I'm currently in the first quarter or so of "America's Victories: Why the US Wins Wars and Will Win the War on Terror" by Larry Schweikart. Very interesting book so far and he thoroughly details a number of reasons that make me extremely proud to be an American. We have a long history of treating those we capture on the battlefield far better than our enemies treat our men (and women) who are captured as POWs.
The accusations of torture in Gitmo and in Cuba will never hold water when they're compared to the contents of the al-Qaeda torture manual.
The media and the leftists will continue on their parade of "Blame American For Everything" and push for more pampering of our great nation's enemies, but I know when push comes to shove, there are far more patriotic Americans out there than America-haters, at least for now.
It has opened my eyes quite a bit to learn about the men who left their cushy jobs in the entertainment business during WWII to sign up and fight the Axis of Evil. It goes to show you where this country has arrived as not a single Hollywood actor gave up acting to join the military and fight the terrorism after 9/11. There used to be a day when the death toll of the enemy was cheered during the news broadcast, not the death toll of our own service men and women. How things can change.
I will post a full review when I finish the read.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
al-Qaeda "How to" Torture Book Found
So, now that we've decided to extend the common courtesy of rights in the Constitution to those we capture in our War on Terror, this was done well after knowing that al-Qaeda is actively teaching, and apparently encouraging the use of, torture methods. They have put together a detailed book with pictures depicting how to conduct various torture methods. This book was found in May 2007. Why has it been a year since this book was found and I don't remember seeing anything about it until just recently? Oh right, I forgot, our media has an agenda and since the Democrats, well a number of them, have declared the war lost, that media certainly wouldn't want to give the rest of the population any reason at all to rally behind our troops and support the annihilation of al-Qaeda and other terror groups around the world.
Now hold on, we're not talking about shaming, or embarrassing prisoners. We're not talking about making them wear women's clothes or sleep deprivation. We're not talking about making them listen to pop-culture music like Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera. No no no, we're talking about inflicting pain, permanent wounds, dismemberment, and death.
See for yourself.
Here's just a quick snippet:
"The book guides followers of Al Qaeda how to interrogate and torture captives.
The drawings and cartoons depict ways to use electric drills and irons, meat cleavers and other devices to force victims to talk or harm them.
Some of the drawings show how to drill hands, sever limbs, drag victims behind cars, remove eyes, put a blowtorch or iron to someone’s skin, suspend a person from a ceiling and electrocute them, break limbs and restrict breath and put someone’s head in a vice.
Items found at the safe house include electric drills, hammers, blow torches, meat cleavers, pliers and wire cutters, chains, screw drivers, whips and handcuffs."
Sounds like a good time for everyone, doesn't it.
Here are the pictures from the book and a couple of their torture victims.
Keep trying to tell me this is a war for oil or a botched war over weapons of mass destruction. Please try to tell me that we should just pull out of the Middle East entirely and leave these animals to their own business. Please tell me that we don't have a moral obligation to put an end to this. Please try to tell me this is just the United States acting as the police of the world and getting into everyone else's business.
Makes you appreciate being an American and living in a land where such treatment isn't permitted.
Now hold on, we're not talking about shaming, or embarrassing prisoners. We're not talking about making them wear women's clothes or sleep deprivation. We're not talking about making them listen to pop-culture music like Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera. No no no, we're talking about inflicting pain, permanent wounds, dismemberment, and death.
See for yourself.
Here's just a quick snippet:
"The book guides followers of Al Qaeda how to interrogate and torture captives.
The drawings and cartoons depict ways to use electric drills and irons, meat cleavers and other devices to force victims to talk or harm them.
Some of the drawings show how to drill hands, sever limbs, drag victims behind cars, remove eyes, put a blowtorch or iron to someone’s skin, suspend a person from a ceiling and electrocute them, break limbs and restrict breath and put someone’s head in a vice.
Items found at the safe house include electric drills, hammers, blow torches, meat cleavers, pliers and wire cutters, chains, screw drivers, whips and handcuffs."
Sounds like a good time for everyone, doesn't it.
Here are the pictures from the book and a couple of their torture victims.
Keep trying to tell me this is a war for oil or a botched war over weapons of mass destruction. Please try to tell me that we should just pull out of the Middle East entirely and leave these animals to their own business. Please tell me that we don't have a moral obligation to put an end to this. Please try to tell me this is just the United States acting as the police of the world and getting into everyone else's business.
Makes you appreciate being an American and living in a land where such treatment isn't permitted.
Terrorists have equal rights?
Since when have we, as a nation, conferred Constitutional rights to enemy combatants and terrorists? Well, the answer would be today, the 12th of June, 2008. Unbelievable. Should we ask if they'd like to vote this year in November? Hamas has already endorsed Barack Obama; maybe the rest of the terrorist world would like to pick sides. However, after another typical flip flop by Obama, as of June 4, 2008, Hamas has decided to "un-endorse" Obama.
Now, back to the point, in a Supreme Court ruling today, "Foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention there in United States courts, the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, on Thursday in a historic decision on the balance between personal liberties and national security."
