack of regulation of our energy companies and infrastructure; billions of dollars are being sucked out of the American taxpayer every year for the construction of and maintenance of a transportation infrastructure designed specifically for the single most destructive product in use on the entire planet, the automobile; billions of dollars in energy literally escape right in the atmosphere by the pathetically designed and geographically dispersed regulation of building standards that allow millions of structures to be built annually with the environmental soundness of a mid 20th century box; billions of dollars are being spent incarcerating millions of Americans each year instead of educating them (with more of these dollars going into private hands each year);billions of dollars are being sucked out of the wealth of people, their pension plans and their governments around the planet monthly by the vast unregulated financial industries that have learned to rake as much cash out of the planet's financial wealth as possible with no nation, government, regulatory authority or power to answer to but the pursuit of as much wealth as humanly possible... I could go on about how many ways $25-$50 billion a year are completely wasted, lost, sucked into the coffers of companies riding the "free economic" poorly regulated and wasteful economy we have created but I will rest here.
Suffice to say, any person who decides to go after the politically easy, populace target of "foreign aid" when the true causes of our financial mess and destructive economic model lies right in front of us, is only succumbing to a failed logic and worse, exposing themselves to a deeper sense of "America is right and great and we should look after ourselves even if much of what we do economically and militarily is pathetically harmful to the planet and humanity in general."
ter⋅ror⋅ism /ˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ter-uh-riz-uhm] Show IPA –noun 1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes. 2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization. 3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/terrorism
The murder of Dr. George Tiller is THE classic definition of Terrorism.1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
Upcoming doctors are AFRAID they or their families will be harmed if they provide abortions.2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
"Carhart, 67, is one of a handful of remaining doctors in the United States who perform third-trimester abortions, and it is uncertain if a new generation of providers will take over the cause. Schools and universities don't offer many programs to train physicians on how to perform the procedure, and Carhart said younger doctors who might be interested in stepping forward are afraid they or their families will be harmed."http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090603/ap_on_re_us/us_the_next_tiller/print
The alleged murderer of Dr. George Tiller had a bigger agenda than simply murdering a man. His earlier problems with the law concerning his involvement with some Pro-Life groups attest to that fact. This alleged murderer not only conveyed his message of terror to Doctors, but also to the Government, IMO.3. a terroristic method of governing OR OF RESISTING A GOVERNMENT.
Abortion is LEGAL in this country!
However, these terrorist acts are making an impact.
How many more Doctors will be intimidated into refusing to perform a legal and needed operation before the legality of abortion doesn't matter anymore?When will laws start being used equitably?When will the murderers of Doctors that perform abortions going to be called and charged with what they are?
Terrorists.
Why isn't Dr. Tiller's alleged murderer also charged with terrorism?
He IS a Terrorist!
If you don't believe ME; try checking out the dictionary sometime.
Subject : - Denunciation of STATE CRIME against the three members of the SILVA-MARQUEZ family: Mrs Marie-José MARQUEZ - Miss Elisabeth SILVA and Mr Marc SILVA.
- Demands of the opening of National and international inquiries and the revelation of the Secret Defence on the Leo BALLEY affair.
After a forced expatriation of my family, during almost four and a half months in England followed by an arbitrary detention in U.S.A., splendidly immortalized with courage by my dear sister Elisabeth SILVA, in a book which crossed the borders, the Calvary of my family thrown to the vindication of maffioso continued, from our return to France on 11/02/2004.
At once, my sister and myself were gained by the consternation, when we notice the state of the mailboxes of our respective apartments, nevertheless distant around 700 kilometres, one of the other one. Both locks had been forced with the same savagery. Only the mailbox of my mother’s house located in Saubusse (40) had escaped any act of vandalism. For a very good reason, the owner of the house, without even waiting for the end of the lease had taken the decision, after the worrying missing of her tenant, to forward the mail to the local post office.
Armed with her only courage and strong of the only arms, my ruined family had to resolve to begin both moves of residence to settle down at home. The first pause intervened very fast.
With a single game of writing, the Bailiff crossed off boorishly the first date of the act to replace it by, that of the 10/02/2004, that is to say, the day of our booking of the plane ticket London / Paris. I clarify that this date also coincides with my last phone contact, from the British ground with the secretariat of the Prefect Mr. Roger Marion in Marseille (13), which I informed about our repatriation in France foreseen the next day and that, by our own means.
To exploit my honesty, not possessing either very personal, or even motor vehicle, given up for lack of being able to maintain it, nor a bank account placed in a tax haven, I shall produce to the Judge of Execution, not the simple paragraphs appeared in the French media, but the long cuts putting in light the blatant abuses of a certain press at the mercy of the organized crime.
During the next two rigorous winters, despite the payment of provisions of heating, a single apartment on eighty one, that holds the building, where I live, will be sporadically deprived of heating over long periods. Because of the fall of the temperatures, I was obliged to seek repeatedly technicians' intervention heating engineers with the guard of the building, Mrs D. (Phone. / 06. XX.XX.XX.XX), who, will scrupulously note on a register, according to her statements, each of my complaints.
- Deposit of complaint to the public prosecutor near the T.G.I. of Paris of 28/07/2004 for Violation of professional secret and defamation by one or several police officers who supplied the media with confidential character informations.
These pernicious, despicable schemes at least of a candidate likely to preside over the highest fates of FRANCE, are rather revealing of the perversity and the determination of this former employer, author of moral harassment. Demonstration is so made, that this new exaction does not manifestly ensue from a frenzy or from a wrong interpretation or still a syndrome of persecution, as for me, as tends to demonstrate it, by the most despicable means the Home Office.
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Radio BBC London memberitakan tentang diumbarnya rasa kecewa kelompok HAM tertentu kepada Presiden AS Barack Obama yang dinilai enggan mengadili agen-agen rahasia Dinas Intelijen AS (CIA) karena menggunakan teknik integorasi yang kejam sepanjang era kepemimpinan Presiden BUSH.
Kita simak dulu berita selengkapnya dari Radio BBC London :
16 April, 2009 - Published 20:58 GMT
Obama membuat kecewa
Kelompok hak asasi manusia di Amerika Serikat menyatakan kecewa bahwa agen CIA tidak akan diadili dalam soal teknik interogasi di masa Bush.
Para pegiat menyambut baik keputusan Gedung Putih menerbitkan rincian teknik interogasi yang sekarang sudah dilarang oleh Presiden Barack Obama.
Namun kelompok hak asasi mengatakan keputusan untuk tidak mengadili para agen itu merupakan kegagalan menegakkan hukum di negara tersebut.
Yang lainnya membela dengan mengatakan integorasi itu telah membuat Amerika Serikat lebih aman.
Mantan ketua CIA, Michael Hayden, yang menjalankan badan tersebut di bawah kepemimpinan Bush mengatakan langkah Gedung Putih ini akan mengganggu tugas-tugas intelejen, dan membuat badan asing enggan berbagi informasi dengan CIA.
Penerbitan laporan
Sebelumnya, Amerika Serikat menerbitkan empat memo rahasia yang merinci alasan hukum untuk cara interogasi CIA yang dilakukan pada masa Bush.
Para pengkritik program interogasi itu mengatakan cara yang digunakan itu sama dengan penyiksaan.
Presiden Barack Obama juga menerbitkan satu pernyataan yang menjamin bahwa tidak ada staf CIA yang akan dihukum karena perbuatan mereka dalam program interogasi itu.
Sebagian orang di CIA menghendaki agar sejumlah bagian memo itu tidak dipublikasikan, khawatir kalau-kalau penerbitan secara penuh akan memicu gugatan hukum terhadap para agen rahasia, kata laporan itu.
Penerbitan memo-memo itu berasal dari permintaan kelompok pembela hak sipil American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Teknik kejam
Tiga di antara dokumen tersebut dtulis pada bulan Mei 2005 oleh orang yang waktu itu menjabat kepala Kantor Penasihat Hukum Departemen Kehakiman, Stephen G. Bradbury.
Mereka memberikan dukungan legal untuk penggunaan kombinasi berbagai teknik pemaksaan, dan menyimpulkan bahwa cara yang dipakai CIA tidak “kejam, tak manusiawi, atau melecehkan” berdasarkan hukum internasional.
Obama, adalah pemimpin yang konsisten pada janjinya. Ini yang harusnya sangat cepat disadari, dikenali, dirasakan dan diakui oleh rakyat AS sendiri. Walaupun bergabung dalam sebuah wadah kelompok pembela hak sipil sekalipun, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) harus adil dan cerdas dalam “membaca” bagaimana karakter kepemimpinan yang membanggakan dari Obama.
Memang betul bahwa berbagai tindak penyiksaan yang terjadi sepanjang masa pemerintahan Presiden Bush terkait penanganan terorisme, sangat amat memalukan bagi AS.
Itulah sebabnya, Obama menjanjikan bahwa jika ia terpilih sebagai Presiden AS maka yang pertama akan dilakukannya adalah menutup kamp tahanan Guantanamo di Kuba.
