Posts with the tag Terrorism

Dear Mr.President of the United States of America-Barack Obama

Mihai Florin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:34:28 EST

Dear Mr. President of the United States of America-Mr Barack Obama,
I’m an unconditional supporter of yours since the time of the american election.I make a video reponse for you posted on You Tube since January 2008.Earlier this year,2009,I created a page on the website OFA:http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/florinmihaiOn my personal blog,with great pleasure I made public briefings submitted by Mr Mitch Stewart,David Plouffe or Miss Natalie Foster.-OFAI think:I’m a member of organization „ORGANIZING FOR AMERICA”.I’m proud for it.http://florinmihai.wordpress.comOn day 27 and 28 December 28,2009,I posted on Facebook accounts:”White House”,”Barack Obama”,”Barack Obama Administration”,messages of congratulations for:US President Barack Obama,US Vice President Joe Biden,First Lady Michelle ObamaPresidential Family:Barack,Michelle,Sasha,Malia-Obama,All american people„Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!”On the Facebook account of „White House ,I posted on December 28,2009,more links with information about corruption in Romania.Many information about criminal activity of romanian President Traian Basescu.I posted links to criminal complaints against :Traian Basescu,Mircea Basescu,Elena Udrea,Emil Boc,Monica Macovei,Constantin Degeratu,Omar Hayssam,Mohamed Mounaf,Viktor Bout,Leonid Minin,Ioan Talpes and severals others involved in weapons trafficking and terrorism,acts of high corruption.I posted on „White House” account,evidence and press articles or blogs collected from Valentin Vasilescu,Sorin Rosca Stanescu,Radu Tudor,Robert Horvath,Ovidiu Ohanesian and many others accusing Traian Basescu –Mircea Basescu of violating weapons trafficking with UN resolutions.Many U.S. Soldiers are killed with weapons sold by the brothers Basescu Mircea and Traian.The United Nations are produced good evidence which are confirmed by research of romanian prosecutors.The research of romanian prosecutors are stoped by the Prosecutor General of Romania-Laura Codruta Kovesi.Traian Basescu it must to be arrested for international weapons trafficking ,terrorism and high corruption. Complaints against terrorism are registered Traian Basescu for numbers:NR. 922/12.01.2009 ;NR.920/12.01.2009 ;NR. 926/12.01.2009 ;NR. 924/12.01.2009 ;NR.25082/22.12.2008; NR.25084/22.12.2008Dear Mr.President Barack Obama,in Romania is not democracy …is dead!The Dictator Basescu use DNA –„POLICY POLICE” to repressing his opponents,like a Ceausescu with Securitatea.Some of the links posted on the Facebook account of „White House” are evidence of corruption prosecutors in the DNA-„Policy Police”-new „Securitatea”.Articles and evidence ,refer to the prosecutors of the DNA:Doana Vasile;Doru Tulus;Ionita Vasile;Daniel Marius MorarThe Prosecutors DIICOT –George Muscalu and Gratiana Isac,CSM Inspector-Placinta Constantin,and the officers of Romanian Intelligence Service(SRI) or Romanian Intelligence Service Foreign(SIE)-Ioan Talpes-former director and chief Ion Geotoiu for the North AmericaArticles are avalable at:http://florinmihai.wordpress.com http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/florinmihaiI posted on the Facebook account of the White House an article-link about the beautiful work of Ambassador Mark Gitenstein,which are construct a building for a poor family in Magurele village,in Prahova County – Romania,as a token of admiration for the „American administration Obama.”Please excuse me for my very bad English : I posted in the original text in Romanian for a translation qualified.Mr. President Barack Obama, Mr. Vice President Joe Biden in this morning my old account of Facebook has been deleted!!!
We created a new one first to congratulate you and to show affection.
Along with my account was deleted and congratulatory messages.
We apologize for this intervention and will convey the warmest greetings and a Happy New Year!Yours sincerely,Florin Mihai – ROMANIA
Stimate Domnule Preşedinte al Statelor Unite ale Americii-dl Barack Obama,
Sunt un susţinător fără rezerve al dumneavoastra inca din timpul alegrilor americane .V-am transmis un mesaj de sustinere printr-un raspuns video pe care l-am postat pe You Tube in ianuarie 2008.
La începutul acestui an, 2009, am creat o pagină de pe site-ul web OFA:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/florinmihai
Pe blog-ul meu personal, cu mare placere am făcut publice informarile transmise de domnii Mitch Stewart, David Plouffe sau Domnisoara Natalie Foster.-OFA
Cred că: Sunt membru al organizaţiei “Organizarea pentru America”. Sunt mândru de acest lucru.http://florinmihai.wordpress.comÎn ziua 27 şi 28 decembrie 28,2009, am postat pe conturile de Facebook: “White House”, “Barack Obama”, “Barack Obama Administraţie”, mesaje de felicitări pentru:
Preşedintele SUA, Barack Obama,
US Vice President Joe Biden,
Prima doamna Michelle Obama
Familia Prezidentiala: Barack, Michelle, Sasha, Malia-Obama,
Intregului popor american
“Va dorim un Crăciun fericit şi un An Nou fericit!”Pe contul de Facebook a “Casa Albă, am postat in decembrie 28,2009, mai multe link-uri cu informaţii despre corupţia în România.
Multe informaţii despre activitatea criminală a preşedintelui român Traian Băsescu.
Am postat link-uri cu plângerile mele penale împotriva lui: Traian Băsescu, Mircea Băsescu, Elena Udrea, Emil Boc, Monica Macovei, Constantin Degeratu, Omar Hayssam, Mohamed Mounaf, Viktor Bout, Leonid Minin, Ioan Talpes si multi altii implicati în traficl de arme şi a terorism, acte de inalta corupţie .
Am postat pe Facebook “White House” , dovezi şi articole de presă sau blog-colectate de la Valentin Vasilescu, Sorin Roşca Stănescu, Radu Tudor, Robert Horvath, Ovidiu Ohanesian si multi altii ,acuzatii pentru Traian Băsescu,-Mircea Băsescu, de încălcare a rezolutiilor ONU referitoare la traficul de arme.
Multi dintre soldaţii americani sunt ucisi cu arme vândute de fratii Mircea si Traian Băsescu.
Organizaţia Naţiunilor Unite a produs dovezi bune, care sunt confirmate de cercetarile procurorilor români.
Cercetarile procurorilor români sunt stopate de către Procurorul General din România-Laura Codruta Kovesi.Traian Băsescu trebuie să fie arestat pentru trafic internaţional de arme, terorism şi înaltă corupţie
. Plângerile împotriva lui Traian Băsescu pentru terorism sunt înregistrate cu numerele :NR. 922/12.01.2009 ;NR.920/12.01.2009 ;NR. 926/12.01.2009 ;NR. 924/12.01.2009 ;NR.25082/22.12.2008; NR.25084/22.12.2008
Draga Mr.President Barack Obama, în România nu este democraţie … a murit!

Dictatorul Traian Băsescu foloseste – ” poliţia politica “-DNA, pentru a reprima adversarii lui, precum Ceauşescu cu Securitatea.
Unele dintre link-urile postate pe Facebook in contul “White House” sunt dovezi ale corupţiei procurorilor DAN “Politia Politica” noua “Securitatea”.
Articolele şi dovezile , se referă la procurorii DNA:
Doana Vasile;
Doru Ţuluş;
Ionita Vasile;
Daniel Marius Morar
Procurorii DIICOT-George Muscalu si Gratiana Isac, inspector-CSM Placinta Constantin, precum şi ofiţeri din Serviciul Român de Informaţii (SRI) sau Serviciul Român de Informaţii Externe (SIE)-Ioan Talpes fostul director si -sef Ion Geotoiu pentru America de NordArticolele sunt disponibile la:
http://florinmihai.wordpress.com

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/florinmihai

Am postat în contul Facebook de la „White House” un articol-link-ul despre opera Ambasadorului Mark Gitenstein, care construieste o clădire pentru o familie săracă in satul Magurele, în judeţul Prahova – România, ca un semn de admiraţie pentru “Administratia americana Obama “
Domnule preşedinte Barack Obama, domnul Vice President Joe Biden, în această dimineaţă contul meu vechi de Facebook a fost eliminat!Am creat un nou cont să vă felicit şi pentru a va arăta afecţiunea mea.
Împreună cu contul meu au fost şterse şi mesajele de felicitare.
Imi cer scuze pentru această intervenţie şi va transmit cele mai calde felicitări şi un An Nou fericit!Cu stimă,
Florin Mihai-Romania

World Peace - Part One

"Voice for Humanity" — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:25:59 EST

By Padmini Arhant

Since it’s my 200th post on this website, www.padminiarhant.com, I would like to dedicate the article to my favorite topic, Peace.

The world is riddled with violence in the worst form of terrorism and warfare not barring the dangerous nuclear threats. Then there are local crimes like the drug war in Mexico or the politically incited Philippines massacre exacerbating the miseries of the population. It would be appropriate to attribute the present situation to the political, economic and social injustice prevalent in the society.

Throughout history, the dominance of one nation over another through invasion, illegal occupation and provocative actions have led to the retaliation through terrorism and war including the use of nuclear arsenal witnessed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Often, when the rich nations demonstrate the political power in combination with the military might against the economically weaker countries, the aggression contributes to the perennial chaos and catastrophe.

Remaining article could be viewed @http://www.padminiarhant.com

Thank you.

Padmini Arhant

PBS: "Medical Marijuana Laws Are Hazy"

Justin Turley, San Diego Medical Cannabis Patient — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:50:57 EDT

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.

Almost Tragic

nothing but news — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:40:48 EDT

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 Californian Medical Cannabis Patients Continue

Justin Turley, San Diego Medical Cannabis Patient — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:19:51 EDT

While the Nation continues to argue over Healthcare Reform, some of the neediest, sickest, most desperate Americans are being terrorized by their own City Government!

Terrorist Attacks On Medical Cannabis Patients Continue
by 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"

http://www.sandiegobcc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=50

Thanks for reading. Unfortunately the local media refuses to report the truth of the situation, so I'm desperately reaching out on the internet. Here's a little background on who I am and why this is here: I am a tax paying, voting, community minded individual that is suffering from Cirrhosis and many other currently fatal physical ailments. I am a fully legal, medical cannabis patient from San Diego, California and this blog is my attempt to educate the President of the United States of America and the entire world of my struggle.

Remembering the Victims of the September 11, 2001 Tragedy

"Voice for Humanity" — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:16:13 EDT

September 11, 2009

By Padmini Arhant

Please standby for the tribute to the brave citizens, the victims of the catastrophic event that changed the world economy and international security. Also remembering the fire fighters and humanitarian workers, the real heroes selflessly offered their life during the rescue operations on the mournful date.

Presented @http://www.padminiarhant.com

Thank you.

Padmini Arhant

Bringing Terror To San Diego's Suffering

Justin Turley, San Diego Medical Cannabis Patient — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:02:44 EDT

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.

Diverting Foreign Aid

My Vote Matters — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:55:33 EDT

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."

Terrorists Don't Have to be Foreigners, Folks.

Jude — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:50:05 EDT

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.

Obama’s Speech on National Security

N. Julio Barthson - E-Campaign Leader — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:07:17 EDT

Following is a text of President Obama’s speech on Thursday on national security issues, as released by the White House.

In Dagestan, destroyed al-Qaida emissary

Unknown user — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:50:43 EDT

OPEN LETTER TO THE ATTENTION OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

SILVA Marc — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:46:40 EDT

Mr Marc SILVA Courbevoie, on April 15th, 2006. 92400 COURBEVOIE - FRANCE - Tél. : 06.XX.XX.XX.XX OPEN LETTER To the attention of the French and foreign Authorities

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.

Dear Sir, Dear Madam, In the course of March 2005, I allowed to recommend you by offering to you, the reading of the book “LES PILIERS DE LA TRAITRISE” written by my sister Elisabeth SILVA, published by Les Editions La Lanterne, in Paris, real exhibit, which establishes the evident and indubitable proof of the attempt of crime against my family, in relation, with for backdrop, a classified SECRET DEFENCE affair, by the French authorities, which revelation is not apparently topical. Because of the obvious denial of justice, which continues, my present open letter has for end the demonstration of the truth on what it should be advisable to call now a separate State Crime. Refusing to give in to the fate and in the perspective of an inquiry led loyally and in any independence, I tried hard to collect new data, by the administration of material evidences, which come as a supplement to the book above mentioned. The check of the collected data should end to the identification of responsible persons, till this day, remained unpunished. I commit to it. I - SITUATION OF THE FAMILY SILVA - SINCE OUR RETURN TO FRANCE ON 11/02/2004 –

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.

PART- PRACTICES RELATING TO MORAL HARASSMENT: Despite the work of undermining and the concentration camp practices of heroic American executioners from the prison of of York in PENNSYLVANIA and the state of extreme tiredness in which one, we come back to France, we had to undertook our fate. Very fast, the family grouping in the apartment of Courbevoie (92) was imperative in reason of the bankruptcy caused by contemptible persons.

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.

And so by way of welcome, I acknowledged receipt of bailiff's act of command to pay five rents not settled. This act, beforehand drown up on 06/02/2004 at the request of the O.P.H.L.M. of the city of Courbevoie (Public House service Moderate Rents), will not miss to draw my attention.This date corresponds exactly with the day of our release from the prison of York in Pennsylvania in the United States by the American Judge of the Immigration Office of the Department of Justice (cf. my logbook of 06/02/2004) and with my return to England, according to the procedure of voluntary departure after the request of cancellation of political asylum.

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.

The Bailiff summoned me, by the aforementioned act, to pay the 2330,41-euro sum, within the delay of two months, as from 10/02/2004, and added that for lack of satisfying the present command, I could be there forced by any ways and means of law, in particular by the sequester of property of my active furniture. Besides, he reminded me the cancellation of the lease, which would be cancelled by rights for lack of payment of a single term of rent.- Cf. File OPHLM –Command of the rents - Page 17 - 19. Without even granting me respite, the 18/02/2004, the same member of legal profession diligently appointed by the O.P.H.L.M. of the municipality of Courbevoie (92), moved in my place of residence, supervised by two witnesses and by a locksmith, to proceed to the sequester of property of my personal properties to guarantee the payment of my debt. A report of sequester of property of furniture will be drawn up to me, wearing the sum to 2458 Euros, cost of the inclusive act. Despite the importance of the difficulties met and a non-existent level of resource, known by the General Finance, the administrator of the O.P.H.L.M, I shall be likely to pay the S.L.S. (Supplement of Housing Solidarity) for January and February, 2004, either, 179 euros supplementary monthly. From 24/02/2004, the Treasury of Courbevoie, will establish me a first schedule of due dates over six months, to settle the renting debt. I want, hereby, to return a supported tribute to my mother, Madam Marie-José MARQUEZ, who took from the beginning the control of the financial operations and set up a strategy of recovery. Moved by the energy of despair, my dear mother, recently retired, was going to push away the numerous assaults of the creditors, which demanded their part.In hardly one month, I settle to pay off, 61 % of this debt, namely, 1352 Euro. After, various initiatives of my own with C.A.F (Social Security Office) of the “HAUTS DE SEINE”, this welfare organization will eventually pay directly to the O.P.H.L.M. the 1347-euro sum, which will serve for discharging a part of my debts as well as the current rents. From April, I see myself reduced to the R.M.I. (Minimal income Insertion). It is in the same period that CAF will pay me an A.P.L. (Housing subsidy) and the 30/09/2004, my current rents will be up to date.From his part, the local commission of the “Hauts de Seine”(92) will examine with the biggest attention my file concerning the demand of Housing Solidarity fund. In support of the social inquiry, the members of the aforementioned commission will put the veto and that, despite the alarming precariousness and of the strictly observation of the law. Now, the article 6, the first paragraph modified by the law N ° 90-449 of the 31/05/1990 defines the criteria of eligibility in the helps of capital, which can only be based on elements such as the level of resources of the persons, the importance and the nature of the difficulties which they meet. The Commission of Excessive debt of the “Hauts de Seine” will conclude in view of the examination of my file deposited on 21/04/2004 to the Bank of France of Nanterre ( 92 ) in a " BAD FAITH " 29/07 of the same year. For the prescribed delay, I shall thus exercise an appeal against this inequitable decision with the T.G.I. (High Court Authority) of Nanterre ( 92 ).

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.

In view of following slanderous articles, inspired by a led astray police source, " Le Parisien” from 17/10/2003 titling " A runaway policeman " - ( 1 page); " Le Nouveau Détective " N°1101 of 22/10/2003 entitled " The strange missing of a policeman " - ( 3 pages), and to end the article "Le Monde" (2 pages), poured to the Judge of the Execution, Mr. Pascal LE LUONG, this one will declare "ACCEPTABLE AND VERY FOUNDED" my appeal exercised against the decision of the Local Commission of Excessive debt of the Private individuals of the Hauts de Seine, committee chaired by the Prefect of the “Hauts de Seine”. In any independence, the Judge of Execution, Mr. Pascal LELUONG will motivate his decision returned on 24/02/2005, in those terms: " … Mister SILVA seems convinced however to be the victim of neglects of his hierarchy which would not have insured his protection while he felt threatened. He reports moreover the proof that his name was quoted in the press, while during this period, he was up to the Central Bureau for repression of Banditism.In this respect, both articles, which he produces, evoke his participation in the arrest of dangerous delinquents. In any case, that his suspicions are based or that they result from his imagination, Mister Marc SILVA does not appear as a debtor of bad faith. In both hypotheses, this last one believed that he had to put his family safe from danger, by leaving the national territory, what entailed his revocation and consequently, the loss of his treatment. Mister Marc SILVA perceives a monthly payment constituted by 367,73-euro RMI.His monthly loads are estimated at a 634,28-euro amount, His debt amounts to a global 51.797,65-euro amount. He is in situation of obvious excessive debt. As a consequence, it will be advisable, to declare acceptable Mister SILVA, of his demand.” - Cf. File Excessive debt - Page 25 - 29. Nevertheless, during its session of 19/08/2004, the Housing Solidarity fund had required the admissibility of the excessive debt plan of the Bank of France before satisfying my demand. The members of the local commission considered, that I had to pursue the plan of discharge with my landlord and waited for the admissibility of the excessive debt Plan of the Bank of France. Now, my thin wages reached difficulty 367 Euro.Continuously, on 27/09/2004, the O.P.H.L.M. had seized the “Departemental Section” of the A.P.L. (Of the Local Management Equipment) for my back rent bordering only 30 % of the initial debt, with the aim of questioning my right for the A.P.L. As paradoxical as it can appear, the O.P.H.L.M. would logically have had interest in the fact that the A.P.L. continues to be paid so that my current rents should be settled. The O.P.H.L.M. of Courbevoie refused to wait for the decision of the admissibility of the Excessive debt plan of the Bank of France and for the help of the F.S.L. Unmistakably, the O.P.H.L.M. of Courbevoie, following the example of the Commission of Excessive debt and the F.S.L. both beaten by the General Council of the Hauts de Seine, chaired by Nicolas SARKOZY, will both have, adopted an attitude of systematic negation in defiance of the texts of law and the criteria of resource and that in resentment, of all the personal efforts harshly granted to adjust my delays. Height of ignominy, during this period riddled with pitfalls, Mr. Claude KUNTZ, first mayor deputy of Courbevoie and President of the O.P.H.L.M. of Courbevoie ( 92 ), had sent very quickly to my place of residence, for the second time, a Bailiff to come to notice the presence of two new tenants under my roof, namely my very dear mother and sister who did not still appear on my rental agreement.On the occasion of this fortuitous meeting, I invited this member of legal profession to follow myself up to the technical premises implanted on the landing, so that he notices by himself the state of the boiler room. On the spot, we realize together that a muff of a dozen centimeters connecting two tubes, was removed at the level of my installation. Furthermore, we shall observe with bewilderment the good connecting of the nearby columns and their normal functioning.The Bailiff having indicated me that he would draw up later a report on the subject of his initial movement, I suggest to him to tell there, at the same opportunity the report of hardship of heating.

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.

