Category Archives: Homeland Security

Dissent is the Highest Form of…

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…RACISM?!?

Statists have lost their damn minds!

Maureen Dowd:

The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind.

Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t.

But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!

Jimmy Carter:

Michael Eric Dyson:

I call B.S. on all three of them.

President Obama is not under fire for being black. He is under fire for his policies and how he is governing the country. Race has absolutely NOTHING to do with opposing the President’s worldview that America is evil and must be weakened in order to appease the rest of world, nor questioning his warped belief that a bigger, overfunded federal government will solve all of our domestic and economic problems.

Barack Obama could have been born white (he’s biracial, BTW), brown, red, yellow, olive, or plaid — and he would still be rightfully judged not by his skin color, but by his words and deeds. As a black man, I’m appalled that those on the left would rush to play the race card in defending a head of state who was elected by his peers not because of his race, but because of the promises made to usher in a “post-racial” era of politics and leadership.

Enough with playing the race card already. We’re ALL Americans — and the President is accountable to all of us, regardless of complexion.

Related: I’m in full agreement with Conservative Black Woman…

Standing Up For America

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At a meeting with Stanford University students, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was confronted by left-wing learners with “tough” questions. She stood her ground and replied back with tougher and forthright answers.

And the students actually LEARNED something from the seasoned professor.

My favorite quote from the video. “Do your homework first.” May our current leadership in Washington do likewise!

(h/t: James Delingpole and Don Surber)

Much Ado About Nothing

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It upsets me to no end that the Obama administration is considering persecution of officials from the previous Bush administration for giving legal opinions about what constitutes torture. R-J publisher Sherman Frederick opines:

Let me get this straight. President Barack Obama is “open” to the prosecution and impeachment of Jay Bybee, a sitting federal judge, because of an opinion — an opinion?! — the man rendered before he became a judge and while serving America in the war on terror?

This is “Alice in Wonderland,” off-with-their-heads kind of stuff that can be hatched only in the mind of the political left, which pretends to be oh-so tolerant, but given half a chance defaults to the ways of the Khmer Rouge.

It’s almost as if America’s political left wakes up every morning asking itself: “What would Pol Pot do?” [...]

Federal Judge Jay Bybee is the UNLV law professor who authored a legal opinion on what constitutes torture. That opinion eventually resulted in the Bush administration giving the green-light to water-boarding, sleep deprivation and similar “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

The Obama administration thinks the Bush administration’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” were “torture.” Obama has stopped using them, and while he says he won’t prosecute those who “tortured” enemy captives, he is “open” to prosecuting those who authorized the techniques, which at this stage of the purge means the villagers are headed to the Bybee house, torches and pitchforks in hand.

Judge Bybee should be left alone, and Obama would be wise to drop such nonsense NOW. Because of his actions, America is now less safe. Terrorists and rouge countries who wish us all ill are now emboldened to hold us hostage and threaten our lives at will.

Bybee’s opinion led to lives being saved on the battlefields and protected our cities from post-9/11 threats. The judge deserves our gratitude, and not a left-wing witch hunt.

Immigration Bill Killed

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This is the best news I’ve heard all week:

President Bush’s immigration bill suffered a crushing defeat Thursday in the Senate, when members voted against advancing the controversial legislation.

The tally was 46 to 53, 14 votes shy of the 60 needed to end debate.

However, the war against amnesty still isn’t over. I’ve personally been in a foul mood concerning how out of step the Bush Administration has been on immigration reform. Until the borders are secured and current laws are enforced, true immigration reform will never take place. How anybody is unable to grasp those simple facts is a mystery to me.

Major Terror Plot Foiled

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Did anybody wake up to this item a few hours ago?

British authorities said Thursday they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in carry-on luggage. Britain’s Home Secretary John Reid said 21 people had been arrested in London, its suburbs and in Birmingham, including the alleged “main players” in the plot.

Huge crowds formed at security barriers at London’s Heathrow airport as officials searching for explosives barred nearly every form of liquid outside of baby formula.

Officials raised security to its highest level in Britain and banned hand-carried luggage on all trans-Atlantic flights.

The extreme measures at a major international aviation hub sent ripple effects throughout the world. Heathrow airport was closed to most flights from Europe.

The U.S. government responded by raising its threat alert to its highest level for commercial flights from Britain to the United States amid fears the plot had not been completely crushed. The alert for all flights coming or going from the United States was also raised slightly.

Wake up, folks. Now isn’t the time for complacency.

Related: Malkin, Allah, LGF, and Boortz are on top of it.

Illegal Immigration

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It’s not often that I agree with Ed Brown (alias DarkStar) on the issues. However, on the subject in question, I agree with him 100%.

In summary, I support legal immigration. Play by the rules. Learn the common language. Assimilate into society. Be a productive citizen.

Those ideals are followed by naturalized residents of every nation that has immigration laws on their books — except for America, where illegal immigration is out of control, and those who are here illegally (as well as their enablers) thumb their noses at our country’s sovereignty.

Either America is a nation of laws or a land of anarchy. Given the weak-kneed willingness of our government to actually enforce current immigration laws — let alone propose new ones that are sugar-coated for political correctness, we are rapidly headed toward the latter.

And before anybody starts hatin’ on me and calling me a racist, I’ll repeat the sentence again:

I support legal immigration.

Update: CNN’s Lou Dobbs nails it.