Remember, these rights were not afforded to the Nazis or the Japanese after the horrors the military forces of both nations committed in second world war. Remember, more people died on 9/11 than in Pearl Harbor.
I'd like know what made the judges rule the way they did considering the lies and scams from Nancey Pelosi and Friends about waterboarding. After the outcry about the horrors and inhumanity of waterboarding, we've afforded Constitutional rights to our enemies who torture their captives with power tools, electrocution, meat cleavers, screw drivers, and blow torches. All of that without even considering the fact they're also burning people alive. All of this was found in a "how-to" manual found in an al-Qaeda safe house.
I'm all for doing the right thing and not violating what's right and wrong, but why in the hell are we giving them Constitutional rights?! They already get better treatment in their prisons than American convicts. They get three ethnically-correct meals per day. They're afforded prayer time. They're being given Koran's at the expense of the US taxpayers. We can't even legally do that for our own school children. These judges are undermining our ability to fight a war on terror. They're taking our ability to hold enemy captured enemy combatants off the battlefield.
I just don't get it. I can't understand how people can be so anti-American and side with the enemy on such a regular basis.
Here are some precious quotes from Justice Kennedy:
“The costs of delay can no longer be borne by those who are held in custody,” Justice Kennedy wrote, assuming the pivotal role that some court-watchers had foreseen.
“The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.”
More snippets from the NY Times piece:
Joining Justice Kennedy’s opinion were Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David H. Souter. Writing separately, Justice Souter said the dissenters did not sufficiently appreciate “the length of the disputed imprisonments, some of the prisoners represented here today having been locked up for six years.”
The last I checked, enemy combatants were considered POWs and could be held for the duration of the war. How long was McCain held? He wasn't granted any special rights by his captors.
Justice Scalia gets it:
Reflecting how the case divided the court not only on legal but, perhaps, emotional lines, Justice Scalia said that the United States was “at war with radical Islamists,” and that the ruling “will almost certainly cause more Americans to get killed.”
“The nation will live to regret what the court has done today,” Justice Scalia said.
John Kerry doesn't get it. He applauded the ruling saying, “Today, the Supreme Court affirmed what almost everyone but the administration and their defenders in Congress always knew,” he said. “The Constitution and the rule of law bind all of us even in extraordinary times of war. No one is above the Constitution.”
Perhaps John Kerry and his cronies need to apply the same logic about the convenience of turning the Constitution on and off with a switch to the Second Amendment.
Thank you, Mr. Kerry, and the rest of you America haters for ensure the deaths of more American men and women in uniform as well as the increased likelihood of repeated terror attacks in this country as we can no longer hold enemy combatants.
Thanks again.
Now, back to the point, in a Supreme Court ruling today, "Foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention there in United States courts, the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, on Thursday in a historic decision on the balance between personal liberties and national security."
Remember, these rights were not afforded to the Nazis or the Japanese after the horrors the military forces of both nations committed in second world war. Remember, more people died on 9/11 than in Pearl Harbor.
I'd like know what made the judges rule the way they did considering the lies and scams from Nancey Pelosi and Friends about waterboarding. After the outcry about the horrors and inhumanity of waterboarding, we've afforded Constitutional rights to our enemies who torture their captives with power tools, electrocution, meat cleavers, screw drivers, and blow torches. All of that without even considering the fact they're also burning people alive. All of this was found in a "how-to" manual found in an al-Qaeda safe house.
I'm all for doing the right thing and not violating what's right and wrong, but why in the hell are we giving them Constitutional rights?! They already get better treatment in their prisons than American convicts. They get three ethnically-correct meals per day. They're afforded prayer time. They're being given Koran's at the expense of the US taxpayers. We can't even legally do that for our own school children. These judges are undermining our ability to fight a war on terror. They're taking our ability to hold enemy captured enemy combatants off the battlefield.
I just don't get it. I can't understand how people can be so anti-American and side with the enemy on such a regular basis.
Here are some precious quotes from Justice Kennedy:
“The costs of delay can no longer be borne by those who are held in custody,” Justice Kennedy wrote, assuming the pivotal role that some court-watchers had foreseen.
“The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.”
More snippets from the NY Times piece:
Joining Justice Kennedy’s opinion were Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David H. Souter. Writing separately, Justice Souter said the dissenters did not sufficiently appreciate “the length of the disputed imprisonments, some of the prisoners represented here today having been locked up for six years.”
The last I checked, enemy combatants were considered POWs and could be held for the duration of the war. How long was McCain held? He wasn't granted any special rights by his captors.
Justice Scalia gets it:
Reflecting how the case divided the court not only on legal but, perhaps, emotional lines, Justice Scalia said that the United States was “at war with radical Islamists,” and that the ruling “will almost certainly cause more Americans to get killed.”
“The nation will live to regret what the court has done today,” Justice Scalia said.