Dan apa yang terjadi ?
Persis di hari pertama Obama bekerja secara resmi di Gedung Putih sebagai Presiden AS yang ke-44, memo pertama yang ditanda-tanganinya adalah keputusan untuk menutup Penjara Guantanamo dengan kebijakan bahwa penutupan itu secara resmi akan dilakukan paling lambat satu tahun setelah keputusan itu ditanda-tangani. Artinya, Penjara Guantanamo akan ditutup pada bulan Januari 2010.
Kami menuliskan hal ini secara khusus lewat tulisan berjudul “Misteri Angka Satu Presiden Obama Yang Antiklimaks”.
Mengapa kami sebut antiklimaks ?
Ya sebab masa satu tahun itu termasuk sangat lama untuk dinantikan oleh para tahanan yang ada di Penjara Guantanamo, jika patut dapat diduga penjara itu hanyalah kedok untuk melakukan berbagai tindakan penyiksaan kepada warga negara asing yang ditangkapi seenaknya saja dan ditahan disana hanya untuk disiksa. Tidak ada proses hukum yang diberikan dan tidak ada juga akses apapun yang diberikan kepada negara yang menjadi tanah kelahiran atau tempat asal para tahanan disana.
Sehingga, keputusan untuk menutup setahun ke depan rasanya terlalu lama. Mengapa bukan menutupnya sebulan setelah Presiden Obama menanda-tangani keputusan itu ?
Bayangkan kalau dalam sehari saja, semua tahanan disana tetap mendapatkan penyiksaan fisik. Maka, mereka harus sangat tabah dan kuat sekuat-kuatnya untuk tetap disiksa selama 364 hari berturut-turut. Alangkah lamanya penderitaan itu.
Iya kalau misalnya mereka memang bersalah. Tapi bagaimana kalau mereka samasekali tidak bersalah ? Hak apa yang mau dikedepankan untuk menjadi pembenaran bahwa agen-agen rahasia CIA dan seluruh petugas disana bisa menyiksa warga negara orang lain “seenak udel-nya sendiri” ?
Tetapi, fokus utama yang harus dicermati disini adalah Presiden Obama menepati janjinya untuk menutup penjara itu.
Entah itu sebulan atau setahun kemudian, tetapi state policy atau kebijakan negara (AS) sudah dikeluarkan dan tak bisa ditarik lagi.
Presiden Obama tak berhenti sampai disitu. Ia membuka kepada publik tentang adanya memo-memo rahasia yang membenarkan dan menjadi landasan bagi agen-agen rahasia CIA melakukan teknik integorasi dengan cara penyiksaan fisik yang begitu kejam.
Secara politik, patut dapat diduga kebijakan pemerintahan Presiden Obama membuka rahasia era Bush kepada publik terkait kekejaman teknik interogasi itu bisa dipandang sebagai sebuah sign atau tanda kepada Bush dan jajarannya bahwa mereka punya banya kelemahan dan kekurangan yang bersifat fatal sekali.
Secara politik, patut dapat diduga Presiden Obama bermaksud untuk meminta perhatian dari seluruh perangkat yang bertugas dibawah pemerintahan Bush agar jangan coba-coba untuk membuat lebih banyak permasalahan yang merepotkan AS (terutama pemerintahan Obama sendiri).
Lalu, kalau sekarang Presiden Obama yang dinilai mengecewakan karena “state policy” yang dikeluarkan tidak mencakup proses hukum terhadap seluruh agen rahasia CIA yang melakukan penyiksaan itu, hal ini justru menjadi tanda tanya besar.
Lho, mengapa Obama yang dipersalahkan ?
Dengan menilai bahwa Obama mengecewakan karena tidak memerintahkan agar para agen rahasia CIA diadili, maka penilaian ini yang justru keliru dan perlu diluruskan.
Obama tidak mengecewakan siapapun, entah itu rakyat AS atau publik dunia.
Pasti ada sesuatu yang sifatnya sangat mendasar sehingga ditempuh kebijakan yang formatnya memberikan nuansa yang sangat “win-win solution”.
Proses peradilan yang dituntutkan kepada para agen rahasia CIA itu, tak mungkin hanya dilakukan kepada para agen rahasia tersebut. Tetapi harus terus bergulir sampai ke tingkat atas.
Bahkan, sampai kepada orang per orang yang menuliskan memo-memo rahasia berisi landasan atau menjadi pegangan bagi “aparat dibawah” untuk melaksanakan apa yang diperintahkan oleh atasan.
Bukan tak mungkin, proses peradilan itu bisa menembus ke Pejabat Gedung Putih semasa pemerintahan Presiden Bush.
Hingga puncaknya, justru patut dapat diduga bisa menjadi bumerang yang menempatkan Mantan Presiden Bush sebagai tersangka (juga).
Yang menjadi akar permasalahan terkait penyiksaan-penyiksaan kepada para tahanan di Penjara Guantanamo itu, sekarang sudah diredam, dikendalikan, ditekan dan dihilangkan oleh Presiden Obama.
Pelan-pelan, penjara Guantanamo akan ditutup.
Pelan-pelan, sambil menunggu proses penutupan itu maka seluruh landasan atau pegangan tertulis yang menjadi alat pembenaran terjadinya penyiksaan-penyiksaan kepada para tahanan sudah dicabut oleh Presiden Obama.
Para tahanan yang memang bisa dikembalikan ke negara asalnya masing-masing, sudah mulai dkembalikan. Lalu sisanya, dialihkan ke beberapa negara yang memang bersedia menampung para tahanan Guantanamo.
Kadang-kadang, tudingan yang asbun atau asal bunyi saja tetapi mengatas-namakan Hak Azasi Manusia (HAM), justru mengundang rasa prihatin dari publik dunia.
Apakah terlalu sulit untuk kelompok HAM tersebut untuk memberikan waktu dan kesempatan kepada Presiden mereka sendiri untuk membenahi betapa morat-maritnya penanganan terorisme sepanjang masa pemerintahan Presiden Bush ?
Jangan karena membawa isu HAM, maka dianggap sah-sah saja menuding Presiden Obama begini dan begitu dalam konotasi negatif.
Apa yang telah dilakukan oleh Presiden Obama selama 3 bulan pertama masa kekuasaannya ini terkait penanganan terorisme, sudah sangat baik sekali dan patut dihargai oleh siapapun.
Obama memberikan atmosfir yang kondusif dalam hal penanganan terorisme. Ia tak mau lagi secara bombastis mengumbang motto PERANG MELAWAN TEROR.
Obama tak mau lagi, atas nama PERANG MELAWAN TEROR maka AS memamerkan arogansi kekuasaan dan terus bertindak sewenang-wenang. Dan tindakan sewenang-wenang itu, patut dapat diduga ditiru juga oleh segelintir orang yang selama ini dilatih dan diberi kemudahan dalam segala peningkatan kemampuan diri masing-masing dalam hal penanganan terorisme di di negara-negara tertentu.
Ya bayangkan saja, sepanjang Bush berkuasa (pasca serangan teroris 11 September 2001 di AS), begitu atraktif dan agresif sekali terjadi peledakan-peledakan bom di beberapa negara.
Termasuk di Indonesia.
Waduh, seperti langganan saja. Periode 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 dan 2005 Indonesia terus mendapatkan serangan peledakan bom dalam kategori HIGH EXPLOSIVE.
Katanya sudah pada dilatih oleh AS dalam menangani terorisme, yang terjadi masalah semakin merajalelanya tindak pidana terorisme itu di Indonesia.
Yang mau dikatakan disini adalah Presiden Obama bukan cuma sekedar wacana dalam kaitan pemulihan metode penanganan teror yang sempat menjadi sangat menyimpang pada era pemerintahan Presiden Bush.
Ada “action” atau tindakan nyata dari Presiden Obama yang benar-benar sangat mengagumkan. Dia lakukan sesuatu sesuai dengan otoritas dan kewenangan yang dapat digunakannya sebagai seorang Kepala Negara.
Bagaimana mungkin, agen-agen rahasia CIA itu dapat diseret ke muka hukum jika ternyata pada kenyataannya ada surat tertulis yang keluar dari GEDUNG PUTIH berisi perintah resmi untuk menginterogasi para tahanan terorisme lewat metode yang kejam tadi ?
Para agen rahasia CIA itu tidak melakukan perbuatan yang menyimpang dari perintah atasan. Ya, mereka tidak melakukan yang disebut sebagai in sub ordiansi.
Kalau para agen rahasia CIA itu dituntut dan diseret misalnya ke muka hukum, maka patut dapat diduga para agen rahasia ini bisa berbalik menuntut jika ternyata tugas-tugas yang sudah mereka laksanakan dianggap sebagai perbuatan melawan hukum.
Lain halnya, kalau misalnya ada petugas yang berinisatif menyiksa sendiri para tahanan itu. Tetapi yang terjadi disini adalah kebalikannya. Ada perintah resmi dari Gedung Putih, lewat memo-memo rahasia yang dibongkar dan dibuka oleh Pemerintahan Presiden Obama.
