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For the most part, it went to hire more administrative staff.

Citation needed on that.

Citation.
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"Cellphone theft is a huge problem here in South Africa" is an understatement. Theft and rape are so common in SA that it's just appalling. Forth percent of women in SA will be raped in their lives, and 1/4 men admit being rapists. I think stolen cell phones are the least of their worries... http://www.frontpagemag.com/20...

You don't get it, do you? It isn't what I believe, it is what they say. Why don't you start educating yourself?

The Future of Terrorism: What al-Qaida Really Wants
Alarm in Spain over al-Qaeda call for its “reconquest”
HAMAS Targets Spain

I can't believe that people are still ignorant of this sort of thing after all this time. It is almost unbelievable.

Al Qaida killed as many people on 11 September 2001 as the Japanese killed on 7 December 1941. The US went to war with both despite the fact that traffic deaths killed more people than enemy attacks in both those years by 10x or more.

Al Qaida has not reached the Gates of Vienna yet, but they aspire to eventually. There is a choice: Fight the fire in the frying pan, wait to fight it until the kitchen burns, or wait to fight it when the house burns. Plenty of people seem to be saying, "Don't fight it at all." That isn't the choice you have unless you are content to consign your children or grandchildren to being slaves.

Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq

Al Qaida and its allies have retaken Fallujah, which was taken by US forces in one of the harder battles in Iraq. They fight to take Syria, Yemen, and other lands. They cast a longing gaze at Spain. In time they think Europe and the world.

Alarm in Spain over al-Qaeda call for its "reconquest"
HAMAS Targets Spain

This is why the "they hate us for our freedoms" tripe seems to actually fly with a lot of those folks. They seem to honestly not know what kind of brutal regimes their government is supporting and arming -- in their name, and on their dime.

The tripe is being served up mainly by people on the Left. The extremist Islamists such as al Qaida directly state that they want to take over the world, convert the population to Islam, and implement Sharia law in every country. They want to take back formerly Muslim lands, such as Spain.

Alarm in Spain over al-Qaeda call for its "reconquest"
HAMAS Targets Spain

They want to remove your freedom of worship or not worship, punishing any belief but Islamic belief to varying degrees. The general Muslim position has historically been that Christians and Jews are "People of the Book," close enough that they can be tolerated in Muslim lands, but heavily taxed to create an incentive towards conversion. Polytheists are a hated enemy to be converted, driven out, or killed. (The current extremists do not even want to make the traditional concession to Christians and Jews.) They want to use their religious law to remove your right to eat, drink, and read what you can now. They want to ban alcohol and pornography, for example. They want to remove freedom of expression and punish blasphemy, actively. They want to unify church and state as is the Islamic custom under the Calphate. They believe the problem their societies face will be solved not by digging more sewers and building more schools, but by chopping off more hands and heads. They want to bring that civilization to you, by force if necessary.

I'm not sure who you could miss that. If you have looked into the question at all you must have seen this. Do you reject it? How do you explain the stated desire to return Spain to Islamic rule by blaming the US? If you have looked into the question of extremist Islam in Europe, you know they have the same goal there for Europe. How do you blame that on the United States?

If you haven't noticed the US gets hated for acting and not acting at the same time. Don't interfere! You didn't interfere!

Of course there is little consistency among the Left on related questions. As a practical example, you can see how this operated in 1991 with Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. There was essentially no protest in Europe's streets when Saddam invaded Kuwait. The protests came when the US worked to remove Saddam's army. Saddams' invasion wasn't treated as imperialism, or aggression, but removing it was.

As to my sig, I wasn't "guiding moderators" but reminding them that we are having a discussion here. That is hard to do if one viewpoint is removed from view simply because it is not your viewpoint. Some moderators took it to heart and the moderation of my posts become somewhat less harsh, although various intolerant ideologues continue to mod bomb me from time to time. Fascism isn't truly dead, merely resting, and some moderators seem to take it as a guiding principle for their use of mod points.

As to my current sig, I suggest you read it again. I am not "threatening" people taking a contrary position to mine but am doing something different. Do you need assistance in parsing it? I realize that English isn't your first language.

The morally bankrupt tactics are on the part of al Qaida and its associates who deliberately slaughter noncombatants by many means. The blinkered views of some in the West are of aid to them.

You are fundamentally confused about the source of the war against al Qaida - it is their decision, they declared war and began attacks killing many people years before the US made a serious response. They want a war of conquest. They want to restore the "glory of Islam" by restoring the Caliphate government that was dissolved in 1924 after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and starting a world-wide conflict to bring all nations to the Muslim faith under Islamic rule. They want to take back lands formerly governed by Muslims, including the country of Spain, and al Qaida is not alone in that goal.

Alarm in Spain over al-Qaeda call for its "reconquest"
HAMAS Targets Spain

Please explain to me how it is the fault of the US that al Qaida and Hamas want to reconquer Spain?

This is about them, not about the US. You are simply mistaken.

You've gone wrong on a couple of points there. First, al Qaida and company do indeed want the entire world under Islamic rule. It is their goal. The Middle East is just closer to it since it has a majority of Muslims, a number of the countries already implement Sharia in some form, even if imperfectly. Indonesia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan are also high on the list. You may have noticed that they are subject to various troubles as well, not to mention India.

The Future of Terrorism: What al-Qaida Really Wants

They plan to take back lands formerly controlled by Muslims. Just one example: Spain

Alarm in Spain over al-Qaeda call for its "reconquest"
HAMAS Targets Spain

As to the US, there is no such thing as "Christian" rule. The US is a secular democracy. It is a nation of primarily Christians (of various flavors and piety) living in a democracy. There is no theocracy, there is no meaningful movement towards theocracy, and it is unclear what one would even look like since there doesn't seem to be a biblical model for it this side of Christ's return. So your post on that is nonsense.

Christian missionaries have been greatly beneficial to many lands. This is only one example.

Matthew Parris: As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God

If you look into the history of the last 100 years, you will see that officially atheist regimes were one of the great scourges of the planet. In their communist form they killed 100,000,000 people and brutalized and oppressed many more.

Jesus lived his life as an observant Jew, is recorded to have fulfilled many prophecies associated with being the Messiah, and made statements declaring himself to be God. Many of his followers preferred to die painful deaths rather than denounce him.

Ah but it is a police state, just not one in which you're likely to be dragged from your bed in the middle of the night.

How about the summary IRS audits http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/cancer-patient-who-spoke-out-against-obamacare-now-being-audited/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/15/exclusive-prominent-catholic-prof-claims-irs-audited-her-after-speaking-out-against-obama-and-demanded-to-know-who-was-paying-her/

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/02/dr_ben_carson_irs_targeted_me_after_i_spoke_out_against_obama.html

You can of course argue that the audits were scheduled anyways, but you will probably dismiss it. http://godfatherpolitics.com/13418/obama-orders-irs-shutdown-non-profits-speak/

Obvious troll is obvious.