Despite the numerous movements of technicians qualified from the DALKIA Company (located in - 13 rue de l’Abreuvoir in Courbevoie (92) – Sector Responsible: Mr H. - Phone: 06. XX.XX.XX.XX - Leader of operation: Mr L.), the interruptions of heating will multiply throughout both wintry seasons. It is to notice that, since my installation in this apartment since 1998, I had never had to regret a single incident. No rational explanation or report of intervention will be given to me by the aforementioned specialists, who won’t be sent by the O.P.H.L.M. anymore, at the beginning of the year on 2006, to insure this kind of repair. Information taken with the caretaker, no tenant of the building will have been entitled to such disappointments stretching over so long periods. New acts of vandalism, sabotages or simple misfortune ? Apparently, whenever the questions of interest arise, the lowness sublimates and marries all the forms, even the most degrading. Therefore, our family entry and settlement in the municipality of Courbevoie (92), will not be a simple sinecure. II – ACTIONS LED WITH THE PUBLIC AND JUDICIAL, FRENCH AND FOREIGN AUTHORITIES: Although the press plays an eminent role in any democratic society, it has to be careful not to exceed certain limits, notably aiming at the protection of reputation and at the rights of others as well as to the necessity of preventing the disclosure of confidential information. The grave negligence in the check of information, translates a blatant contempt for the research of truth and a hostile intention.This intention to strike a blow at honour and at consideration in these publications, more than litigious, constitutes an abuse of the freedom of expression characterized by a denaturation, a deformation of fundamental facts and an infringement of the rights of the person. No doubt that to serve the superior interest of the Nation, the control of the whole press at the top, give the measure of the importance of a sulphurous affair, classified in the National defence.- - Cf. articles: " Le Parisien", " Le Nouveau Détective " and "Le Monde" - Page 30 - 35. So, I attached the highest importance for the answers and others, sometimes edifying silences, which followed the sending, by registered mail, of the report drown up by myself, which drew the attention of the people concerned about grave police dysfunctions and quite particularly to the wide severely reprehensible contribution of French organs of press on international broadcasting. - To Sir, Person in charge of the High commission of the rights of the Man of The United Nations, Answer: " having examined carefully the contents of your complaint, I regret to inform you that the H.C.D.H. is not able to assist you within the framework of the affair which you evoked, for the indicated reason: - the internal, judicial or administrative appeals, were not apparently exhausted, and it was not demonstrated that these would exceed reasonable periods, or would be out of reach or ineffective. " - To the European Court of Human Rights, Answer: " I inform you that the European Court of Human Rights, sitting on 07/01/2005 in a committee of three judges (N. Vajic, president, E. Steiner and S.E. Jebens) in application of the article 27 of the Agreement to declare unacceptable the aforesaid request, the conditions put by articles 34 or 35 of the Agreement not being filled. Considering all the elements in my ownership, and as far as it was competent to know the formulated assertions, the Court raised no appearance of violation of the guaranteed rights and the liberties by the Agreement or its Protocols.This decision is definitive and can be the object of no appeal in front of the Court including the High Chamber, or another organ. You will understand that the Clerk's Office will not be able to supply you with the other precision on the considerations of the committee nor to answer the letters that you would send to it about the decision returned in the present affair. " - Clerk's Office Assistant of Section, Mr. Santiago QUESADA. - To Mister Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic, Answer: " the President of the Republic asked me to answer the mail that you sent him on the 17/05/2004. I have to indicate to you that the constitutional principle of the separation of powers does not allow the Head of State to intervene in the cases recovering from the justice. " - leader Assistant of Cabinet, Mr. Gérard MARCHAND. - To Mister Jean Louis DEBRE, President of the National Assembly, Answer: " The President of the National Assembly asked me to inform you that he would not know how to interfere in a disciplinary procedure with which the administrative jurisdiction is at present seized considering the principle of separation of powers. " - director of Cabinet, Mr. Jean Louis Valentin. - - To Mister Christian PONCELET, President of the Senate, Answer: " I have to inform you that a procedure were in progress in front of the Administrative Court of Paris, the principle of the separation of powers forbidden the President of the Senate to interfere in this file. " - principal private secretary, Mr. Pierre ALLEAUME. - To Mister Joël THORAVAL, President of the Consultative National Committee (of the rights of the Man, Answer: " I received your mail of 19/05/2004 which quite held attention. Allow me nevertheless to remind you that the statutes of the C.N.C.D.H. do not give its competence to intervene in favour of the individual requests. The first mission of the Commission is to assist of its notices the Prime Minister and the Ministers concerned on all the questions of general reach which, concern human rights and humanitarian action. Accompanying document: list of associations. " - in charge of Mission, Madam Stéphanie DJIAN. - To Mister Pierre TRUCHE, President of the National Committee on Deontology and Security, Answer: " we cannot answer it on the bottom because the problems which you evoke do not recover from the competence of the C.N.D.S. " - general Secretary, Mrs Nathalie DUHAMEL. - To Mister Dominique DE VILLEPIN and Nicolas SARKOZY, successively Secretaries of The Home Office and the Local Liberties.- To Mister Dominique PERBEN, Minister of Justice. –- To Mister Roger MARION, Prefect delegated to the Security and to the Defence. Henceforth, physically present on the French ground, on 18/02/2004, I called the secretary of the Prefect, Mr. Roger MARION, to seek an audience from his high benevolence. (Reminder of the extract of my Log book of 22/10/2003 held in London: " initiate negotiations by phone with Mr. Roger MARION, prefect delegated to the Safety and to the Defence, which eventually invites me for an interview, on the French territory in MARSEILLE (13) or in the Pas de Calais (Dover) (59). ", the secretary of cabinet will inform me, by any means, about suites given to my request by this high authority. The propositions of negotiations with this high-ranking servant are not apparently any more topical. - To Mister Jacques KOSSOWSKI, Mayor Representative - (U.M.P). Of Courbevoie (Hauts de Seine) My transmission of report with the aim of the referral to the National Deontology Security Committee (C.N.D.S). In his quality of member of the parliament, he will pull no answer as an elected member. - To Mister Jean Luc GARNIER, General Secretary of the trade union ALLIANCE NATIONAL POLICE FORCE. In each of my phone calls remained fruitless, the switchboard operator of permanency would invariably announce me that Mr. Jean Luc GARNIER, regrettably inalienable at the moment, had received my voluminous file, on which my personal coordinates were heading represented. The civil servant regretted to announce me successively that the very media union activist, Mr. Jean Luc GARNIER was either in holidays, online or still in working meeting, but that he would have very certainly the courtesy to call me back.Despite my suggestions, it will not come at the idea of this majority trade union within the National police force, to seize the legal service to ask their lawyer to examine my situation and to bend over the reprehensible drift of my former police hierarchy. III - TASKS MADE WITH THE MEN OF JUSTICE: A/ SECTION - CONCERNING THE PRESIDENT OF THE BAR OF THE ORDER OF LAWYERS B/SECTION CONCERNING THE PARQUET C/SECTION / DECISION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE COURT: Back from exile, on 11/02/2004, being neither lawyer, nor a jurist, I quite naturally turned to the justice of my country to ask to the jurists to undo the hank of this complex affair and to make stop the grave dysfunctions from which, my family suffers from now on more than two and a half years, in reason of a classified Secret Defence. I intend to obtain repair of the numerous undergone damages, which origin dates, as everything indicates it, to the classified rogatory commission Secret Defence of 26/02/2002 concerning the Léo BALLEY affair, for which my sister Elisabeth and myself had been heard by the Warrant officer OMER of the Brigade of Research of the Gendarmerie of Grenoble (Isère). Within any democracy, which respects itself, every person is entitled to the fact that her cause might be settled fairly, publicly and for a reasonable delay, by an independent and impartial court, established by the law, which will decide either on contestings on her rights and obligations of civil character, or on the soundness of any charge in penal case. On top, the law foresees that the customer has the possibility of being assisted by a lawyer, likely to operate everything to insure his defence. Being understood that this last one has no obligation of result but only best effort undertaking. A/ SECTION - CONCERNING THE PRESIDENT OF THE BAR OF THE ORDER OF LAWYERSFar from being at the end of my efforts, having suffered the refusal to insure the defence of my interests on behalf of a ballet of a dozen lawyers, according to the law and in view of my thin financial resources, the president of the bar was forced to appoint Mister Guy PECHEU to represent me in front of the Administrative Court of Paris in the affair, which sets me to the Home Office represented by Nicolas SARKOZY. Going against the rules, which, governs his profession, Mr Guy PECHEU refrained voluntarily to postulate for pleadings, forgetting the honesty, the loyalty and the diligence, which he was obliged to bring to my file. What led me naturally to exercise an appeal for neglect to his obligation of means in front of the same president of the bar of the order of the lawyers of Paris on 23/03/2006. - Cf. File President of the bar Page 36 - 65 B/ SECTION - CONCERNING THE PARQUET (PUBLIC PROSECUTOR'S DEPARTMENT) Naturally, afterward, every complaint will conscientiously, be classified without suites, by the persons, who due to their function are called to contribute to the truth. - Deposit of complaint to the public prosecutor near the T.G.I. of Nanterre ( 92 ) of 18/12/2003, for non assistance to person in danger and put in danger of the life of others.

- 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.

- Deposit of complaint with the public prosecutor near the T.G.I. of the Seine Saint Denis (93) of 14/10/2004 for Complicity by supply of means on behalf of journalists of an obvious violation of a professional secret by a police source against the director of publication of the daily paper "Le Parisien", Mr. Philippe AMAURY and the journalists Frédéric VEZARD and F. VIG. - Deposit of complaint to the public prosecutor near the T.G.I. of Paris of 14/10/2004 for Complicity by supply of means on behalf of journalists of an obvious violation of a professional secret by a police source against the director of publication of the weekly " Le Nouveau Détective ", Mrs Catherine NEMO and the reporter Michel Mary. The ex-Minister of Justice and Lord Chancellor, Mr. Dominique PERBEN, addressee of all the copies, will not show the slightest bewilderment on the differences between the Public prosecutor's department and the Judge of the Execution of Nanterre, Mr. Pascal LE LUONG. Concerning the works of press in cause. - Cf. File complaints - Page 66 - 81. - Cf. Notification of 24/02/2005 by the Judge of the Execution, near the Hight Court Authority of Nanterre ( 92 ) - Page 25 in 29. C/ SECTION - DECISION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE COURT: Finally, despite the voluntary obstacle to the justice caused by the officially lawyer appointed by the court by the president of the bar, the examination of my report drown up in two parts (namely, 171 pages), as well as the numerous enclosed documents in the present Open letter, all sent to the president of the Administrative Court of Paris, with the aim of a reinstatement in the body of the National police force and especially of the seizure of the General Inspection of the Administration had to result, as a rule in a lawsuit to the penal, considering: - The material existence of the malpractices and cause-effect relations, between suspected persons and facts constituting the malpractices recovering from the obvious denial of justice and from the abuse of power characterized. (Cf. Complaints deposited in Public prosecutor's departments and decision of the Judge of the Execution of Nanterre - page 66 - 81 and page 25 in 29) The 30/03/2006, the Judge of the T.A of Paris will pronounce the REFUSAL of my formed appeal aiming at the cancellation of the order of 20/01/2004, by which the Home Office crossed me off with the National police force executives, for post desertion. - Cf. State progress file Administrative Court of Paris N ° 0408659 - Page 39 - 40. - Cf. Decision of the President of the T.A. of Paris, M.J. KRULIC - Page 167 in 171. IV - ANALYSIS AND REFLECTION UPON THE CONCLUSIONS OF the HOME OFFICE: - Cf. File conclusions of the Home Office - Page 82 in 96. " The guarantee of the Human rights and of the Citizen requires the police force. This force has been established for the advantage of all and not for the particular utility of those to whom, it is entrusted. " The article 12 of the Declaration of the rights of the Man and the Citizen who appears in foreword of the code of ethics of the National police force, always stays present in my spirit. The following observations have for purpose, to answer, in any transparency, the justifiable questions that each, can arise and will so allow to discover facts, which maybe had not held all their attention. At first, I attach a lot of price to indicate that in 02/03/2006, hearing date of the affair, which sets me to the Home Office in front of Administrative Court of Paris, Mister Guy PECHEU, the automatically appointed lawyer entitled to represent my interests, has made the choice not to appear and neither be replaced in the hypothesis of a hindrance.So surprising and grave as it can appear, Mr Guy PECHEU, especially refrained from applying in acts of procedure of which he was load, regarding his representative role. Not only, He hasn’t indicated me at any time the steps and the conclusions of the Home Office, but also, Mister Guy PECHEU refrained from drawing up any conclusion, in answer to those of 23/08/2004 defended by the Home Office. Consequently, I only notice these last ones on the hearing date further to the reading made by Government Commissioner. Deliberately, to the beginning at the end, Mister Guy PECHEU will strictly refrain from operating anything to insure my defence with the honesty, the loyalty and the diligence, which he was entitled to bring to my affair.On my demand, the President of the T.A. of Paris, M.J. KRULIC insured me to have noted my report and, in particular three newspaper articles, and invited me from the end of the audience to consult personally my file with the present Secretary in the audience, to take note of the conclusions of my lawyer, Mister Guy PECHEU. To my big bewilderment, the Secretary did not find track of the slightest conclusion of Mister Guy PECHEU. Everybody can agree, in any objectivity, that this unspeakable neglect in a written procedure, on behalf of a lawyer is inadmissible in a State so-called State under the rule of law. Obviously, this professional misconduct harms seriously my interests, and joins, once more, in the weft of the previous violations of the rights of my defence. - Cf. - extracted from my Report in two parts registered under N ° of file 0408659 - Page 97 - 104. At least, grotesque conclusions developed by the Home Office, brings out, that the opposition, instead of making amends and repent openly, persists and signs in its abuses of authority. Ministry of Interior will resolutely oppose to the fact that the consequent damages that I underwent, open straight ahead to no repair. Besides, the financial asphyxiation will become a reality by the complaint of my former administration of the received salaries, from September, 2003 till January, 2004.It is also advisable to raise, that during the statement of the facts, the demand of application of an administrative procedure of D.C.P.J., for post desertion, intervenes exactly on 16/01/2004.Indeed, this demand was fortunately passed on by the Central Director of the Criminal Investigation Department in the Management of the Administration of the National police force, in the daytime of my demand of protection and political asylum in the U.S.A, either on the 16/01/2004.The facts being enough eloquent, I shall refrain from adding it a comment. Without discussing, the Home Office declares unacceptable my request despite plethora of characterized malpractices recovering certainly from the PENAL, committed against me with complete impunity by a led astray police hierarchy, even when I was still in service. By supporting it in the report, I raised a non-exhaustive list of the acts of terrorism of State conscientiously hidden by the Home Office, namely:- A non assistance to person in danger, obstacles in the measures of assistance (criminal intention opposed twice, by the disobedience to manifestly, illegal orders on behalf of my former leader of group, very honourable Lieutenant Jean Maurice Bernard), perjury and false index cards of the D.C.P.J. and the General Information, defamations, affected the honour and the violation of professional secrecy on behalf of policemen with the approval of their direction, so stressing the put in danger of the life of a police officer and his sister Elisabeth SILVA with the complicity of newspaper journalists at their order by revealing, in the same time, my complete identity and those of two figures of the organized crime (Mr. Antonio FERRARA and Mr. Joseph MENCONI), So many unambiguous preparatory acts convenient to the realization of a well stopped criminal project. Seen what precedes, I have all the reasons to think that there is a correlation between the multiple aforesaid malpractices aiming at the preparation of the physical elimination and\or the excessive internment and the classified Leo BALLEY SECRET DEFENCE affair, for which my sister, Miss Elisabeth SILVA and myself were heard on rogatory commission, motive connected to the National Security. It is obvious, that the Home Office prefers “to open the umbrella” and to shelter behind the respect on behalf of D.C.P.J., of the formalities of the administrative procedure, by registered mail, at my last address, of formal demands to take back my service and of non-presentation to the summons, at the risk of radiation from the executives of the National police force for post desertion. To assume no responsibility in this State affair, the Home Office has the presumptuousness to call upon, one claimed turpitude, as for me. The small narrow-minded sentence is released, supposed to produce its effect the hearing date and to divert the attention on its own disorders, which ignore with balance the principles of morals and graver still violate those of the security. The Home Office, which cannot underestimate the rules of caution and security, chooses voluntarily to keep silent about the publishing of three noxious newspaper articles of nevertheless police source, protecting by no means the anonymity of a policeman appointed to an operational group of the Central Bureau for Repression of Banditism, until then irreproachable if we judge the notations and the successive and invariable appreciations from the beginning of my career until its term. - Cf. States of the services accomplished in the National police force - Page 105 - 121. Despite the settlements and the texts of law, this representative of Home secretary distorted the facts everywhere, soiling the honour of the National police force and consequently the image of the French Republic. This resolution planned to compromise me as well on a professional plan as to expose me to possible reprisals, engages the whole responsibility of the high-ranking servant responsible for the communication with the press both on an administrative and penal plan. On this matter, it is not useless to remind, that the specificity of policeman's profession led the legislator to introduce the capacities of strengthened protection, in the law of July 29th, 1881 on the freedom of the media, notably in respect for the anonymity. This Institution, even goes as far as blaming me for having leading a parallel inquiry on a missing little girl. On this matter, I allow to underline that the further inquiry asked by the Warrant officer of the Brigade of Local Research in Grenoble (Isère) on the Léo BALLEY affair, classified Secret Defence with the precious help of my sister Elisabeth, had not aroused on behalf of the Committing magistrate such a uprising of shield. As always, the simplistic arguments of the Home Office resist to no logic. In which measure, a possible headway in an inquiry stayed in the break-even point for several months, can be harmful? Finally, how not underlining the enormous contradictions raised in the strategy argument of the Home Office which, speaks about different informal contacts remained fruitless "to restore normal professional relations as from September 1st, 2003 " with an answer by fax to my mail of 04/09/2003 from Roger Marion, in his quality of prefect delegated for the Security and the Defence in Marseille. In the body of my letter, I expressly explain the case of major force, which urged me to put my family safe from danger from August 2003 and consequently the reasons which opposed the resumption of my normal professional activities at the conclusion of my annual holidays. - Cf. My report of 18/08/2003 of demand of moved closer protection sent to the Main Police captain of Police (Main superintendent), Mr. Christophe MOLMY - Page 122 - 125. - Cf. My Mail of 04/09/2003 sent to the Prefect - Page 126 in 129. - Cf. My report of transmission to the Prefect, Mr. Roger MARION - Page 135By the present document, I also want to evoke another crucial point, raised in my log book of 08/01/2004: - in his report dated 03/10/2003, the Central Director of the Criminal Investigation Department at the time of the facts, Mr. Gérard GIREL speaks about supposedly reasons, which led his direction, to open a file of missing case, concerning myself, with the Central Office of Worrying Missing Persons (O.C.D.I.P). From 20/08/2003, by adding, that I was the object of a registration in the File of the researched Persons (F.P.R). As " depressive person, likely to attempt to his life”. On the other hand, Mr. Gérard GIREL is well careful, not to mention the false index card of the R.G. (General Information) which, was delivered against me. From reliable police source, I shall learn that I became suddenly " a suicidal individual likely to go to the United-Kingdom, accompanied with his sister Elisabeth. ". Now, the establishment of this kind of index card from R.G. brings, as far as I am concerned, the following observation: - by leaving the postulate, that the files of the services of the General Information contains information on the major persons who can, because of their individual or collective activity, strike a blow at the security of the State or at the law and order, by the appeal or the active support brought to the violence as well as on persons who maintain or who maintained direct and not fortuitous relations with these and what of more these files contain the description of the persons quoted as well as the information on the political, philosophic, religious or trade-union activities of these last ones. In Which scenario enters Marc SILVA to have the honour and the advantage to appear on an index card of the R.G. established credibly in the days which followed my official demand of moved closer protection for my family and in particular for my sister Elisabeth SILVA whose mention " accompanied with his sister " is far from being a coincidence. The lies being added some to the others, in the paragraph which follows by the same report, D.C.P.J., Mr. Gérard GIREL does not hesitate to adduce: " since this date, his behaviour put in evidence the character very disturbed of this civil servant who during the next days attempted, but without succeeding there, to contact the people in charge of the television channel " LCI ", then to seek the protection of the embassy of the United States. "To restore the truth, so awkward, it is for my former hierarchy duly informed by official way, I must underline that the Main superintendent, Mr. Christophe MOLMY, person in charge in second of the O.C.R.B, at the time of the facts, despite multiplication of tracking, aiming to me as well in Toulouse region as in Paris region, escaped from his obligations by refusing to take the drastic measures of security which were imperative in the same circumstances, only because of the principle of precaution. Apparently not very worried about his staff, since the beginning, this department head will not alert the Regional Criminal Investigation Department service of Toulouse (31), about the potential danger incurred by a police officer confronted daily with the organized crime, and with the risks of reprisals inherent to the specificity of certain antiterrorist missions in support of the D.N.A.T. ( Antiterrorist National Division).For lack of police assistance and regarding the state of necessity, the 19/08/2003, I went to the office of T.F.1 where I was able to get in touch with a person in charge of the channel T.F.1, at the end of morning. It is in any transparency, that I evoked the interview granted by Mr. Antoine GUELAUD, who kindly handed me his visiting card. - Cf. log-book of 19/08/2003: " Mr. Antoine GUELAUD, journalist to T.F.1 (leader of the health / company department) receives us together with three co-workers. Documents in the support, submit him the result of our steps, begun about the missing child, Estelle MOUZIN and the form of the events because of the reference to the file of the child Léo BALLEY, classified SECRET DEFENCE. " - Cf. - photocopy Mr. Antoine GUELAUD's visiting card / T.F.1 - Page 133. V - RESULT AND EXPECTATIONS: In the management of this scandalous affair of state, everything indicates that the successive waiting-game of Mr. Jean Pierre RAFFARIN and Mr Dominique DE VILLEPIN at the post of Prime Minister, the dumbness of The Minister of Defence, Mrs Michele ALLIOT-MARIE, the guilty laxness of The Minister of Justice, Mr. Dominique PERBEN and the dominating role held by the Secretary of The Interior, Internal Security and local liberties, Nicolas SARKOZY, who seems to make it, a quite personal affair from the beginning of August 2003 till now, translate a will to damage remained intact. Let us note once more, that this illegal hardship of my freedom and those of my two relatives parents, also of French nationality and irreproachable, in the American prison, will not arouse the slightest hostile reaction of the duly informed French diplomatic authorities. As well the French diplomat, Mrs GREZE as the Minister for Foreign Affairs at the time of the facts, Mr. Dominique DE VILLEPIN, the bard of human rights if there is, known for his ardent diatribes, pronounced at the table of the O.N.U. against regimes little worried about humanist values, will not condemn the American criminal behaviour held towards my family and that nothing can legitimize.The free, independent and rightly, so-called, French press, defendant of injustices striking the French citizens illegally and arbitrarily, worldwide imprisoned, will be careful not to thunder against abuses of the American services, before and after the publishing of the book " LES PILIERS DE LA TRAITRISE " written by Miss Elisabeth SILVA and published by Les Editions la Lanterne. More annoying and more irritable, this sudden allegiance of circumstance, on behalf of a French government not denouncing the degrading and barbaric treatments of the services of the Immigration of the all powerful United States of America, violating as usual the international legal rules to the detriment of three French citizens, to the virgin police record, entered nevertheless regularly on their ground with valid passport, plane tickets, there and back U.S.A. / ENGLAND, documentary evidences of means of existence. This French pusillanimity will not miss to surprise, I am convinced, all the countries worried about the fate of their fellow countrymen manhandled outside the limits of their border. - Cf. Decisions of the American Judge of the department of Justice of the Immigration Service- Mrs Marie-José MARQUEZ, Miss Elisabeth SILVA and Mr. Marc SILVA - Page 134 - 136. Besides, being deprived since the beginning of the informed advices of a lawyer, worthy of this name, I wonder in which measure, Home secretary, Nicolas SARKOZY, in his defendant's quality in the affair which sets me to the Home Office since 24/03/2004 in front of the Administrative Court of Paris, concerning the double contesting of: - my radiation from the National police force executives, - and of the refund of the received salaries, from 01/09/2003 till 31/01/2004, has the right, and it at the same time, to make insure the defence of the interests of the company AXA BANQUE FINANCING (applicant), which assigned me on 07/03/2005 in front of the Magistrates' court of Courbevoie, for a quite other affair of excessive debt, by the Company of lawyers ARNAUD CLAUDE - NICOLAS SARKOZY, namely the SELAS (Company of liberal exercise by simplified shares, created on 02/05/2002 by NICOLAS SARKOZY with ARNAUD CLAUDE). Is not there confusion of powers between the public service exercised by Nicolas SARKOZY and his private interests? Cf. Mail of 03/03/2005 of the S.E.L.A.S. Arnaud Claude and Nicolas SARKOZY - page 65.

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.

