London-Clowns Abound

The City of London experienced a ruffian rampage with anarchists, environmental activists, and other assorted yobs who could not find a football match (soccer game) to disrupt engaging in dangerous street theater. Those were the more or less innocuous hooligans. The true threats to liberty, harmony, and security seem to be Obama-the boy Marxist and his companion in crime Gordon Brown. If Tony Blair was Bush's lapdog, Gordon Brown will be the batman or valet to the new authority "BO", happy to exercise suasion over the pliant but terrified of real enemies like Iran and even the malignant dwarf nation of North Korea led by a literal malignant dwarf. These leaders of presumptive democracies have the power to revoke the liberty whose seed was the Magna Carta and whose fruition was the brilliant US Constitution which has served so well for more than two centuries but which Obama is certain he and Eric Holder, his gun-banning henchman, can improve upon by limiting seriatum until every essential right is but a distant memory.

The Kangaroo Court

Israeli soldiers, their officers, and political leaders may be subjected to criminal jeopardy for their actions in Gaza. Literally thousands of rockets and mortar bombs were fired at the innocent civilian populace of Israel after Israel voluntarily relinquished control of the Strip to give Palestinians the chance to build the institutions of statehood. The international community pledged to monitor the Gaza Strip border with Egypt to ensure that arms smuggling did not take place. The monitors were unarmed and were soon chased away by gunmen. The United Nations did not call for General Assembly measures or Security Council resolutions to condemn or reverse the smuggling that began apace. World bodies and large numbers of NGOs did not rise in protest as Kassams began to fly. Each one of these rockets was intended to kill, and by miracle, the actual number of casualties and deaths these attacks produced remained astoundingly low. But the situation, starting in the border community of Sderot and expanding outward, deeper into Israel, became intolerable with rockets, mortars, and Grad or Katusya-type missiles, no doubt supplied by Iran, threatening and disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis, including Bedouin, Druse, and Israeli Arabs. The Hamas terrorists chased out the Palestinian Authority security apparatus that had been established under international auspices with the consent of Israel and America's blessing to help facilitate transition of Gaza into the incubator of the nascent Palestinian state. Hamas with inspiration, training, and material support from the troublemakers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, murdered many of their brethren who supported Abbas and felt that by following Abu Mazen, they were on the path to statehood. Hamas and Iran are extinguishing that hope. Even when Hamas used explosives to blow huge gaps in the Egyptian border wall and fences to allow even more smuggling, the world did not shout its outrage, even though it was obvious that weapons and weapon components were being brought into Gaza by the ton. These munitions were clearly intended to make life unlivable, childhoods unbearable, and habitation impossible, anywhere in Israel within the range of fire. Now, after Israel exercised so much patience and restraint that she appeared weak, and finally had to respond to the staggered rocket launches that did not permit a moment's peace, the Roman Catholic Church, the United Nations, the leaders of other nations, and the world's media all rush to damn Israel. The Cardinal responsible for the Vatican Office of Peace and Justice actually had the gall to declare, "Israel has established the largest concentration camp in the history of the world in Gaza." It would behoove the Cardinal to get his facts straight, the rocketeers of Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees and Islamic Jihad built the wall and through their unrelenting campaign of terror against Israel, threw away the key. The Vatican, which also reversed the excommunication (for unrelated matters) of Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson, perpetrated the Inquisition, stood by largely silent through the Shoah, and then helped real war criminals-the Nazi perpetrators of genocide escape justice by facilitating their concealing identities and fleeing Europe, has no moral authority to criticize Israel's act of self-defense. Israel bent over backwards to avoid killing the non-combatants that Hamas was deliberately using as human shields. It is only natural in so many areas of the globe that have done everything they could to rid themselves of Jewish presence that they would embrace anything they could to justify their hatreds and put it to the young men of the IDF any chance they get. It is imperative that people of goodwill don't let them.