Quite. Show me a Christian minister supporting child marriage and I will show you:

• Clerics at 18 mosques are caught agreeing to marry off girls of 14
• New Saudi Fatwa Defends Pedophilia as ‘Marriage’
• Nigeria: Senate Denies Child Marriage Wrongdoing, Says Law May Be Revisited (age limits to marriage deemed un-islamic)

• http://majorityrights.com/weblog/comments/muslim_rape_wave_in_sweden/
• http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/swedish-city-overrun-by-muslim-crime-turns-to-superhero/
• http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/muslims-burn-down-church-in-storholmsjo-in-karlskrona-sweden
• http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/sweden-muslims-admit-deliberate-hate-crimes-against-swedes-government-is-proposed-to-reward-them-with-jobs/
• http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/09/08/open-letter-from-a-swedish-woman-about-the-scourge-of-muslim-immigration-and-multiculturalism/
• http://islamversuseurope.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/hate-crimes-against-jews-in-muslim.html

Nothing changes his past, and he continues in his ways with new offenses.

Chomsky's Genocidal Denial

" Key members of the U.S. House of Representatives are seeking to require the National Science Foundation (NSF) to justify every grant it awards as being in the 'national interest.' "

Although I agree that the Republican proposal is asininely stupid, I really can't blame them, because they are reacting against Obama --- such as the equally insanely asinine order from Obama to Nasa to make the Muslims to " feel good ".

Before you guys accuse me of Islamophobic, I do provide proofs with links below ---

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7875584/Barack-Obama-Nasa-must-try-to-make-Muslims-feel-good.html

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obamas-muslim-self-esteem-nasa-in-complete-disarray/

http://www.space.com/8725-nasa-chief-bolden-muslim-remark-al-jazeera-stir.html

Is that you, Cindy Sheehan? I miss the faux funerals you held in front of the Bush 43's ranch everyday with every single new agency staging the event.

here's another one

An actual candidate for political power in your country. The politest thing that can be said about that woman was "boastful ignoramus", and your lot chose her, put her within reach of serious decision making. Such a close call for your country. Your hagiography of Reagan led your GOP drones to think that intelligence is a fault.

And you nearly elected a former beauty contestant and religious zealot to be leader-in-waiting.

It would have been the biggest incentive ever for cancer research though wouldn't it? All the money in the world would have been spent on stopping McCain getting ill, would have been twice as important as the Manhattan project and Apollo put together.

Here's one from another pretty lady.

Actually, it is the Muslim Brotherhood who are infiltrating. They already dictate what can and can't be said in FBI/CIA/DoD and all US Government training manuals - since the US doesn't want to cause "offense" to people whose stated goal to destroy the US using its "own miserable hand" (yeah, madness to let the enemies of liberty dictate your training!). Furthermore, the Muslim Brotherhood doesn't need to infiltrate the security agencies, since it is already setting policy in the White House:
Citattions:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates (reporting from an *Egyptian* source)
Huma Abedin is a Muslim Brotherhood "princess" and Hilliary Clinton's closest advisor
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/more-secrets-from-huma-abedin/
http://culturaljihad.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/strange-bedfellows-white-house-and-muslim-brotherhood/

Ever wonder why the US acted as the "Al Qaeda Air Force" in Libya, and is about to do the same in Syria? It's because of the "Red/Green Alliance". The alliance between the International Socialists (including the US Democrat Party) and the Muslim Brotherhood/Islamists (note: Hamas and Al Qaeda are descendent organizations of the Muslim Brotherhood).

It is not "paranoia" if they really are out to get you. It is not paranoia if the policy of the US has been consistent in supporting the Muslim Brotherhood at the expense of popular secular democratic uprisings (think the Iranian "Green Revolution" in 2009 where Obama held off commenting until it was crushed; and now the White House and Ambassador Patterson are actively trying to get the Muslim Brotherhood re-instated in Egypt against the popular will).

This is *on topic* as it is describing the general background setting in Snowden's comments about arttempted CIA penetration is being made. I can supply any references you need for any of my statements. I also think people who are concerned about infiltration of the CIA etc should realise they have already been neutered by political correctness. Stephen Coughlin and the Center for Security Policy have several excellent videos where they show the difference in words used between the 9/11 Commission Report and the report into the Fort Hood shooting by Major Nadal Hussein (who is a self-declared jihadi but everyone keeps calling "workplace violence" in the worst outbreak of Marxist Political Correct self-delusion in recent memory).

All the WMD went through the port of Rotterdam as scrap just ahead of or concurrent with the invasion.
Saddam didn't want to get caught with them.

http://archives.hawaiireporter.com/iraqi-wmd-components-found-in-rotterdam-scrapyard/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jun/10/20040610-103512-5542r/
http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/000080.html
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=3857

The reports weren't wrong, the invasion was just too slow. Your mainstream press at work again ignoring the facts so they wouldn't have to retrace their Bush Lied campaign in the middle of an election.

The Future of Terrorism: What al-Qaida Really Wants

Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'

Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?

(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam. ...

(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.

(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.

We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which you have become caught up in; that you may be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great nation, that your leaders spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable state to which you have reached.

(b) It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind:

(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator....

HAMAS Targets Spain

Bonus:
UK: Muslim Gangs Enforce Sharia Law in London
AU: Muslim body wants 'moderate' sharia law but government rejects plan
SE: 'Separate laws for Muslims' idea slammed

The intelligence failure are not about not having sufficient technology. It is a failure of will. There is an ideology that has driven over 21500 fatal attacks around the globe and is tearing up the Middle East (citation: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/). Yet, the US Government has *banned* any mention of that ideology and association of it with the terrorism it so clearly spawns (citation: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/robert-spencer/obama-adminstration-bans-the-truth-about-islam-and-jihad/). The FBI, CIA, DoD, NSA are all *prohibited* from mentioning certain words to do with this ideology due to Government policy (where the Government has been infiltrated by the very organizations that promote such terrorism) [citation: http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates%5D

The Orwellian nature of this ideology and its political associates has gotten so bad that I cannot even say its name on Slashdot - because to mention that ideology invites a flurry of downmods. No matter how many citations or indisputable facts one provides.

That is why the NSA will fail to provide timely information. Friendly countries can provide all the tips in the world (as the Russians did a number of times with the Boston Bombers: citation http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/russia-repeatedly-warned-us-about-muslim-boston-bomber/) by the US intelligence agencies will discard this information. This represents a failure of will on the part of the US intelligence services (driven by their political masters).

ps. this is *on topic*, so p!ss off with your downmods (those that suppport terrorism).

The intelligence failure are not about not having sufficient technology. It is a failure of will. There is an ideology that has driven over 21500 fatal attacks around the globe and is tearing up the Middle East (citation: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/). Yet, the US Government has *banned* any mention of that ideology and association of it with the terrorism it so clearly spawns (citation: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/robert-spencer/obama-adminstration-bans-the-truth-about-islam-and-jihad/). The FBI, CIA, DoD, NSA are all *prohibited* from mentioning certain words to do with this ideology due to Government policy (where the Government has been infiltrated by the very organizations that promote such terrorism) [citation: http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates%5D

The Orwellian nature of this ideology and its political associates has gotten so bad that I cannot even say its name on Slashdot - because to mention that ideology invites a flurry of downmods. No matter how many citations or indisputable facts one provides.