High-ranking French Servants not only exceeded the stage of preparatory acts and realized an attempt aiming to the execution of what we can call a State crime. These same civil servants did not withdraw voluntarily, however their black intention didn’t come to its term because of the evacuation of my family, at the last minute, forced consequently to a long exile outside France. The attempt of crime always liable to penalty, the abuses of power in any kind and the moral harassment, which preceded, accompanied and followed our exile, quite as the quite particular doggedness to deny, to repay justice to an honourable family, demonstrate the guilty intention to the end, of their inspirer.The political responsibility is exclusive, neither of the civil and administrative liability of the State, nor of the penal responsibility of their authors. Force has to remain to the law. I make the solemn oath never let subsidize a State Reason on the equity towards my family. Considering all the elements in his ownership, it henceforth falls to the President of the French Republic, Leader of the Armies, Mr. Jacques Chirac to assume his responsibilities and to condemn without concession crimes committed by his own camp. Nobody is supposed to ignore the law and the obligations promulgated by articles 434-1 (non denunciation of crime) and following ones of the Penal code who are connected with it. - article 434-1 of the Penal code: " the fact, for whoever having knowledge of a crime of which it is still possible to prevent or to limit the effects, or whose authors may commit new crimes which could be prevented, not to inform the judicial or administrative authorities about it, is punished for three years of detention and for 45000 euro of fine. " Nevertheless, presently, I can only obviously emphasize and notice the absence of administrative or penal penalty against the culprits, as well as the deep autism of the current French government. It is finally without real surprise that the 30/03/2006, the Judge of the Administrative Court of Paris will pronounce the REFUSAL of my formed appeal, aiming at the cancellation of the order of 20/01/2004, by which the Home Office crossed me off, with the National police force executives, for post desertion, decision, which will go to the same direction as the political interest.All the combined elements of proofs leads me to assert, in a irrefutable way, that the constitutional principle of separation of powers, which does not in theory allow the high public Authorities to intervene in the cases of Justice, appears as a real cheating. The force of the weak will have had no respite to display the range of all its low knocks and to concentrate its offensives against two women and a man. These abuses of authority always directed at a retired person from the Ministry of Education, at a young lady heard on rogatory commission in a criminal classified Secret Defence affair, which lent gracefully her help for a further information at the request of a director of inquiry, and at the former civil servant of the National police force, also auditioned in the same frame. So many elements, which will allow you, Sir or Madam, to better understand the inextricable situation, into which my family had been plundged, since August 2003, in defiance of all the national and international legal rules, abused in a shameless way, by high despicable State Representatives, who show all the arrogance of their impunity, soiling by their contemptible schemes, the honour of two superpowers, namely France and the United States of America. It would be an error of judgment to consider my step, as subversive. I intend to denounce the pervading hypocrisy, which consists in believing, that propaganda and manipulation do not exist within both aforesaid countries, which arise, shamelessly in champions of Democracy. Naturally, you will understand that I call, in no way, for charity or still for solidarity, but for the application strictly speaking of the law, both on the national stage and international.Numerous texts of law arrange, that the citizens of the world are held multiple obligations in which they cannot escape at the risk of being punished. The same texts of law also impose on the public authorities to guarantee the fundamental rights of every individual placed under their responsibility. Consequently, the grave neglects in their duty, notably on behalf of the political authorities supposed to show the example on the base and specially appointed by the people for that purpose, must also be punished and not only during the elections. So, in the name of my family, in the name of the law for a fair justice, I consider necessary to remind to, both culprits States, so on one hand, the real courage consists in looking for the truth then in crying it out loud and clear, and on the other hand, that they have the duty to condemn resolutely, not only crimes committed by their own camp, but also those committed by the other countries, as well as acts of terrorism of State, in the same way as crimes of hurts humanity, instead of adopting the little glorious strategies to disregard the reality, by cowardice, accommodation even calculation, or still to devilish systematically the opponent. Despite the quasi-general renunciation, I still have the weakness or the naivety to believe that an inquiry led in any independence in France and\or still by O.N.U., will raise the lead screed which always presses on this taboo subject, for which we look by all the means to cover up. Otherwise, it would mean for me, that France under Mr. Jacques Chirac presidency, as U.S.A. chaired by Mr. George W. Bush reached the zero degree of Democracy, and that, with complete impunity, in defiance of the national, international law and the other rights of The Man and of The Citizen about whom, we speak so much, quite rightly. It is true, that the value of an individual or of a State, confronts in his righteousness and in his courage, and that in all respects. Finally, I indeed want to express all my gratitude to the politics and others, French and foreign personalities, who had the courage to reply to my sister Elisabeth SILVA, further to the sending of her book “LES PILIERS DE LA TRAITRISE” published by les Editions La Lanterne.- Cf. Book cover and distribution - Page 137 – 141: - to the various French political representatives, - to the French and foreign personalities, - to the foreign embassies in France,- To the French and foreign media. - Cf. Answers V.I.P. - page 142 in 163. In the name of the demonstration of the truth and of an impartial justice, I exhort you to make circulate this present Open letter, to make the light on the deliberated censorship Law. In your quality of spokesperson, it is up to you to assail the guilty silence, to denounce, according to the law this Crime and to attend to protect the right to life, in dignity and security. So that nobody ignores the unacceptable bottoms of this scandalous French-American affair. Yours faithfully, The French citizen, Mr. Marc SILVA

Atas Nama HAM, Salah Alamat Jika Obama Disalahkan Soal Teknik Integorasi Tangani Terorisme Yang Membuat Nilai Hukum & HAM Seakan “Tetanus” Di Era Bush

Mega Simarmata — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:41:10 EDT

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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.

You are the best, Mr President !

(MS)

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Ode Untuk Presiden Barack Obama Yang Menghapuskan Motto Kalimat PERANG MELAWAN TEROR

Mega Simarmata — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:25:19 EDT

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 !

(MS)

MEGA SIMARMATA

Editor In Chief Of KATAKAMI.COM (Indonesia)

Kill Terrorism via Entrepreneurial Education

TQ Innovator — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:18:58 EDT

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Islamic Pirates & Jihad - Terror Connection

Maria from New York, NY — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:49:13 EDT

Islamic Pirates & Jihad - Terror ConnectionSomalia Standoff Generates US Policy Debate
Voice of America - ‎Apr 10, 2009‎
US officials said the group, which controls parts of Somalia, poses a dilemma. They point to its rapid expansion, ties between its leaders and the al-Qaida ...
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-04-11-voa12.cfmThe Pirates Challenge Obama's Pre-9/11 Mentality
Wall Street Journal - ‎Apr 10, 2009‎
As the eminent military historian Sir Michael Howard argued shortly after 9/11, the status of al Qaeda terrorists is to be found in a distinction first made ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123940383654409651.htmlSomali Pirates Tied to Jihad
Intellectual Conservative - ‎Apr 8, 2009‎
Since 2003, Somalia has witnessed the growth of a brutal network of Jihad with strong ties to Al-Qaeda. In fact, when the US forces faced a bloody battle in ...
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2009/04/08/somali-pirates-tied-to-jihad/---Commentary: Take fight to the pirates
CNN - ‎Apr 9, 2009‎
It is time to change strategy and take the fight to the pirates, as our military predecessors did with great success more than 200 years ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/09/wilkerson.pirates/Harper's Magazine - ‎Apr 9, 2009‎
Unconventional warfare, against an unconventional enemy. What a novel idea. We handled things better 200 years ago!
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/04/hbc-90004751Lessons From the Barbary Pirate Wars
New York Times - ‎April 10, 2009‎
We’re talking about the Barbary Wars, about 200 years ago, when pirates from the Barbary Coast (today’s Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya) hijacked ...http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/weekinreview/12gettleman.html?ref=africaSomalia: Direct connections about Somali pirates and Islamic extremists
Djibouti (HAN) April 10th, 2009 - Unied states regional based military officials and the Somalia Minister for Fisheries Professor Abdulrahman Ibbi, have found no direct ties between the Somalia Coast pirates and the International Islamic terrorist groups, such as Al-qa'ida or Al-Shabab, but continue to search for signs of links between the two factions in the wake of the Indian Ocean hostage incident; that is close of the Somali city of Kismayo, run by Al-Shabab and Al-Itihad groups. It was not clear whether officials were specifically scrutinizing the Somali pirates who boarded the Maersk Alabama on Tuesday and fled in a lifeboat after taking hostage the cargo ship's captain.
http://www.geeskaafrika.com/somalia_10apr09.htmSOMALIA: Why The Pirates Are Immune From Attack
Strategy Page - ‎Apr 9, 2009‎
There are over a thousand gunmen attached to pirate gangs in the north, although the group operating off the east coast pay "taxes" to al Shabaab for the ...
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/somalia/articles/20090409.aspx---October 02, 2008
al Qaida + Pirates = Jihad on the High Seas
Al Qaida has claimed responsibility for the increased pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia this year. So far this year there have been around 60 attacks against cargo ships in the Gulf of Aden, in 2007 there was 13. The islamic pirates are currently holding up to 300 crewmen hostage and 14 cargo ships for ransom.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194284.phpSomali pirates: Islamist insurgents demand weapons from hijacked ...Oct 6, 2008 ... The Islamist gunmen from the al Shabaab group opposing Somalia's weak ... British tourists narrowly avoid being captured by Somali pirates ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/somalia/3140884/Somali-pirates-Islamist-insurgents-demand-weapons-from-hijacked-ship.html

The US/Britain 200 Years war against Islamic pirates - terrorists

Maria from New York, NY — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:36:20 EDT

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"

Natalia from Acampo, CA — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:08:57 EDT

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]

Natalia from Acampo, CA — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:53:39 EST

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 visa
Israeli 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 Israeli
RACISM 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

Ossam Bin Ladden and al Qaeda have won

LOL — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:31:28 EST

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

Natalia from Acampo, CA — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:51:05 EST

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 live
By Noam Bedein January 22, 2008
Barrage of rockets hits Sderot as kids go to school ... ...
http://web.israelinsider.com/views/12586.htm

Kassam alert- kindergarten http://sderotmedia.com
http://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, 2007
http://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

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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?

Unknown user — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:43:20 EST

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

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".

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Change is needed!

Unknown user — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:08:08 EST

Hi,

First of all my congrates to Mr. Barack Obama who became the President of US!

As per the situation of the world today, its becoming worst due to increased growth of terrorism and their attacks on different areas of the world...

I, as an Indian, appreciate US President, Barack Obama, who also wants change and who is really serious & taking actions against terrorism and trying to distroy the roots of them.

Like our legend leader, Mahatma Gandhi, we also want only Peace in the world...

I salute to those who died fighting with the terrorists and who gave their valuable lives for their country...

At last my message to the world would be to stop Terrorism and live Peaceful life!

Regards,

Manish, India

What good does it do now, UN's apology and retracting from fake 'war crimes charges' after UN's criminal tarnishing Innocent Israel damage is already done?

Natalia from Acampo, CA — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:57:17 EST

What good does it do now, UN's apology and retracting from fake 'war crimes charges' after UN's criminal tarnishing Innocent Israel damage is already done?

UN retracts claim over Gaza school attackFeb 4, 2009 http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0204/gaza.html

UN retracts claim deadly Israeli strike hit Gaza school - ABC News ...Feb 5, 2009 ... The United Nations has retracted a claim that an Israeli strike which killed more than 40 people in northern Gaza city of Jabaliya last ... http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/05/2482698.htm

UN retracts claim deadly Israeli strike hit Gaza school Feb 4, 2009 ... The News International - Get breaking news, latest top stories, business, sports and entertainment news. See the news happening as the ... http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=67566

UN retracts claim deadly Israeli strike hit Gaza school All ...Feb 4, 2009 ... remember all those viral emails that you have received - here are all of them. http://allviralemails.com/2009/02/04/un-retracts-claim-deadly-israeli-strike-hit-gaza-school

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Only 'Maximum 600 Palestinians died in Gaza' (re: Pallywood inflated numbers)

Unknown user — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:34:46 EST

'Maximum 600 Palestinians died in Gaza' Jerusalem Post, Israel (Jan 22, 2009)
Cremonesi interviewed Gazans who echoed Israel's insistence of how Hamas gunmen
used civilians as human shields. One Gazan recalled civilians in Gaza ...

'Video: Palestinians in Gaza Reopen Smuggling Tunnels' - http://www.youtube.com/v/w1_CJXAzows

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292939271&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Citizens Can End Terrorism by

Aria Littlhous — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:15:39 EST

1. Getting to know Muslims here.

2. Educating themselves on the history of all the conflicts.

3. Writing to people in the Middle East.

4. Learning the languages spoken in that part of the world.

Target Community Service Work

Aria Littlhous — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:09:09 EST

I think the President should specify that the way ordinary citizens can help solve all the conflicts in the Middle East is by learning the languages spoken there. Peace is impossible without communication.

Drawing a parallel between Israel and India

Piyush Dhawan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:50:40 EST

US President elect Obama, during a visit to Israel, said:

"If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that. I would expect Israelis to do the same thing."

Drawing a parallel between this and what happened in Mumbai on 26/11, don't you think we Indians also have a right to bring to justice the people who carried on the attacks.

Indians have been the victims of terror for over 5 decades now and we have been considered as a soft state because our government has not taken any concrete action all these years... and in most probability we wont act even now...

We would expect the new president to instil the same confidence trust in India as you have in your mid-east ally, Israel, so that the root of terrorism in the world, the state of Pakistan is made to act against its state/non-state actors...

Hope this post meets the eye of the people that matter.

-In anticipation...

Piyush

26,000+ children worldwide dying needlessly per day of preventable diseases/hunger/dirty water?

Joe Hendricks, Owner of SoftwareRunners — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:42:38 EST

How I hope Obama tries addressing the root causes, instead of symptoms, of terrorism, genocide and war..

Op ' cast Lead' Israel/Gaza: Triple Islamic Crime: 1) Firing upon Israeli civilians, 2) using its own populations' women and children to make sure they die, so they can bash Israel even more, 3) Calling for genocide on Israelis or on all Jews.

Natalia from Acampo, CA — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:41:37 EST

December, 2008 - January 2009

Triple Islamic Crime: 1) Firing upon Israeli civilians, 2) using its own populations' women and children to make sure they die, so they can bash Israel even more, 3) Calling for genocide on Israelis or on all Jews.

Operation 'Cast Lead' - Israel decided it had (1) - enough of: Years of Islamic 'Palestinian' Hamas' barrage of rocket attacks aimed intentionally on Israeli civilians, preferably children (at the times they go to schools and kindergartens), around a Millions Israelis are under this threatening range.
(2) - The Islamic terror Hamas fights the Israeli humane anti-terror defensive forces via most inhumane tactics - using its own civilians, women and children as human shields in order to cause Arab kids' deaths and then parade with them on global TV cameras.

(3) - An expolsion of Islamofascism's hatred and call for genocide on (all) Jews in wordlwide demonstrations under the flag of "free Palestine".

On Dec. 27, Israel began defensive operations to dismantle Iran-backed Hamas’s terrorist infrastructure in Gaza and stop the terrorist group from its 8-years-long campaign of attacking Israeli civilians with 10,000 rockets, missiles and mortars.

Despite Hamas’s unrelenting rocket attacks, Israel continues to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, warning the civilian population to stay clear of terrorist sites. Said Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, "Israel has made it clear that we are fighting against terrorism, not the Gazan residents, and the extremists are the ones who are taking advantage of the concern of the humanitarian organizations and the international community as a means of pressuring Israel."
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=689705&ct=6479 919

Harris noted that Israel has always gone to great lengths in an attempt to avoid civilian casualties, but that, tragically, Hamas uses civilians "as human shields," making Israel's efforts still more challenging. (Dec 27, 2008)

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-27-2008/00049 47081&EDATE=

Hamas Prepares 15,000 Soldiers, Civilian Human Shields For Full Confrontation With Israel (Dec 27, 2008)

http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275253.html

Hamas took no heed of the plight of their own brethren, "and just as they have used human shields in their terror operations, they are now taking the whole ...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1229868820574&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Israel's Challenge Family Security Matters, NJ - Dec 26, 2008 Why is criticism never leveled at Hamas or Hezbollah who regularly use children as human shields to protect their leaders and their weapons? ...

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2115/pub_detail.asp

Israel retaliation in Gaza, Hamas hit hard Canada Free Press, Canada Any suspected hideouts of Hamas leadership must be taken out. Israel had opportunities in earlier decades to do this and refused because of the human shield

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7171

Hamas Explains Use of Civilians as Human Shields
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
"We desire death as you desire life."
The UN announcement that 51 civilians have died in the conflict in Gaza must be understood in the context of Hamas's declared ideology to use civilians as human shields for Hamas fighters. Indeed, Hamas continues to emphasize and promote the religious ideology that death for Allah is an ideal to be actively pursued.
The goal is to convince Palestinians, including women and children, not to fear death but even to face it at the front to protect Hamas fighters. Hamas's placement of its military installations and fighters among civilians reflects this ideology, and has led to these 51 deaths.
A Hamas representative in the PA legislative council this year expressed pride in the fact that women and children are used as human shields in fighting Israel. He described it as part of a "death industry" at which Palestinians excel, and explained that the Palestinians "desire death" with the same intensity that Israelis "desire life."
The following is the full text of the comments by Hamas representative Fathi Hamad: "For the Palestinian people death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire death as you desire life."

http://newsblaze.com/story/20081229092838zzzz.nb/topstory.html

Injured Palestinian girl: Hamas is the cause of all wars
A haunting clip from an outfit that specializes in them: Portrait of a human shield, her four-year-old sister one of 60 civilians killed...

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/12/30/injured-palestinian-girl-hamas-is-the-cause-of-all-wars/

The suffering that Hamas causes (Dec 2008) ...
But it isn't only Israelis whose fundamental human rights Hamas is violating. It is those of the Palestinian population about whose welfare Hamas professes to care.
In direct contravention of international law, Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields, utilizing homes, schools and community centers as launching pads, content in the knowledge that if innocent Palestinian civilians are caught in the cross-fire, it will be Israel that is criticized. This amounts to a sort of Daily Double of human rights violations: the use of innocent Palestinians as human shields for the infliction of violence upon innocent Israelis.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/12/30/the_suffering_that_hama s_causes/

The Father of the Human Shield Dead
DigitalJournal.com - 2 Jan 2009
Nizar al-Rayyan invented the Human Shields method. IsraelPolitik reports that Hamas has released an official statement “declaring that Dr. Nizar al-Rayyan, ...

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/264390

Ground push / Mission: Break Hamas Ha'aretz - Jan 3, 2009
Hamas may also use children as "human shields" for weapons caches inside mosques.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052336.html

IDF launches Gaza ground operation
Ha'aretz - Jan 3, 2009
Those who use civilians, the elderly, women and children as "human shields" are responsible for any and all injuries to the civilian population.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052341.html

They Asked For It! Hamas goads Israeli military to invade Gaza Strip
Gather.com - Jan 3, 2009
They're showing no regard for the high, civilian casualties due to the upcoming, street fighting. They're using their countrymen as human shields.

http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/35544

NETANYAHU: This humanitarian crisis is the direct result of the Hamas tactic of firing at our civilians and hiding behind their civilians, and it’s something that we cannot tolerate. No nation would tolerate 6,000 rockets fired on its cities, and Israel finally decided to take action.

We have to make sure that we don’t just have a cease-fire, but that this criminal rocketing of our cities is not resumed a few months from now. Because that’s exactly what happened a few months ago. They were firing rockets at us, the Hamas. We had a cease-fire. They used the cease-fire to get further range — longer-range rockets, which they have now fired at Beersheba and Ashdod and into the southern suburbs of Tel Aviv. So obviously, we have to remove the threat, not just stop the firing. And that’s what Israel is engaged in right now.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=news-000003002618

Crush Hamas and brave the backlash | The Australian - But as was pointed out - Israel attempts to target military and political sites. hamas attacks civilians. there is no such thing as disproportionate attacks …

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24853482-7583,00.html

Rocket alert sends New York’s Bloomberg running for cover in Sderot…
the onus of the civilian deaths was on Hamas for using them as human shields.
“They have been the main victimizers of the innocent Palestinian people by inviting these kinds of attacks,” he said.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052557.html

IDF coordination chief: There is no humanitarian crisis

Hamas terrorists are using civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip - including hospitals, mosques and areas next to offices of international aid groups - to conduct terrorist activity and fire rockets at Israel, Col. Moshe Levi, commander of the IDF’s Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), said Thursday.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1230733138893

Hamas Exploitation of Civilians as Human Shields
Right Side News
This study examines how Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip make extensive use of Palestinian civilians as human shields. ...

http://rightsidenews.com/200901063218/global-terrorism/hamas-exploitation-of-civilians-as-human-shie lds.html

'Hamas is guilty of war crime'
BBC News
... artillery attack near a UN school in the Gaza Strip. On Radio 4's The World Tonight he claimed that Hamas were guilty of using civilians as "human shields".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7814762.stm

Yes, free Gaza — from terrorist tyranny
By REDA MANSOUR
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Some of the Arab and Muslim demonstrators who recently came to our offices were holding signs that said “Free Gaza.” Many Israelis would raise that same sign, me included, but for different reasons. People tend to forget that as of August 2005, Israel has not been in Gaza, and that the Gazans have been under Hamas control since June 2007. Indeed, Gaza needs to be freed from many different extremist forces.
Gaza should be freed from Hamas, a terrorist organization that seized the strip by force. Since the takeover, Hamas has run Gaza’s economy into the ground and now nearly half of the work force is unemployed. Hamas has built a Taliban-style state in Gaza and introduced many of the Islamic Shari’a laws, institutionalizing the persecution of women and minorities.
Hamas has transformed Gaza from a free territory to a large bunker, a place where rockets are stored under families, schools and places of prayer. Unfortunately, Gazans not only live among this militarization, but are now a tool in Hamas’ aggression. The terrorist organization has developed a strategy of using innocent civilians as human shields. When Israel warns that the houses of Hamas operatives and commanders will be targeted, the terrorists bring in innocent citizens, often by force, in an effort to increase the likelihood of civilian casualties. Hamas’ leaders rely on the strict Israeli moral code, hoping to avoid being attacked or that a strike will allow them to score points in the media by sacrificing their own people, creating what looks like acts of Israeli military aggression.
Gaza should be freed from the intervention of Iran, a state that openly admits to financing Hamas. Iran is also helping Palestinian terror organizations with training, intelligence and equipment. Some of this “aid” is channeled through Hezbollah in Lebanon — yet another Iranian proxy organization. Hezbollah and Iran use the Gazans to maintain regional political relevance in their empty agenda against Israel.
Gaza should be freed from some of the Arab satellite channels like Al-Jazeera. These television stations engage in the direct incitement of the Arab and Muslim world. Everything is acceptable in their eyes to raise their ratings: including long shots of bodies and injuries. Some of these channels do not dismiss any editing trick and consider propaganda as a normal part of their news reporting.
As far as Israel is concerned, Gaza is free and it is the decision of its inhabitants what the area’s destiny will be. They can continue to buy into the self-defeating promises of terrorist organizations and extremist ideologies. Even worse, they can continue to let these organizations use them as human shields and demolish their hopes and futures.
Gazans can only truly be free by declaring Gaza a terror-free zone. The people of Gaza have many resources in their hands to achieve success. Gaza could use its beautiful Mediterranean coast to attract Israeli and Egyptian tourists. It can renew the flower and fruit exports to Europe that Israel left behind. The airport that was built there can be reopened. The seaport that is planned and even the natural gas fields in its waters could be built.
The people of this region need to make the decision that Gaza will become a model of peace and stability and hopefully, the beginning of the two-state solution: Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace.