Jadi, salah besar kalau dikatakan bahwa Presiden Obama sangat mengecewakan kelompok pembela hal sipil (ACLU) tadi.
Kami tidak sependapat.
Presiden Obama sudah melakukan hal yang benar dan terpuji. Ia justru harus didukung untuk terus melakukan PERBUAHAN atau CHANGE sehingga AS dapat menjadi negara adidaya yang sangat mengagumkan.
Jadi, janganlah ada yang asbun menuding bahwa seolah-olah Obama mengecewakan dan tidak memahami duduk persoalan.
Pahami dong duduk persoalannya. Sadari apa yang menjadi esensi dari kebijakan-kebijakan AS.
Presiden Obama , kini seakan menjadi sebuah alunan melodi yang terdengar indah di telinga siapa saja di belahan dunia ini, saat dengan kesungguhannya Obama membenahi apapun juga yang selama ini memang kurang baik atau tidak pantas untuk menjadi bagian dari sistem pemerintahan sebuah bangsa yang terhormat bernama AMERIKA SERIKAT.
Meredam dan memerangi terorisme, bukan dengan cara mengobarkan secara lebih parah mata api perlawanan dari pelaku-pelaku terorisme itu sendiri atau orang-orang tertentu yang berkedok sebagai “teroris” padahal justru berniat untuk “cari makan” atau menggali harta karun yang bisa dikeruh dari rusaknya nilai-nilai peradaban manusia akibat dihajar oleh kekejaman terorisme.
Tak benar jika disebut Obama mengecewakan.
Yang benar adalah Presiden Obama sudah melakukan sesuatu yang benar seturut dengan kebijakan negara yang kini dipimpinnya, agar kebijakan itu tidak menimbulkan guncangan stabilitas (terutama didalam negara mereka sendiri).
Ke depan diharapkan, Presiden Obama sungguh serius untuk mengendalikan sebuah perangkat didalam sistem pemerintahannya agar jangan lagi ada keputusan, kebijakan atau tindakan yang menyalahi ketentuan hukum atau aturan yang berlaku dalam hal penanganan terorisme.
Juga diharapkan, agar Presiden Obama sungguh serius untuk menggunting secara cepat kesengajaan pihak tertentu di berbagai negara asing yang sengaja mengeruk keuntungan dari kocek anggaran AS selama bertahun-tahun terakhir ini atas nama penanganan terorisme.
Singkirkan dan hindari semua benalu-benalu yang cara hidupnya sudah menggerogoti AS dan negara yang menjadi basis gerakan oknum aparat di INDONESIA misalnya, yang patut dapat diduga menjadikan isu terorisme sebagai komoditi dagangan dan ladang emas yang mendapatkan seribu satu macam keuntungan.
Dukung Obama dalam membenahi semua penyimpangan dan ketimpangan terkait penanganan terorisme.
Dengan semua respek yang kita punya maka ketegasan dan keberanian Presiden Obama untuk melakukan pembenahan yang bersifat menyeluruh itu sangat pantas untuk dihargai dan didukung sepanjang masa pemerintahan Obama.
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Presiden Barack Obama (Foto : Whitehouse.Gov)
Jakarta, 3 April 2009 (KATAKAMI) Selalu ada kejutan dari seorang Barack Hussein Obama. Ia sangat tak terduga. Benar-benar tak terduga. Bahkan dalam menjajaki tangga karier politiknya, Obama tak mau jadi politisi kejutan yang baru sibuk kampanye dan “teriak-teriak” berorasi secara dadakan hanya untuk untuk meraih kemenangan.
Semua direncanakan, dilaksanakan dan diupayakan secara cerdas Oleh Obama.Dan kali ini, ia mengambil sebuah keputusan yang bijaksana. Motto utama dari KABINET BUSH selama bertahun-tahun yaitu kalimat “PERANG MELAWAN TEROR” dihapuskan secara total oleh Obama.
Tapi, bukan berarti Obama menghapuskan konsistensi AS dalam menangani dan memberantas masalah terorisme. Yakinlah bahwa penanganan dan pemberantasan terorisme akan tetap dilanjutkan oleh Pemerintah AS tetapi sedapat mungkin harus sesuai dengan kaidah hukum yang berlaku. Tak bisa lagi semena-mena atau menghalalkan semua cara.
Dan penghapusan kalimat PERANG MELAWAN TEROR itu adalah kabar baru yang mengejutkan. Itu juga menjadi angin segar yang akan membawa dunia ke arah lebih manusiawi dan kondusif. Pasti, tidak mudah bagi Presiden OBAMA untuk mengumumkan kebijakan seperti ini karena bisa disalah-artikan. Tetapi ayah dari 2 anak ini berani mengambil keputusan. Semuanya itu, pasti demi bersinarnya lagi kemilau kedigdayaan bangsa AMERIKA SERIKAT yang sepenuhnya menghormati, mentaati dan konsisten menjalankan nilai-nilai Kemanusiaan, Hukum dan HAM.
Bayangkan, atas nama PERANG MELAWAN TEROR, Bush menghalalkan semua cara untuk melakukan invasi militer ke sejumlah negara yaitu Afghanistan dan Irak. Atas nama PERANG MELAWAN TEROR, Bush memerintahkan dibukanya Penjara yang patut dapat diduga menjadi ladang penyiksaan bagi siapa saja yang dicurigai AS sebagai TERORIS yaitu Penjara Guantanamo.
Tanpa ada proses hukum dan tanpa perlu mengikuti kaidah-kaidah hukum, ratusan orang diseret untuk dibantai disana. Betapa malunya AS, foto-foto penyiksaan itu bocor melalui kecanggihan teknologi. Dan tanpa disadari, kegarangan dan keganasan itu menimbulkan kebencian, antipati dan jungkir baliknya respek semua bangsa bangsa serta umat manusia di seluruh dunia terhadap AS.
Atas nama PERANG MELAWAN TEROR, Bush menghamburkan uang negara untuk membantu siapa saja dan negara mana saja yang dianggap bisa mengadopsi motto “PERANG MELAWAN TEROR” sehingga BUSH tidak “kesepian” dengan mimpi buruknya yang sangat berkepanjangan. AS seakan tersentak disaat menyadari bahwa negara mereka mengalami krisis keuangan yang sangat parah pada era kekinian.
Padahal jika BUSH mau atau bisa sedikit saja mengendalikan amukan dan gejolak emosi yang meletup-letup dalam penanganan terorisme, AS bisa berhemat secara luar biasa dalam anggaran negara.
Satu contoh kecil saja, saat teroris Hambali ditangkap di Thailand tgl 11 Agustus 2003. Kabarnya Pemerintah AS memberikan bonus uang USD 4 Juta untuk Pemerintah Thailand. Untuk apa ? Ya, untuk menjadi tanda terimakasih atas “keluguan” Thailand mau menyerahkan ke AS teroris yang berutang sangat banyak kasus tindak pidana terorisme di INDONESIA yaitu Hambali
Kenapa tidak diserahkan ke Indonesia, tetapi malah ke AS ?
Dan beberapa waktu lalu, kami coba untuk mempelajari data dan catatan di berbagai media massa. Proses penyerahan Hambali kepada Pihak AS menjelang akhir bulan Agustus 2003, terpaut sekitar 6 hari sesudah peledakan bom di Hotel JW Marriot Jakarta (Agustus 2003).
Kita tentu masih ingat kontroversi yang terjadi pada saat itu bahwa patut dapat diduga rencana peledakan itu sudah “bocor” duluan ke telinga Pihak AS sehingga pemesanan kamar dari rombongan AS dibatalkan menjelang hari naas.
Seandainya boleh ditarik benang merah dan dipertanyakan (walau sangat terlambat mempertanyakan hal ini), mengapa petinggi Anti Teror yang memang tahu bahwa Hambali adalah otak pelaku dan termasuk dalang utama semua aksi peledakan bom di Indonesia sejak peristiwa bom malam natal bisa “santai-santai saja” saat termonitor Hambali ditangkap ?
Padahal biasanya apa saja bisa langsung cepat tahu ? Mengapa bisa sangat kebetulan sekali, yaitu 2 minggu sebelum Hambali “dihadiahkan” Pemerintah Thailand kepada Pemerintah Bush, terjadi “lagi” peledakan bom di Indonesia ?
Yurisdiksi hukum dari penindakan hukum bagi seorang Hambali adalah di Indonesia dan agak aneh sebenarnya mengapa Thailand bisa dengan sangat aman sentosa menyenangkan hati Bush (tanpa ada sedikitpun berkoordinasi dengan Tim Anti Teror ?).
Sampai langit ini runtuh, Indonesia tak akan bisa memaafkan jika patut dapat diduga ada sesuatu yang memang sangat misterius dibalik peristiwa itu.