That is why the NSA will fail to provide timely information. Friendly countries can provide all the tips in the world (as the Russians did a number of times with the Boston Bombers: citation http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/russia-repeatedly-warned-us-about-muslim-boston-bomber/) by the US intelligence agencies will discard this information. This represents a failure of will on the part of the US intelligence services (driven by their political masters).

ps. this is *on topic*, so p!ss off with your downmods (those that suppport terrorism).

Don't forget:

* The Obama Administration, no doubt with an eye to the 2014 elections, has announced that certain parts of the Affordable Care Act (a/k/a Obamacare) will simply be postponed until after the election. Nothing in the ACA gives this power to the Executive branch.

* President Obama attempted to make "bench" appointments when Congress was still in session. Months later, this one got shot down in the courts.

* The IRS went after political enemies of the Administration. There may or may not have been direct orders from President Obama. (I am not ruling out something along the lines of "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" instead of direct orders.) Not only is selective enforcement of the law illegal, but the IRS released confidential details of some conservative organizations to those organizations' political enemies, which is absolutely illegal with no possible wiggle room.

* Eric Holder's Department of Justice has a history of flouting the law.

I read an article that observed that one of the traditional checks on the power of government is the worry that, when the pendulum shifts and the other party is in power, that the other party might start taking advantage of any precedents you set. The article speculated that the Obama Administration isn't worried about this, as the mainstream media is solidly in Obama's pocket and yet implacably opposed to the Republicans. This leaves the Obama Administration free to do things that would get any Republican a firestorm of horrible publicity.

Fans of Bill Clinton, after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, used to chant "Bush Lied, People Died. Clinton Lied, Nobody Died." Remember that nobody died in the Watergate scandal, and think very hard about the Benghazi scandal. But the mainstream media isn't interested in Benghazi or any of the other scandals, any more than they have to be.

I'm not sure why I bothered to write this as somebody will mod it down to -1 really fast, rather than writing a rebuttal.

So much that could be said.

An end to slavery

Two hundred years ago, in 1807, Parliament abolished slavery in Britain. In 1833, all slaves in the British Empire were set free. It took a civil war, Abraham Lincoln and the 13th Amendment, passed in 1865, to end slavery in America.

Even though the British have been commemorating this auspicious occasion, there's little remembrance of it in the places where African slaves came from: Sierra Leone, Senegal, Gambia, etc. Sadly, the African tribal enmities that made the slave trade possible have not disappeared. The tribes' children, sold to the British, Americans and Portuguese slavers, are not commemorated in the lands where they were seized and forced into bondage.

Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888 and a little later in other South American countries. But more than a century later, blacks still live in slave-like conditions all across South America or - at best - as second-class citizens. ...

When slavery is mentioned, our minds gravitate to Europe and America. But I must also mention the enslavement of black Africans by Arabs. Arabs have bought and sold blacks for a thousand years; and even though Saudi Arabia abolished slavery in 1962, in reality, blacks are still traded and treated as chattel in most Arab countries, even at this late date in human history. There seems to be no international will to confront this Arab trade in human beings.

Saudi Offers “Castrated African Slave” for Sale on Facebook

Men should have sex slaves, says female Kuwaiti politician

There is your mistake - giving credence to Chomsky.

The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky - September 26, 2001

WITHOUT QUESTION, the most devious, the most dishonest and -- in this hour of his nation’s grave crisis – the most treacherous intellect in America belongs to MIT professor Noam Chomsky. On the 150 campuses that have mounted "teach-ins" and rallies against America’s right to defend herself; on the streets of Genoa and Seattle where "anti-globalist" anarchists have attacked the symbols of markets and world trade; among the demonstrators at Vieques who wish to deny our military its training grounds; and wherever young people manifest an otherwise incomprehensible rage against their country, the inspirer of their loathing and the instructor of their hate is most likely this man.

There are many who ask how it is possible that our most privileged and educated youth should come to despise their own nation – a free, open, democratic society – and to do so with such ferocious passion. They ask how it is possible for American youth to even consider lending comfort and aid to the Osama bin Ladens and the Saddam Husseins (and the Communists before them). A full answer would involve a search of the deep structures of the human psyche, and its irrepressible longings for a redemptive illusion. But the short answer is to be found in the speeches and writings of an embittered academic and his intellectual supporters.

For forty years, Noam Chomsky has turned out book after book, pamphlet after pamphlet and speech after speech with one message, and one message alone: America is the Great Satan; it is the fount of evil in the world. In Chomsky’s demented universe, America is responsible not only for its own bad deeds, but for the bad deeds of others, including those of the terrorists who struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In this attitude he is the medium for all those who now search the ruins of Manhattan not for the victims and the American dead, but for the "root causes" of the catastrophe that befell them. -- more

Refuting Chomsky

In Chomsky’s telling, the bipolar world of the Cold War is viewed as though there were only one pole. In the real world, the Cold War was about America’s effort to organize a democratic coalition against an expansionist empire that conquered and enslaved more than a billion people. It ended when the empire gave up and the walls that kept its subjects locked in came tumbling down. In Chomsky’s world, the Soviet empire hardly exists, not a single American action is seen as a response to a Soviet initiative, and the Cold War is “analyzed” as though it had only one side.

This is like writing a history of the Second World War without mentioning Hitler or noticing that the actions of the Axis powers influenced its events. But in Chomsky’s malevolent hands, matters get even worse. If one were to follow the Chomsky method, for example, one would list every problematic act committed by any part or element in the vast coalition attempting to stop Hitler, and would attribute them all to a calculating policy of the United States. One would then provide a report card of these “crimes” as the historical record itself. The list of crimes — the worst acts of which the Allies could be accused and the most dishonorable motives they may be said to have acted upon — would then become the database from which America’s portrait would be drawn. The result inevitably would be the Great Satan of Chomsky’s deranged fantasy life. ...more

The Soviet Story (2008)

There is your mistake - giving credence to Chomsky.

The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky - September 26, 2001

WITHOUT QUESTION, the most devious, the most dishonest and -- in this hour of his nation’s grave crisis – the most treacherous intellect in America belongs to MIT professor Noam Chomsky. On the 150 campuses that have mounted "teach-ins" and rallies against America’s right to defend herself; on the streets of Genoa and Seattle where "anti-globalist" anarchists have attacked the symbols of markets and world trade; among the demonstrators at Vieques who wish to deny our military its training grounds; and wherever young people manifest an otherwise incomprehensible rage against their country, the inspirer of their loathing and the instructor of their hate is most likely this man.

There are many who ask how it is possible that our most privileged and educated youth should come to despise their own nation – a free, open, democratic society – and to do so with such ferocious passion. They ask how it is possible for American youth to even consider lending comfort and aid to the Osama bin Ladens and the Saddam Husseins (and the Communists before them). A full answer would involve a search of the deep structures of the human psyche, and its irrepressible longings for a redemptive illusion. But the short answer is to be found in the speeches and writings of an embittered academic and his intellectual supporters.