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2009/01/07/mansoured_0107.html

Hamas uses people as shields
Updated: 01/06/2009 06:53:52 AM EST
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has heated up again. A cease-fire agreement has collapsed and Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, immediately renewed its rocket attacks from Gaza into Israeli civilian areas.
Hamas does not attack military targets. They openly declare their intent to kill civilians, including women and children.
These rocket attacks have gone on for years and have steadily increased in intensity. The range of these weapons has increased as well, bringing more civilian areas in Israel under attack, with an increase in danger to civilians.
There is no warning for these attacks, no air-raid sirens, just the sudden explosion of a rocket missile in your neighborhood with the possibility of death and destruction.
During the several years that these rocket attacks have continued, never has anyone raised a voice condemning these attacks, which are knowingly directed against civilians.
Hamas deliberately sets its rocket launchers and mortars in densely populated areas using their own people as human shields against retaliation.
Now that Israel is striking back, the Israelis are being condemned for causing civilian casualties. Where were these voices during the years that Hamas was deliberately and admittedly killing Israeli civilians? Where were these voices when Hamas implemented its policy of using its own people as human shields against retaliation?
Two facts become obvious:
Israel values the lives of its citizens and is now doing and will continue doing what is necessary to protect its citizens.
Hamas views its own people as expendable pawns and willingly and knowingly places them in danger in order to gain a propaganda victory against Israel.

http://www.newstimes.com/ci_11376001

Hamas at fault, not Israelis
Sir:It amazes me that every time Israel makes a move to protect its citizens and sovereignty, bleeding hearts at the CBC continue to pester Israel over its alleged unbalanced response.
Even when the ceasefire was signed, Hamas militants fire rockets haphazardly into Israel.
Hit a military compound, that's nice. Hit a school or hospital, equally nice.
This is terrorism on a daily basis.
To feel sorry for the Palestinian people is a stretch considering they voted for Hamas, knowing the blow-back they would receive not only from their immediate neighbours but from most western powers as well.
As a matter of fact, Palestinians should be thankful that Israel still considers its targets as carefully as it does and not use the laissez faire targeting of Hamas.
The reason why there are civilian casualties at all is again due to the cowardice of the militants using civilians as human shields.
I would certainly hope that those at the liberal CBC that think Israel should open its borders to incoming Palestinian workers when such a threat exists for suicide bombers never end up with the job of minister for public safety in this country.
Hard hats and bomb shelters for all!

http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1374059

The Volokh Conspiracy - Human Shields in Gaza:
But it takes a special kind of depravity to use your own civilians as human ... If the Hamas civilians *know* they are acting as human shields for the ...

http://volokh.com/posts/1230756039.shtml

Children of Hamas
Hamas has been firing these rockets from within densely populated areas using the Palestinian people as human shields. Mosques, hospitals, kindergartens

http://anadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7366

Peres: Europe must 'open eyes' on Gaza
United Press International
Peres blamed Hamas for the deaths of innocent civilians in the siege, saying the militants use them as human shields...

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/06/Peres_Europe_must_open_eyes_on_Gaza/UPI-94771231247258/

Hamas exploits public opinion
Newstimes Updated: 01/06/2009 07:23:35 PM EST
It is time to support Israel in her time of need. After living in a war zone with relentless rockets firing on innocent citizens even in a "cease-fire" agreement with Hamas, Israel has no choice but to destroy the terrorists who have one goal and that is to destroy Israel.
If the press would comment on Hamas' tactics of using women and children as human shields, of firing rockets from residential neighborhoods, of dressing Hamas officials in medical uniforms in hospitals, the tragic deaths of innocent Palestinians may be understood.
Israel has no choice but to destroy the point of rocket fire. If it comes from a mosque, a hospital, a home, a school, it is designed that way by the terrorists to hurt Israel.
They have no regard for their citizens and use them as propaganda tools to affect world opinion.
It would be helpful if the press would mention the tactics at the same time as they mention the tragic deaths of innocent bystanders. It is all calculated by Hamas and unfortunately not everyone is aware of their depth of cruelty.
Our tradition teaches us, "He who saves a single life, it is as if he saved an entire world." Israel reveres life and the terrorists revere death. It is unfortunate and tragic.
When the terrorists will show the same passion for peace as they do for death and hatred, there will be peace.

http://www.newstimes.com/ci_11387960

We have counseled our ally Israel to be very cautious about protecting innocents, and I do think that the Israelis take great care to do so. I saw the reports about the school. I don't have any information about that. I think that we should not jump to conclusions, and we should wait to find out what the evidence says. What we do know is that Hamas often hides amongst innocents, and uses innocent people, including children, as human shields.

http://www.enewspf.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5435:press-briefing-by-p ress-secretary-dana-perino-&catid=88888933&Itemid=88889535

Evidence of Hamas Use of Human Shields

http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/06/2278116-evidence-of-hamas-use-of-human-shields

Global Islamo fascism's Genocidal Anti - Jewish demonstrations using the Gaza anti terror operation ' cast lead' as a cover (Dec 2008 - Jan 2009)
(Jan 2009) Jihad Watch reports that in the Netherlands, anti-Israel demonstrators have once again been chanting
Hamas Hamas, Jews to the gas
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024231.php
Atlas has pictures of the Muslims that have taken over Europe chanting “Jews to the gas.”
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/01/video-anne-fran.html
Demonstrators cry 'nuke Israel,' carry Hezbollah flags at U.S. ... 6 Jan 2009 ... ... Florida last week featured demonstrators carrying signs reading ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052901.html
Florida demonstrator: Jews - you need a big oven' - 6 Jan 2009 ... Florida demonstrator: Jews - you need a big oven' ... Nuke, nuke Israel," followed by "Go to hell; go to hell; go to hell!" ...Another woman, wearing a (Muslim) headscarf, shouted: "Go steal other lands. Go! Murderers! Go back to the oven! You need a big oven."
Other signs accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing." "Israel is the terrorist," read a second, while a third wondered whether Israel had taken "notes during the Holocaust?"
An imam led the crowd in prayer. "Allahu Akhbar," they chanted before prostrating themselves on their prayer mats.
"We want to educate the people about what Islam really is so that they can appreciate the beauty of it," the imam told a reporter. "Once people understand the real beauty of Islam they will have no choice but to accept it because they will realize that it's part of their nature."
Following their (Islamic) prayers, the crowd crossed the road and confronted the pro-Israel group
http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2606
Genocidal hatred from pro-Hamas demonstrators -- "Nuke, nuke Israel." Chilling video from Tom Trento of WatchObsession.org. .... Florida A Tampa highway was lined with anti-Gaza War demonstrators on ...The stone, which is thrown at the Jews, hates these Jews, these Zionists, because Allah .... Muslims in American mosques praying for destruction of Israel ...
http://www.israelmilitary.net/showthread.php?p=36183
Protesting Against Israel or Hating Jews? - 6 Jan 2009 ... 'Muslim American Society'... The anti-Israel demonstration of some 200 to 300 people outside the ... for instance, carried signs saying "Nuke Israel,"...Now the notion of using of a nuclear device to eliminate Israel and thereby attempting to kill its roughly 5 million Jews is not a unique one, since words to that effect are regularly uttered, among others, by Iran's raving president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who dreams of such apocalyptic final solutions. What is unique is the morally-defective logic that would enable someone to justify a second Holocaust, the mass murder of Jews, on the basis of Israel having defended itself from years of rocket attacks and having killed several hundred murderous terrorists in the process. Making the Middle East free of Jews, Judenfrein, is exactly what Hamas, the group of murderous thugs being cheered on by the demonstrators here, ardently longs for; Hamas' charter, in fact, expresses as one of its core tenets that Israel should be eliminated, that "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/protesting_against_israel_or_h.html
December 31, 2008
"Death to all juice": Calling for genocide with plausible deniability?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024163.php
January 4, 2009 chill and evil wind is blowing over the world. Genocidal Eurabia Alert
Denmark (Islamic banner reads): "Kill Jewish people evry where in ther world"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024235.php
The banner reads, "Jews go to hell." Attached Images ...
http://www.goldtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=226463
Indonesian Muslim protesters hold a banner during a rally against . ... The banner reads, 'Jews go to hell.' REUTERS/Beawiharta. (INDONESIA) ...
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Israel--Indonesian-Muslim-protesters-hold-banner-during-rally-again st-Israeli-attacks-Gaza-Strip-Jakarta-January-2-2009-banner-reads-Jews-go/ss/events/wl/20070128_isra el/im:/02012009/6/photo/photos-n-news-indonesian-muslim-protesters-hold-banner-during-rally-against- israeli.html/
That Old Lovable “Jews Are Apes And Pigs” Canard
http://outoftheblu.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/that-old-lovable-jews-are-apes-and-pigs-canard/

Countdown to Inaguration Day

Ashwin Raj — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:55:37 EST

A new kind of politician is asking to hope and believe... a refreshment of words, considering the unprecedented faceoff between an economy complacent with frivolous regulation and a society starved for self-inflicting liberalism. Emerging from a campaign garnished with depravity, naivete and tragic idiocy, here is someone with an apparent determination to pen an audaciously interesting chapter or two in America's history book.

The Flaming Middle....

James — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:03:12 EST

What is terrorism? Is it not what you define it to be? Way back in our own history there was a great philosophical debate about what a terrorist was. When we began the American Revolution, that debate was framed around only two words: Patriot and Rebel. We, the revolutionary fighters, claimed that our people were patriots, and not deserving of immediate execution as rebels when caught by the British. The British, of course, disagreed. Many lives were sacrificed settling that debate. And now we have the same debate going on all over again. It is almost as big as the 'aggression' and 'defense' debate. Today, countries attack, in an extremely violent and aggressive fashion, but only to defend. Israel is doing that right this minute on the Gaza Strip. They are also throwing in the 'anti-terrorist' campaign language to go hand in hand with it. In keeping with this, let's do a bit of conjecture.

Let's say that you have an opposition leader's exact whereabouts located within a few feet. Like in his home. Let's say that you drive up a truck to his front door and then run away. From a place down the block, you blow up the explosives packed into the truck. You kill this opponent, as well as his entire family, including all the women and children in the house. Is that something that would be called terrorism today? Almost certainly. In any country. In any place, and at any time. But what if you made one small change to that application of violent aggression? What if you simply changed the 'driving the truck up to the front door, running away and then igniting the explosives from down the street' into 'flew an F-16 over the house, fired a pin-point laser guided bomb into the living room window, exploded it, and then flew away.' What a difference that make's eh?

The first act is performed by locals, for the most part. Insurgents. Patricians. Those people who lack all manner of advanced and sophisticated weapons of war. But they do have trucks, fertilizer and diesel fuel. The second act is performed by organized governments around the world. By the U.S. By Israel. By Great Britain. What is the difference? The difference goes all the way back to those early times. The big wealthy fighting forces make the rules. You are a rebel and you are going to be hung if you get caught by the wrong guys. That you are fighting for something you believe in, and it is always freedom, means nothing. The Iraqi people want freedom. They wanted it from Saddam. They want it from us. And they will want if from whoever we leave in charge there when we leave. The Afghan' want it. The Palestinians want it. Hell, after all this FISA nonsense and loss of citizen's rights under the 'Patriot' Act, we want it too!

And what about this defensive warfare thing? What a crock the presentation and implementation of that philosophy has proven to be. We kill you, or take your property and stuff because we think you might come and take our's. Or we simply say that. Why would we not? Because we are good guys and they are bad guys? By who's definition? The Germans went into Poland because they were attacked. Were they attacked? No, not really at all. Hamas has some ridiculous homemade rockets they set off every once and awhile, to let Israel know that they are still there and still want their property back. But Israel has decided that they must attack with a modern array of devastating weapons and troops. Oh please. They want the Gaza Strip back and they are going to get it. Just like we wanted Iraq and we got it. They will celebrate their great victory, as we did our's. And then they will try to live with the aftermath. A never-ending grind of awful hatred and violence. But individual fortunes will be made while the soldiers and civilians die. And power will be solidified, applied and re-applied around the area, again, by individuals.

It would be the most wonderful of dreams if we could require, throughout the world, that any country at war with another must have all the top leaders of both countries living in the country where the war is conducted. And with their families around them. There are no innocents anymore. We did away with those rules, but not the rhetoric, a long time ago. Wow, would we see a reduction in war. But no, the Cheney's will always be found in their bunkers, far from any combat. Define evil. Somewhere inside your definition you should place an emphasis on cowardice. George Bush is a coward, and that is why his father has no use for him. Dick Cheney is a coward. Proven, time and again. In war and in peace. They both hurt people because they are vitally frightened, to their very cores, of being hurt. They are sad departing figures, going off to their respective ranches, and hoping that everyone will forget about the living hell they have caused and leave as their rotten legacy. But they are not alone. All you have to do is cross the pond and get yourself to Israel.

Thank Christ for Obama. I do pray that he is different. Don't you?

from-the-chateau-dif.blogspot.com

Iraq Threatens to Expel Iranian Rebels (terrorists)

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:03:02 EST

Iraq Threatens to Expel Iranian Rebels

Exile Group Has Protected Status Under Soon-to-Expire U.N. Mandate

By Ernesto Londoño - Washington Post Foreign Service - Monday, December 22, 2008; Page A15

BAGHDAD, Dec. 21 -- Iraqi officials say they intend to expel members of an Iranian exile group living in a camp north of Baghdad that is protected by the U.S. military. The expulsion, which the Shiite-led government has long sought, is expected to become feasible once the U.N. mandate that regulates the presence of U.S. troops -- and which gave the Iranian opposition group protected status -- expires at the end of the year.

Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie on Saturday traveled to the camp with several other government officials to deliver the message to members of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian opposition group that was closely aligned with deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein but has been under U.S. military protection since shortly after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.......

ARTICLE - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/21/AR2008122101832.html?hpid=moreheadlines

A U.S. Army soldier with an Iranian fighter belonging to the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq in 2003. The U.S. military has protected the camp, which lies 40 miles north of Baghdad, since 2003.

Good guy Israel's good will vs dangerous "modereate palestinian" - Israel's plan to free Palestinian prisoners is foolish – and illegal

Natalia from Acampo, CA — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:14:06 EST

Good guy Israel's good will vs dangerous "modereate palestinian" - Israel's plan to free Palestinian prisoners is foolish – and illegal

Christian Science Monitor, MA - Dec 14, 2008

Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert intends to free 230 Palestinian prisoners Monday – a "gesture of goodwill" toward the Mahmoud Abbas-led Palestinians. We shouldn't worry, we're told, because the men belong to the "moderate" Fatah, not Hamas or Islamic Jihad, are "without blood on their hands," and must sign a commitment not to return to violence.

Make no mistake: These outlaws are, to all intents and purposes, terrorists bent on Israel's destruction. And, if past is prologue, Israel can expect more terror as a result of this appeasement.

A formal agreement from terrorists not to terrorize is a silly document. Likewise, the presumption that a Fatah-led "Palestine" would be better for Israel is plainly wrong. Fatah's present statements may be moderate, but its past and its hoped-for future tell a different story. In its bloody history of violence against Israelis, Fatah is essentially indistinguishable from Hamas. And a glance at official Palestinian maps of "Palestine," which encompass all of Israel, shows what it really thinks of the "two-state solution."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1215/p09s01-coop.html

Human Rights, Islamic Supremacism, and Our Responsibilities

Unknown user — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:10:36 EST

Human Rights, Islamic Supremacism, and Our Responsibilities Right Side News, GA - Dec 9, 2008 In April 2008, Mr. Carter met with leaders of the Islamic supremacist group Hamas, linked to the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood. http://www.rightsidenews.com/200812092933/culture-wars/human-rights-islamic-supremacism-and-our-responsibilities.html

What is sure is that, for as long as political vacuums and insecurity continue in Yemen, Lebanon and beyond, young jihadists will find new leaders, new inspirations and new forms of organization.

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:12:06 EST

The New Schism in the Jihadist Movement The Zarqawi Generation

By VICKEN CHETERIAN @ Le Monde Diplomatique

I met Abu Talha last summer in Majdel Anjar, a village in Lebanon's Bekaa valley. The meeting wasn't easy: a few days earlier, Lebanese security forces had discovered an al-Qaida cell in nearby Bar Elias and arrested a number of returnees from Iraq.

Abu Talha said: "I agreed to meet you because we want our ideas to reach your readers." He explained how, after the US invasion of Iraq, he had responded to the call of the Islamist leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, to join the Iraqi resistance. He had not been among the first group from the village to go to Iraq. It took six months before he received the message that he could join a group on their way to Baghdad. "They needed to check my identity and resolve because of the complex logistics of the trip," he explained.

Abu Talha joined a group of four, all pretending to be businessmen, and travelled to Qamishli in Syria, near the border, where someone took $300 from each of them to take them to Baghdad. But Syrian security forces surrounded the border village before they could cross, forcing them to escape into the desert. After several days of wandering they reached Baghdad but it was too late to meet their contact there. They wandered for a few more days and finally met Abu Anas al-Shami, an aid to Zarqawi (both were later killed in the fighting).

Abu Talha waited for a month in apartments in Baghdad and then Falluja, with several other volunteers from various Arab countries. They were all waiting their turn for a suicide mission, but there were too many candidates and the logistics were complicated. After a month in Iraq, Abu Talha was sent home. However, he promised to spread the word and send money to the network. During our conversation, he frequently mentioned Zarqawi, and called him "noble and courageous. Since his martyrdom, no one has been able to replace him, or his leadership". When I asked him about his ties with al-Qaida, he replied: "al-Qaida is more of an idea than an organization."

Months before the US invasion, volunteers from a number of Arab countries went to Iraq to defend Saddam Hussein's regime. Its rapid collapse left them demoralized and lacking any sense of purpose, and those who succeeded in returning to their countries of origin were often physically and psychologically broken.

They were replaced by a second wave of volunteers who went to Iraq, not to defend Saddam but to fight the US forces there. They were Islamists inspired by jihadist and pro-takfir (excommunication) ideologies and by the generation of "Afghan Arabs" who preceded them in the fight against Soviet occupation in Afghanistan in the 1980s..........

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.counterpunch.org/cheterian12112008.html

ORIGINAL SOURCE - mondediplo.com.

PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

hindy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:25:32 EST

It saddens me greatly that "hate propoganda" in many Arab countries regarding Jews, the State of Israel and Christians is still rampant . Witness the selling of "The Protocols of Zion" in Arab airports and the primitive rhetoric emanating from the state-controlled media and mosques comparing Jews to "pigs and monkeys" who need to be irradicated. Witness also the references to Christians as Crusaders against all of Islam. I'm sure they're not terribly flattering to Hindus who they consider Idolaters who rank even lower than the so called "People of the Book" who are monotheistic.

That's not to say that there aren't stereotypes being propogated against Muslims by Christians, Jews and Hindus. There are, unfortunately, many who equate Islam with terrorism and religious extremism. Thankfully, unlike the "racist slander" in some Moslem countries, these aren't institutionalized and "blessed" by Western nations.

All of this dangerous stereotyping will likely end because of truths that become apparent to those living in multi-cultural societies that have adequate representation of all religions and where people are allowed to get to know one another intimately.

Unfortunately this egalitarian environment doesn't, for the most part, exist in many theocratic regimes. It will take moderate people of good will living in free democracies to inform their co-religionists in the rest of the world, through blogging and the internet, of our common humanity.

Having said that, I am vaguely optimistic that leaders of all states involved in this conflict know in their heart of hearts that this "race bating" is simply a tool to refocus their citizens' attentions from the social and political turmoil that grips their countries and one that keeps them controlled - in line with radical religious doctrine. The same can be said of all fundamentalist religious zealots.

I base my somewhat shaky optimism for a "just" peace in the Middle and Far East on the fact that many Moslem nations have fallen victim to the same "terrorist" actions as Israel, the US, Britain, Spain and now Mumbai. As a result, many Islamic countries are now conducting their own war on terror - which blows their historical support of terrorist organizations "out of the water". This fact, along with a future reduced demand for fossil fuels and their ensuing diminished ability to exert economic clout on the West, could make them more mallable and pragmatic.

Israelis also realize that they can no longer keep supporting an "unending occupation" that frequently penalizes innocent civilians. The left understands that it undermines Israel's morality while the right realizes that "occupation" threatens the demographic viability of Israel as a predominantly Jewish State. In short, both sides know that a pro-longed occupation doesn't serve either Israeli or Palestian interests. The only hold-outs are the Jewish fundamentalists who believe that God actually "gave" them that land thousands of years ago.

Its fascinating to me that all religious exremists believe that God is definitely on their side. To the settlers I say that God is not in the business of real estate. Its time you realized that. To the Palestinians I say that God is not a "suicide bomber". Its time you realized that as well. If, as both Jews and Moslems contend, there is but one God, then I'm sure that he's not terribly happy with either of you.

All sides need to be convinced by Obama and other progressive world leaders that primitive race bating is not an option in the 21st century and will no longer serve them economically or politically. Nor will a "seemingly endless" occupation serve in Israel's best interest.. Nor will any xenophobic religious radicalism serve an increasingly interdependent, multi-cultural world.

From what I've seen of Barack Obama's ability to bring people together, I feel that he will, more than anyone, will be up to the task of exploiting the "battle fatigue" and disinfranchising the hold of Moslem, Jewish and Christian fundamentalists who have hijacked the peace process and endangered the possibility of respectful co-existence.

His own racial and religious diversity and life experience gives him insight, wisdom and a world-view that is unavailable to most of us. More than anyone, Barack Obama represents humanity in its most complex yet simplied and ideal form.

When, and if, peace eventually comes to the Middle East, it will likely do so of pragmatic realities. - not necessarily out of love, compassion or even tolerance. It will probably happen when all sides realize that they will never get exactly what they want. The reality of global terror, along with economic realities and sheer battle fatigue, will eventually force everyone to come to a workable but practical (albeit cold) solution for peace.

One thing is for sure. Barack Obama will need super-human endurance to diffuse the economic and political problems of the world. He can only do this with bi-partisan support. Lets hope, pray and work hard to make sure that he gets it from all of us.

One Love...

James — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:39:31 EST

Let's Get Together and Fell Alright....