Dalam artian, jika patut dapat diduga ada OKNUM-OKNUM yang belagak tidak tahu bahwa “mangsa utama” penanganan terorisme di Indonesia sudah diciduk oleh kolega mereka tetapi belagak pilon saja agar berjalan lancar proses penyerahan itu kepada AS.
Jika Pemerintah Thailand saja dikabarkan mendapat dana sekitar USD 4 juta, patutkah dapat diduga ada OKNUM-OKNUM tertentu yang mendapat “angpao” juga agar seolah-olah memang tidak tahu samasekali proses tertangkapnya Hambali di Thailand karena memang sangat sibuk terhadap penanganan aksi peledakan bom di Marriot ?
Tidak ada yang tahu apa sebenarnya yang terjadi, kecuali … ?
Agustus 2003, setelah Pemerintah Thailand menyerahkan Hambali maka tidak lama setelah itu dengan bangganya BUSH mengumumkan kepada dunia internasional bahwa seorang teroris paling berbahaya sudah berhasil ditangkap.
Sejak itu, HAMBALI seakan menjadi “executive member” atau anggota istimewa di Penjara Guantanamo.
Dan setelah hampir 6 tahun mendekam disana, kabar terakhir yang beredar adalah pria kelahiran Cianjur ini sudah memegang paspor sebagai warga negara Spanyol. Selama berada di Guantanamo, tidak ada satupun proses hukum yang dilakukan terhadap Hambali.
Bahkan POLRI tidak pernah diizinkan mendapatkan akses untuk bertemu Hambali di Guantamo. Padahal Hambali adalah otak pelaku alias dalang dari sejumlah aksi peledakan bom di Indonesia.
Kabar tentang diberikannya paspor Spanyol kepada HAMBALI memberikan indikasi bahwa dalam rangka penutupan Penjara Guantanamo per bulan Januari 2010 mendatang, maka besar kemungkinan HAMBALI akan ditransfer ke Spanyol untuk menjadi tahanan di negara itu.
Saat ini, AS memang gencar melobi sejumlah negara untuk mau menampung sisa dari tahanan-tahanan Guantanamo. Sebab, sebagian besar memang dipulangkan ke negaranya masing-masing.
Patut dapat diduga, fakta bahwa HAMBALI adalah petinggi Al Qaeda Asia dan Hambali jugalah yang berada dibalik sebagian besar aksi peledakan bom (terutama di Indonesia yaitu sejak peledakan bom malam Natal tanggal 24 Desember 2000), tampaknya benar-benar menjadi faktor pertimbangan AS untuk tetap “menunda” mudiknya HAMBALI ke Indonesia.
Jika HAMBALI diekstradisi ke Indonesia, ia juga tak akan pernah bisa luput dari proses penegakan hukum di Indonesia.
Sebab, Hambali berutang sangat banyak kepada bangsa, negara dan rakyat Indonesia karena sudah meluluh-lantakkan nilai-nilai peradaban di negara ini lewat serangkaian aksi peledakan bom.
Kembali pada kebijakan Presiden OBAMA untuk menghapus kalimat “PERANG MELAWAN TEROR” dalam agenda resmi pemerintahan mereka dalam menangani sektor keamanan nasional atau National Security”, sekali lagi kebijakan Presiden Obama ini jangan diartikan bahwa AS akan berhenti memerangi terorisme.
AS pasti akan tetap konsisten untuk menangani tindak pidana terorisme !
Namun, konsistensi itu akan disesuaikan dan dikembalikan kepada “rel” yang sebenarnya yaitu melakukan proses penegakan hukum tetapi bukan dengan melanggar hukum itu sendiri.
Metode interogasi ala WATER BOARDING yang diadopsi PEMERINTAHAN BUSH
Contoh yang bisa diambil bahwa Presiden Obama tidak ingin ada tindakan yang melawan hukum dari aparatnya sendiri dalam proses hukum kasus terorisme adalah dengan dihapuskannya juga metode interogasi lewat cara WATER BOARDING yaitu menyiramkan air sebanyak-banyaknya ke arah muka (kepala) si “teroris” ke dalam air sampai benar-benar nyaris kehabisan nafas agar mau mengakui.
Cara penyiksaan yang tidak manusiawi seperti itulah yang dipakai oleh aparat PEMERINTAH BUSH selama ini dalam menangani orang yang dituduh sebagai teroris.
Hukum adalah hukum. Law is law.
Dan Presiden OBAMA menyadari bahwa penegakan hukum yang semurni-murninya adalah sesuatu yang mutlak harus dilakukan oleh kabinetnya saat ini.
Ambruknya derajat dan martabat AS karena beberapa tahun terakhir ini dituding sebagai negara yang paling keji dalam memperlakukan para tahanannya adalah buah dari motto kalimat “PERANG MELAWAN TEROR” tadi.
Contoh lain yang bisa diambil tentang kebrutalan terkait penanganan terhadap para tahanan (bukan tawanan tetapi tahanan !), adalah oknum Sersan yang akhirnya divonis pidana kurungan selama 35 tahun oleh Mahkamah Militer AS pada awal pekan ini. Sersan itu dengan “enaknya” menembak mati 4 orang tahanan di Irak dengan cara menembak para tahanan itu dari bagian belakang batok kepala.
Dan dalam kaitan misi pengembalian penanganan tindak pidana terorisme pada proses hukum yang “murni” di AS, maka kebijakan Presiden Obama menghapuskan kalimat “PERANG MELAWAN TEROR” itu menjadi sebuah tanda dan pemberitahuan bagi negara-negara lain atau pihak manapun (OKNUM orang-perorang) yang selama ini “tidak sadar” bahwa perilaku mereka jauh lebih buruk dari AS dalam menangani masalah terorisme.
Misalnya saja, ikut-ikutan juga menangkapi siapa saja yang dicurigai sebagai teroris. Main ciduk saja dan mengumumkan bahwa ia sudah menangkap teroris sekian ratus orang. Padahal belum tentu yang ditangkapi itu adalah teroris atau terbukti bersalah melakukan tindak pidana terorisme.
Tapi supaya kelihatan keren dan hebat dimata Pimpinan, Pemerintah Indonesia dan bahkan dimata Pemerintah AS serta dunia internasional, maka diseret saja siapapun yang bisa diseret atas nama penanganan terorisme. Lalu, langsung diumumkan kepada media massa bahwa orang yang ditangkap dengan nama si A, si B dan si C adalah teroris jaringan tertentu.
Padahal belum tentu demikian. Tapi tidak ada yang bisa memprotes selama ini karena seolah-olah OKNUM Petinggi tertentu dalam penanganan terorisme di Indonesia ini, yang paling berhak tahu dan menangani masalah terorisme tersebut.
Ingat, pembuktian tentang bersalah atau tidaknya seseorang yang bermasalah dengan “hukum” adalah saat majelis hakim mengetuk palu dengan memberikan vonis kepada masing-masing terdakwa (apakah terdakwa itu terbukti bersalah atau justru sebaliknya).
Jadi sebelum ada vonis dari majelis hakim, maka prinsip hukum tentang asas praduga tak bersalah atau presumption of innocent wajib dihormati dan dilaksanakan.
Bukan tidak mungkin, Presiden Obama saat ini akhirnya tahu bahwa akibat gembar-gembor dan perilaku yang “over acting” (berlebihan) akibat motto “PERANG MELAWAN TEROR” tadi, sejumlah OKNUM yang selama bertahun-tahun mendapatkan berbagai pelatihan atau bantuan teknis untuk meningkatkan kemampuan dalam menangani terorisme di negaranya masing-masing, justru menyalah-gunakan semua atensi, ilmu dan kemampuan yang didapatkan berdasarkan kebaikan hati AS.
Bayangkan saja, maksud AS sebenarnya memberikan semua bantuan itu agar dalam upaya penanganan terorisme itu bisa lebih tajam dan membuahkan hasil yang nyata.
Tetapi patut dapat diduga, ada dampak yang sangat fatal yaitu semua “ilmu” itu ada yang justru disalah-gunakan atau dipraktekkan kepada pihak lain yang tidak bersalah samasekali.
Entah itu jenis ilmu dan kemampuan teknis apapun yang serba canggih dari Penyidik-Penyidik AS Dinas Intelijen Rahasia AS (CIA) atau Biro Investigasi Federal (FBI).
Siapa bilang, semua ilmu dan kemampuan teknis itu tidak mungkin disalah-gunakan ?
Segala sesuatu mungkin saja dilakukan dan patut dapat diduga di Indonesia inipun penyalah-gunakan itu ada dilakukan oleh OKNUM orang per orang (sekali lagi, yang patut dapat diduga menyalah-gunakan itu adalah OKNUM yang merasa paling jago dalam hal penanganan terorisme di Indonesia selama ini).
Dilatih dan diajari untuk melacak keberadaan teroris menggunakan kecanggihan teknologi misalnya, entah itu dari alat penyadap telepon (intercept) dan teknologi pada dunia maya (cyber media) ternyata ilmu yang sangat “rahasia” ini malah digunakan untuk merugikan pihak lain yang nyata-nyata bukan teroris.