For forty years, Noam Chomsky has turned out book after book, pamphlet after pamphlet and speech after speech with one message, and one message alone: America is the Great Satan; it is the fount of evil in the world. In Chomsky’s demented universe, America is responsible not only for its own bad deeds, but for the bad deeds of others, including those of the terrorists who struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In this attitude he is the medium for all those who now search the ruins of Manhattan not for the victims and the American dead, but for the "root causes" of the catastrophe that befell them. -- more

Refuting Chomsky

In Chomsky’s telling, the bipolar world of the Cold War is viewed as though there were only one pole. In the real world, the Cold War was about America’s effort to organize a democratic coalition against an expansionist empire that conquered and enslaved more than a billion people. It ended when the empire gave up and the walls that kept its subjects locked in came tumbling down. In Chomsky’s world, the Soviet empire hardly exists, not a single American action is seen as a response to a Soviet initiative, and the Cold War is “analyzed” as though it had only one side.

This is like writing a history of the Second World War without mentioning Hitler or noticing that the actions of the Axis powers influenced its events. But in Chomsky’s malevolent hands, matters get even worse. If one were to follow the Chomsky method, for example, one would list every problematic act committed by any part or element in the vast coalition attempting to stop Hitler, and would attribute them all to a calculating policy of the United States. One would then provide a report card of these “crimes” as the historical record itself. The list of crimes — the worst acts of which the Allies could be accused and the most dishonorable motives they may be said to have acted upon — would then become the database from which America’s portrait would be drawn. The result inevitably would be the Great Satan of Chomsky’s deranged fantasy life. ...more

The Soviet Story (2008)

Furthermore, the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has a *significant* impact in the progress of their 'Cultural Jihad' that is sweeping across America as we speak (where they do a Jedi mind trick on the weak minded to lower resistance to Islamicization and Cultural Marxism):
http://www.muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/

ps. Obama and the Leftists Democratic leadership clearly have a marriage of convenience with the Muslim Brotherhood to break down the traditional (that is, 'classical liberal'/conservative/libertarian) position of American society. The fall of Morsi in Egypt is a great day for the Free World - even if most people don't know it or understand what is really going on (because many politicians and most media are keeping the truth from them):
http://frontpagemag.com/

You do realize that Bill Clinton initiated several wars that killed thousands of innocent Serbs - to deflect attention from his peccadillos. Even if you agree that NATO should have intervened in Bosnia then you need to consider Kosovo as a separate case. In Kosovo Bill Clinton effectively helped the Islamicist Albanians ethniclly cleanse Serbians from Serbian territory. Please go and do the research. You won't hear the facts from the mainstream media as they are lying to you. Which is why you think Bill and Hilliary Clinton are great - when in fact they are terrible once you get past their veil of lies. GW Bush may have had plenty of faults (eg. not bright) but he didn't lie like the Clinton's did - think about it, despite all the pressure to find WMDs in Iraq (which had been moved to Syria by that time) or fake their presence he had to concede they weren't there. Which meant he didn't lie when he said he thought they were there, and he didn't lie when they weren't found. All of Bill and Hilliary Clinton and Obama are pathological liars. The reason you can't see this is because the veil of lies that the mainstream media put up - they have you in the Matrix. It's up to discover the truth about the International Leftist agenda (eg. using Islamic immigration and the Muslim Brotherhood against its foes), if you want:
http://frontpagemag.com/
http://www.breitbart.com/

How much torture goes on at Guantanamo again? Before you reply, please read the following to get some perspective (you are too credulous about the claims of the jihadis - which all jihadis are trained to make as suckers always fall for their taqiyya without questioning):
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/gitmo-terrorists-got-fat-then-got-gym-equipment-then-got-equipment-replaced-because-it-wasnt-made-by-muslims/
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-w-dowd/obamas-renewed-war-on-guantanamo/ [mentions the lies jihadis are trained to make. with reference]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/theodore-shoebat/human-sacrifice-public-executions-and-mob-rule-in-the-middle-east/ [these are the people Obama is arming!]

The political Left, their Islamist allies and the mainstream media are all lying to you. They construct a matrix hoping you will never learn the truth and see the walls they are building for you. I suggest you read the following two sites every day for a week if you want to get a glimpse past the matrix. Then come back to me after a week and tell me I have it all wrong:
http://frontpagemag.com/
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

The question you should be asking yourself is why do your news sources and politicians tell you these facts? why is the US always demonized as a torturer and the Muslims as victims, yet the daily slaughter of innocents and Muslims of other sects by jihadis swept under the carpet? The reason is that the Left want to destroy the West and remake it into their Socialist utopia (eg. just like the Soviet Union, shudder). So please get clued up on how you are being manipulated, man.

How much torture goes on at Guantanamo again? Before you reply, please read the following to get some perspective (you are too credulous about the claims of the jihadis - which all jihadis are trained to make as suckers always fall for their taqiyya without questioning):
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/gitmo-terrorists-got-fat-then-got-gym-equipment-then-got-equipment-replaced-because-it-wasnt-made-by-muslims/
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-w-dowd/obamas-renewed-war-on-guantanamo/ [mentions the lies jihadis are trained to make. with reference]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/theodore-shoebat/human-sacrifice-public-executions-and-mob-rule-in-the-middle-east/ [these are the people Obama is arming!]

The political Left, their Islamist allies and the mainstream media are all lying to you. They construct a matrix hoping you will never learn the truth and see the walls they are building for you. I suggest you read the following two sites every day for a week if you want to get a glimpse past the matrix. Then come back to me after a week and tell me I have it all wrong:
http://frontpagemag.com/
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

The question you should be asking yourself is why do your news sources and politicians tell you these facts? why is the US always demonized as a torturer and the Muslims as victims, yet the daily slaughter of innocents and Muslims of other sects by jihadis swept under the carpet? The reason is that the Left want to destroy the West and remake it into their Socialist utopia (eg. just like the Soviet Union, shudder). So please get clued up on how you are being manipulated, man.

How much torture goes on at Guantanamo again? Before you reply, please read the following to get some perspective (you are too credulous about the claims of the jihadis - which all jihadis are trained to make as suckers always fall for their taqiyya without questioning):
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/gitmo-terrorists-got-fat-then-got-gym-equipment-then-got-equipment-replaced-because-it-wasnt-made-by-muslims/
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-w-dowd/obamas-renewed-war-on-guantanamo/ [mentions the lies jihadis are trained to make. with reference]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/theodore-shoebat/human-sacrifice-public-executions-and-mob-rule-in-the-middle-east/ [these are the people Obama is arming!]

The political Left, their Islamist allies and the mainstream media are all lying to you. They construct a matrix hoping you will never learn the truth and see the walls they are building for you. I suggest you read the following two sites every day for a week if you want to get a glimpse past the matrix. Then come back to me after a week and tell me I have it all wrong:
http://frontpagemag.com/
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

The question you should be asking yourself is why do your news sources and politicians tell you these facts? why is the US always demonized as a torturer and the Muslims as victims, yet the daily slaughter of innocents and Muslims of other sects by jihadis swept under the carpet? The reason is that the Left want to destroy the West and remake it into their Socialist utopia (eg. just like the Soviet Union, shudder). So please get clued up on how you are being manipulated, man.