The neocon idiots are still out there, make no mistake about it. Here comes the Financial Times' Gideon Rachman, idiot-in-charge of that right wing rag and now trumpeted on The Drudge Report. It is time for one world government, according to him. After all, we have these three global problems: financial, warming and terrorism. That the financial is neither homogeneous (applying to all countries in the same way) nor universal (some countries are doing just fine), the warming issue is still conjecture (as to what is really causing it) and the terrorism thing, well, that is just a matter of semantics, which we all know. Our own terrorism is called National Defense, or First Strike Capability, or Collateral Damage. "They' are always the ones committing the terrorism. And Mr. Dufus Rachman supposes, from his time in Brussels writing for the Economist rag one supposes, that the developing European 'model' is the way to go. What model? They can get together and agree on a uniting constitution and they have been trying for years. They can't arrive at all of them on the Euro, even. Everything, including our own security setup is almost exactly as it was on December 6, 1941.

And did anybody really celebrate or recognize that occasion this year? Even though the anniversary was on a Sunday? Not much. We perform such remembrance because we do not want to repeat the mistakes that lead to them. But, we don't really. Somehow, over time, we convert those vital failures into media hype. We trot out the 'survivors' of Pearl Harbor, in that particular case. Even though ninety percent of all the armed forces personnel on Oahu that day were not in Pearl Harbor until well after it was struck. Over the years the role changed for these people. Anybody there on the island (military only, please) became a 'Pearl Harbor Survivor.' You can even get one of those trick license plates (like the Gold Star thing). More people rewarded for doing nothing at all, except they know people who did, or had them in their family. That this kind of behavior dilutes the role of those who really did suffer and fight, well, no matter. We are a culture driven to make 'stars.' Whether they are dumb drooling sports characters with phony college diplomas, porn film stars from wealthy families, or merely people who were in a certain part of the world at a certain time. P.T. Barnum turns out to be the greatest of all American philosophers.

What amazes me, more than anything, is the bright people, who say damaging and hurtful things for all of us, just to maintain their 'voice' in front of the audience. The Ann Coulter kind of thing. They could care less that this mighty ship of state is slowly slipping under the waves, as long as they have a deluxe cabin with an ocean view. Gideon Rachman is one of those. Sad. His father is an psychiatrist working in abnormal behavior. Could anything be more predictive or apropos?

Equality ........?

Ready to accept my faults — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:45:33 EST

Hello all.... before writing my first post in this new blog I would like to introduce myself with you all.

I am Kush Soni, a student cum worker from India.

........ some days ago I, and I belive you all also have seen one terrible terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.. unfortunetly i wasn't in Mumbai that time else i won't create this blog ..... i have seen 9/11 also which has happened in US.... more or less the result were same ... people died, lost, and all were searching for their missing partners...however some lukcy one found them alive in some corner but what about those who found their dead bodies? I hope no citizen of US want that this happen again and not only the people of US but the Government of US also got committed to do so... they investigate the things and got the clue about the attack and just to save themselve from another terrorist attack they attacked Taliban and conquered that same... though everyone was criticizing this act of US but I belive country and its citizen are first priority of any of the leader.

I agree that US government done the right thing at that time.... but now question and situation has been changed... some days ago a group of terrorist came in Mumbai ... shot here and there... kidnapped many people( including Americans, Britishers) and played a nude game of terrorism.

Indian soldiers did a superb job and ended up with the win...but was this the only end of that terror days... I would say 'No'.

Indian government gave solid evidence to USA, as it is one of the super power (however India can conquer anyone), that all these activities were done by the Pakistani people only.. .they refused to to do any investigation and all .... now the situation are again in conversation phase just because of the USA double standard policy againg terrorism.......

I would like to ask this question from US citizens and Mr. Barack also that why don't you give support to the India to destroy all the terrorist training center running in Pakistan...? why don't you ask pakistan to handove all the wanted to India as you are asking for Bin Laden?

Waiting for your reply all US citizen and Mr. Obama.

NYT Reporter Chris Hedges:The Wars In Iraq and Afghanistan, When Viewed from the Receiving End, Are Acts of State-Sponsored Terrorism

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:06:54 EST

Confronting the Terrorist Within

A mother tends to her injured child in a hospital 35 miles northeast of Baghdad after a U.S airstrike that killed three civilians and wounded five others.

By Chris Hedges @ truthdig.com

The Hindu-Muslim communal violence that led to the attacks in Mumbai, as well as the warnings that the New York City transit system may have been targeted by al-Qaida, are one form of terrorism. There are other forms.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when viewed from the receiving end, are state-sponsored acts of terrorism. These wars defy every ethical and legal code that seek to determine when a nation can wage war, from Just War Theory to the statutes of international law largely put into place by the United States after World War II. These wars are criminal wars of aggression. They have left hundreds of thousands of people, who never took up arms against us, dead and seen millions driven from their homes. We have no right as a nation to debate the terms of these occupations. And an Afghan villager, burying members of his family’s wedding party after an American airstrike, understands in a way we often do not that terrorist attacks can also be unleashed from the arsenals of an imperial power.........

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081201_confronting_the_terrorist_within/

Terrorism is a Crime

Josh and Kade — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:16:42 EST

July 28, 2005 Terrorism is a Crime

What does a “war” on terror mean? It means incessant warmongering against those in the “axis of evil” and against many other nations. It means building a militaristic society and giving up many of our precious freedoms. All of this is wrong because the “war” on terror is metaphorical. Committing a terrorist act is not, or should not be, a war but a crime - an international crime against which all nations can be enlisted to fight against, thus building international cooperation.

I said all this way back in January of 2004. I was called a fool. I'm bringing the issue up again because I think the climate has changed enough so that maybe people will listen. If I'm not mistaken, Bush and his administration seem to be coming to a similar conclusion. Administration officials no longer talk about the "war on terror"; they speak of the "struggle against violent extremism."

Declaring ourselves as being at war with terrorism is detrimental to our goal of conquering terrorism. Terrorism is an international crime and should be treated that way. By calling it a crime, I do not condone it or minimize it. I am merely suggesting another, and I think more effective, way of fighting the terrorism scourge.

TERRORISM AS ENDLESS WAR

Our current approach to terrorism is militarizing our life. Some time ago, the Department of Homeland Security asked 3 companies - Northrop Grumman Corp, BAE Systems Inc. and UAL Corp's United Airlines - to develop plans for a missile defense system for passenger jets. A contract worth $1 billion will be awarded. It is expected that the cost per airplane would be $1 million each.

Get this. We plan to arm PASSENGER planes so that they would be protected from portable surface-to-air missiles. Do you think this will help? Could the "defense system" be used by some erratic pilot for "offense"? Could it interfere with navigation? Whom do you think this system would help more? The passenger? Or the defense company that gets the contract?

After the planes, do we arm ships, subways, busses and trains? Do we arm private office buildings, hotels and factories? And supposing we do, will we be more safe? Or more afraid?

Fear stalks the land, is growing and will grow more as militarization proceeds.

Militarization is accompanied by destruction of our civil liberties. Start with the 3-hour or 4-hour wait at airports to get on a plane for a 1-hour flight. Now the government is talking of checking a huge data base to see if you are a "security risk." But these inconveniences pale in comparison with what two words from the president can do. All he needs to do is call you an "enemy combatant" and suddenly you have no recourse to the judicial system. You are toast!

The war, of course, is between U.S. and those who "harbor terrorists," possess "weapons of mass destruction" or are part of the "axis of evil." We started by declaring war against Afghanistan. Soon after, we were and still are at war with Iraq. Some are advocating war with North Korea, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan. Where does it end?

Unfortunately, bin Laden is getting his way. He wanted to start a war between Muslims on one side and Jews and Christians on the other. If you look at the countries we are targeting, he appears to be winning.

Unfortunately too, the war is isolating the U.S. from the world community. We have trashed the UN and drove allies away from us. People all over the world who previously loved the U.S., now hate us. Our universities used to attract students from all over the world. Now we have erected barriers to prevent them from coming. The gloss on the land of liberty is tarnished.

All because we are fighting a war!

TERRORISM AS A CRIME

A war takes place between two or more nations. Al Qaeda is not a nation. A war is executed over a period of time after which there is settlement of some kind. Terrorism will be with us for an indefinite period of time.

Terrorism should not be considered an act of war but a crime. A heinous crime, but a crime nonetheless. People or groups attacking other people or groups of people constitutes a crime. Terrorism is as much a crime as drug trafficking or arms smuggling. Mafia gangsters kill people. The "war" on the Mafia is metaphorical, however, like the "war" on poverty or the "war" on drugs.

Crime will always be with us. All we can do is diminish it. The same is true of terrorism. By the way, terrorism is not solely a Muslim activity. An American named Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist. We did not declare war against McVeigh. We arrested him, tried him in the courts and punished him. We should do the same with other terrorists.

A DIFFERENT APPROACH

We all know what happened after September 11. We were so shocked that we were eager for revenge. We declared war against Afghanistan. This is understandable. Then we got further worked up and declared war against Iraq - where we are currently stuck. And our society is gearing up to face an endless succession of wars.

Here is an alternate path we can still follow to achieve a happier America and a more peaceful world. The approach is based on calling terrorism an international crime:

DEFINE INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM - We should go to the UN and enlist all nations in the definition of international terrorism as a crime. This will make terrorism something reviled by the entire world community.
COORDINATE INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE - At the UN, we could arrange coordination among all national intelligence agencies for the purpose of apprehending terrorists and bringing them to justice.
JOIN INTERNATIONAL COURT - We should become a member of the Court so we may use it to try apprehended international terrorists.
COOPERATE WITH OTHER NATIONS - In addition to cooperating with other nations about terrorism, we should also work towards an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and to mitigate catastrophes like AIDS in Africa and Asia.

CONCLUSION

Calling terrorism an international crime and working hand-in-hand with the UN to conquer it will have many positive effects. Here are a few:

World terrorism will be diminished significantly
Instead of a militarized and fearful society, the U.S. will be its old self: a civil-liberties society
Our world will be more peaceful
U.S. will have more friends in other countries

Posted by Paul Siegel at July 28, 2005 06:02 PM

http://www.watchblog.com/democrats/archives/002514.html

[I concur. If the US government treated terrorism as a crime instead of just focusing on collecting "intelligence about the attack..", maybe then we would be able to combat against it. Until the US government starts investigating, arresting and prosecuting these criminals, in no way shape or form will we be able to prevent terrorism from escalating.

Integrity driven investigations, with the use of the court system to prosecute these terroristic criminals, is the ONLY way the war on terrorism can be deemed as legit.

Terrorism is currently about blaming innocent people for wrongs they did not commit, after the fact. in order to prove the US governments world leadership. Iron fist, Stalin style.

America is no Russia]

Kade and Josh

Why Mumbai? Terrorism Has Many Causes. Here's One Of Them

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:34:50 EST

Why Mumbai? Terrorism Has Many Causes. Here's One Of Them

by: Paul Rosenberg @ openleft.com

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Gallup International did a poll in 37 countries--including the US--asking how America should respond to the attacks. Should they/we respond with a military attack, or should they/we take a criminal justice approach--tracking down those responsible, extradicting them, and putting them on trial. Of the 35 nations, landslide majorities in 32 of them said that a criminal justice approach was best. The three others? Israel, the US, and... India.

This alone should have warned us not to take the path of war. Israel and India have both spent decades responding to Islamic terrorist threats with war. Hasn't worked. But the more it doesn't work, the more determined their people have become. Of course, they've also employed a criminal justice approach as well. But they've had their own Guantanamos come out of that, as well.......

ARTICLE-http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=544C07024EECDA61671C6E611E402ECE?diaryId=10192

India terror reminds that terrorists abhore moderate opponents

Dr. Jeffrey Kargel — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:00:57 EST

The world has been shocked and horrified by the terror attacks in India, and we share the pain of the victims and their families. The fact that Westerners and Western interests were specifically targeted is not enough to make me forget the myriad other violent attacks in India--some even more lethal-- that have been part of that country's severe domestic ethnic and religious strife. The targeting of Westerners per se does not in itself elevate these attacks above others, but they do change the political landscape both within India and globally. Most Indian terror strikes have been acts categorized in three types: acts of sheer uncontrolled public rage (spontaneous sometimes; instigated usually) motivated by religious and ethnic conflict; violent acting on the political conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir's territory, people, military strategic heights, and water resources; and violent acting on Communist ideology. These acts have strayed into cross-border hostilities involving insurgents and governments in Pakistan, India, and Nepal, but pretty much they have been confined to the subcontinent. The global impacts have pertained to the fact that both India and Pakistan are nuclear armed nations, and that is an issue unto itself. These latest attacks are of a new fourth category because of the targeting (not as successful as the terrorists may have imagined) of Westerners.

It is not my place to comment on how Indians should vote or what's in their best interests. That's for India to decide in their elections that started today. But when events conspire or converge in such a way that they seem to reflect on American interests and global stability as a whole, then it does become my business to express my views. The timing of these attacks with respect to the elections this weekend cannot be overstated. Without delving into details, which I'll let others more knowledgeable than I to comment on and develop, it seems inescapable that it was the Indian voter and the American government who was targeted. Of course we do not yet know clearly who was behind this. That of course is a key part of the story that must be uncovered and revealed, and it will say a lot about the actual motives and what may come next. But how great it would be, in the eyes of whoever did this (I'll hold off on my speculation, as it's no better than everybody else's) to breed Indian radicalism, Hindu-Muslim strife, and India-Pakistan conflict, and at the same time try to knock the incoming Obama Administration off the pedestal of moderation and logic and into the pit of action/reaction.

It is the action/reaction cycle, so effectively bred into Israeli and Palestinian politics, that the evil-doers here seek to promote in the subcontinent and around the world. We Americans cannot control or influence Indian electoral politics, but how sad it would be if that country adopted the Israeli or American Bush illogic of predictable response. How sad if terrorism is India should achieve what it achieved in America, and that is control of electoral politics for years on end.

India of course must react, but hopefully they will take a logical approach and pursue the terrorists where forensic evidence points, and do so in such manner that the terrorists do not achieve theirs aims. The terrorists pretty clearly have in mind pushing Indian politics into extremist fundamentalist governance, so as to support either the money politics that would stem from further domestic and international conflict or extremist militant Islamicist governance among India's neighbors and around the world. A blind action/reaction cycle would help achieve those goals in South Asia and beyond, just as America's response to 9/11 furthered both the money politics of conflict and the extremist Islamicists' goals.

It should be recognized that Hindu nationalism involves factions that are as militant and extremist as any Islamic fundamentalist militant extremist groups. Whereas the simple-minded view might be espoused by some dim-witted American politicians that they may make great allies in the war against militant extremist fundamentalist Islamic terrorism, so much better would be sober and smart effort. And so we have hope in an Obama Administration. But let it be said: if the genie of Hindu extremist militancy is brought into an international stage, it would be only the extremist Muslim, the black market weapons trader, and the fool in American governance who would wish that. There may be a billion or so Muslims in the world; there are a billion or so Hindus as well. To nurture conflict between the two would be devastating. Militant extremist Islam will surely do what they can to empower Hindu extremists. Hopefully Americans will not.

So is there anything I could possibly say or write to avoid that outcome in India? Surely not. The only reason I write is to offer my two cents to build further awareness of the goals of international terrorism--breeding of a reflexive action/reaction cycle and thus empowerment of extremism to further that cycle. This is very much still an American issue, wherever the terrorism occurs. Barack Obama, for all the hope we place in him and his new government, will be sorely tested. I hate to sound like Joe Biden here, but the test will come, and we had better prepare our people for appropriate responses so as to frustrate the goals of the terrorists. It will take patience, mindfulness, and wisdom as well as strength through might and mind. Such will determine whether the terrorists win or we do. Sometimes being wise and patient is to be much tougher than being reflexive.

the game is still bottom-up

Madama Ambi — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:13:13 EST

I'm glad Allison Fine is critiquing Change.gov, (on techpresident) and I think she makes some good points. I know that some activists are frustrated that the Obama team hasn't shown the ground game leadership that was the power behind the campaign. I think it's way too early to criticize Team Obama, but not way too early to be floating and discussing ideas.

But here's my meta take on one of the most vocalized complaints I've been hearing: post-election Team Obama (they're not even in the White House yet, he hasn't even been inaugurated yet) has not built the 2-way bridge to everywhere and everyone is stranded on the shores of post-election chaos and confusion.

I don't see this and I think it's a myth being created for good press and/or to push one's own agenda. Activists & organizations exist by the hundreds, maybe the thousands, and they aren't waiting around for instructions from Change.gov. They're doing what activists do. I'm one of them. I'm very busy right now getting back to my regular feminist agenda after having put it on hold for 9 months while I was All Obama All the time. As a result of having joined the Obama community, I am more skilled, more connected, and more activist.

In my opinion, it will take some time before the Obama administration figures out how to build bridges with its grassroots base, but, folks, this is and will continue to be a bottom-up movement, and so should it always be. We, the people, must agitate for what we need, and we, the people, will continue to build our visibility, our agendas, and our collective voice. And we will then invite the O-administration to visit our table...or our tables.

Do I hope that the O-administration will get the bridge thing right? I certainly do, but I'm not holding my breath. We're in an economic crisis. We're involved in two wars. Terrorists sent the world a new message yesterday in India. The unemployment rolls are swelling...in my view, Obama and team will be on ER duty for quite a while. In the meantime, my fellow feminists and I continue to expand the base, to network wildly, to get our agenda seen as a universally applicable set of needs as opposed to being marginalized as "women's issues."

The feminist movement never ended even though the mainstream press reported otherwise. We are not post-feminism. We are not post-patriarchy. There are staunch and stalwart feminists still at work, there are younger feminists emerging as leaders, and there are even younger feminists who are energizing the movement.

We're here, we've been here all along, and we're not waiting for the phone to ring.

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Terrorism "Roots of Rage".

Aasi Tahir Siddique — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:18:02 EST

Wars, battles, conflicts and countries take over of other countries, have never solved any problems. It only creates permanent hate in some people’s lives. There is never a proper counseling or true answers to the man made conflicts. Future generations pay the ultimate price for the injustice in the past. Now, I worry sometime about the hate and the deep scars left because of Iraq war. I still think that labeling few criminals with the majority peaceful is really a bad idea. I like to share the following article written on the cause of rage in India by Jyoti Thottam / Mumbai and Ershad Mahmud / Islamabad.

The disembodied voice was chilling in its rage. A gunman, holed up in Mumbai's Oberoi Trident hotel where some 40 people had been taken hostage, told an Indian news channel that the attacks were revenge for the persecution of Muslims in India. "We love this as our country but when our mothers and sisters were being killed, where was everybody?" he asked via telephone. No answer came. But then he probably wasn't expecting one.

The roots of Muslim rage run deep in India, nourished by a long-held sense of injustice over what many Indian Muslims believe is institutionalized discrimination against the country's largest minority group. The disparities between Muslims, which make up 13.4% of the population, and India's Hindu population, which hovers around 80%, are striking. There are exceptions, of course, but generally speaking Muslim Indians have shorter life spans, worse health, lower literacy levels, and lower-paying jobs. Add to that toxic brew the lingering resentment over 2002's anti-Muslim riots in the state of Gujarat. The riots, instigated by Hindu nationalists, killed some 2000 people, most of them Muslim. To this day, few of the perpetrators have been convicted. See pictures of the terrorist shootings in Mumbai. The huge gap between Muslims and Hindus will continue to haunt India's, and neighboring Pakistan's, progress towards peace and prosperity. But before inter-communal relations can improve there is an even bigger problem that must first be worked out: the schism in subcontinental Islam, and the religion's place and role in modern India and Pakistan. It is a crisis 150 years in the making. The Beginning of the Problem
On the afternoon of March 29, 1857, Mangal Pandey, a handsome, mustachioed soldier in the East India Company's native regiment, attacked his British lieutenant. His hanging a week later sparked a subcontinental revolt known to Indians as the first war of independence and to the British as the Sepoy Mutiny. Retribution was swift, and though Pandey was a Hindu, it was the subcontinent's Muslims, whose Mughal King nominally held power in Delhi, who bore the brunt of British rage. The remnants of the Mughal Empire were dismantled, and five hundred years of Muslim supremacy on the subcontinent was brought to a halt. Muslim society in India collapsed. The British imposed English as the official language. The impact was cataclysmic. Muslims went from near 100% literacy to 20% within a half-century. The country's educated Muslim Élite was effectively blocked from administrative jobs in the government. Between 1858 and 1878, only 57 out of 3,100 graduates of Calcutta University - then the center of South Asian education - were Muslim. While discrimination by both Hindus and the British played a role, it was as if the whole of Muslim society had retreated to lick its collective wounds. From this period of introspection two rival movements emerged to foster an Islamic ascendancy. Revivalist groups blamed the collapse of their empire on a society that had strayed too far from the teachings of the Koran. They promoted a return to a more pure form of Islam, modeled on the life of the Prophet Muhammad. Others embraced the modern ways of their new rulers, seeking Muslim advancement through the pursuit of Western sciences, culture and law. From these movements two great Islamic institutions were born: Darul Uloom Deoband in northern India, rivaled only by al-Azhar University in Cairo for its teaching of Islam, and Aligarh Muslim University, a secular institution that promoted Muslim culture, philosophy and languages, but left religion to the mosque. These two schools embody the fundamental split that continues to divide Islam in the subcontinent today. "You could say that Deoband and Aligarh are husband and wife, born from the same historical events," says Adil Siddiqui, information coordinator for Deoband. "But they live at daggers drawn." The campus at Deoband is only a three-hour drive from New Delhi through the modern megasuburb of Noida. Strip malls and monster shopping complexes have consumed many of the mango groves that once framed the road to Deoband, but the contemporary world stops at the gate. The courtyards are packed with bearded young men wearing long, collared shirts and white caps. The air thrums with the voices of hundreds of students reciting the Koran from open-door classrooms.

