1) People Who Report Suspicious Behavior Could Be Sued� The Washington Times <http://www.washingtontimes.com/> www.washingtontimes.com <http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070514-093346-1946r.htm> Bennie Thompson vs. terrorism tipsters Published May 15, 2007 We've all seen this phrase in block letters: "REPORT SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY," followed by a 1-800 number. But if a House Democrat manages to kill a tipster-immunity measure under consideration in Congress this month, people who report suspicious behavior could be sued in civil court if the accused are not charged with a crime. November's frightened U.S. Airways "John Doe" passengers in Minneapolis are already in the crosshairs.� ����The lawmaker in question is Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. He thinks that granting tipsters immunity amounts to racial and religious profiling. Yes, that's the Democrats' "homeland security" pointman in the House speaking.� ����For two months, Mr. Thompson has deployed the profiling argument against this measure, tucked into the House transportation-security bill. The good news is that a bipartisan House majority already passed it 304-121 seven weeks ago. But sadly, Mr. Thompson is expected to strip it from the bill. He is expected to be the lead House negotiator in the coming weeks when the bill reaches conference committee, and if he is, he will have considerable sway over the final product.� ����Mr. Thompson would stand alone among key homeland-security players, all of whom support immunity, if he blocks it. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat who chairs the Senate committee and ranking Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, both support it. So does Rep. Peter King, New York Republican, the ranking member in the House homeland-security committee.� ����How damaging it would be to leave tipsters on the hook; there could be few better ways to staunch the flow of information. Think of last week's Fort Dix tipster and ask yourself whether you would report suspicious behavior in a similar position.� ����The cutting edge of this debate, the case of the anonymous U.S. Airways passengers in Minneapolis, is not encouraging. These passengers observed six imams refuse to sit in their assigned seats, request metal-bearing seatbelt extensions and speak loud condemnations of the United States. After frightened passengers reported this behavior, the imams were removed from the flight. Troublemakers are routinely removed for less. But the "John Does" were sued along with the airline and regulatory authorities.� ����Listening to Mr. Thompson's March 27 floor remarks, it's clear that he thinks an absence of legal charges against the accused means that the tipsters can be penalized in court. This shifts the precarious balance between liberty and security much too far in one direction.� ����Think about this Catch-22 for a moment. The government encourages ordinary citizens to pass on potential terrorism information, as it should. But those citizens can now be sued if no charges are filed. One can literally be sued for reporting provocative behavior on an airline. We're clearly a long way from September 11. What a disgrace.� 2)� Jihad In Italy (Media too fearful or PC to say "gunmen" are Muslims) Gunmen hijack bus in northern Italy By COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press Writer 29 minutes ago Three gunmen hijacked a bus in northern Italy on Tuesday and set it on fire after freeing the passengers, officials said. An off-duty police officer was reportedly injured. The bus was traveling south from Alessandria to Acqui Terme, cities southwest of Milan, when the gunmen took it over and forced the driver to turn onto a road heading in the opposite direction, a Carabinieri paramilitary police official in nearby Novara said. The official spoke on customary condition of anonymity in line with policy. An off-duty police officer who was on board tried to intervene and was stabbed, but was not seriously wounded, the ANSA news agency said. The gunmen allowed the passengers to get off the bus when it returned to Alessandria, but forced the driver to keep driving to the outskirts of Novara, Sky TG24 reported from the scene. The hijackers exchanged gunfire with police when the bus stopped, then set it ablaze before fleeing, the Carabinieri official said. One of the gunmen was apprehended and authorities were seeking the other two, the official said. The official said the gunman who was apprehended was being treated for an unspecified injury. 3)� Actions by Muslims to Dominate YouTube With Islamist Videos <http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25494_Muslims_Secretly_Organizing_to_Dominate_YouTube&only> Muslims Secretly Organizing to Dominate YouTube A reader who wishes to remain anonymous has forwarded a YouTube message he received, from a Muslim YouTube member who�s organizing a private group to promote Islamic videos and suppress criticism of Islam: From: ... Date: May 14, 2007, 11:18 AM Subject: salam to all muslim brothers and sisters please read Our Islamic videos will not get full attention unless they come in the top ranked videos in youtube. For this purpose we all Muslims have to rate the videos to 5 stars and have to add them to our favorites. This will not be achieved if we Muslim Youtubers are scattered, i.e., one muslim rating one video and other muslim rating another. So we have to be highly organized. We will do a massive campaign of focusing to rate a single video collectively at once, so that it can show up on the top videos at least in the �Today�s top videos� list. Doing this job in an open broadcast or in a public group is not a good idea. So it should be done in a private group. I have made the private group with the name: Burn the Boats. The group URL is in accordance to its goal as: <http://www.youtube.com/group/actnow> http://www.youtube.com/group/actnow How to act immediately? 1- If a memeber wants a video to rate 5 stars and to be added as favorite video and to add a comment in video, then he will send the video link as: Good Video: [video link here.....] 2- If a memeber wants a video to rate to 1 star and as an inappropriate video, then he will send the video link as : Bad Video: [video link here...] (Link sender must mention if it should be rated as hatespeech or graphical violence etc.) #### Please propagate this message to the youtubers who are confirmed to be Muslims. ### Do not send this message to any person who you doubt if he is Muslim or not. Any brother/sister who wants an invitation to the group, he can send me a short personal message. JazakAllah. (LGF)� [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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