How much torture goes on at Guantanamo again? Before you reply, please read the following to get some perspective (you are too credulous about the claims of the jihadis - which all jihadis are trained to make as suckers always fall for their taqiyya without questioning):
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/gitmo-terrorists-got-fat-then-got-gym-equipment-then-got-equipment-replaced-because-it-wasnt-made-by-muslims/
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-w-dowd/obamas-renewed-war-on-guantanamo/ [mentions the lies jihadis are trained to make. with reference]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/theodore-shoebat/human-sacrifice-public-executions-and-mob-rule-in-the-middle-east/ [these are the people Obama is arming!]

The political Left, their Islamist allies and the mainstream media are all lying to you. They construct a matrix hoping you will never learn the truth and see the walls they are building for you. I suggest you read the following two sites every day for a week if you want to get a glimpse past the matrix. Then come back to me after a week and tell me I have it all wrong:
http://frontpagemag.com/
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

The question you should be asking yourself is why do your news sources and politicians tell you these facts? why is the US always demonized as a torturer and the Muslims as victims, yet the daily slaughter of innocents and Muslims of other sects by jihadis swept under the carpet? The reason is that the Left want to destroy the West and remake it into their Socialist utopia (eg. just like the Soviet Union, shudder). So please get clued up on how you are being manipulated, man.

Actually, NZ does (offshore). [I'm another NZer]

However, Uncle Sam doesn't need our oil. It didn't need Iraq's and didn't get much of Iraq's either. With the hasty pull-out of Iraq after the US won (without staying to stabilize like it did in Germany, Korea or Japan) then other countries like China got the oil (not that I have much of a problem with the oil; it is pulling out and allowing Iran to dominate Iraq that was utterly senseless). Here's a reference for you:
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/the-war-for-oil-myth/ "The War for Oil Myth"

So you might want to check your meme dude - it was false a decade ago and is false now. It was promoted by the anti-war outfits of the political Left (who condemn the US as immoral if they intervene; and condemn the US as immoral if they do not intervene). So please be aware of how your natural repulsion to the carnage of war is being manipulated for the political advancement of the Left.

The US and Canda have heaps of recoverable oil these days (thanks to advanced in oil extraction technology, fracking, the Keystone project etc). In fact, by 2017 the US is projected to be the World's top oil producer. Here's a reference for you:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/12/us-iea-oil-report-idUSBRE8AB0IQ20121112

Of course, the political Left will continue to chant "No blood for oil" for a long time. They deal with feelings and concepts, not with facts (usually if an open-minded liberal is exposed to facts for actually does research you find they become "conservative" in outlook and are quickly shunned by the fact-lite "fellow travellers" they left behind).

Cheers, man - my pleasure to help another Constitutionalist getting the truth out (even though I'm from New Zealand, I believe in the US Consitution and Bill of Rights as worthy evolutions of the Magna Carta, which our laws derive from a long time ago). Some sites you might consider adding to your daily reading list that have lots of information about the international Left (Cultural Marxists) and their Islamist allies:
http://frontpagemag.com/ Show what the Obama Regime is up to
http://frontpagemag.com/
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks
http://www.newsmax.com/
http://www.breitbart.com/

Liberty for everyone, everywhere - forever!

Cheers, man - my pleasure to help another Constitutionalist getting the truth out (even though I'm from New Zealand, I believe in the US Consitution and Bill of Rights as worthy evolutions of the Magna Carta, which our laws derive from a long time ago). Some sites you might consider adding to your daily reading list that have lots of information about the international Left (Cultural Marxists) and their Islamist allies:
http://frontpagemag.com/ Show what the Obama Regime is up to
http://frontpagemag.com/
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks
http://www.newsmax.com/
http://www.breitbart.com/

Liberty for everyone, everywhere - forever!

So basically, your theory is that religious fanatics trying to set up a theocracy have allied with the hardcore supporters of an explicitly atheistic ideology that thinks religion is a drug?

Yes. It should not be that bizarre if you know any history - the officially atheist Soviet Union armed many Islamic regimes (and the supposedly Christian US is now doing the same). You see the West is too strong to be taken down by either the hard-Left or Islam alone, but they are currently in a "marriage of convenience" to achieve this. This follows the model in the UN, where the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) and leftist "Non-Aligned Nations" vote as blocs to achieve their aims. This has been going on since 1975 in the UN General Assembly, and has taken over various UN agencies like the Refugee Agency and Human Rights Council. Here's a short video describing how this works (from an Israeli perspective, since the OIC wants to destroy them, as commanded in Islamic hadith Sahih Muslim 6985):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Mupoo1At8

The webzine "Front Page Mag" is run by an ex-Leftist called David Horowitz. He understands the goals of the Left, and how they make common cause with Islamists to overthrow traditional society. They think by destroying everything they can re-make society the way they want to. This "Hope and Change" is not going to be good except for a few.
http://frontpagemag.com/

The only reason you think a union of the Left and Islam is bizarre is because you have forgotten the history from only a few decades ago. Like I said, the Soviet Union was very very happy to work with Islamist regimes if it harmed the West. The same is going on today (between the Leftists/Cultural Marxists in universities and spread to governments) and the evil Islamists.

Didn't they have the right paperwork? Forgot to get their forms signed by the right people? Or just weren't ready to stand out in the open and be simply blown away by a military that is 100% better equipped than all the other militaries in the world, combined?

No, one of the primary reasons is because they deliberately target civilians as a primary focus for their attacks. That isn't mistakenly, accidently, or "we meant to shoot somebody else," but rather in a deliberate, calculated manner. They send truck bombs into village market places to kill villagers buying food, for instance. That is unlawful. That sort of thing is part of what caused the SS to be condemned as a whole at Nuremberg. They regularly behead prisoners. That is unlawful. They hang 7 year old kids as spies, and attack school children for the high crime of going to school. They mine the trails that pass for roads in many poor countries, regularly killing civilians unlucky enough to pass by. They also regularly violate article 13 of Geneva I. That is just off the top of my head. There are probably others as well. So no, it isn't about paperwork or forms.

It doesn't matter how strong you are, or how weak you are, what they do habitually is forbidden by treaty, and they don't care. They fight by their own rules as Jihadis. Look, they even want to bring back slavery, including making westerners sex slaves. Do you think you can get behind opposing that? Or would that be an excursion into the banal?

Phrases like 'unlawful combatant' are the true banality of evil.

Not as applied, no. The reason it seems like it is that you over look the banality of ignorance, with the occasional sortie into nonsense.

"His brilliant but hot wife ..."

You do realise that Huma Abedin is an agent of the Muslim Brotherhood, don't you? eg. see
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/more-secrets-from-huma-abedin/

Now perhaps I'm projecting things too far, but perhaps one of the factors of Huma Abedin marrying Wiener is that he is the perfect cover. Who would suspect her of being a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate when she marries a Jew? They will quickly overlook the fact that her mother, father and brother were *very* active in the Brotherhood, and she also edited a Brotherhood associated magazine for 12 years. Perhaps if the marriage is partially for cover then she wouldn't fulfil matrimonial duties, which leads Wiener to go on his insane twitter rampage. Yes, I could well and probably am wrong about this, but you have to admit it is a possibility. Yes?