Privacy atau wilayah pribadi orang lain, serta hak-hak yang sangat mendasar dari warga sipil tak bersenjata, menjadi diobrak-abrik kalau misalnya patut dapat diduga ada OKNUM yang asyik saja menyalah-gunakan semua “ilmu, alat dan kemampuan teknisnya” selama ini yang diperoleh dari Pihak AS.
Apalagi karena pembuktian dari semua “kejahatan siluman” bersifat sangat absurd dan memang sulit pembuktiannya di lapangan, maka patut dapat diduga merajalela semua penyalah-gunaan itu dalam aplikasinya pada kehidupan sehari-hari.
Yang repotnya lagi, atas nama penanganan terorisme dan predikat sebagai pelaku-pelaku gerakan intelijen maka patut dapat diduga OKNUM-OKNUM yang memang memiliki akses penyadapan dan kecanggihan teknologi untuk sektor keamanan nasional akan saling menjegal dan saling meniru dalam hal melakukan perbuatan melawan hukum karena didorong rasa rivalitas yang sangat tinggi.
Tidak ada yang menjamin bahwa semua perangkat penyadapan dan kecanggihan teknologi itu digunakan secara baik dan benar !
Tidak ada pengawasan yang bisa dipertanggung-jawabkan secara hukum karena masing-masing kubu tak akan pernah bisa diakses oleh pihak luar yang punya otoritas hukum melakukan penindakan jika itu menyalahi aturan perundang-undangan !
Sehingga, patut dapat diduga dibebaskannya OKNUM-OKNUM menggunakan semua itu seenaknya sendiri tanpa ada pengawasan yang ketat, bisa membuka peluang bagi terciptanya proses kudeta atau perbuatan melawan hukum lainnya dengan dibantu peralatan penyadapan dan kecanggihan teknologi yang dibeli sangat mahal oleh negara untuk penanganan terorisme.
AS, terutama Presiden OBAMA, tentu sekarang merasa bersalah jika patut dapat diduga ada penyalah-gunaan ilmu dan peralatan penanganan anti teror di negara-negara lain yang dalam masa keemasan prinsip PERANG MELAWAN TEROR, diberi keutamaan dan fasilitas dalam menyerap ilmu dan bergelimpangannya “dolar” dari kabinet BUSH dalam upaya memberantas tindak pidana terorisme.
AS, terutama Presiden OBAMA, tentu merasa bersalah juga jika akhirnya bangsanya sendiri yang bangkrut karena selama bertahun-tahun lamanya memposisikan diri seperti “sinterklas” yang mudah memberikan dan membantu apa saja tanpa ada batasan limit.
Padahal patut dapat diduga, ada juga bantuan keuangan itu yang masuk ke kantong pribadi orang per orang yang terlibat langsung di lapangan dalam penanganan terorisme di berbagai negara.
Satu hal yang perlu dibuka misterinya kepada seluruh rakyat Indonesia adalah berapa dan mana pertanggung-jawaban dari semua dana bantuan dalam penanganan terorisme di Indonesia dari negara asing ?
Jika selama ini ada Petinggi-Petinggi Anti Teror atau Perwira Menengah yang mendapatkan pelatihan demi pelatihan, perjalanan dinas dalam rangka pendidikan anti teror atau hal ihwal apapun yang terjalin atas nama kerjasama penanganan terorisme (terutama dari Pihak AS), berapa nilai total dari semuanya itu selama kurun waktu 6 tahun terakhir ?
Rakyat Indonesia berhak tahu karena kebaikan hati Pemerintah AS itu diberikan dalam rangka kerjasama penanganan terorisme antara AMERIKA SERIKAT DAN INDONESIA, bukan dengan orang per orang.
Ini harus dicamkan baik-baik !
Sehingga, siapa saja yang selama ini menikmati dan mendapatkan semua fasilitas, uang, alat, pendidikan, pelatihan dan semua jenis bantuan dari Pemerintah AS selama kurun waktu 6 tahun terakhir harus bisa (dan wajib hukumnya) bisa mempertanggung-jawabkan semua itu kepada rakyat Indonesia.
Dan kalau mau kejam sedikit dan sangat tajam mengupas tuntas misteri aksi terorisme ini, patut dapat diduga ada juga aksi peledakan bom itu yang bukan dilakukan oleh kalangan teroris itu sendiri alias direkayasa.
Ini bukan mustahil sebab semua hasil penyidikan dan setumpuk barang bukti yang diserahkan misalnya, memungkinan oknum-oknum tertentu meniru gerak, langkah dan strategi kalangan teroris itu sendiri.
Hanya Tuhan yang tahu dan biarlah itu menjadi tanggung-jawab dari oknum masing-masing antara diri mereka kepada Sang Pencipta jika ternyata hal semacam ini ada terjadi di belahan dunia ini.
Sketsa wajah oknum perwira tinggi yang patut dapat diduga meloloskan ALI IMRON agar tidak terkena mati, lalu pura-pura dipinjam dari LP Krobokan Bali dari mulai tahun 2003 sampai saat ini. Bahkan, patut dapat diduga mendanai ALI IMRON hidup berkemewahan dari hotel ke hotel dan apartemen mewah, serta membuatkan buku memoar serba luks untuk ALI IMRON. Ada apa sebenarnya antara oknum perwira tinggi ini dengan JARINGAN TERORISME ?
Lalu, satu hal yang perlu disampaikan kepada Presiden OBAMA, apakah AS bisa memahami dan menerima dengan lapang dada bahwa anggaran keuangan negara mereka yang selama ini diberikan kepada INDONESIA dalam penanganan terorisme, berjalan dengan timpang dalam kasus peminjaman terpidana ALI IMRON ?
Terpidana kasus Bom Bali I ini, bisa luput dari vonis mati hanya karena dianggap bisa bekerjasama. Lalu, ia mendapatkan vonis pidana kurungan (penjara) seumur hidup. Tapi apa yang terjadi ?
Ali Imron, dipinjam dari LP Krobokan sejak ia menerima vonis dari majelis hakim tahun 2003 dan tidak pernah lagi dikembalikan ke penjara. Teroris yang merupakan pelaku utama dari Bom Bali I ini justru dibiayai oleh OKNUM Petinggi Anti Teror untuk hidup serba mewah dan dibuatkan buku otobigrafi yang sangat lux.
Apa yang bisa dibanggakan dari tindakan OKNUM Petinggi Anti Teror yang seperti ini ? Sangat memalukan ! Benar-benar memalukan dan keterlaluan.
Kalau misalnya sekarang, rakyat AS tahu bahwa dana yang digelontorkan oleh negara mereka untuk penanganan terorisme di Indonesia ini, justru dinikmati juga oleh seorang teroris paling “berbahaya” yaitu hidup berkemewahan dengan fasilitas penuh yang sempurna ?
Dimana konsistensi dari penegakan hukum karena korban yang masih hidup dari peledakan BOM BALI I saja, sampai saat ini banyak yang harus hidup menderita dalam keadaan cacat permanen ?
Sementara Ali Imron, ia berleha-leha bagaikan konglomerat muda yang serba bergelimpangan harta.
Tahukah Presiden OBAMA bahwa tindakan semacam ini yaitu kesewenang-wenangan dengan memberikan kemewahan dan kebebasan yang absolut kepada teroris sekotor Ali Imron ini adalah sebuah bentuk pengingkaran dan pengkhianatan terhadap misi penanganan terorisme ?
Ali Imron harus dikembalikan ke dalam penjara, tidak bisa tidak !
Kalau perlu, Petinggi Anti Teror yang selama ini seenaknya saja menggunakan keuangan negara atau bantuan dari negara lain untuk membiayai teroris Ali Imron hidup berkemewahan harus diseret ke muka hukum untuk mempertanggung-jawabkan tindakannya yang sangat memalukan Indonesia. Jangan bicara soal keberhasilan penanganan terorisme kalau teroris yang harusnya bertanggung-jawab terhadap kasus Bom Bali I saja, justru dibiayai hidup berkemewahan.
Ada apa dibalik semuanya itu ?
Bahkan sudah saatnya, KABINET OBAMA menelusuri hal ini, yaitu apakah ada dana bantuan dari AS yang disalah-gunakan untuk membiayai hidup Ali Imron secara berkemewahan !
Dan Presiden OBAMA perlu “memasang mata dan telinga” dari Pemerintahan yang dipimpinnya saat ini apakah patut dapat ddiuga ada OKNUM tertentu yang selama bertahun-tahun ini mendapatkan bantuan dari AS dalam menangani terorisme, menjadi milyuner atau bahkan triyuner dari hasil komiditi dagang di bidang penanganan terorisme ?
