Remember the Fallen

Today is a day to remember. Today, we all should take a moment and think about what happened 8 years ago. We were attacked because our way of life, our foibles, our freedoms insulted their religion.

We should nver forget. We should always remember that Radical Islamists, supported by men who grow rich off of a product they sell in our country to fuel our lives, took advantage of our modern marvels to wound us.

Read more from Ralph Peters at the New York Post.

Hat Tip - Power Line

Something More to Add

I'm sure that many blogs and web sites will publish great articles by paid pundits about the meaning of this date. Even the "progressive" Huffingtonpost.com site has analysis of the importance of the date.

To me, many of these paid pundits' arguements pale in comparison to the words of "Doctor Zero," an unpaid writer who posted a short article at HotAir.com's Greenroom. His post, "Falling Through Fire," stirred my heart. Doctor Zero correctly points out that the same courage and fortitude that stiffened the backs of the men on Bunker Hill helped the resolve of the individuals on Flight 93.

Read the entire article to feel the full effect.

Something to Watch Out For

I recently watched a video that made my blood chill. Seems that a group of Foreign Nationals have started setting up training bases... in the US.

Watching the video just made me mad. Here are people taking advantage of our government's protection to plot against, and carry out attacks against, our government and our country.

It seems this is a group that the US Federal Government should watch closely.

Will They Ever Learn?

Why are the Danes even pursuing a case against Geert Wilders for expressing his opinion and telling a story, based on actual facts and quotes? Do they not believe in the most basic freedom, freedom of speech? This case is based on their somewhat odd idea that you can legislate what will "insult... Muslim worshipers." Unfortunately, this case insults me. Where an I to go for redress?

Fortunately, Mr. Wilders has support from many Europeans who are tiring of being told they have to bow down to Islam's ideas and not insult Mohamed's followers. If you've watched "Fitna," you know that Wilders simply interspersed quotes directly from the Muslim holy book with images, news pieces and quotes from Muslim speakers. This is the truth. And as one speaker said, "The truth is sometimes offensive... but it doens't make it any less true."

And remember, the group forwarding the prosecution of Mr. Wilders is the same group that held violent riots and demonstrations because someone drew this:




When all men are free to speak their minds, then will we truly have freedom of speech. Noam Chomsky said, "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." I agree. In America we quote Voltaire and say, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Hat Tip Jawa Report for getting me started.

Who Supports Hamas?

Not the people who have to live with them. These are stories of people who have been taken advantage of. Hamas was supposed to help them have a better life. Instead, Hamas uses their children, their women and their elderly as human shields against Israeli bombs.

So, who really supports Hamas. We have "intellectuals" from New York, Ireland, and other countries outside of Gaza as the main supporters. These people have absolutely no idea of the real reasons the Israelis have to strike in populated areas. As this author states, "Almost no one on the Left has any understanding of militant Islam. Their politics is a politics of gesture, where wearing a keffiyeh is cool but understanding its symbolism is too much effort even for intellectuals."

I say stop pointing fingers at the defender and point the blame with the Hamas terrorists, where it rightly belongs.

We Need New Rules for Dealing With Al Qaeda

We can't treat AQ operatives as criminals. They are an international organization that is outside US law. They are not US citizens, they do not have the same rights under our nation's laws. They are enemy combatants and should be under the regulation of military justice, not civilian courts as some think. This might be tough on them, since they do not abide by the Geneva conventions.

And even when the rule of law is followed, the enemies we capture seem to take advantage of this. Some of those freed from Gitmo have even returned immediately to their active participation in a group that seeks to destroy the western way of life.

Of course, now we have a president who has decided we don't need special circumstances to deal with Al Qaeda. With a stroke of his pen, he has removed many of the tools Bush put in place to combat terrorism. How asinine!

This is not developing a strategy that will help defeat terrorists. This is similar to the actions of the last Democratic president who showed America as a "Paper Tiger" that Al Qaeda need not fear.

Cry for Hamas? I Don't Think So.

Remember, these are the same people who celebrated the deaths of Americans in September 11, 2001, civilians all. And there are indications the Palestinian National Authority tried to cover this up. Now, they want us to cry for them because the IDF is responding to their barbarism and attacks by decimating MILITARY targets.

More and more, I think people are catching on to this hypocrisy. More and more, we see videos of the actual violence of the Hamas fighters, like this one.



I think Israel has a right to attack those who attack them, to protect civilians in Israel. Hamas has been goading Israel for some time. I think it is unfortunate that there are civilians casualties from the IDF's response. But of course, as we see from the previous video, Hamas was killing civilians too, and in much greater numbers.


To learn more about the brutality of Hamas, see this video segment that includes a montage of different video pieces from Hamas.

Motive for Mumbai

I think Mark Steyn hit the nail on the head in his editorial from the National Review Online. After 9/11, after the Madrid and London bombings, and now after the Mumbai attack, the "religion of Peace" has members who are stating they are afraid of retaliatory violence. Seriously, they think they might be in danger from unruly citizens. This, even though there has never been any real evidence of retaliation. Huh? Are they just intentionally trying to play a "victim" card? Please give me evidence of violence against Muslim civilians from Western civilians.

What we should hear from them, and what Mr. Steyn points out is missing from many of the communications from the "Moderate Muslism", is a quick denouncement of these acts committed against peaceful citizens. Instead, we get celebrations and parties.

I Agree Mostly, But...

I agree with Geert Wilders on many of the things he talks about in his interview with the Wall Street Journal. I do think that Western culture, which includes Democracy, capitalism, the rule of law and respect for others, is superior to a religiously based government that gives preferential treatment to individuals who are of a particular sect or faith. This is one of the reasons we have so many Europeans in the Americas in the first place.

The evidence for the assertions that Western culture is superior can be seen in where people go when they immigrate from their home countries. If dictatorships, socialism or Islamic rule was so much better, people in the US would be fleeing South of the border, jumping on ships to travel to Russia or China, or hi-jacking planes and demanding to be taken to Tehran, Cairo or Baghdad. However, the opposite of this is true.

However, the sticking point in all of this is how to get people to assimilate to OUR culture. This is hard because one of the main reasons our culture is so successful is we assimilate a lot from other cultures. Our governmental organization is Greek, our Courts are English, our language uses a smattering of many other tongues, including Spanish and French, our scientists are German, Jewish, Indian, Chinese and many other nationalities. All of this has been worked together over 200 years to develop the nation we have now.

I think there is one common thing that all of these contributions to our culture have in common. They all WORK. Every single one of these contributions supports the others.

Now, how would all of this work if we start kow-towing to one particular point of view? The answer is simple; it will break. Geerts tells people, "You have to give up that book." I don't think we should go that far, but I do think you shouldn't push your book in my face in my country. If you don't like it, go home.

Who's Running This Place?

The United States is a country of immigrants. Ever since our country was founded, immigrants have come from far and wide to this "land of opportunity." The new immigrants wanted to become Americans and have their chance in this country at living the American Dream. They chose America because of the ability for someone to come to this country and succeed on their own merits. You didn't have to be a member of a specific religious or ethnic group to succeed.

Now we have a group of immigrants who want to change the playing field. They come to this country, not be become Americans, but to forward a different agenda. Read this article and find out for yourself what their stated plans are.

Now, from this article, it appears these new immigrants are not satisfied with allowing everyone to decide things for themselves. Instead, they want to use our countries freedoms to change our country and put them in control. They want to make our country more like the country they left. Why? Because they feel their religious laws should be the law of the land. Sure, because that's worked so well in their country.

If you think I'm making this up, please look into things a little more and then get back to me.