Whether Abedin is a Muslim Brotherhood agent or not (although looking at the circumstantial evidence, you'll really have to have an agenda to deny it as most probably true) it is clear that she worms her way into positions of influence - first as chief aide of the incompetant Hiliary Clinton, and now urging here husband to go for control over New York. It is no crime to be ambitious, and Abedin is not alone in this. However, if you research her you will see she has been consulting to external countries while working for the State Department. Something is very, very fishy here. I don't ask you to believe me - just do a basic Google on Huma Abedin and her background.

Dude, consider that this guy has been described by Alan Dershowitz as "Off the charts smart" in comparison to his other Havard peers. Since Cruz is so smart, then how come he makes statements you find that make him sound like a "whack job"? think about it for a bit, please. It turns out that Cruz is telling the truth but the disinformation from the mainstream media is so pervasive that a normal individual like yourself is convinced that those who tell verifiable truth are insane. Rather than suck up more Cultural Marxism (look on YouTube for this term) from the mainstream media perhaps you could instead look at alternative sources like http://frontpagemag.com/ and http://www.breitbart.com/. Please read the articles there every day for a week (at first you'll think its all whacko, but after a few days you will see that they report the truth, admittedly with some right bias, but are far more truthful than the mainstream media). Then you will understand that Cruz is a truth-teller, it is just that you happen to be the Cultural Marxist "Matrix" - so can see the transparent prison walls that are caging your mind. Good luck finding the truth and dispensing with the lies that the Obama Regime and the complicit media are deceiving you with.

You really have no idea how badly you're being played. Please go to youtube and search for Pallywood. Also check out this article. The people of Gaza and the West Bank are being used as tools in an ongoing propaganda campaign aimed at turning public opinion worldwide against Israel. They fire rockets at Israel from locations that put their own innocent civilians in harms' way. The goal is to entice Israel into returning fire, and in doing so killing the innocent women and children nearby. Why is it that the palestinian refugees living in squalor across the border in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria are completely ignored? Israel actually provides humanitarian aid to the West Bank and Gaza, providing food and basic necessities. In fact, Israel regularly brings refugees from these two regions into Israel for medical treatment. This does not happen in the other refugee camps controlled by Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. Where is the outcry when Syria drops bombs from a jet indiscriminately on the palestinian refugee camp inside it's border? Israel has agreed to numerous peace deals brokered by various world leaders. It is always the Palestinian leadership that fails to agree. And so they continue to launch rockets at Israel, and they continue to wage a war of propaganda.

Something to keep in mind about Greenwald is that the man is a fringe leftist, and in essence anti-American. As such he is prone to get some things simply wrong, at least in interpretation if not in fact. I would be wary of putting too much stock in him. You might want to read material from some other perspectives.

Glenn Greenwald and the Pro-Al Qaeda Lobby

Look, it's strictly business. Make peace more profitable than war, and there will be peace.

Nope. Syria has spiraled into an Islamic sectarian conflict. The Shia Iranians are backing their man (Assad, who is secular) against a coalition of Sunni Muslim nations (Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Al Qaeda in Syria "Al Nusra", and the US Obama Administration who is pro-Sunni for the reasons outlined here: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/).

The "military industrial complex" meme you trot out without doing any analysis of what is really going on in Syria is a typical move by those on the political far Left (who want to dismantle capitalism). Stop parroting nonsense and look at the facts on the ground and Syria and the reasons why each side is fighting *in their own words*. By deflecting a true assessment of what is going on in Syria you inadvertently support Al Qaeda/Al Nusra. Stop it please.

Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood are aligned. Turkey would very very much like for the US to intervene on the Turkish side (Turkey, the African Muslim Brotherhood nations like Egypt Libya etc, and the Syrian Al Qaeda called "Al Nusra"). So there is a possibility that this could be a "false flag" operation - in the same way that Al Nusra used chemical weapons on its own civilians in the last fortnight and accused Assad of doing this (hoping the US would leap in an help Al Qeada out, again).

In fact, The Muslim Brotherhood have cleverly worked out that they can use the power of the US to further their agenda as long as they claim to be moderate. See:
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/05/the-united-states-has-become-a-tool-of-muslim-brotherhood-expansionism.html

The Muslim Brotherhood is very very smart/cunning. After seeing NATO intervene on the side of the Bosian Muslims and Albanian Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo respectively the MB realised it could manipulate the US into doing its dirty work. That is exactly what is happening, and the US goes along with this because it believes the MB is a counter to Al Qaeda. Of course, the Muslim Brotherhood is merely the "good cop" role while Al Qaeda plays "bad cop"- their methods differ (non-violence versus violence) but their goals are completely aligned: all nations subjected to the Muslim political order under Sharia.

The US should let Assad crush the rebels (yes, this is bad, because Iran is involved, but it is far far better than letting the Muslim Brotherhood get another country for their restored Caliphate plan).

You say this but meanwhile in other countries teens are being shaken down by cops to make sure they aren't carrying screwdrivers and people talk about making kitchen knives that cannot be used to stab someone and do it with a straight face.

http://www.dailybulldog.com/db/features/man-arrested-following-screwdriver-stabbing/
http://www.insight-security.com/facts-knife-crime-stats.htm
http://allamericanblogger.com/13474/in-london-its-illegal-to-carry-a-screwdriver-without-a-good-reason-by-the-way-knife-crime-is-skyrocketing/

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/british-doctors-call-for-ban-on-long-kitchen-knives-to-end-stabbings/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1192969/Pointless-The-new-kitchen-knife-chops-wont-stab.html

What's next, bats that can't be used to clobber someone? You call US nuts?! If people want to hurt one another they will find a way....

P.S. OMG they actually made such a knife! Sure hope no one decides to slash someone with it - then what?

One thing you can say about the Egyptians and their pyramids, despite no one practicing their religion (in numbers): despite Cairo being 9:1 Muslim:Coptic Christian, no one will ever forget the people who built them. As long as humans exist on this earth anyway.

You may be interested to note that the Salafis released after the fall of Mubarak (thanks to the clueless Obama pulling the rug out from under him and unleashing the Islamists across the region) wish to destroy the 'pagan' Pyramids and Sphinx just as they blew up the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan and destroyed the medieval mosque in Timbuktu, Mali in the last year. Now not every Egyptian feel this way, but these guys are "on a mission from Allah" and feel they are commanded to destroy all non-Muslim cultural artifacts. As time goes one expect the Salafis to win additional power over more moderate Islamicists (just as in any organisation those who can claim to be 'holier than thou' can marginalise moderate voices, leading to the organization becoming more and more extreme over time).