Semua mungkin saja terjadi ! Dan karena belum terbongkar maka rakyat Indonesia belum tahu apa sebenarnya yang terjadi
Tragedi serangan 11 September 2001 di AS, sebuah tragedi kemanusiaan yang sangat memilukan hati dan memprihatinkan. Tak cuma bagi AS, tapi bagi bangsa-bangsa didunia
Dibalik keputusan Presiden Obama untuk menutup Penjara Guantanamo dan meluruskan penanganan terorisme itu sendiri agar sesuai dengan kaidah hukum, maka tampaklah keseriusan KABINET OBAMA untuk melakukan hal-hal yang memang semestinya dilakukan selama ini.
Dan semua pihak harus menghargai niat baik dari Presiden OBAMA.
AS tak akan pernah mungkin menghapuskan sejarah kelam terkait Tragedi Serangan 11 September 2001. Serangan itu adalah aksi teror yang paling biadab dan sangat “tak termaafkan” sebenarnya. Tetapi tak ada negara manapun di dunia ini yang bisa dibiarkan main hakim sendiri atau menerapkan hukum rimba di negara mereka.
Hukum adalah hukum. Law is Law.
Penanganan terhadap tindak pidana terorisme memang harus tetap dilanjutkan dan diteruskan.
Ini tidak boleh berhenti hanya sampai disini. Kewaspadaan tetap harus dilakukan karena sedikit saja lengah maka kalangan teroris yang sedang “tiarap” itu bisa kumat sakit moralnya.
Kerjasama antara AS dan negara-negara manapun di dunia ini dalam penanganan terorisme juga harus tetap dilanjutkan dan diteruskan. Tetapi, jangan lagi dibuat sangat absolut atau tidak terbatas. Semua harus terukur, terarah dan bisa dipertanggung-jawabkan.
AS, khususnya Presiden OBAMA, juga harus menertibkan berbagai ilmu atau produk apapun yang selama bertahun-tahun lamanya disebar atau diberikan ke sejumlah pihak dalam misi PERANG MELAWAN TEROR tadi, tetapi terindikasi telah disalah-gunakan.
Harus ada terobosan yang sifatnya tertib hukum dalam penggunaan ilmu atau produk apapun yang berasal dari AS untuk penanganan terorisme yang disalah-gunakan tadi.
Sebab, jika patut dapat diduga ada pihak tertentu atau OKNUM tertentu orang perorang yang menyalah-gunakannya kepada warga sipil tak bersenjata (padahal AS mentransfer ilmu dan memberikan bantuan material apapun juga untuk penanganan terorisme), maka penyimpangan ini sangat layak dikategorikan sebagai kejahatan terhadap kemanusiaan.
Dalam hal itulah, AS harus mulai melacak secara cermat dan seksama, apakah memang ada hal-hal semacam ini terjadi di mana saja !
Harus Presiden OBAMA yang memberikan perintah langsung tentang penertiban semua itu agar seluruh perangkat dibawahnya tunduk dan patuh kepada perintah kepala negara negara.
Dengan demikian, akan mudah melakukan penelusuran dan pembuktian terhadap semua penyimpangan atau penyalah-gunaan itu.
Menteri Luar Negeri Hillary Clinton
Berbicara di Den Haag (Belanda), pengumuman tentang penghapuskan kalimat atau motto “PERANG MELAWAN TEROR” tadi disampaikan Menteri Luar Negeri AS Hillary Clinton.
Peran Hillary juga pasti ada dalam misi pelurusan kembali penanganan terhadap terorisme ini.
Menurutnya, Pemerintahan Bush yang telah digantikan oleh Presiden Obama memutuskan penghapusan frasa penggunaan kalimat “PERANG MELAWAN TEROR” antara lain karena dijadikan alat pembenaran untuk melakukan intervensi ke Irak dan pemenjaraan tahanan tersangka pelaku teror di Guantanamo, Kuba, dan banyak penjara rahasia CIA di luar negeri.
Tentu Indonesia juga harus menyambut baik kebijakan ini. Semoga saja, ini akan membawa dunia ke arah yang lebih baik.
Tetapi, pasca diberlakukannya kebijakan ini maka yang perlu diwaspadai bersama adalah dampaknya. Entah dari kalangan teroris itu sendiri, atau dari OKNUMtertentu yang merasa kehilangan “lahan rezeki nomplok” karena patut dapat diduga sudah terlanjur menjadikan isu terorisme menjadi “komoditi dagang”.
Jangan diberi ampun kepada siapa saja yang mencoba untuk bermain-main dengan keselamatan, keamanan dan ketentraman dunia. Tapi jangan dibiarkan ada yang bermain-main dengan segala arogansi penuh rekayasa.
Presiden Obama sekeluarga
Ode adalah sebuah nyanyian tentang penghargaan dan pujian kepada seseorang yang telah melakukan sesuatu yang baik.
Dalam hal ini, Presiden Obama dengan sangat bijaksana telah melakukan terobosan yang niscaya akan membantu secara sungguh-sungguh membawa dunia ke arah yang jauh lebih baik.
Thank you very much, Mr President !
Editor In Chief Of KATAKAMI.COM (Indonesia)
The US/Britain 200 Years war against Islamic pirates - terrorists
For young Somalis, piracy offers power, prosperity The Associated Press There are several known pirate groups in Somalia. One is based in the southern port town of Kismayo, which is controlled by Islamic insurgents. … http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iR9XICoYi0CQt77GJUw5lNAPpG_AD97EGS200
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Somali pirates seize American ship, crew … by Ed Morrissey Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates …one cannot get around what Jefferson heard when he went with John Adams to wait upon Tripoli’s ambassador to London in March 1785. When they inquired by what right the Barbary states preyed upon American shipping … So here was an early instance of the “heads I win, tails you lose” dilemma, in which the United States is faced with corrupt regimes, on the one hand, and Islamic militants, on the other—or indeed a collusion between them. … http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/08/somali-pirates-seize-american-ship-crew/
A look back at history
Britain’s 200-year jihad (and US facing them)
Britain’s 200-year jihad There are many similarities between the stateless jihad of the 1700’s and ….. The pirate ships set sail for Algeria later that day, with the captives on … http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/008320.php
America’s Earliest Terrorists
Lessons from America’s first war against Islamic terror.
December 16, 2005, 9:55 a.m. By Joshua E. London At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected United States president was forced to confront a grave threat to the nation — an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim terrorists. Worse still, these Islamic partisans operated under the protection and sponsorship of rogue Arab states ruled by ruthless and cunning dictators. Sluggish in recognizing the full nature of the threat, America entered the war well after the enemy’s call to arms. Poorly planned and feebly executed, the American effort proceeded badly and at great expense — resulting in a hastily negotiated peace and an equally hasty declaration of victory. As timely and familiar as these events may seem, they occurred more than two centuries ago. The president was Thomas Jefferson, and the terrorists were the Barbary pirates. Unfortunately, many of the easy lessons to be plucked from this experience have yet to be fully learned. The Barbary states, modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, are collectively known to the Arab world as the Maghrib (”Land of Sunset”), denoting Islam’s territorial holdings west of Egypt. With the advance of Mohammed’s armies into the Christian Levant in the seventh century, the Mediterranean was slowly transformed into the backwater frontier of the battles between crescent and cross. Battles raged on both land and sea, and religious piracy flourished. The Maghrib served as a staging ground for Muslim piracy throughout the Mediterranean, and even parts of the Atlantic. America’s struggle with the terror of Muslim piracy from the Barbary states began soon after the 13 colonies declared their independence from Britain in 1776, and continued for roughly four decades, finally ending in 1815. Although there is much in the history of America’s wars with the Barbary pirates that is of direct relevance to the current “war on terror,” one aspect seems particularly instructive to informing our understanding of contemporary Islamic terrorists. Very simply put, the Barbary pirates were committed, militant Muslims who meant to do exactly what they said. Take, for example, the 1786 meeting in London of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Tripolitan ambassador to Britain. As American ambassadors to France and Britain respectively, Jefferson and Adams met with Ambassador Adja to negotiate a peace treaty and protect the United States from the threat of Barbary piracy. These future United States presidents questioned the ambassador as to why his government was so hostile to the new American republic even though America had done nothing to provoke any such animosity. Ambassador Adja answered them, as they reported to the Continental Congress, “that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.” Sound familiar? The candor of that Tripolitan ambassador is admirable in its way, but it certainly foreshadows the equally forthright declarations of, say, the Shiite Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the 1980s and the Sunni Osama bin Laden in the 1990s, not to mention the many pronouncements of their various minions, admirers, and followers. Note that America’s Barbary experience took place well before colonialism entered the lands of Islam, before there were any oil interests dragging the U.S. into the fray, and long before the founding of the state of Israel. America became entangled in the Islamic world and was dragged into a war with the Barbary states simply because of the religious obligation within Islam to bring belief to those who do not share it. This is not something limited to “radical” or “fundamentalist” Muslims. Which is not to say that such obligations lead inevitably to physical conflict, at least not in principle. After all peaceful proselytizing among various religious groups continues apace throughout the world, but within the teachings of Islam, and the history of Muslims, this is a well-established militant thread. The Islamic basis for piracy in the Mediterranean was an old doctrine relating to the physical or armed jihad, or struggle. To Muslims in the heyday of Barbary piracy, there were, at least in principle, only two forces at play in the world: the Dar al-Islam, or House of Islam, and the Dar al-Harb, or House of War. The House of Islam meant Muslim governance and the unrivaled authority of the sharia, Islam’s complex system of holy law. The House of War was simply everything that fell outside of the House of Islam — that area of the globe not under Muslim authority, where the infidel ruled. For Muslims, these two houses were perpetually at war — at least until mankind should finally embrace Allah and his teachings as revealed through his prophet, Mohammed. The point of jihad is not to convert by force, but to remove the obstacles to the infidels’ conversion so that they shall either convert or become a dhimmi (a non-Muslim who accepts Islamic dominion) and pay the jizya, or poll tax. The goal is to bring all of the Dar al-Harb into the peace of the Dar al-Islam, and to eradicate unbelief. The Koran also promises rewards to those who fight in the jihad, plunder and glory in this world and the delights of paradise in the next. Although the piratical activities of Barbary genuinely degenerated over the centuries from pure considerations of the glory of jihad to less grandiose visions of booty and state revenues, it is important to remember that the religious foundations of the institution of piracy remained central. Even after it became commonplace for the pirate captains or their crew to be renegade Europeans, it was essential that these former Christians “turn Turk” and convert to Islam before they could be accorded the honor of engagement in al-jihad fil-bahr, the holy war at sea. In fact, the peoples of Barbary continued to consider the pirates as holy warriors even after the Barbary rulers began to allow non-religious commitments to command their strategic use of piracy. The changes that the religious institution of piracy underwent were natural, if pathological. Just as the concept of jihad is invoked by Muslim terrorists today to legitimize suicide bombings of noncombatants for political gain, so too al-jihad fil-bahr, the holy war at sea, served as the cornerstone of the Barbary states’ interaction with Christendom.