Founded in 1866, the Deoband School quickly set itself apart from other traditional madrasahs, which were usually based in the home of the village mosque's prayer leader. Deoband's founders, a group of Muslim scholars from New Delhi, instituted a regimented system of classrooms, coursework, texts and exams. Instruction is in Urdu, Persian and Arabic, and the curriculum closely follows the teachings of the 18th century Indian Islamic scholar Mullah Nizamuddin Sehalvi. Graduates go on to study at Cairo's al-Azhar and Islamic University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, or found their own Deobandi institutions. Today, more than 9,000 Deobandi madrasahs are scattered throughout India, Afghanistan and Pakistan, most infamously the Dara-ul-Uloom Haqaniya Akora Khattak, near Peshawar, where Mullah Mohammed Omar, and several other leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban first tasted a life lived in accordance with Shari'a. Siddiqui visibly stiffens when those names are brought up. They have become synonymous with Islamic radicalism, and Siddiqui is careful to disassociate his institution from those that carry on its traditions, without actually condemning their actions. "Our books are being taught there," he says. "They have the same system and rules. But if someone is following the path of terrorism, it is because of local compulsions and local politics." Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of the Anglo-Mohammedan Oriental College at Aligarh in 1877, studied under the same teachers as the founders of Deoband. But he believed that the downfall of India's Muslims was due to their unwillingness to embrace modern ways. He decoupled religion from education, and in his school sought to emulate the culture and training of India's new colonial masters. Islamic culture was part of the curriculum, but so were the latest advances in sciences, medicine and Western philosophy. The medium was English, the better to prepare students for civil-service jobs. He called his school the Oxford of the East. In architecture alone, the campus lives up to that name. A euphoric blend of clock towers, crenellated battlements, Mughal arches, domes and the staid red brick of Victorian institutions that only India's enthusiastic embrace of all things European could produce, the central campus of Aligarh today is haven to a diverse crowd of male, female, Hindu and Muslim students. Its law and medicine schools are among the top-ranked in India, but so are its arts faculty and Quranic Studies Centre. "With all this diversity, language, culture, secularism was the only way to go forward as a nation," says Aligarh's vice-chancellor, P.K. Abdul Azis. "It was the new religion." This fracture in religious doctrine - whether Islam should embrace the modern or revert to its fundamental origins - between two schools less than a day's donkey ride apart when they were founded, was barely remarked upon at the time. But over the course of the next 100 years, that tiny crack would split Islam into two warring ideologies with repercussions that reverberate around the world to this day. Before the split manifested into crisis, however, the founders of both the Deoband and Aligarh universities shared the common goal of an independent India. Pedagogical leanings were overlooked as students and staff of both institutions joined with Hindus across the subcontinent to remove the yoke of colonial rule in the early decades of the 20th century. Two Faiths, Two Nations
But nationalistic trends were pulling at the fragile alliance, and India began to splinter along ethnic and religious lines. Following World War I, a populist Muslim poet-philosopher by the name of Muhammad Iqbal framed the Islamic zeitgeist when he questioned the position of minority Muslims in a future, independent India. The solution, Iqbal proposed, was an independent state for Muslim-majority provinces in northwestern India, a separate country where Muslims would rule themselves. The idea of Pakistan was born. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Savile Row-suited lawyer who midwifed Pakistan into existence on Aug. 14, 1947, was notoriously ambiguous about how he envisioned the country once it became an independent state. Both he and Iqbal, who were friends until the poet's death in 1938, had repeatedly stated their dream for a "modern, moderate and very enlightened Pakistan," says Sharifuddin Pirzada, Jinnah's personal secretary. Jinnah's own wish was that the Pakistani people, as members of a new, modern and democratic nation, would decide the country's direction. But rarely in Pakistan's history have its people lived Jinnah's vision for a modern Muslim democracy. Only three times in its 62-year history has Pakistan seen a peaceful, democratic transition of power. With four disparate provinces, over a dozen languages and dialects, and powerful neighbors, leaders - be they Presidents, Prime Ministers or army chiefs - have been forced to knit the nation together with the only thing Pakistanis have in common: religion. Following the 1971 civil war, when East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, broke away, the populist Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto embarked on a Muslim identity program to prevent the country from fracturing further. General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq continued the Islamization campaign when he overthrew Bhutto in 1977, hoping to garner favor with the religious parties, the only constituency available to a military dictator. He instituted Shari'a courts, made blasphemy illegal, and established laws that punished fornicators with lashes and held that rape victims could be convicted of adultery. When the Soviet Union invaded neighboring Afghanistan in December 1979, Pakistan was already poised for its own Islamic revolution. Almost overnight, thousands of refugees poured over the border into Pakistan. Camps mushroomed, and so did madrasahs. Ostensibly created to educate the refugees, they provided the ideal recruiting ground for a new breed of soldier: mujahedin, or holy warriors, trained to vanquish the infidel invaders in America's proxy war with the Soviet Union. Thousands of Pakistanis joined fellow Muslims from across the world to fight the Soviets. As far away as Karachi, high-school kids started wearing "jihadi jackets," the pocketed vests popular with the mujahedin. Says Hamid Gul, then head of the Pakistan intelligence agency charged with arming and training the mujahedin: "In the 1980s, the world watched the people of Afghanistan stand up to tyranny, oppression and slavery. The spirit of jihad was rekindled, and it gave a new vision to the youth of Pakistan." But jihad, as it is described in the Koran, does not end merely with political gain. It ends in a perfect Islamic state. The West's, and Pakistan's, cynical resurrection of something so profoundly powerful and complex unleashed a force whose roots can be found in al-Qaeda's rage, the Taliban's dream of an Islamic utopia in Afghanistan, and in the dozens of radical Islamic groups rapidly replicating themselves in India and around the world today. "The promise of jihad was never fulfilled," says Gul. "Is it any wonder the fighting continues to this day?" Religion may have been used to unite Pakistan, but it is also tearing it apart. India Today
In India, Islam is, in contrast, the other - purged by the British, denigrated by the Hindu right, mistrusted by the majority, marginalized by society. India has nearly as many Muslims as all of Pakistan, but in a nation of more than a billion, they are still a minority, with all the burdens that minorities anywhere carry. Government surveys show that Muslims live shorter, poorer and unhealthier lives than Hindus and are often excluded from the better jobs. To be sure, there are Muslim success stories in the booming economy. Azim Premji, the founder of the outsourcing giant Wipro, is one of the richest individuals in India. But, for many Muslims, the inequality of the boom has reinforced their exclusion. Kashmir, a Muslim-dominated state whose fate had been left undecided in the chaos that led up to partition, remains a suppurating wound in India's Muslim psyche. As the cause of three wars between India and Pakistan - one of which nearly went nuclear in 1999 - Kashmir has become a symbol of profound injustice to Indian Muslims who believe that their government cares little for Kashmir's claim of independence, which is based upon a 1948 U.N. resolution promising a plebiscite to determine the Kashmiri people's future. That frustration has spilled into the rest of India in the form of several devastating terrorist attacks that have made Indian Muslims both perpetrators and victims. A mounting sense of persecution, fueled by the government's seeming reluctance to address the brutal anti-Muslim riots that killed more than 2,000 in the state of Gujarat in 2002, has aided the cause of homegrown militant groups. They include the banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which was accused of detonating nine bombs in Bombay during the course of 2003, killing close to 80. The 2006 terrorist attacks on the Bombay commuter rail system that killed 183 people were also blamed on SIMI, as well as the pro-Kashmir Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). Those incidents exposed the all-too-common Hindu belief that Muslims aren't really Indian. "LeT, SIMI, it doesn't matter who was behind these attacks. They are all children of [Pervez] Musharraf," sneered Manish Shah, a Mumbai resident who lost his best friend in the explosions, referring to the then president of Pakistan. In India, unlike Pakistan, Islam does not unify, but divide. Still, many South Asian Muslims insist Islam is the one and only force that can bring the subcontinent together and return it to preeminence as a single whole. "We [Muslims] were the legal rulers of India, and in 1857 the British took that away from us," says Tarik Jan, a gentle-mannered scholar at Islamabad's Institute of Policy Studies. "In 1947 they should have given that back to the Muslims." Jan is no militant, but he pines for the golden era of the Mughal period in the 1700s, and has a fervent desire to see India, Pakistan and Bangladesh reunited under Islamic rule. That sense of injustice is at the root of Muslim identity today. It has permeated every aspect of society, and forms the basis of rising Islamic radicalism on the subcontinent. "People are hungry for justice," says Ahmed Rashid, Pakistani journalist and author of the new book Descent Into Chaos. "It is perceived to be the fundamental promise of the Koran." These twin phenomena - the longing many Muslims have to see their religion restored as the subcontinent's core, and the marks of both piety and extremism Islam bears - reflect the lack of strong political and civic institutions in the region for people to have faith in. If the subcontinent's governments can't provide those institutions, then terrorists such as the Trident's mysterious caller, will continue asking questions. And providing their own answers. With reporting by Jyoti Thottam / Mumbai and Ershad Mahmud / Islamabad

How to end Terrorism?

Aasi Tahir Siddique — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:47:56 EST

US Government and other allied must end the support to military Generals of other countries, especially in Pakistan and Africa. Using foreign military leaders for our advantage or stopping the take over by terrorist organization, may have worked before, but now is the time for different strategy.

Our government should support the elected government of other countries, and send a clear message to their military leaders that they must obey the command of their elected government from now on.

Old strategy has helped the military leaders of foreign nations to become more corrupt and notorious. Some have them supported or created the terrorist organization to keep themselves in power.

I have a plan on how to end the terrorism effectively throughout the world. Please talk to me and we can make it happen together. I am here to help.

SOA Watch: Protest Could Be Celebration

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:36:38 EST

SOA Watch: Protest Could Be Celebration

by Tim Chitwood

This year protesters commemorating a massacre may feel so jubilant that keeping a straight face for a vigil could be a challenge.

Rosemary Marston of Cincinnati, Ohio, works on one of three giant flowers Friday afternoon that will be part of the puppetistas performance this weekend during the SOA Watch protest at the gates of Fort Benning. She and others were busy Friday constructing and painting pieces for the show. Photo by Mike Haskey / Ledger-Enquirer

As they again mark the anniversary of the Nov. 16, 1989, killings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter - gunned down by El Salvadoran soldiers, most of whom had attended what was then known as the School of the Americas - those protesting what's now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation will have something else in mind: Hope, and change.

They hope the Nov. 4 election will so change Congress that it closes the institute.

"The members of Congress who in the past voted for the School of the Americas, to keep it open, they lost their seats on Nov. 4," said Eric LeCompte of SOA Watch, the group that has protested the training institute at Fort Benning since 1990. "The last time we had a vote for funding cuts, we lost by six votes. We've had a 30-vote turnover."

He can't claim mission accomplished, but he's hopeful: "I would call it guarded optimism," he said Tuesday....

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/11/22

Shutting Down The Torture/Terror Factory

John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:13:33 EST

School of the Americas Watch--Shutting Down The Torture/Terror Factory

by: Paul Rosenberg @ openleft.com

This weekend marks the 19th Annual vigil to close the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC) in Fort Benning, Georgia. School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch) is the organization founded by Maryknoll priest Father Ray Bourgois, a Navy Vietnam Veteran who resolved to dedicate his life to peace and justice in service to God. Every year since 1990, he has lead protests in Fort Benning, Georgia just before Thanksgiving, to bring pressure and attention to bear on the training ground where a large number of Latin American military torturers and terrorists have been trained. Because of pressure brought by SOA Watch, the School of the Americas was symbolically shut down in 2001, and immediately reopened as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), but activists continue to refer to it by its orgiinal name, as nothing essential has changed.

This year is further complicated by the fact that Bourgois faces excommunication for supporting the ordination of women priests.......

ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10099

(Just like racist Palestinians) - Al Qaeda racist slurs on Obama - Racist Arabism!

Unknown user — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:19:57 EST

(Arab racism by Islamic) Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader - uses racial epithet against Barack Obama
latimes ^ | Nov 20, 2008

Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader uses racial epithet against Barack Obama Los Angeles Times - Nov. 20, 2008 In a video, Ayman Zawahiri says the president-elect is ‘the direct opposite of honorable black Americans’ and says Obama, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice are ‘house Negroes.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-house-slave20-2008nov20,0,1727083.story

Both forms of bigotry "working together" Arabism & Islamism, just like the terrible "palestinians"...

Arabized media in the west, the CNN case

Natalia from Acampo, CA — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:11:19 EST

Arabized media in the west, the CNN caseNov. 2008

Arabized media in the west, the CNN case.

Bombarding propaganda

Qatar is one of CNN's major financier, (Qatar airlines and its financial center) you are getting sick of the repeated advertisement of Arab media tools how so hypocritically they show you their "equality" for everyone, covering the awful truth about oppressing all minorities, all those that are not Arab in the middle east who the supremacists Arabs think its' all "theirs" (ironic funny enough Qatar airlines shows in its ad a green eyed white face of a woman...).

'Inside the middle east'

For years, the Syrian born Hala Gorani was going up ranks her "inside the middle east" is still going strong.'Inside the middle east' sponsored by the Egyptian telecom 'Orascom' (who tells us over an over again in its silly advertisement that "we share the same belief" creating the impression as if Christians and Jews -- the few left after the racist expulsion in the late 1940s -- are not discriminated in Apartheid Arab Muslim middle east) is basically an Arabic program that its aim is to hide its oppressive tyranny, in a region where no Arab country is true democratic or free (in the true sense, including the Iranian/Syrian occupied Lebanon - the terrorized Hezbollahland), by exaggerating true or untrue stories that can be used to idolize Arab middle east.'Inside the middle east' will never show you the true (story of) repressed conditions of non Arabs such as: Kurds, Berbers, Jews, or non Muslims such as: Copts in Egypt, etc.

Ugly 'Palestinianism'

Also appearing in that Arab program which is only to "educate Americans only about the cherry picked stories - Arabs want us to see"... is Ben Wederman, the notorious west bank based CNN terribly biased journalist, who never seems to find a spot to reveal the oppression of 'Palestinians' upon their people: whether its out of blind radical Islamic motivation or typical Arabisn dictatorship, or the Islamic apartheid against the minority Christian Arab community that live in fear and under persecution, or the genocide campaign that is rampant among most 'Palestinians to "eradicate" the "Zionist entity" or about the epidemic of 'honor killing' crimes, or about corruptive leadership that robs its own people ever since Arafat era, but Ben Wederman doesn't see any "use" in reporting these burning issues, he is instead a great spokesman for the 'Palestinian cause', an example from Nov 7-8 (2008), Ben had a program about "olives", supposedly just talking about olive oil... soon you saw the blatant despicable 'Palestinianism' as the Arab farmer talked about how "old" his tradition is and how the land is so "his"... nothing about Arab immigration into Israel-Palestine of course, that's a no-no mention in rewriting - Palestine.He had his camera ready to film Israeli police dispersing a crowd that protested illegal Arab infiltrators into Jewish land... (the true story Ben didn't tell you) when he was asked politely by the police to evacuate the area he refused (after all, he knows very well he wouldn't dare refuse any order from the 'Palestinian' police... what he never bothers explaining his "situation" living in the west bank, how "neutral" a journalist can be), only the 3rd time when he made sure he had enough to portray the Israeli restrained cops as "bad occupiers" he said he is "going"...

As if it wasn't enough with Arab tyrants' regimes "culture" infesting the mainstream media in the US, CNN made yet another Arab program, "MME" Market middle east, by the rich Arabian Dubai financial center DIFC, who pays a man by the name of J. Defterios, 'paid' to glorify its host (besides the weekly Friday Arabist program, here's an example, on Nov 16 2008 at the same time the G20 summit was still on, he "revealed" to us that the Gulf Arabs who combine 1.5 triillion dollar of GDP, "lost" 1.5 billion since June peak season, what a "creative" way of portraying the oil masters that with out any shame exploit the world's need for energy overcharging all of us as "losing" because they lowered a bit their outrageous overcharge as soon as they saw westerners consuming less of it...), where one of the very first opening broadcasts was "naturally" about "how to help the "poor", "poor" "Palestinians" (no, not how the filthy rich Gulf oil Arabs should help, not those Arab regimes that have encouraged the Arabs --not yet called "palestinians"-- in 1948 to evacuate Israel-Palestine, but how the west should rather help them), those self destructive guys, the violence-happy crowd, where bigoted Jihadism and militant racist Arabism was always mainstream, ever since the Mufti Al-Husseini led the massacres in the 1920's - the "creme de la creme" of the middle east.

The middle east insider

Piercing through the thick cloud obscuring any clarity, clotted by the oily international Arab lobby...

There's no room there for criticism of call for change in the diabolic 'Palestinian' society to leave hatred and terror behind and to choose education for their children and 'normal life' for themselves.There's no space for criticism of all Arab regimes that rule their people with an iron fist, Arabian middle east where synonymous with torture, no, not the light type attributed to the CIA in Gtmo., but the darkest kind, where most of all: Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran (and its Hezbullah thugs) & Egypt are doing it with passion and special "tender love".That's true Islamism & Arabism, to keep committing the crimes in the middle east and to show [fake] unity outside, that's the true "middle east insider".

deserting the west

Unknown user — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:57:05 EST

I think i will desert from the west and join the third world nuclear armed countrys because they try to kill me in the west and destroy my feelings

My first post.

A superstitious former McCainiac-Deaniac — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:39:52 EST

Welcome to everyone who reads this. The election is finally done. Whew. I had multiple "omg, we are going to lose again" moments during the last 3 months. I doubt it, but some of you might remember me as an avid Dean supporter in 2004. Before that, I was a McCain supporter in 2000. Politics in that sense, has come full circle for me in 2008.

I am interested in good governance, energy policy and war on terrorism issues. You may of course post anything you like, but I would like everyone to be civil. We can disagree without being disagreeable. That latter part is for rant-at-the-moon-froth-at-the-mouth extremists of DailyKos or Atlas Shrugs. Not here, if you please.

Our Work Has Just Begun

Omyword! Did I Say That? — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:45:16 EST

As a little girl, I followed my mother on the campaign trail for Barry Goldwater. She was the head of the Pennsylvania Republican Women, and later on in her political life, she and my father attended the inaugural ball for Richard Nixon. Three Christmas cards from Nixon are still framed and hanging proudly on her wall. Although she despises what Goldwater became, and referred to him as "that old drunk," she still somehow thinks that Nixon was framed.

My mother changed her Canadian citizenship in order to work and vote for Goldwater. Her political roots came from her father, who was a sugar broker in Detroit during the depression, and thus was able to buy a new car every year. He was a staunch Republican, and a Catholic. Meanwhile, my British grandmother, apolitical and Protestant, fed poor men who came to her back kitchen door, and I once found her hiding behind my brothers' bedroom door, sobbing at the death of our pet parakeet.

My grandmother was probably not as apolitical as she appeared. From her position on the couch, with an apple pie in the oven and crossword puzzle on her lap, she sometimes risked a strong opinion or two. She never approved of what she saw as my mother's desire for status, luxury and intellectualism. She was happiest having a simple meal at home or an inexpensive meal at Horn and Hardart's counter, versus my mother's preference for fine dining and shopping at John Wannamaker's or Saks Fifth Avenue in Philadelphia. The gifts she gave me were focused on teaching me how to make things with my hands. She was outnumbered, surrounded by Republicans, as I am now in my own family. And as my mother dismissed her own mother as childish and naive, so she does the same to me now.

I think I was born a Democrat. And I was a stranger in a strange land. But there were also things that attracted me to old-time conservatism, such as fiscal responsibility. I agreed with Republicans of the time, that our elected representatives should be cautious and wise in how they handled "our" money. But as we have seen from 8 years of Neoconservatism, if any party could be the standard bearer for fiscal waste, it would now be the Republicans. The "tax and spend" label they have slapped on Democrats, has lost its glue and just won't stick anymore. With billions poured down the drain in Iraq for an illegal, immoral and completely mismanaged war, with unbridled corruption in no-bid contracts for such behemoths as Dick Cheney's Halliburton, with corporate regulations slashed to the point that greed grew like Kudzu in Alabama, the Republicans have destroyed what once was a conservative standard for their party.

In my early observations of politics, I listened to my parents rail against welfare and so-called entitlement programs. Their vision was always of the shiftless, ignorant poor who did not deserve the elite's hard-earned money. "Get a job!" was not a joke in my family, it was an angry, resentful cry. Even though I know there are lazy human beings, and uneducated human beings the world over, I felt at the time that it was unfair to paint all those in need, with the same broad brush. Even though I had never met any poor people, I couldn't imagine that they were all, each and every one of them, so bad. There had to be people out there that through their own mistakes, or perhaps even through no mistake of their own, had fallen into dire straits. And if my parents' religion was true to its calling, we should be kind and generous to all of those in need, whatever the origin of their circumstances.

"Let the churches and charities take care of those people" was a common dismissal of my questions. And today, as then, churches and charities have played a heroic part in a war against poverty and misery. But a bigger question began to eat at me. Doesn't our government also hold some responsibility for the needy? We can argue this question on economic, philosophical or moral ground until the cows come home, but I believe, statistically, that when government aid is generously funded, and there are fewer desperate, starving or ill people, the overall economy is strengthened and crime is lessened. I don't have the stats, but I believe in my gut that this must be true. And, in my readings about the roots of terrorism, I often see that poverty, frustration and the feeling of impotence when it comes to managing their own destiny, is what makes young men and women ripe for the lure of the destructive power of terrorism.

For, as the saying goes, a hungry man is an angry man.

I have watched and commented on this campaign with intensity. If I had voted the issues, Dennis Kucinich would have been my man. But I knew, as a marketer, that Kucinich didn't have "it," all the surface image traits that Americans need in order to be comfortable with their vote. No matter how hot his wife was, he would forever be labeled as a kook, as many passionate people often are. What I don't think he could have accomplished, nor could any of the Democratic candidates for that matter, was the incredible skill that Barack Obama has for inspiration and unity. In the tiny microcosm of my own life and work, I've seen how powerful this kind of charismatic leadership can be. It has the power of shifting the consciousness, not just of this nation, but of the world.

I am thrilled that Barack Obama will soon be the president of the United States. And I am also aware that it is my continuing responsibility to stay on top of things, to bitch and blog, to hold Obama's feet to the fire. I want this consciousness shift to take root. I want it to become concrete, with legislation, foreign policy, and global results. I want to see a shift away from our debt-inducing addiction to consumerism, that focus on the never-fulfilled emptiness of the self, to a more other-centered world view. Although my grandfather, the Detroit sugar broker, would disagree with me, we don't need a new car every year. Instead, we as individuals, and we as a nation, need to be a lot more like my grandmother, Elsie McIntire Mitchell, and open up our kitchen doors, to share our bounty with others.

On this historic day, I am not finished with this thing called politics. I hope that all of you, no matter your political leanings, are not finished either. Now is not the time to relax and become complacent. Now is the time to work twice as hard, in any way that we can.

Senator John McCain's National Security Failures and Moral Failures

Patriot for Obama — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:43:25 EST

Set aside for the moment the fact that more terrorists are being trained by fundamental and radical extremists than now ever before and that there is more support for terrorists among the growing population of fundamentalists and radicals than ever before.

Set aside for the moment the fact that Iran, who was labeled as an Axis of Evil, has greater influence in Iraq and the Middle East now than at any time prior to the War in Iraq.

Set aside for the moment the fact that U.S. foreign aide has been misappropriated and misused by those who received it for purposes of terrorism. The late Mujahideen Commander Nek Mohammed was bribed with U.S. foreign aide money that he requested to repay his loans from al Qaeda. It has been alleged that the attack on an Indian Embassy and perhaps the more recent attacks within India were financed by the Pakistani ISI with U.S. foreign aide.

Set aside for the moment the fact that the threat is greater now than ever that terrorist will acquire multiple nuclear weapons in Pakistan as opposed to just a dirty bomb.