Mandatory citations of the proposed madness:
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/12/249092.html
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/muslim-brotherhood-destroy-the-pyramids/
Here's a claim made nearly half a year later, showing that the call for destruction was not an isolated incident or single imam, but an intended goal of the Salafis and Muslim Brotherhood once they are in a position to do so:
http://au.christiantoday.com/article/muslim-brotherhood-backed-egyptian-president-renews-call-for-destruction-of-pyramids-and-sphinx/14432.htm

Now here is the apologies for the Islamicists from a left-leaning media source (typical, the leftist media in the US loves Islam and make excuses every way they can). It claims that the calls for destruction of the pyramids were a 'hoax' yet then goes on to say the claims were 'fringe'. That means the claims were *real* (not a hoax as the apologist makes out) but still on the fringe. The pyramids are safe, for now, but expect as Egypt becomes more and more extreme. This is also the plan of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis to impose more and more Sharia on Egypt progressively [incidentally, what they are trying to do through 'Cultural Jihad' through the OIC-dominated UN is similar, but on a much longer timescale so ordinary joes won't notice the installation of special rights for Muslims and limits being placed on Free Speech for non-Muslims; all in accordance with Sharia and enacted through "political correctness"].
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-24/blow-up-the-pyramids-u-s-pundits-fall-for-a-hoax.html

The Islamicists aim to take over the World (as the Qur'an commands them to). If they are prepared to rob other cultures of irreplaceable antiquities just how much less do they value your human rights or even your life. Islam must be stopped by all Free People (regardless of our differences in political leanings or beliefs in the best economic system). If we don't unite to stop Islam our culture will be destroyed and forgotten, just as the former cultures of the Middle East have been (eg. Roman/Byzantine culture that lasted around 2500 years; the Persians with a similar heritage; the Graeco-Egyptian culture in Egypt; etc). Israel is first on the chopping block and then the West is next (as the Muslims say to themselves, "First the Saturday people and then the Sunday people" [the planned order of conquest and subjgation]).

Most people simply aren't aware just how barbaric Islam is. No wonder, the Lefti

James vonn Brunn: FrontPage Magazine has a rundown, although perhaps slanted. From his own words, he was anti-capitalist and pro socialism, but I'd accept an argument the was more plain crazy than left wing. Here are some addtional examples of people initially speculated to be right wing that weren't. Out of the 8 examples, 5 were arguably left wing. From your examples, white supremacism doesn't really fit cleanly on a left/right axis, and really, left/right is inadequate but I was responding to someone using that axis. Anti-abortion is usually right wing, but not always.

Because in those instances we're tying one nutjob murderer to larger groups that he is not a representative member of. So why do you make that same mistake with muslims,

Who are you to say it is a mistake with Muslims? The Koran tells Muslims to go to war against nonbelievers. Mecca is occupied by the house of Saud which indoctrinates hajj attendees with the Wahhabi doctrine that Muslims are the supreme people who must follow God's command to destroy everyone else. The bestselling book of the 20th century was Sayyid Qutb's Milestones, which argued for Muslims to quit living in peace with the West and start killing people again. Most importantly, those Muslims who do not believe that Muslims must be nutjob murderers have been getting wiped out by those that do, to the point where the "extremists" are now a majority in most Muslim-majority countries. Look at what happened after the nutjobs murdered Salman Taseer. The people of Pakistan came out in large numbers to celebrate the killing of a liberal.

... assuming they're all evil or that there's a vast muslim movement to destroy the US?

There is in fact a "vast Muslim movement to destroy the US" called the Muslim Brotherhood. You might know them as the Taliban, al-Shabaab, the Syrian "youth movement" "freedom fighters", the "Bosniaks", the "Palestinians", the "Arab Spring", Boko Haram, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. We used to call them "Nazis." They run the Muslim Student Associations on college campuses. Do some research. I recommend starting with Revolutionary Sudan by Burr and Collins, as it ties many things together.

Two additional "vast Muslim movement[s] to destroy the US" include the Khomeinists and the Lashkar e-Taiba, each of which is strong enough to conquer countries. You really ought to start paying attention to what is going on in the world before you start calling better-informed people ignorant.

Man, this has me conflicted. A bunch of crazy Christians fighting with a bunch of crazy Muslims! I can't stand either of them.

Yes, they are both crazy. However, in this case the Christians are right and the Muslims are wrong, as I will discuss ...

Did those Christians really have to walk in there and be annoying?

No, but they have the Constitutional First Amendment right to do so. They were not promoting hate speech, and the charges laid against them were fabricated (as they prove - which meant the cops should be dismissed for gross misconduct). Only an authoritarian would even question their right to do what they did. No one questions the right of Muslims to speak freely in their dawa efforts at christian venues, yet it is an arrestable offense for a christian to do the same? in the USA? The correct answer to your question (as defined by the First Amendment and subsequent challenges) is "yes, it is always permissible for someone to speak freely, even if someone finds the speech offensive". What is not permitted is hate speech for immediate incitement to violence. This is clearly not the case. Hence, you should be very troubled that the police in Dearborn are implementing Sharia-compliant speech restrictions, that the mainstream media are indulging in politically correct and Sharia-compliant self-censorship, and that the current US Administration has a policy of censoring the manuals used by the Department of Defence and the FBI where someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar!" and slaughters 13 US service personnel on a US base cannot be called a jihadi. Here is Stephen Coughlin's analysis on how the US is slowly being neutered in opposing jihadis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey-TRpkUiPI
Why is that neutering happening, because the White House is full of Muslim Brotherhood affliates:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates
http://muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/
Why aren't you being told this?

Don't vote for Hiliary Clinton in 2016 if you value your liberty and Constitutional rights. Besides her vanity and incompetence she he chief assistant is Muslim Brotherhood affiliate Huma Abedin:
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/the-dark-muslim-brotherhood-world-of-huma-abedin-2/

As Voltaire said, "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.". Political correctness is a python that is the enemy of Free Speech. Over time it constricts and progressively censors what you may or may not say. PC now prohibits criticism of Islam in much official US discourse and will eventually affect private discourse too (unless something is done to halt the Leftist politically correct and Islamist Sharia agenda which restricts Free Speech so their totalitarian goals cannot be opposed by Free Men):
Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/david-horowitz-and-robert-spencer/islamophobia-thought-crime-of-the-totalitarian-future-4/

Wait... was this public property or private?

Public, dude. You cannot exercise any Free Speech rights in Dearborn if a Muslim doesn't want to hear it - and the (Muslim) cops will enforce this by trumping up charges (which video testimony clearly show is false), and then alter their statements numerous times once they realize video shows they are lying. Is Dearborn the future you want for America? to be a controlled citizen (called a "dhimmi") in your own country?

Man, this has me conflicted. A bunch of crazy Christians fighting with a bunch of crazy Muslims! I can't stand either of them.

Yes, they are both crazy. However, in this case the Christians are right and the Muslims are wrong, as I will discuss ...

Did those Christians really have to walk in there and be annoying?

No, but they have the Constitutional First Amendment right to do so. They were not promoting hate speech, and the charges laid against them were fabricated (as they prove - which meant the cops should be dismissed for gross misconduct). Only an authoritarian would even question their right to do what they did. No one questions the right of Muslims to speak freely in their dawa efforts at christian venues, yet it is an arrestable offense for a christian to do the same? in the USA? The correct answer to your question (as defined by the First Amendment and subsequent challenges) is "yes, it is always permissible for someone to speak freely, even if someone finds the speech offensive". What is not permitted is hate speech for immediate incitement to violence. This is clearly not the case. Hence, you should be very troubled that the police in Dearborn are implementing Sharia-compliant speech restrictions, that the mainstream media are indulging in politically correct and Sharia-compliant self-censorship, and that the current US Administration has a policy of censoring the manuals used by the Department of Defence and the FBI where someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar!" and slaughters 13 US service personnel on a US base cannot be called a jihadi. Here is Stephen Coughlin's analysis on how the US is slowly being neutered in opposing jihadis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey-TRpkUiPI
Why is that neutering happening, because the White House is full of Muslim Brotherhood affliates:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates
http://muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/
Why aren't you being told this?