The Stacked Deck

That the United Nations would pass resolutions critical of Israel, that the Security Council would call for an immediate ceasefire that would leave Hamas in situ to fire rockets at Israel and proclaim their victory- that of a terror group over a democracy, should surprise no one. The die was cast with the composition of the UN with tyrannies outnumbering democracies many times over as members of the august body, with some of the democracies having age-old animosity toward Jews as is reflected in their perpetration of the Shoah or active collaboration with the Nazis or calculated silence over the Holocaust when even public declarations offered the chance to slow the German machinery of genocide, participation in pogroms, and even in the Inquisition. These nations which could not wait to rid themselves of Jews, can never be counted on to fairly assess a moral equation between Israel and those who are committed to destroying the Jewish state. They will always seek some flaw in the conduct of today's Jew to justify the anti-Semitic actions of their progenitors. If Jews may be portrayed as Nazis (a gross falsehood and mischaracterization of the ethical conduct of the IDF by the way, as no military force in history has gone farther to protect innocent life even imperiling Israeli troops to protect people who are in favor of the removal of the Jewish state at a minimum and more often than not would support the genocide of Jews), the destruction of the Jews of Europe becomes easier to rationalize. Arab and Muslim members of the General Assembly will vote against Israel at every turn. Nations in the thrall of the left the world over will routinely denounce Israel. Israel's restraint of using surgical precision and jeopardizing their own ground forces will win few friends in the UN as multi-lateralism has become the enemy of democracies acting in their self-interest in general and Israel protecting herself in particular. It is disheartening though that in the waning days of the Bush administration that the US did not veto the UNSC ceasefire resolution that if implemented, rewards terror and the deliberate use of Palestinian civilians as hostages for Hamas or Hamas's willing accomplices as human shields to defeat this imperiled democracy only inviting future attacks by Hamas, Hizbullah, and their sponsor Iran.

Severe Withdrawl Symptoms

The Iraqi parliament approved the three(3) year withdraw plan for American forces last week. It is incumbent upon Obama to make it clear that the US will not pull out under fire or with her tail between her legs. The examples of Israel's evacuation from Lebanon and later from Gaza illustrate what not to do. The South Lebanon pull back was done literally in the middle of the night. This allowed Hizbollah to proclaim victory over Israel and rallied countless fanatics to the Jihadi cause. The Gaza situation was mishandled with no dark of night pullout possible due to the presence and resistance of the Gush Katif block of Israeli citizens, Israel had a protracted effort sometimes under rocket or mortar fire and the occasional try at direct assault by members of the PRC, Hamas, or members of the al Qaeda sympathizing Dogmush klan. Once again, terrorists heralded a victory over the West and Israel. The British exit from Basra is also instructive. Much of Iraq remains a cauldron of simmering ethnic tension, but even in almost exclusively Shia Basra, after the British, Basra has become a tinderbox of gangs and warlords contesting the oil revenues. An American retreat seen as capitulation will engender renewed sectarian violence in mixed areas with the grave possibility of Saudi assistance to the Sunnis and Iranian aid or actual combat participation by Iranians on the side of the Sadrist block. Incidentally, Muqtada al Sadr's supporters in parliament opposed the Three(3) Year Plan and pushed for immediate American removal where the Iranians and their Shia surrogates could claim they had chased the Yankees from the country. No matter what else, America must conduct an orderly pull back that can only be seen as leaving in victory.

The ISI Delivers

Pakistan has been implicated in past terror attacks on India. In the Mumbai Massacre, even if Pakistan as a nation did not direct the rampage, at the least rogue elements or former members of the ISI had to have had foreknowledge of the assault, acquaintance with the perpetrators or their backers, or a deeper involvement to the level of prior intelligence gathering and material support. Pakistan must select her side in the war on terror. To prove they are on the side of the West and civilization, they must open their books, as it were. Withdraw any agents abroad whose security would be compromised, investigate the activities of their operatives, and account for their spending. If any are found to have been involved, but national pride is deemed at stake, Pakistan can try and punish the guilty themselves. I have no doubt the leader of Pakistan whose own wife Benazir Bhutto was murdered by these same forces did not orchestrate or in any way condone the Mumbai terror. But the ISI has long been an international troublemaker. Their involvement in nuclear proliferation with the A. Q. Khan network providing the technical expertise to arm North Korea is well-documented. The Khan network also assisted Iran in her effort to acquire atomic capabilities.If she does not come clean, Pakistan will face the righteous wrath of an aroused India with support from Great Britain and the US. Pakistan must cast off the corrupt or fanatic elements she harbors now or face crushing defeat later.