How do the Republican Party and Senator John McCain justify heinous and reprehensible acts by fellow Republicans, which threatened National Security and may have influenced the actions of the White House in an international incident? Notwithstanding the issue of their age and gender, which is made all the more evident by testaments to that individuals frequenting an infamous child bordello in Thailand, how do the Republican Party and Senator John McCain justify a fellow Republican accepting enslaved Thai Prostitutes from the son of a now disgraced communist leader? Did their knowledge of his actions limit the response of his Republican family member during an international crisis? Did their knowledge of his actions limit the response of his Republican family member during a National Security threat? For those who have faith, each persons God's ultimate assesment of our lives occcurs on the day of reckoning. Your god may have had the first of many last laughs on the person who accepted the enslaved Thai Prostitutes, although one must sympathize with his former wife. That person became infected with an incurable sexually transmitted disease.

Indiscretions such as these are generally supposed to be considered a potential threat to National Security when considering others for security clearance, but this has not always been the case. The Department of Defense (DOD), including the military and other federal agencies has overlooked illegal and immoral indiscretions in the past. DOD helped an underage Philippine female immigrate to the United States to marry a former Marine Aviator, who was once employed by the contractor at USAF Plant No. 4 and once in the reserve. When she revealed at a Christmas Party that she was an underage bride, his security clearance was not revoked. DOD, including the USAF, and the Senate Armed Services Committee overlooked the access by employees of the contractor at USAF Plant No. 4 of child pornography on the World Wide Web. They destroyed evidence on individual computers, but they were so ignorant in their obstruction of justice that they forgot to destroy evidence on mainframes and servers. Their security clearances were not revoked. DOD, including the USAF, and the Senate Armed Services Committee ignored visits by defense contractor and some military personnel to child bordellos in South Korea and Thailand among other nations. Some employees openly bragged about their visits to the parlors, which were staffed with underage child prostitutes. Their security clearances were not revoked.

I would not feel safer with Senator John McCain in the White House at any level. He has already demonstrated for me his failure to lead at any level. He has already demonstrated his failure to lead morally. He has already demonstrated his failure to lead in matters of National Security. He has already demonstrated his ability to lead use into the most serious economic crisis of the last 100 years.

The Terrorists Within

Robert from Lawrence Township, NJ — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:00:23 EDT

This was published as an op-ed in the Trenton (NJ) Times on October 30, 2008.

After eight years under a hapless President George W. Bush, I was looking forward to this year’s presidential election with great optimism. Now the anticipation is giving way to frustration and disillusionment, as the candidates, their party machinery and the political system itself focus too often on tearing down rather than building up. Even a man with the strength of convictions of maverick John McCain can’t avoid desperate acts in the face of possible defeat, and Barack Obama and his message of hope can’t withstand the wrecking ball forever.

One of the key issues early in this campaign, and a cornerstone of the Republican party’s platform, has been the war against terrorism. Terrorism is all about putting fear in the minds of a population, so that it acts irrationally and squanders its resources on the wrong things. Ironically, instilling fear is a tool that Republicans seem to wield expertly, in casting aspersions on their Democratic opponents. The Democrats seem less comfortable with this tool, but use it nonetheless. It doesn’t matter that truth is twisted or deformed in the process – as long as it achieves the aggressor’s aim. This form of terrorism is insidious, and ultimately, very harmful. Even our most compelling current challenge, the global economic crisis, has fallen victim to this form of terrorism, as partisanship crept into the discussion and fanned the flames of fear.

It seems that Republicans view a good offense as the best defense, and conversely, Democrats see a good defense as the best offense. What often results from this is that Republicans go into the attack mode first, and try to draw the Democrats into the fray. Democrats, in trying to fend off the attacks, seem weak by comparison. When Republicans attack, they often allege character and personal flaws (“socialism,” “elitist,” “palling around with terrorists,” etc.). When Democrats become the aggressors, their attacks generally seem more about policy differences (“out of touch,” “four more years,” “doesn’t get it,” etc.), and are therefore somewhat less personal.

In effect, these tactics are designed to plant negative thoughts in the minds of voters, either through innuendo or direct accusations. For an event of such import and such historic significance as this election, that’s a sad commentary. Our lives can be much better when we work together and accentuate the positives. Synergy is all about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts, and this unproductive discourse we’re seeing is, at best, a zero sum game. At worst, it’s a downward spiral toward collective failure.

Both candidates have adopted “change” as a theme, although one could argue that Senator Obama adopted it and Senator McCain co-opted it. The change I seek is to find ways to have civil discourse over issues that are important. The loudest voices aren’t necessarily the right ones to listen to. Unfortunately, we don’t often have all the facts, and the mantras that we hear begin to take on an air of reality as they strike chords that harmonize with some of our own thoughts and preconceptions.

I’ve read Barack Obama’s books, not out of blind loyalty to a man whose words resonated with me, but out of curiosity about the man behind those words. I’d read a couple of excerpts of one of his books, and Joe Biden was right – Obama is incredibly articulate. In his first book, Dreams from My Father, Obama talked about his early life, and his search for self which led him to learn as much as he could about his estranged father. In his second book, The Audacity of Hope, he outlined his political and social beliefs in self-effacing and brutally honest terms. He acknowledged his shortcomings, but made no excuses. His words paint a picture of an America that is fair, civil, strong and prosperous, and country and society that all Americans can be even more proud of.

For once, I’d like to see a presidential campaign where the candidates try to win the voters’ support by focusing on what they stand for, rather than trying to malign their opponent’s character, background or motivations. I hope that Barack Obama realizes that there are many of us who are starving to hear of the good that can be done, and notwithstanding the low-road campaign he’s been forced to turn to, will restore his positive message and return to the high road once this is all over. I hope he truly remembers where he came from and his reason for running in the first place. If he does, and if he prevails in the election, our great country will see a resurgence in the world and a return of our standing as a global leader. If he forgets, or if he doesn’t succeed in the election, I fear for our future, because the terrorists within will have won.

Human rights & peace in the middle east - Arabism & Islam discrimination on the "other"

Unknown user — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:21:06 EDT

Human rights & peace in the middle east - Arabism & Islam discrimination on the "other"

[Analysis] Peace will prevail when economic, social and cultural rights are granted to all ...

The Middle East... conflicts...

For example:

* the Israel and [so called] "Occupied Territories" (Palestine) issue

* the conflict between Hamas and the Fatah; the Iraq conflict

* the conflict in Afghanistan

* conflicts within Saudi Arabia

* the security concerns, especially the nuclear threat, that Ahmadinajad's Iran poses

* the Kurdish situation with serious discrimination from Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq with very limited support from any powers

* the Lebanon conflict

* the rise of Islamic militancy in Egypt and Algeria

* the suppression of any opposition in Saudi Arabia and most of Middle East countries

*
the spread of fundamentalist Islam -- Wahabbi style -- and the attempt
to suppress any modern civil secular democratic voices in the Middle
East region

* and not to forget the problems in Sudan where civilians are being massacred in Darfur by the government and the military.

[...]
Islam is at the center of all social order and of the moral and
intellectual values of Middle Eastern Muslims. In fact, it is the
official religion in most Arab and Islamic countries. Considering
Arabism and Islam as synonyms embodies discrimination against various
ethnic and religious groups in the Middle East. [...]

Conclusion

Most
regimes in Middle East are authoritarian, if not dictatorships, ruling
for decades by fear or reward. The elites who rule in Middle East
countries used religious faith with ideology of nationalism for
blinding people and controlling them ... conflicts in the Middle East
all look different, but the real cause root is related to human rights
abuses.
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=&no=383905&rel_no=1

Anti Human 'Palestinian' Arabs use of 'Human rights' organizations - the "human rights" propaganda

Natalia from Acampo, CA — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:01:17 EDT

The Anti Human 'Palestinian' Arabs use of 'Human rights' organizations

One of the propaganda tools the Arab "Palestinians" have been using to further its goals of eradicating the mostly non-Muslim / non-Arab entity Israel, was/is the use of international "human rights" organizations.The "human rights" propaganda.The demoization of Israel that dares to fight for its survival as a 'bad guy' has been since the 1970's well oil-ed by Saudi Arabia and other filthy rich Arab tycoons that never seem to have an iota of sympathy for the Arab 'Palestinian' brethren and their situation, instead they rather shed its billions to destructive anti Israel propaganda.Using the image of a "weak" people vs a "mighty" Israel, they have psychologically gained the upper hand, as it looks pretty convincing and even more convenient for an Amnesty or HRW personnel to side with the supposed "victim".Even though the real source of Arab 'Palestinian' misery, which was always largely due to its 1) mass corruption, 2) oppression, stepping all over human rights of its people & 3) culture of hatred of Israel substituting for all "love" for its own population.HRW does not disclose its private donors identity, one can only imagine the Arab oil lobby connection here.

Israel as a whole and Israelis are always edgy from Arab attackers, ever since 1920's massacres on the Jews in Israel/Palestine.As Israel is and always was under threat upon its existence, it mobilizes force, understandably, to the gullible eye it might look like the goliath is Israel, when it's never the case in reality.An inhumane Arab bomber hiding under its kids' shoulders presents a far greater danger than the restrained Israeli hesitating to fire if a non-combatant is able to get hurt, this explains why the casualties are not in the thousands each time humane Israel conducts an anti terror-war operation.The famous fact of terrorizing journalists by Arab "Palestinians" have forced all that are in [or all those wishing to gain access to] their area to be biased.And so, Arabs, as the real Goliath, masked as poor-poor people have been managing the HRW organizations to report in a total Arabist way, condemning Israel based on unreliable sources, hardly condemning the Arabs for their constant real human rights abuse upon it's kids and on Israeli victims of Arab terror.

Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch 2005 Annual Report Israeli-Palestinian Section Lacks Credibility and Reflects Political Bias By NGO Monitor January 15, 2005 ...
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6258

NGO Monitor’s 2007 Report on HRW: Bias and Double Standards Continue
April 29, 2008The following analysis demonstrates that HRW's own activities related to Israel continue to fall short of this basic standard of universalitySummary:* Analysis of Human Rights Watch's use of the rhetoric of international law and other terminology shows continued double standards and misleading or false claims.
* HRW accuses Israel of “collective punishment” of Palestinians in a way that is inconsistent with both international law and past and present usage of the term by HRW itself.
* HRW’s focus on Israel in 2007 dropped to 2005 levels after 2006 marked a return to the extreme bias of the 2000-2004 period. The change in 2007 allowed more resources to be focused on countries committing major human rights violations.
* However, disproportionate emphasis on Israel continued, with major reports covering 400 pages in 2007, using the same methodologies as in 2006 that lack credibility.
* This contrasts with the limited attention on human rights violations in Libya, Syria, and other countries in the region.
* Israel was the focus of more multimedia items (audio, video, graphics) than any other country in the region.
* Reports on Israel continue to be based on unverifiable evidence provided by “eyewitnesses,” selected journalists, and other inappropriate sources. In some cases hard evidence has shown this testimony to be blatantly untrue.
* HRW mentioned one or more of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers in a total of only 6 publications. Of these, only two refer to them by name; the other references are in passing.
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/ngo_monitor_s_report_on_hrw_bias_and_double_standards_continue

Terrorists: Amnesty shamnesty! We prefer human slaughterTerrorists: Amnesty shamnesty! We prefer human slaughter ... Today, Palestinian Information Minister Riyad al-Maliki told Israel's Haaretz daily Olmert ...
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57234

Amnesty International and the Red Cross? With their selective, disgustingly political "commitment" to human rights, Higgins somehow wasn't worthy of their ...
http://www.wnd.com/index.php/index.php/index.php?pageId=12559

Amnesty is a Travesty
One would have thought that after so many heinous acts, Amnesty International, which claims to be "Protecting Human Rights Around the World", would have issued 16 reports condemning each and every one of these terrible acts of Palestinian terrorism. In fact, AI issued only one report and even though it pertained to the Park Hotel slaughter, the heading "Deliberate Killing of Civilians is Never Justified" was pretty benign and totally belied the atrocity of this appalling act. The three short paragraphs was almost non-committal. While apparently recognizing the massacre as "a grave breach of the fundamental principle of international humanitarian law", Amnesty then refuse to call Hamas a terrorist organization, but made a pathetic plea to "armed Palestinian groups" to cease killing civilians.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/4025

The only "human rights" the Palestinians want are for their fellow terrorists. ... After all, Bush was pushing for the amnesty of three million Mexicans who ...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/2582

Human Rights Watch's Credibility
http://volokh.com/posts/1210943742.shtmlA

mnesty International's Reporting of Human Rights
The report does not make use of the latest research on what happened in Jenin (accepted by the UN, the vast majority of the international press and governments) and does not define its terms when talking about international law. Amnesty secretary-general Irene Khan has been quoted on numerous occasions talking of 'war crimes'... To sprinkle the vocabulary of 'war crimes' in reports is misleading and reveals an ideological bias...
Moreover, there is a disturbing amount of inaccurate and anecdotal evidence used in the report...
http://www.jcpa.org/ngo/ngo-4-AI.html

EXCHANGE OF LETTERS WITH HRW (IN WSJ-E): HRW AGENDA CLOUDS RESPONSE
http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=253

UPDATE to The Red Cross Ambulance Incident:
The Human Rights Watch Report
A Point-by-Point Examination of the Document Titled "The 'Hoax' That Wasn't"
On December 19, 2006, the international advocacy organization Human Rights Watch issued a detailed, intensively researched report unequivocally affirming the factuality of an intentional Israeli attack on Red Cross ambulances at Qana on July 23. The report (titled "The 'Hoax' That Wasn't") by Human Rights Watch was created specifically to counter the claims made in my original essay titled "The Red Cross Ambulance Incident."
This commentary is a response to Human Rights Watch's new allegations.
http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/hrw/

Amnesty International's Reporting of Human Rights
The report does not make use of the latest research on what happened in Jenin (accepted by the UN, the vast majority of the international press and governments) and does not define its terms when talking about international law. Amnesty secretary-general Irene Khan has been quoted on numerous occasions talking of 'war crimes'... To sprinkle the vocabulary of 'war crimes' in reports is misleading and reveals an ideological bias...
Moreover, there is a disturbing amount of inaccurate and anecdotal evidence used in the report...
http://www.jcpa.org/ngo/ngo-4-AI.html

Human Rights Watch, Watched | Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International both jumped the shark a long time ... claims are blatantly untrue and indicative of a strong anti-Israel bias.
August 21, 2006
Human Rights Watch, Watched "Who will guard the guardians?" asked Roman satirist Juvenal. Now we must ask, who is watching Human Rights Watch, one of the world's best-financed and most influential human rights organizations? It turns out that they cook the books about facts, cheat on interviews, and put out pre-determined conclusions that are driven more by their ideology than by evidence. These are serious accusations, and they are demonstrably true.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/the-human-rights-watch-_b_27701.html

Human Rights Watch - Conservapedia Its annual budget is 22 million, ten million behind Amnesty ... with the Palestinians and Hezbollah has brought about serious questions of HRW objectivity. ...
http://www.conservapedia.com/Human_Rights_Watch

WATCH OUT for 'Human Rights Watch' and 'Amnesty' !
Copy of a letter to the New York Sun
from Maurice Ostroff: A critic's first duty is to get his facts right
To The Editor September 3, 2006
http://www.takeapen.org/Takeapen/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=84&FID=851

There couldn't be a more perfect time
Dec 10, 2006 3:18Today, December 10, marks International Human Rights Day, and the presence in Israel of Irene Khan, head of Amnesty International, highlights the demise of once-lofty goals. Amnesty International is a superpower with an annual budget of almost $200 million, used to promote radical political agendas and photo-ops for its leaders. Amnesty International Secretary-General Irene Khan, right, tours a house damaged last month by IAF shelling during a visit to Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2006. Khan is leading a mission to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza to discuss human rights issues.
Photo: AP , AP
As a result, little remains of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in the shadow of the Holocaust. Officials of Amnesty and other non-governmental organizations focus their attacks on democracies attempting to defend against terror, with far fewer resources to oppose totalitarian and genocidal regimes such as Sudan and Iran. The silence of Khan and other officials regarding the human rights of the Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Palestinians and by Hizbullah, and the human rights of Ron Arad, is damning. Amnesty and HRW (founded as Helsinki Watch) gained their legitimacy by campaigning on behalf of political prisoners, including Natan (then Anatoly) Sharansky. Genuine human rights groups would be leading the campaigns to win the freedom of Israeli prisoners held by terrorists. THE HYPOCRISY and political bias of these NGOs, in collaboration with the United Nations Human Rights Council, is particularly blatant in the case of Israel. Amnesty, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Christian Aid (UK), and pro-Palestinian partners actively implement the 2001 Durban agenda using the rhetoric of human rights to demonize Israel. Adopting the version of history starting with "Israeli occupation," these groups advance an ideology that presents Arabs as victims and Israelis as aggressors. The war between Hizbullah and Israel produced another wave in which defensive actions were automatically condemned as "war crimes," "collective punishment" or violations of international law. Amnesty and HRW together issued dozens of press releases, almost all of which focused on allegations against Israel. Without providing criteria, Amnesty statements declared that the Israeli strikes in Beirut were "grossly disproportionate," while acknowledging this was where "Hizbullah had its headquarters," directing the firing of thousands of rockets against Israel. No one seemed to notice the logical disconnect.

THE "DISCOVERY" of Hizbullah's cluster bombs and human shields came weeks or months later. In another surreal statement demonstrating their detachment from reality, Amnesty officials observed that "No investigation into violations of international humanitarian law by Hizbullah is known to have been conducted by Hizbullah commanders...." The NGOs that dominate the human rights discourse also feed journalists and diplomats with false or unverifiable claims. Their reports are based on "eyewitness testimony," such as by Palestinians in Gaza and Lebanese in areas controlled by Hizbullah. During the recent war, HRW and Amnesty claimed to have found no evidence of Hizbullah activities in the areas struck by Israel. There is no reason to conclude that these "researchers" and "military experts" bothered to check the allegiance and credibility of their sources. But HRW's 49-page report - the largest PR effort during the war - enntitled "Fatal Strikes: Israel's Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon," was headlined without question by journalists around the world.

IN ADDITION, the European Union and its member states fund many groups that also use the language of human rights to promote conflict and demonization of Israel. The grandly named Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) issued a torrent of political statements and one-sided condemnations during the Lebanon War. Other EU-supported "human rights" groups campaign against Israel's security barrier, with terms such as "apartheid wall" and call for boycotts, sanctions and other measures that are part of the political war. Some of these NGOs refer to "resistance" and "martyrdom" operations against "Israel Occupation Forces," meaning terror attacks and suicide bombers that have killed hundreds of Israeli civilians. In this way, European governments, including Switzerland and Norway, are contributing to the destruction of human rights based on universal principles, and undermining peace efforts they claim to promote. This moral decay is also evident in the activities of the newly reformed United Nations Human Rights Council, which has focused on gratuitous Israel-bashing. The pseudo-reform process was strongly supported by the NGO network, which criticized the US and Israel for warning that the new UNHRC was no better than the old, discredited version.

IT WAS ONLY after the activities of the new UNHRC brought the use of double-standards to record levels that these human rights NGOs finally began speaking out against the abuse. (HRW's recent criticism of the Palestinian use of human shields to protect terrorists was attacked by fringe groups seeking to paint this illegal practice as non-violent protest.) To reverse course, and restore the credibility, universality and substance of human rights the credibility and accountability of groups like Amnesty and Human Rights Watch must also be restored. Ideology and political preferences can no longer dominate their agendas and publications, and human rights cannot use double standards which punish democracies and reward dictatorships. Ethical norms must be freed from political and ideological agendas, particularly when these are used by those who declare the goal of "wiping Israel off the map." International Human Rights Day is an appropriate time to start.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1164881857754

Gaza Anomalies Blow PCP’s Circuits: Result - The Sounds of Silence

August 4, 2008
A few friends of mine went to a party in Jerusalem that was primarily made up Anglophone reporters, people who work for NGOs and UN agencies. What amazed them was the pervasive sense of the people they met and spoke with that Israel was the greatest human rights violator in the world and that the dismantling of Israel would be a great step forward for global human rights.

Now the idiocy of this position, the suicidal nature of this strategy to advance human rights is nothing short of breathtaking. Take Israel out of the Middle East and the region becomes nothing but Hama rules… especially when the nastiest people — those who want to destroy Israel — would feel empowered by such a victory. But try and tell that to people who are smart enough to believe they can’t be wrong, and credulous enough to believe the demopaths who pull their chains on a daily basis. And as a result, they are prime targets for a hate campaign against Israel.

The latest news from Gaza, Israel, and the West Bank illustrates all the anomalies involved in this fundamental failure of the “human rights” community to understand what’s going on: black hearts and red spades galore. Melanie Phillips has a superb column which analyzes the current, mind-boggling situation in the Arab-Israeli conflict, with the Fatah “refugees” from Gaza seeking asylum in Israel.

Refugees From Whom?
The Spectator MONDAY, 4TH AUGUST 2008
Melanie Phillips
Extraordinary developments in Gaza have given a new meaning to the term ‘Palestinian refugees’. As the Jerusalem Post reports, fierce fighting in Gaza between Fatah and Hamas over the weekend, in which 11 people died and dozens more were wounded, resulted in 180 Fatah refugees fleeing from what they called a ‘war of genocide’ by Hamas against Fatah supporters. And where did they flee to? Why, to Israel, of course — which allowed them in and proceeded to treat 23 of them (some of whom were wounded by the Israeli army after they approached the crossing into Israel) in Israeli hospitals.

This is one of the most important anomalies for those who follow the current PCP narrative about the Middle East in which Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people explain the ferocious hatred of the Palestinians for the Israelis. According to that version of events — largely the one that liberals have taken over by adopting the Palestinian narrative of suffering — the last place these Palestinian “warriors” would go was Israel, their mortal enemy who is trying to commit genocide against their people. If the Israelis want to wipe out Palestinian civilians, how much the more would they want to kill Palestinian “militants”?

And yet, this is not a new story. When King Hussein, “the moderate,” found himself dealing with a restive Palestinian population in 1970, he slaughtered some 10,000 of them — men, women and children — in “Black September.” The Palestinians fled his tender mercies across the Jordan to Israel where the Israelis, obligingly, shipped them over to Lebanon, where, within five years, they plunged that unhappy land into a seven-year war that killed over 100,000 civilians. When Israel finally put an end to that civil war by invading in 1982, and the Phalanage took advantage of their upper hand to slaughter several hundred Palestinians at Sabra and Shatilla in revenge for Damur, the terrified inhabitants of the camps ran immediately to the Israeli positions outside the camp for protection. Why? Because they knew, despite all the “narratives” that when the chips are down, you can expect more mercy from the Jews than your fellow Arabs.