Don't vote for Hiliary Clinton in 2016 if you value your liberty and Constitutional rights. Besides her vanity and incompetence she he chief assistant is Muslim Brotherhood affiliate Huma Abedin:
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/the-dark-muslim-brotherhood-world-of-huma-abedin-2/

As Voltaire said, "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.". Political correctness is a python that is the enemy of Free Speech. Over time it constricts and progressively censors what you may or may not say. PC now prohibits criticism of Islam in much official US discourse and will eventually affect private discourse too (unless something is done to halt the Leftist politically correct and Islamist Sharia agenda which restricts Free Speech so their totalitarian goals cannot be opposed by Free Men):
Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/david-horowitz-and-robert-spencer/islamophobia-thought-crime-of-the-totalitarian-future-4/

Wait... was this public property or private?

Public, dude. You cannot exercise any Free Speech rights in Dearborn if a Muslim doesn't want to hear it - and the (Muslim) cops will enforce this by trumping up charges (which video testimony clearly show is false), and then alter their statements numerous times once they realize video shows they are lying. Is Dearborn the future you want for America? to be a controlled citizen (called a "dhimmi") in your own country?

You are saying that the movie they are trying to supress is true? News to me...

Yes, the "Innocence of Muslims" movie has crap production values but it is more accurate to the Islamic texts than most Hollywood movies are to even recent historical events. The reason that Hollywood doesn't get its facts straight is the same reason news reports with a bias and your elites lied to you about the assault on the embassy in Benghazi and have don't their damnedest to keep you from hearing more about it or thinking about it (the media covered with lots of distractions at the time). The reason is because Hollywood, the US mainstream media and the current Administration all have a "Narrative" about Islam and what is going on in the World and they are trying very hard to suppress any facts, evidence or speakers that go against that Narrative.

You see, the Leftist narrative is that Muslims commit jihad against the West are forced into extreme measures because they are poor, downtrodden, poorly educated etc. That fits in with the Leftists notions of "huddled masses" they they must fight to free. The reality is that the jihadis that attack the West are usually better educated, monied and privileged than their peers. What is driving them is Islam. The media's narrative is that these are "extremists". In on sense it is true, most Muslims are good people and do not do jihad (thank the FSM), but on the other hand this is a complete lie - the interpretation that the jihadis are taking is not extreme in any way, it is the *mainstream* interpretation of Islam that all four Sunni schools of jurisprudence, the Sunni school and people like Osama bin Laden all agree on. All faithful Muslims agree that jihad is a duty of every devout Muslim, it is just that most don't practice it (often they simply send money to the more vigorous guys).

This sounds bizarre when you first hear it. But it turns out this is the truth about Islam (so please, don't shoot the messenger, me for telling the truth). What is interesting is not that Islamists are obfuscating their anti-liberty aims, but that the political Left and academia are aiding and abetting them. They use character assassination to try and silence anyone telling the truth (eg. see the recent book documenting this: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/bullies-how-the-lefts-culture-of-fear-and-intimidation-silences-america/). Isn't it interesting how news and spin is being used to generate a perception that counters the reality of the facts?

I do have one positive thing to say about the Obama Administration. After the disaster in Benghazi (although why have none of the 30 survivors been able to speak freely?) I think the Administration has started to realise that the Muslim Brotherhood advisors in the White House have been giving bad advice and as a result the US has been harming liberty rather than helping it. I think the Administration finally realise that they can't be nice to jihadis (eg. like the ones they were arming in Libya, before they slipped the leash of the US) and expect a measure of control. The Administration has woken up and now opposes arming the Syrian Opposition in Syria. While the US still wants Assad out (he's a bad tyrant) they will not provide dangerous heavy weaponry any more (some of it has already ended up in the hands of the Al Nusra outfits; which are basically Al Qaeda).

So you must ask yourself, irrespective of your political views, why aren't my elected representatives and mainstream media telling me this? Why are they *actively* suppressing the truth: eg.

ps: don't believe the Muslim Brotherhood are influencing the White House? Here's my evidence:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates

Now Senator M

The stink is the corruption of your thinking from a lack of economic understanding and the numbers involved in the situation. What you are advocating for the US will lead to a collapse in the same way, and for many of the same reasons, as the Soviet economy collapsed in 1991. Let us pretend that you could tax the rich as your post suggests. The result is explained very nicely by Bill Whittle in "Eat the Rich":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661pi6K-8WQ

The problem is not defence spending (as the grandparent suggested). It is entitlement spending. Take a look at the proportion of Government Spending as a fraction of GDP under Obama. We can understand some money used to buffer the credit crisis but the spending growth is *accelerating* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#United_States_of_America). Either he doesn't understand economics at all or he is trying to crash the system so it can be reformed (I lean toward the latter; why close the White House to tours, it saves nearly nothing compared to the four holidays the Obamas have had in the last three months; the point is to make the US people suffer in a way they notice the pain, so that the Administration will be granted a blank check/cheque of political credit to continue their ideological agenda). You can argue with me on an ideological basis but you can't argue on economics and the facts. Successive US Administrations are overspending at an unsustainable rate. This could be corrected quite easily (I believe simply raising the age for Government retirement benefits from 65 to 67 would do it overnight), but neither of the two main political parties is willing to stand up to the unreasonsable demands of voters to do it. The kind of utopian demands that you are making. However, the reality cannot be postponed indefinitely.

As far as the 1.4 T$ wars fighting a distraction war against a minimally powerful and relatively (to real genocidal leaders in Asia and Africa) harmless dictator and the Afghan Government (at least, before they were replaced by American puppets and labeled 'insurgents' so they could be lumped with the phantom group, the few dozen member 'All Queda'). Those parts can be left in for Trolling success.

Ok, now we have a worldview that is not only incorrect, it is bizarrely counter-factually conspiratorial, and then accuses me of being a troll. Dude, it is clear you have zero understanding not only of economics but also recent history, current events and global geopolitics. If all you can do is stupid demonization and fantasy theories then we can't really even begin to debate (typical of Left-wing supporters, this tactic is described here: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/bullies-how-the-lefts-culture-of-fear-and-intimidation-silences-america/). I'm sure our fellow readers with any modicum of *factual knowledge* understand how false your statements are.

Here's and interesting article that came out today clearly showing that oil was not the single factor in the decision to remove Saddam, "The War for Oil Myth"
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/the-war-for-oil-myth/
So please stop repeating the falsehoods invented by the political Left.

Is Greenpeace itself handling its own funding with more transparency and, um, forthrightness than it was 10 years ago? Much less it's activism, which often makes me wonder if it's less engaged in saving the planet than in alarmist market manipulation.

Really, talk about PKB.