Freedom and Submission

The BBC just reported that an Iranian man is to be blinded in accordance with Sharia law. In Minnesota, a disabled student at a community college who required a service dog had to withdraw in fear of his safety and that of his dog after threats from a Muslim student who said according to Islam, canines are unclean. Also in the Land of a Thousand Lakes, foot baths have been constructed for Muslim cabbies at the airport. These cabbies are refusing passengers with alcohol (precisely the type of person who should be riding in a cab rather than risking driving drunk). A Muslim charter school paid for with public funds has religious study which is supposedly not compulsory at the end of the school day but the buses do not load and leave until after the "voluntary" prayer meeting. Harvard has sequestered one of its athletic complexes reserving it at times for Muslim women who say they must be fully veiled and therefore less mobile and able to exercise if men are present. All these accommodations seem to show great tolerance but in fact are victories of a pseudo-religiosity that serves for many of its practitioners as a political and legal system. This theocracy of fatwa and sharia is the least compromising faith entity and I hesitate to use "faith" here, that exists in the modern world. Ahmadinejad is not the highest power in Iran; the Ayatollahs are. Islam as it is practised by both Sunni and Shia adherents is incompatible with the ideals of individual liberty and representative democracy with their Judeo-Christian basis as has prevailed in the West. Certainly, there are individual Muslims who wish to reform their own religion, but they are a threatened minority. Salman Rushdie dared to question some aspects of the rule of his own faith-actually focusing on Pakistan but this so outraged the Iranians that they called for his death. Theo Van Gogh was butchered for questioning the cruelty of Islam. Recent history is replete with examples of Islamic extremism destroying its critics or those of other faiths. The Christian publishing house in Turkey where three were murdered, the Philippines, Thailand, the current barbarism in India. I say no more to the West giving in to Sharia, our liberty, indeed our very lives, depend on stopping the spread of this political philosophy cum religion, this set of laws that proscribe stoning, amputation, blinding, that in practice in Iran hangs homosexuals in the street. Only by saying no now, can we preserve our freedom from Islam whose actual translation means submission. Give them another inch, another Hamtramck with its call to prayer in the heart of Michigan, and you will soon see Madrids and Beslans in many states. We seek to co-exist-they seek to conquer.

Justice Just Miscarried

The jihadi proclaims a quest for justice. The justice delayed is justice denied crowd never met a murderer they did not have sympathy for, and real justice is about as rare as a unicorn. Over the weekend, Iran was reported to have hanged an Israeli spy. They even had a so-called confession video where he admonishes others not to follow his path. His name was Ali Ashtari and he was a Jewish husband and father. Isn't it amazing what torture can cause a person to confess? This happens while Israel continues to pay a real spy-Asmi Bishara, a former Israeli-Arab member of the Knesset from the Balad party who gave state secrets to Hizbullah, his pension. The American left has questioned whether Bush will pardon Cheney. Bush should have his pardon pen in hand alright. He should pardon Agents Ramos and Compean forthwith. He should open the gates for David Olofson-the overused sear pin victim incarcerated for his accidental automatic. Bush freed Scooter Libby which was appropriate as Libby was caught in a process crime trap by an overburdened memory. Bill Clinton on the other hand deliberately lied about a dalliance, but let's move on about that. WCBS reported that the homeless in New York City could not use twenty-two(22) churches for shelter because they were only open to them five days a week. This is murder (vagrants will die of exposure), a violation of the separation of church and state, and the ancient concept of sanctuary. The indispensable man Bloomberg-enemy of trans fat, salt, and tobacco, grants himself a third term against existing term limits and oh so wise New Yorkers say "Save us-Oh mighty Bloomberg." Only a rube or wet behind the ears innocent seeks perfect equity and only God finds it.