One Unsung Election Victory

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Oh, by the way (from Frank J.) …

In your face terrorist ‘tards! You thought you could beat us by going for the minds of the cowardly and the morally bereft in America, but that’s too small a minority in America to make the difference.

You like getting shot, Islamists. You like getting blown up from far above? You like cowering in caves? Well, you got four more years of it, bitches!

And Satan, fair warning, make some more room in hell!

To everyone who hated the first four years of Bush – and no one hated it more than the terrorists – these next four years are going to be even worse now that Bush doesn’t have to worry about reelection! Boo-yeah!

The 9/11 Blame Game

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For all of Richard Clarke’s efforts to slander the Bush Administration in his efforts to maximize his book sales, the center of blame rests with Clarke’s former boss — whether the Democrats like it or not.

From Neal Boortz:

CLINTON STOPPED CIA FROM KILLING BIN LADEN

This has been out there for awhile, but the 9-11 commission is finally confirming it as fact. This should tell you everything you need to know about the Clinton administration and their policy of terrorist appeasement for 8 years.

Announcing some of its preliminary findings yesterday, the commission confirmed that President Clinton ordered the CIA to take Osama Bin Laden alive or not at all. The following statement read at yesterday’s session says it all: “CIA senior managers, operators and lawyers uniformly said that they read the relevant authorities signed by President Clinton as instructing them to try and capture Bin Laden.” A former CIA station chief said “We always talked about how much easier it would have been to try to kill him.” A former CIA official told NBC News last week that White House orders to spare Bin Laden’s life cut the chances of getting him in half. Once again, they viewed terrorism as a law enforcement problem, worrying about Bin Laden’s rights instead of just unleashing the CIA to exterminate him.

If this commission wants to lay blame for policy failures that led to 9/11, then they need to do it where it belongs, with the Clinton administration and Richard Clarke.

Related: According to this transcript from 2002, Clarke’s story was a far cry from his current accusations that Bush did little to nothing in terms of pre-9/11 counterterrorism.

Also, Larry Elder comments:

Gleeful over Clarke’s current slam against the Bush administration, the president’s critics overlook key Clarke admissions. First, despite feeling “intimidated” by the perceived presidential wish to find a connection between Iraq and 9/11, Clarke said the president never asked him to “make it up.” And Clarke admits that, he, too, thought Saddam possessed WMD. “Everybody did,” said Clarke.

So where does this leave us?

The 9/11 commission intends to issue their final report this July. Expect a finding of enough blame to go around. This we know: The Clinton administration had eight years to go after terrorists, and the Bush administration had eight months. We also know that the planning for 9/11 began under Clinton’s watch.

After the successful toppling of the Afghanistan and Iraq governments, a fearful Moammar Kadafi of Libya admitted and then renounced his WMD. This led to the unraveling of the nuclear network between Libya, Pakistan, North Korea and Iran. North Korea, after balking, now appears willing to engage in non-proliferation talks with China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States. The movement toward democracy in Iraq emboldens dissidents in Syria and Iran. An ABC News poll found that while 39 percent of Iraqis oppose the invasion, 48 percent approve! And 71 percent of Iraqis expect their lives to improve within a year’s time.

If only Americans felt that optimistic.

Patriot Act Abuse

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From yesterday’s Review-Journal:

The FBI used the USA Patriot Act to obtain financial information about key figures in its ongoing political corruption probe centered on strip club magnate Michael Galardi, federal authorities confirmed Monday.

Investigators “used a section of the Patriot Act to get subpoenas for financial documents,” said Special Agent Jim Stern, a spokesman for the Las Vegas field office of the FBI. “It was used appropriately by the FBI and was clearly within the legal parameters of the statute.”

While it is true that the al-Qaedans did frequent a strip club in town while planning the 9/11 terror strike, I highly doubt that Michael Galardi was involved with any of the meetings, as he was too busy trying to buy off politicians and get some ordinances to favor his franchise of titty bars.

Patriot Act critics are rightfully concerned. And they should be.

(also posted to The Liberty Dogs)

Related: Senators join forces to roll back parts of Patriot Act

Watching Over the Tables

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Art Buchwald writes about the hometown:

It’s hard to believe, but Las Vegas has just won the title of “Best Homeland Security Town in America.” I went there to find out why.

The first thing I learned is that Vegas has its own satellite in the sky, looking down on the roofs of all the casinos. On the roof of each casino are men staring at TV monitors that show everything going on in the casinos. They are particularly watching the floor bosses. The floor bosses are watching the pit bosses, who are watching the dealers, who are watching the crapshooters. The customers are watching the dealers in hopes of hitting blackjack.

Security men at all the doors are watching everyone come in and out of the casino. Single men are watching chorus girls and single women are watching chorus guys.

The youngsters are watching the animals in the cages and the animals are watching the children.

And the IRS is watching EVERYBODY 24 hours a day.

While the beefed-up security and the IRS monitoring (which happens to be going on nationwide, methinks) is quite factual, I was surprised to learn that Las Vegas has its own satellite watching over the tourists.

Watching the casinos are justified, though I think the satellite system goes way beyond a tip of the hat to Orwelll. What would really be haunting is the potential that satellite surveyance might go beyond the tourism sector and over to the residential areas of Southern Nevada in the name of homeland security.

(link via Connie du Toit @ Liberty Dogs)