In times of conflict, America tends to focus on personalities over ideas or movements, trying to play the man, not the board — as if capturing or killing Osama bin Laden, for example, would instantly end the present conflict. But such thinking loses sight of the fact that ideas have consequences. If one believes that God commands something, this belief is not likely to dissipate just because the person who elucidated it has been silenced. Islam, as a faith, is as essential a feature of the terrorist threat today as it was of the Barbary piracy over two centuries ago. The Barbary pirates were not a “radical” or “fundamentalist” sect that had twisted religious doctrine for power and politics, or that came to recast aspects of their faith out of some form of insanity. They were simply a North African warrior caste involved in an armed jihad — a mainstream Muslim doctrine. This is how the Muslims understood Barbary piracy and armed jihad at the time, and, indeed, how the physical jihad has been understood since Mohammed revealed it as the prophecy of Allah. Obviously, and thankfully, not every Muslim is obligated, or even really inclined, to take up this jihad. Indeed, many Muslims are loath to personally embrace this physical struggle. But that does not mean they are all opposed to such a struggle any more than the choice of many Westerners not to join the police force or the armed services means they do not support those institutions. Whether “insurgents” are fighting in Iraq or “rebels” and “militants” are skirmishing in Chechnya or Hamas “activists” are detonating themselves in Israel, Westerners seem unwilling to bring attention to the most salient feature of all these groups: They claim to be acting in the name of Islam. It is very easy to chalk it all up to regional squabbles, economic depression, racism, or post-colonial nationalistic self-determinism. Such explanations undoubtedly enter into part of the equation — they are already part of the propaganda that clouds contemporary analysis. But as Thomas Jefferson and John Adams came to learn back in 1786, the situation becomes a lot clearer when you listen to the stated intentions and motivations of the terrorists and take them at face value. — Joshua E. London is the author of Victory in Tripoli: How America’s War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation (John Wiley & Sons, September 2005); for more about the book visit www.victoryintripoli.com. http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/london200512160955.asp
Jihad in the Days of Jefferson http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961230585&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
When the Founding Fathers Faced Islamists May 27, 2008 … birth of US Naval power and the campaign against the Barbary pirates: …. that United States did not start the war with the Jihadists. … http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/when-the-founding-fathers-faced-islamists/
Sally Rovers incident, at the height of North African Arab Muslim pirates’ crimes against Christians, mainly British
Britain’s 200-year jihad
On my travels for the past few days, I have been reading a book which tells the story of a quite astonishing part of British history of which I was previously unaware. In ‘White Gold’, Giles Milton records the appalling details — gleaned,it appears, from a wealth of historical documents including diaries and letters — of a seaborne Islamic jihad against Britain which lasted for no less than two centuries.
From the early seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, thousands of British men women and children were kidnapped by Arab corsairs and sold into slavery in Morocco where they were kept in conditions of unspeakable barbarism. The astounding thing is that these British victims were not merely seized at sea where they ran the gauntlet of such pirates in places such as the Straits of Gibraltar. They were actually abducted from Britain itself.
Corsairs from a place in Morocco called Sale — who became known in Britain as the ‘Sally Rovers’ — sailed up the Cornish coast in July 1625, for example, came ashore dressed in djellabas and wielding damascene scimitars, burst into the parish church at Mount’s Bay and dragged out 60 men women and children whom they shipped off to Morocco. Thousands more Britons were seized from their villages or their ships and dispatched to the hell-holes of the Moroccan slave pens, from where they were forced to work all hours in appalling conditions building the vast palace of the monstrous and psychopathic Sultan, Moulay Ismail, who tortured and butchered them at whim. Most of them perished, but the book records the survival of a tenacious Cornish boy Thomas Pellow, who survived 23 years of this ordeal and whose descendant, Lord Exmouth, finally ended the white slave trade when he destroyed Algiers in 1816.
The book makes clear that this assault upon the British people (and upon Europeans and Americans who were similarly seized) was a jihad. The Sally Rovers, writes Milton, were called ‘al-ghuzat’– the term once used for the soldiers who fought with the Prophet — and were hailed as religious warriors engaged in a holy war against the infidel Christians who were pressurised to convert to Islam under threat of hideous punishment. What is even more striking was the response of the British crown. For almost two centuries, it made only the most ineffectual attempts to rescue its enslaved subjects. Those who had succumbed to the torture and inhumanity of the Sultan and converted to Islam were deemed to be no longer British and therefore outside the scope of any rescue. The pleas of Pellow’s parents were simply brushed aside. Popular outrage forced successive Kings to dispatch a series of feeble emissaries to try to get the Sultan to end this vile traffic and release the slaves, all to no avail.
But this went on for virtually two centuries. For almost 200 years the British state either sat on its hands or wrung them impotently while the Islamic jihad seized, enslaved and butchered its people. And then it appears, this staggering onslaught was all but airbrushed out of our history.
Food for disquieting thought. http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001423.html
‘Pirates of Penzance’ redo? James Zumwalt Thursday, October 2, 2008 Soon after winning independence from England, the United States faced another war. Muslim pirates operating off North Africa’s Barbary Coast were seizing U.S., as well as European, ships sailing in international waters, holding them for tribute payment or plunder. In 1786, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, meeting in London with Tripoli’s Muslim ambassador to Britain, inquired as to the reason for such Arab hostility. Acknowledging their attacks were unprovoked, the Tripoli ambassador explained it was their right and duty under the Koran as faithful Muslim followers to plunder and enslave the unfaithful - with those Muslims dying in the process going to paradise. To stop the attacks, the United States initially agreed to pay the Barbary pirates tribute, equal to about 20 percent of government revenues. Only later did an indignant United States launch two wars against them, ending in victory in 1815 and no further payments. European nations, acting individually and collectively, suppressed pirate activity as well, with the French conquest of Algiers in 1830 providing the last nail in the Barbary Pirates’ coffin. Today, Muslim pirates again sail the seas off Africa’s coast. Mostly Somalis, these pirates have already attacked more than 60 ships this year in the vicinity of the Gulf of Aden - almost 5 times more than occurred all last year. Pirates gain confidence as owners prove willing to pay ransoms for the safe return of ships and crews, much like the United States first did with the Barbary Pirates. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/02/pirates-of-penzance-redo/
Terrorists - justifier Rashid Khalidi has a "new" book - yet he's the same old "average Arab racist"
Rashid Khalidi (on c-span 2, books) (Author: 'Sowing Crisis') wants us to believe that Islamic republic of Iran is "not" linked to the terror organizations: Hamas, Hezbollah and that these groups have "legitimate" concerns.
Desperate as he is to act as if he's on a 'research' row and making a show of someone who's really "looking at the region from a broader angle", he did talk at first quite smoothly, dancing around and mentioning "other" problems we the USA have (supposedly) created in the region, like Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran (no, he didn't mention Carter's role in indirectly overthrowing the Shah, that led to the current Islamofascistic totalitarianism), you almost thought that Rashid might really be an academic, in the real sense of the word.