These are revelatory moments, when you see not the “public transcript” but what people really think. In honor-shame cultures they can be deeply embarrassing, since the public transcript is the “honorable” one, and the revelations that reverse that — like in the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes — are almost by definition shameful. Participants might prefer not to remember these, might even seek to reverse them by insisting still more shrilly on the original “narrative.” But outsiders need to pay close attention, because these rare moments are infinitely more revealing than the “public transcript.”

These refugees say they cannot return to Gaza because they will be killed. How fortunate, therefore, that their own Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas, can give them sanctuary in the West Bank!
But hang on – Abbas won’t let them in. Yup, with the exception of five individuals whom he did allow in, he’s denied them all sanctuary. He says they should go back to Gaza.

Before we get into the explanations proferred, let me make a medievalist’s remark. This is a staggering act of cowardice. Any warlord has to protect his men above all. If he fails to do so, he loses their loyalty. To refuse safety to men who have suffered from their adherence to your banner — unless it was their fault — shows your weakness.

And the invaluable Khaled abu Toameh tells us the reason why:
PA officials explained that the reason behind their refusal to absorb the new ‘refugees’ was their desire not to encourage other residents of the Gaza Strip to leave. ‘Everyone knows that if we allow people to leave the Gaza Strip, almost all the residents living there would try to cross the border into Israel,’ said a senior PA official.

More... http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2008/08/04/gaza-anomalies-blow-pcps-circuits-result-the-sounds-of-silence/

Biden's 'gaffe' a trap for McCain

Steven — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:55:52 EDT

Joe Biden has been roundly condemned for his “gaffe” about Obama, as a new president, being tested within the first six months of his presidency by a crisis intentionally started by a hostile power or group. The McCain campaign have jumped at this opportunity to say that Obama is too risky, because he will invite such a crisis, whereas if McCain is elected there will be no such temptation, and no such crisis. But all the McCain camp have done is jump into a trap. Their response is unrealistic, foolish and indeed foolhardy—because it should open them up to the accusation, by Democrats, that McCain just does not get it. The fact is EVERY new president is fated to be tested by America’s enemies in the first months of office, and there is nothing at all about McCain that makes him immune to this international trial by ordeal. His rather blustering approach to all policy decisions, and his erratic behavior probably opens him up to a HIGHER likelihood that America’s enemies will see profit in goading McCain, to make him commit a major strategic blunder, such as Bush did with invading Iraq.

So if Obama is president-elect (as I fervently hope he will be), he will, as Biden truthfully stated, be challenged at some point by America’s enemies, to try him out; but the same goes equally if not more so for McCain. The important thing to consider is whether the two candidates have the necessary “steel in the spine” and the necessary thoughtfulness and poise to respond to such a challenge well. (Biden’s whole point was that he thought Obama did indeed have these qualities.) But a very large part of being able to respond well to such testing is BEING PREPARED, and a very large part of being prepared is RECOGNITION that such a test will indeed come along. Obama and Biden have, ti their initial cost, shown that they realize this, but what of John McCain? He has actually responded by saying “I’ve been tested”, implying that such a test by an enemy of America will simply not happen on his watch. But this is rhetorical sleight of hand, indeed rhetorical nonsense, because McCain has NEVER been tested as president, because he has never been president! So what is McCain saying? Is he saying that because he once was a Naval Airman many years ago, and heroically survived the ordeal of being a POW in Vietnam, that this makes him tested and a sure thing for the completely different role of President of the United States? It is like saying that because I have passed a driving test, that makes me qualified to fly a 747 Jumbojet. In other words, McCain is deluding himself in thinking that he has passed the test already and will never be tested by America’s enemies as president, because he has totally mistaken one form of testing for another. And in making this mistake he has shown that he misunderstands entirely the realities that will confront the next president, and in denying that there will be a test he has failed at the vital first step any president must make, of RECOGNITION that he has to be PREPARED for this inevitable test. We cannot afford McCain’s HUBRIS.

What McCain’s reaction to Biden’s “gaffe” has shown is that McCain is unfit to be president.

October Surprise on the Rise?

A. Moses — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:15:28 EDT

Its a very scary thought, but there has been a consistent pattern of October surprises that have been a primary tool of the Republicans as of recent elections. Still, with the current environment, it is hard to imagine how any surprise would work.

I started thinking long and hard about this and I noticed a pattern that gave me a chill down my spine and an upset stomach that still hasn't gone away.

Normally, negative campaigns do an about face and become positive in the final weeks in order to shore up people who don't respond to angry Nazi like hate and fear mongering.

This, so far, hasn't happened. And then I thought, what if the October surprise the Republican's are hoping for is another terrorist attack?

Recently an Al Qaeda terrorist endorsed John McCain because he believed it would mean the same policies of the last 8 years, and they've done pretty well in that time. His endorsement even went on to suggest that the best way al-Qaeda could help McCain is with an attack. [Link]

No one wants to think of this as a possibility, but only 4 years ago a last minute tape release from Bin Laden panicked a bunch of voters into swinging their vote. They could try something again. And maybe, they're counting on it.

With McCain's constant barrage of "Question who Obama is" crap, I could see them trying to close the sale of people's votes with a last minute flood of national security based ads and political terrorist association tear-downs.

Its honestly a long shot for them to try this. And it might blow up in their faces if they do. But its a scary scenario that, honestly McCain is in a position to strike from.

Really, all I can think of that we can do to protect us from this is to prepare ourselves for the possibility so we are not surprised if it does happen. If we respond quickly and decisively, possibly attacking bush for allowing such a thing to happen or perhaps putting Joe Biden out-front with a few good words to fortify the perceived national security weakness of Barack, we can avoid being caught off guard.

This is one election we absolutely cannot afford to loose. Republican desperation, political fear mongering, and an enemy who now has cause enough to try something if they can... its a very bad and potentially explosive mix.

As long as we are aware of the posibility, we will be less surprised and more prepared to deal with it, should the time come. Let us all hope it doesn't.

Arab racism against Jews inside Israel: Arabs' rampage in Acre

Natalia from Acampo, CA — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:31:20 EDT

Arab racism against Jews inside Israel: Arabs' rampage in Acre [Oct 2008]...

the violence continued as Arabs heading back to their neighborhoods ran riot through Jewish areas of the city. Calling "Death to the Jews" and Allah hu akbar ("Allah is great"), the rioters vandalized hundreds of Jewish-owned shops and vehicles, and threw rocks at people on their way to or from Yom Kippur prayers.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127921

Police arrest Acre Yom Kippur driver... Police on Monday arrested 48 year-old Jamal Taufik, the driver who entered Jewish east Acre on the evening of Yom Kippur and who is blamed by police for sparking a provocation that deteriorated into several nights of racial violence and rioting.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1222017521503

Powell Endorses Obama; Al Qaeda Endorses McCain

John — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:00:22 EDT

Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama for president.

Al Qaeda has endorsed John McCain.

The terrorist organization has determined that John McCain would be the best U.S. president to lead our country further into economic decline. Opinions were posted on several Al Qaeda web sites.

Remember when the right-wing lied about Al Qaeda endorsing John Kerry four years ago? They were outraged at Kerry. So, how do they feel about McCain securing this endorsement? (And this time, it is in writing.)

A Fight to the Finish

Charles — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:34:08 EDT

November fourth's closing in so rapidly that political ads are growing yet more strident, and the two parties are exchanging blows like boxers from respective corners. And these pugilists have taken off the gloves as Republicans continue to practice the politics of fear. The back stabbing ongoing, I find myself reminded of Julius Caesar, surrounded by assassins. It seems like everyone has their respective daggers out, intending to draw blood.
Distortions abound. Sometimes one cannot tell Republicans from Democrats without a program. Fiscal responsibility? It's like water in the desert. But the greatest financial irresponsibility goes straight to the Bush administration.
Our burgeoning national deficit has nearly turned not just our country, but the entire world, into a disaster area. England's forbidding executives to collect ridiculous salaries and bonuses, and even is nationalizing banks. Germany is reacting with similar measures.
China and Russia own far too much of the United States. Our workers' ability to compete in global markets has suffered to the point of desperation. Here in Pueblo Colorado, the C.F.& I. Steel plant is now owned by Russians.
Outsourcing has given away telemarketing positions in so egregious and fanatical a way, that one feels enormous relief to find an American on the other end of the line!
To return to the original analogy, it's a horse race, and our workers are dropping by the thousands. We ride them hard and put them away wet!
Technology has transformed the world and its techno-markets, with Japan, of course, in the lead, India and China sprinting to catch up. Chinese goods are prevalent in our dollar stores and Walmarts. They also have saturated the third world markets of Africa, and are building roads there as well.
Too many American children are deficient in both reading and math, such that we dare not cut educational budgets, and are desperately looking for competent teachers to help our students catch up. Too few were, and likely still are, incapable of adequate English composition.
Millions of kids have been left behind. Our schools should teach more languages. Any student who expects to compete internationally in a global job market must gain proficiency in Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese languages.
International trade agreements have not proved to our advantage, and it is time that our workers receive every possible advantage. If retraining in technical spheres is needed, so be it. Lifetime learning becomes, of necessity, the the order of the day.
Our extemded dependence upon foreign oil has us prostrate before the rest of the world. The outcry of “drill, baby, drill” may on it's face seem a great thing. But Oil Conglomerates have failed to invest in American infrastructure and especially refineries.
George Bush, as the Bumbler in Chief, has taken us to the edge of a precipice financially, and we hang like careless mountain climbers from a shredded rope beneath a cliff.
Our “basically sound” stock market and economy have become anvils, rather than motors of productivity. In the past few weeks, my credit card bills have ranged from radical decreases in available to buy back to increased credit. Like many Americans, I am shrewdly transferring balances until that opportune moment that I may refinance a mortgage, and, at last successful as a writer, performer, or teacher, I am able to kiss debt goodbye.
The great lies told the American citizenry have rivaled those of Adolf Hitler. Weapons of mass destruction did not exist in Iraq, much to Colin Powell's chagrin as presented to the United Nations.
Thus we entered an unnecessary war, and continue to pay a heavy toll for it day by day, in both lives and dollars. Where there was no insurgency and Al Quaeda before in Iraq, there now is ingrained terrorism before unheard of.
Afghanistan also continues to perplex us, for Bin Laden's still apparently safely hidden, his grizzly beard getting greyer and longer.
Meanwhile the world's needs cry out for our help, for ethnic cleansing is once again rearing its ugly head in Dar fur, as in Georgia so very near Russia. Our exiting President claimed to have looked into the eyes of Vladimir Putin and seen his soul. The absurdity of this claim demonstrates itself in Russia's shenanigans in South America with Venezuela's president – or one should rather say Dictator – Ugo Chavez – has Russia conducting military exercises in his waters and arranging for arms sales. All of O.P.E.C. continually seems to ask itself “What can we do next to hobble the United States?”
Hopeful signs in the arms race now appear in North Korea. Kim-Jon-ll is submitting to examination of nuclear sites. It's served up as a gift upon a silver platter, since the Bush administration was loathe to directly negotiate with a “terrorist” regime.
Obama, on the other hand, promises to keep all avenues of communication open. As was said in the movie “The Godfather I,” “Keep you friends close. But keep your enemies even closer.”
Indeed, we have now, more than ever before to be cognizant of every and any threat to our national security.
But need that mean the violation of human rights? Abu Graeb and Guantanamo, plus the outsourcing of torture to Arabic allies have diminished our image in the eyes of the world.
Meanwhile, provisions of the Patriot Act relegated policies verging upon fascism. Anyone, under the least suspicion, can be wire-tapped or taken hostage. Our founding fathers, surely would view this with chagrin.
Back to the race...
Just to where are we running – and from what?
We are certainly not approaching solvency by anything but the slowest of pace, and our ownership society is threatened with thousands of home foreclosures. So we now look to a bail-out to restore confidence.
All of this has been irremediably exacerbated by tax cuts and loopholes that have favored the extremely wealthy. “Trickle-down” theory simply does not work! If a major corporation, however, finds its costs increasing, you may be assured that it will pass the expense along to you, the consumer!
Goods must be transported, and the price of oil runs the gamut of high speed inflation upon our highways.
Currently General Motors and Chrysler corporations are negotiating a merger. But then, Chrysler is entwined with Mercedes Benz. New automobiles utilizing rechargeable batters are promised and in development.
But, the Japanese seem always to be ahead of us. For my part I wish I had back my 1963 Volvo station wagon, which I treated like a Jeep in the Rocky Mountains. It got 28 miles per gallon in town and 37 on the highway. The simplicity of the engine always amazed me. When a clutch rod broke, I was able to create a replacement for in out of a carriage bolt in the University of Wyoming Theater scene shop.
Our nation still leads the world in entertainment – particularly movies. Yet Sony of Japan owns a large chunk of its enterprises. And no doubt the escapism of movie reality appeals as much now as it did in the Great Depression of the 1930s.
So, as we negotiate the last furlongs of this race, let us take stock of where we stand upon this track, and what the competitor horses are doing:
-Economy, employment, deficit: suffering, no end in site.
-International relations: badly in need of shoring up our alliance and regaining the world's trust.
-The arms race: not entirely secure with weaponry being sold to the South Americans by Russia, and Iran threatening Israel with nuclear annihilation.
-Education: lagging behind most other industrial nations, particularly in math and science.<BR>
-Health: the most expensive in the world, and unavailable to far too many Americans, even children.
-Human rights: ongoing ethnic cleansing and abuses, and a dire need to take on crises with allies or the United Nations – not so expensively and at such great cost – unilaterally.
-Terrorism and drug traffic: Poppy seeds flourish, and the Taliban continues to finance destruction. Why should peasants settle for less with crops not as lucrative?
-Honesty in government: We continue to be lied to, as the American dream seems to be dimming.
So, it comes down to the inevitable question: who is the jockey who can ride the American horse at last to victory? It is a true-breed stallion. Who can manage its spirit satisfactorily, taking up the reigns with skill up to the finish line?
I'm laying odds, and betting on Barack Obama!
How about YOU?

Resources You Can Use Today to Help Elect Obama

Martin Dudziak — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:09:49 EDT

OK, Folks, there are plenty of resources I and some associates and colleagues have assembled.

All of this and more (just contact me by email or phone) can be used openly and publicly.

Please give credit for quotations, please be careful on editing and using concept material and facts, and please Be Aware of How the McCain-Palin and Undecided People THINK. Our biggest challenge is in Proper Means of Outreach and Communications - finding the right way past the prjudices, predispositions, "and closed minds". It can be done! You just need to get into the right mental frame for the particular person and address what are their concerns.

Some are going to be hopeless, absolutely shut and closed. Well, we are not likely to succeed right now, October 2008, with die-hard racists and the far-right. What we need to do is work on the people can be reached with attentive communications, and with Facts, Facts, Facts.

So, here is my main Essay on Why Obama+Biden in 2008 and Why it is so Important that this Team wins and not the other guys:

http://forteplan.com/obama.pdf or http://forteplan.com/obama.doc

Besides this, there are other resources, and I am putting them into this directory, and you can download them. These are mostly Facts, including graphs, about things concerning USA and the World, also some essays from my 2006 campaign against the "Bush-Lieutenant" Eric Cantor (R-VA), and you should be able to make use of some of this data.

Go to http://forteplan.com/obama

There are or will be more material including folders with names of people that perhaps You can reach and contact better than me.

Finally, there is this blog, not well managed of late because of shorftage of time, but full of good resources: http://forteplan.com/isec/blog

Sincerely,

Dr. Martin J. Dudziak
martin@forteplan.com or martin.dudziak@gmail.com 747-847-5511 or 202-415-7295

Advice We Must Heed and Pass On to Everyone

Duval — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:19:10 EDT

The following is a short article I just found on talkingpointsmemo.com. The author, Josh Marshall, very clearly explains why it is so important that we not grow complacent and claim any victories until election day. It was published on 10.19.2008.

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Race to the Bottom

If you're thinking to yourself that there's little more than two weeks before election day and Obama has a solid lead in the polls, don't be so sure.

Yes, it looks good for the Democrats. But you need to play close attention to the McCain campaign's final weeks' strategy under and just above the radar. McCain's final strategy relies on two pillars. The first is aggressively playing to voters' fears of electing a black president. Make no mistake: not just his campaign in a general sense, but McCain himself and his top handful of advisers, are banking on the residual racism in a changing America to get them over the finish line. The second is an aggressive use of innuendo to convince casual voters that Obama is in league with Islamic terrorists bent on killing Americans.

Many people have asked whether enough Americans really care any more about the cultural convulsions of the 1960s. The answer? It doesn't matter. For the McCain campaign, Bill Ayers has nothing to do with 60s radicalism. Ayers is nothing more than a tool that permits McCain, Palin and all their surrogates to use the noun "terrorist" in polite company in the same sentence as "Obama," over and over and over again. It allows them to cobble together a 'respectable' version of those Obama smear emails they can push in commercials and robocalls and surrogate talking points every hour of every day.

Stripped down to its components McCain's message to voters is this: "Don't forget. He's definitely black. And he may be a terrorist." That's the message. The nuts and bolts is a concerted effort to keep Democrats from voting -- through intimidation, by striking new voters from the rolls, which is going to happen to lots of them, clogging polling stations to create delays that keep late day (predominantly) Obama voters from voting altogether. Smears in the air and voter suppression on the ground.

Many people say, well ... all this stuff just hasn't worked. But the truth is that the really corrupt and vicious part of McCain's effort only comes now because it's only in the last couple weeks that you can pull stuff that the press won't get to call you on before election day -- after which it doesn't matter. Will it take Obama down? So far McCain's gutter campaign has hurt him more than helped. But there's no reason to be sure it will continue that way. And many Obama supporters, sure the election is basically wrapped up, appear ready to slack in the stretch and let McCain smear and cheat his way into office.

--Josh Marshall

Permanent link: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/238245.php

Lessons from William Ayers

Doug Robinson — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:32:35 EDT

Now more than ever we need tolerance for those among us who offer a different approach than what we consider normal. Tolerance for differing views and experiences can help each of us to expand personal horizons, thus promoting individual growth and enrichment. Without the influence of differing ideas we all will only become increasingly narrow in our views over time, growing correspondingly limited in our ability to respond to the wonder of life around us. Above all, peace requires tolerance, conflict denies tolerance. While there are certainly things no democratic society should condone, we must also be judicious in where we place these restrictions lest we harm our own freedom and ultimate humanity in the process.

anti-american vs. pro-american violence

Kaz — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:33:44 EDT

Dear Barack supporters,
I have been really freaked out about the hate and hate speech that has surfaced in the last two weeks. Today, things have gotten more violent. We need leadership NOW. Questions about Obama's character and race, etc. have been thrown out there by McCain/Palin. Who answers those questions? McCain and Palin. The silent response, to what many Americans may think are legitamite concerns, is quickly filled by the media.

   A leader is going to have to put politics aside and treat ALL American's questions as legit, no matter how backwards, ignorant etc. the questions may be. It not only educates many people, but it also shows great respect for all American's. Not responding, like Gore and Kerry did, is because of a dated democrat party standard: we are above such pettiness. This is a patroning stance we can not afford. This is an opportunity to talk to all Americans, the so called ignorant ones and the elite ones! A more perfect chance, to reach the so-called hillbilly Americans, we may not get again. Not responding immediately and definatively, aids the speculation that is advanced through the media and undermines our unity and focus.
   I have never experienced this much incendiary hate speech in an election before, so I am looking to my community, which affects my response. Democrats, please find a new way to respond to smear tactics and outright lies, a way that actually works. I'm tired of republican rule and the old school, rise above tactic, has simply never worked. There are more than two ways to campaign. Where are our leaders?
   I also want to address the growing violence. This is a decisive moment for all humanity. Please do not resort to any unlawful acts. And please report all unlawful acts, even if you may think, oh, it's just a yard sign stolen. If you do not report unlawful acts, even if you think they are minor, you are in fact stealing evidence that could be used in a legitamite way. Yes, it's a pain in the butt, but every little things adds to our case in our fight against corruption in politics.
For example, if I recieved a vague complaint from a customer about my employee, I'd take it seriously and keep my eyes open. The second and third time I recieved a complaint about the same employee, I'd have to consider termination, even if the complaints were vague. Okay, maybe not after the second complaint. My point is that it often takes multiple examples of proof, the result of multiple pieces of evidence, to make a strong case. You never know when or where that evidence may be needed. The actual reporting of crimes, both petty and grand, if God forbid we need it, may be as great a contribution to democracy as a donation. Please report all unlawful acts relating to support of Obama, and pass on the message to your friends, family and communities.
   If you would like to investigate further, I have added these examples of the violence I am refering to, please read, they will shock you into action.

Oh! Get out the vote!

These are in response to a report that a McCain supporter was attacked by an Obama supporter.

"I Have a house full of firearms. I have a Weatherby 270, two 22 cal rifles, three shotguns “12 and 20 gauge” and a glock model 30 45 cal I carry everywhere. I have a conceal carry permit. Trust me, these obamatons are nothing but thugs and thives and crack whores. They are also weak liberal homosexual white men and lazy entitlement minded white women. Obama will lose on 11/4. The Joe the Plumber revelation which exposed Obama for the socialist he is will be his undoing. I plan on being loaded up after 11/4 and in prtection mode. I expect the blacks to riot because of ocurse they are all animals. Let them riot. I am not afraid. Big mistake to attack me is all I can say."

"unfortunately WallMart doesn't sell guns anymore otherwise. Otherwise I would buy one."

"My advice is, go to WalMart and buy a gun. Regardless of who wins this election trouble is going to erupt,particularly in urban areas.Don’t carry it around with you like some nut but keep it in your home in a secure place and learn how to use it to protect yourself and your family. Here in Baltimore the natives are already getting restless and agitated."

"God forbid Barak Hussein Obama becomes our president. If so it will only encourage these haters into more violence!"

"In all honesty - I’m afraid to have my Obama sign in my yard."

"The Obama campaign is the dirtiest and most racist in history."

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-supporter-assaults-female-mccain-volunteer-in-new-york/2/

"In an television appearance that outraged Democrats are already describing as Joseph McCarthy politics, Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann claimed on Friday that Barack Obama and his wife Michelle held anti-American views and couldn't be trusted in the White House. She even called for the major newspapers of the country to investigate other members of Congress to "find out if they are pro-America or anti-America."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/

Not paranoid enough?

Is Posse Comitatus Dead? US Troops on US StreetsOctober 07, 2008 | In a barely noticed development, a US Army unit is now training for domestic operations under the control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. An initial news report in …

http://www.democracynow.org/search

Take this one with a grain of salt, democracy now is very biased to the left. But there is audio of the commander of the army training unit you can listen to yourself, and the law was furtively changed to enable a martial law situation. Fact.