John Kerry doesn't get it. He applauded the ruling saying, “Today, the Supreme Court affirmed what almost everyone but the administration and their defenders in Congress always knew,” he said. “The Constitution and the rule of law bind all of us even in extraordinary times of war. No one is above the Constitution.”
Perhaps John Kerry and his cronies need to apply the same logic about the convenience of turning the Constitution on and off with a switch to the Second Amendment.
Thank you, Mr. Kerry, and the rest of you America haters for ensure the deaths of more American men and women in uniform as well as the increased likelihood of repeated terror attacks in this country as we can no longer hold enemy combatants.
Thanks again.
Christianity vs. Liberalism
I can't fathom how devout Christians can support the views of modern Liberalism. They seem to be at complete opposite sides of the spectrum and opposed to one another. Just a couple of issues we see right off the top: abortion and gay marriage. Another is the death penalty. Another is the fact that modern Liberalism is all but anti-religion of any type.
Modern liberal leftists want to go out of their way to avoid offending anyone about anything. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but Jesus Christ said it how it was. He didn't tip toe around the issues and tell everyone it's OK and perfectly acceptable to live in sin. He offended people. For the love of God, he healed someone on the Sabbath (Mark 3:1-6). He overturned tables and almost started a riot in the temple (Mark 11:15-19). Notice at the end of both passages, the scribes and Pharisees sought to destroy Jesus.
Barack Obama wants to expand welfare benefits, increase unemployment benefits, and increase the amount of time individuals can draw unemployment. To this, the Bible says in 2 Thessalonians 3:10, "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." Surely, there are people who need help and assistance, but we'd be doing quite the injustice to ignore the current abuses of the welfare system.
I also have a hard time understanding how Black Liberation Ideology draws its principles from the same Bible I read. I have a hard time understanding how the principles being taught in churches like the Chicago Trinity United Church of Christ are considered "Christian principles." I have a hard time understanding how Obama's flip flop on the issue of Jeremiah Wright, the subsequent pastor, Rev. Otis Mosss, and the numerous affiliations with people who harbor vicious and callous views that can be called nothing other than racist. I have a hard time understanding how people can't see this for what it is, namely, political expediency. Had the conservative media outlets not pressed the issue so hard, Obama more than likely would not have responded by eventually resigning his membership at the church and denouncing Rev. Wright. What is it about the American people that has them so caught up in Barack Obama that they can't see what's happening her. The leftist media has a lot to do with it, turning a blind eye to much of the most spiteful and hateful speech from those affiliations, but I can't imagine the spurn a conservative would receive should he/she be in that same situation.
About the suppression of religion and the general attempt to remove it from every aspect of daily life, I give you the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." There is a difference between the cliché of "separation of church and state" and the all out suppression of all religion.
Abortion, death penalty, handouts and entitlements, the suppression of religion, the support of Evolution and denouncement of Creationism/Intelligent Design, etc...all pretty core issues that go against what's in the Bible and the Christian foundation. If you can support a man who violates and contradicts what your religious views are, how strong are those views?
Modern liberal leftists want to go out of their way to avoid offending anyone about anything. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but Jesus Christ said it how it was. He didn't tip toe around the issues and tell everyone it's OK and perfectly acceptable to live in sin. He offended people. For the love of God, he healed someone on the Sabbath (Mark 3:1-6). He overturned tables and almost started a riot in the temple (Mark 11:15-19). Notice at the end of both passages, the scribes and Pharisees sought to destroy Jesus.
Barack Obama wants to expand welfare benefits, increase unemployment benefits, and increase the amount of time individuals can draw unemployment. To this, the Bible says in 2 Thessalonians 3:10, "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." Surely, there are people who need help and assistance, but we'd be doing quite the injustice to ignore the current abuses of the welfare system.
I also have a hard time understanding how Black Liberation Ideology draws its principles from the same Bible I read. I have a hard time understanding how the principles being taught in churches like the Chicago Trinity United Church of Christ are considered "Christian principles." I have a hard time understanding how Obama's flip flop on the issue of Jeremiah Wright, the subsequent pastor, Rev. Otis Mosss, and the numerous affiliations with people who harbor vicious and callous views that can be called nothing other than racist. I have a hard time understanding how people can't see this for what it is, namely, political expediency. Had the conservative media outlets not pressed the issue so hard, Obama more than likely would not have responded by eventually resigning his membership at the church and denouncing Rev. Wright. What is it about the American people that has them so caught up in Barack Obama that they can't see what's happening her. The leftist media has a lot to do with it, turning a blind eye to much of the most spiteful and hateful speech from those affiliations, but I can't imagine the spurn a conservative would receive should he/she be in that same situation.
About the suppression of religion and the general attempt to remove it from every aspect of daily life, I give you the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." There is a difference between the cliché of "separation of church and state" and the all out suppression of all religion.
Abortion, death penalty, handouts and entitlements, the suppression of religion, the support of Evolution and denouncement of Creationism/Intelligent Design, etc...all pretty core issues that go against what's in the Bible and the Christian foundation. If you can support a man who violates and contradicts what your religious views are, how strong are those views?
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