But as an average Arab Muslim "academic" he can never escape his burning Arab-racism against the Jews, though polishing his way to the maximum, he had to come to his essential venomous point, all in all, his punch line is really, the same old hateful cliche theme, "It's all Israel's fault", especially towards the end, when he was asked some questions, you could see how he was "lit" as if by a switch that turns on the Arab "moderates" hatred flames - they can never seem to resist, and fall into it each and every time.To his credit, most Arab propagandists are less patient... you don't have to wait even that long to see their outbursts.It was a small room, filled by either Arabs, or the gullible, one Arab "American" journalist is even a brazen open Jihadists-Hamas-Hezbollah supporter, none has asked about his propaganda statement that Iran fears Israel's nukes - as a "reason" for why they might be pursuing nuclear weapons, no one has asked the obvious: Did (democratic) Israel ever threaten to wipe out (oppressive) Iran like the Islamic fascist genocidal Republic did? or did Israel ever attack Iran like Iran attacked Israel via Hezbullah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad?
Never mind his Pro-Jihad statement defending Hamas, Hezbollah, portraying them as "political" movements with "concerns", and no one was refuting him - pointing to the true nature of these Jihadists that openly declare their real goal - to erase Israel.If you were to turn in towards the end, all you could hear is repeated word "occupation", more than a few times... (as you know), all crimes under the sun are all washed by this excuse, used by the children of Arab immigrants, (that have invaded the land of Israel - "Palestine," since the 1800's), and is being heard by him, as by any Arab "journalist" like a spiral.
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Related:Khalidi's New Book and Old Story http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2009/03/khalidis-new-book-and-old-story.html
Solomonia Archive: Columbia Watch: Rashid Khalidi On the other hand, this is Rashid Khalidi, and he does represent Columbia ... .http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/009032.shtml
Rashid Khalidi's Appointment at Columbia University...http://www.danielpipes.org/1234/rashid-khalidis-appointment-at-columbia-university
Jan 20, 2009 ... Hamas's Academic Cheerleaders [incl. Hamid Dabashi, Rashid Khalidi, Fawaz Gerges, Joseph Massad, Muqtedar Khan, Mark LeVine, et al.http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6708
Camera-Ready Victims [incl. Rashid Khalidi]: Hamas practices human sacrifice; the world shrugs. - Campus Watch.http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6622
At least one case of "Moderate" Arab Muslims' bigotry - defeated [Arabism's racism]
Bret Stephens on http://www.foxnews.com/journal/"hits & misses", The Fining of UAE over denial of visa to Israeli tennis player is a "defeat for bigotry"
WTA fines Dubai Open organisers after Israeli Shahar Peer denied visa - Feb 20, 2009 The Women's Tennis Association has fined the Dubai Open organisers $US300,000 ($A465,000) after the United Arab Emirates refused to grant a visa to Israeli ...
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25086276-23209,00.html
Under-fire UAE likely to give Israel's Andy Ram a visaIsraeli doubles specialist Andy Ram is likely to be granted a visa by the United Arab Emirates to play in the Dubai Championships next week, which could prevent a major crisis for tennis..."To discriminate as the UAE did against one player in this way smacks of bigotry and racism," the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations said in a statement. "This must be declared unacceptable by the WTA and all international sporting associations. As we learned in the past, failure to condemn such actions and take corrective measures, proves destructive to international sporting competition."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/atptour/4692024/Under-fire-UAE-likely-to-give-Israels-Andy-Ram-a-visa.html
Sponsors pull out of Dubai Open after UAE deny visa to IsraeliRACISM ROW: The Wall Street Journal Europe and the Tennis Channel have revoked their sponsorship of the WTA Dubai Open because the UAE denied a visa to Israeli player Shahar Peer.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,25072951-5005401,00.html
Tennis: Racism Rears Its Ugly Head Shahar Peer is an Israeli tennis player. The United Arab Emirates barred her from participating in the Barclays Dubai tournament
http://ballhype.com/story/tennis_racism_rears_its_ugly_head/
United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has no diplomatic links with Israel, denied her an entry visa into the country. "To discriminate as the UAE did against one player in this way smacks of bigotry and racism,"
http://www.javno.com/en-sports/jewish-leaders-call-on-wta-to-sanction-dubai-event_235390
Let us look at these things logically. I like logic. It is as good a place to start as any. When conducting an investigation in theory, one starts with what one knows, and applies facts from the best predictor of the future, “history”. One also applies rational assertions that are open to debate from anybody who comes up with another more rational assertion. This technique can be applied even when dealing with irrational subjects, because even they have to yield to the laws of nature, science, and the trends of sociology.
So with that in mind. Here is the question that I would like to explore. What was it that al Qaeda wanted to accomplish by the actions of 9-11? Of course as a follow up, how successful was it?
The 'Qassam Kindergarten' Jihad
'Palestinians' Islamic Hamas, "loves" children, well, in their special 'death cult' type of way anyway.You already know how they love their own children... to die for propaganda, and make every effort in succeeding in it - unfortunately.But there are also other children under the "wings of Jihadi love" of Hamas, the Israeli children in schools, in kindergartens, they are "favorites", favorites in Hamas' targets that is, planning the time/place when/where they go to school, thank God for so many miracles where children weren't harmed.Call it 'Qassam kindergarten', 'Kindergarten Jihad', or plain 'Jihad on kids' the broader reality.
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Qassam Kindergarten[Dec 2007]http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2007/12/qassam-kindergarten/index.shtml
May 15, 2007 ...Major Injuries In Sderot Rocket Barrage. Children Wounded As Rockets Score Direct Hits On School and Home. http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11273760.html
The reality of Sderot, the city where I liveBy Noam Bedein January 22, 2008Barrage of rockets hits Sderot as kids go to school ... ...http://web.israelinsider.com/views/12586.htm
Kassam alert- kindergarten http://sderotmedia.comhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFss6p5sTPE
SderotMedia - 'Kindergarten'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4HPID_enCR310US204&q=site%3Asderotmedia.com+kindergarten
Qassam hits kindergarten; 2 children lightly wounded - [Jul 28, 2006] ... News: Rocket lands next to kindergarten in town south of Ashkelon; 2 children hurt, 8 suffer shock. Earlier a number of rockets hit central ...http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3282603,00.html
Qassam lands near Sderot kindergarten Rocket hits neighborhood in southern town, causes damage to private house located near kindergarten; several people suffer from shock, one woman loses consciousness. Military sources say IDF policy in Gaza may change [Published: 05.07.07] http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3396608,00.html
12 Sderot Children Hospitalized for Shock After Kassam Attacks ...Sep 3, 2007http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123570
Two IDF soldiers, civilian lightly hurt as Gaza mortars hit Negev Three rockets struck the Eshkol region, two of them landing in open fields and the third between two kindergartens. [01/02/2009] http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/1060562.html
Rocket hits Ashdod kindergarten - "Thankfully, no children were in the kindergarten, and no one was badly hurt... [Jan 11, 2009 8:08 | Updated Jan 12, 2009 2:37] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1231424913241
Pat Dollard | Hamas Violates Humanitarian Cease Fire, Shells Kindergarten ... hit a house next to a school in the Israeli southern city of Sderot, ... Children would also drill evacuating their class rooms...http://patdollard.com/2009/01/hamas-violates-humanitarian-cease-fire-shells-kindergarten/
[January 6, 2009] a Hamas leader warned that the Islamists would kill Jewish children anywhere in the world http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5454204.ece?Submitted=true
STRATEGIC QASSAM vs. DIPLOMATIC BLITZ Harari, now an analyst at the Herzliya Center, warned that if a Qassam rocket hits a crowded synagogue or kindergarten it will trigger a massive IDF ...http://www.isracast.com/article.aspx?ID=769
The "brave" masked "freedom fighters" Islamic butchers
The Israeli innocent Victims
Disgraceful 'Jihad Appeaser' Jimmy Carter LIES openly on CNN's Larry King and no one refutes him? Sat. (Feb. 7, 2009) night, Jimmy Carter said: ’Israel, it could have responded to the rocket attacks without firing on churches (excuse me, what churches in Islamic Gaza is he talking about???) and on Mosques’.
A short while after that Larry confronted the worst-ex-president “You said earlier that Israel fired on mosques and on schools, what was Israel supposed to do as they responded to where the FIRING CAME FROM”?
Jimmy, "I don’t known I wasn’t there, I only know that the UN said that Israel fired on them and there were only civilians there".
Hey, Jimmy, so what if we show you now the updated version by the UN where they retracted their false accusation on Israel will you have the guts and say the truth about humane Israel that Israel was (as always is) humane on targeting only Islamic terrorists but Palestinian (”legitimate voted govt in Gaza - Hamas”.) Muslims commit crimes against humanity - target civilians?
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UN: IDF did not shell UNRWA school Feb. 4, 2009. A clerical error led the UN to falsely accuse Israel... http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304687916&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter UN retracts claim strike hit Gaza school …The United Nations has retracted a claim that an Israeli strike which killed more than 40 people in northern Gaza city of Jabaliya last month hit a school … http://www.republicanoperative.com/forums/international-politics/17399-un-retracts-claim-strike-hit-gaza-school.html
