Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc <[email protected]> Monday, January 4, 2010 Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy – In this issue: 1. Green Revolution 2. Crotch Bomber 3. Profiling 4. Fannie 5. Black Panthers 6. MA Special Election 7. Nelson 1. Green Revolution. It looks like the revolution in Iran is heating up nicely. Last week, there were reports of renewed riots nationwide. The reaction to the protests by the Mullahs was to send in the goons, thugs, and start assassinating family members and relatives of the opposition leadership. They are also arresting thousands of people and making them disappear. Video of beatings and at least one truck running over people in the street surfaced outside Iran. Reaction by the Obama administration to this opportunity to celebrate and support the freedom fighters was a couple clucking sounds about human rights violations by the Mullahs. The administration seems more interested in negotiating with Ahmadinejad in a vain attempt to get him to agree to shut down his nuclear weapons program. This revolution appears to be the real deal, and it is hugely important for the successful prosecution of the war against radical Islam. For if state sponsored and supported terrorism out of Iran goes away due to a popular uprising, then the Israelis’ and Lebanese largest problem disappears also. Hezbollah ends up getting defunded as does Hamas. Syria ends up getting defunded. And the safe harbor for terrorists on Afghanistan’s western border disappears, turning the Afghanistan problem into a single front war in the east. Prayers for the Iranian revolution would be in order. Leadership from the administration for freedom fighters would also be in order, but don’t expect anything along those lines from this group. 2. Crotch Bomber. Otherwise known as the Knickerbomber or the Eunichbomber, the Nigerian who tried to blow up the NWA flight from Amsterdam to Detroit was arrested upon landing and taken into custody. He will be tried in civilian court. After running his mouth for a short while about a large number of other trained Al Qaida terrorists intent on doing the same thing, he has promptly lawyered up and is not talking any more. It turns out that this bozo was well known in Nigeria, Yemen, Great Britain and even in the US. He is the third or fourth leader of a London-based Islamic group to get himself arrested for an attempted terrorist act. The last administration would have treated this like a military attack in a war, and he would have ended up in Gitmo with a trip to the waterboard so he could tell the interrogators about the rest of his friends. This administration is not that serious about fighting and winning the war, so he will end up in a jail cell in Detroit and all the rest of us will be subject to the Kabuki Dance of preflight screening performed by the TSA. Question for the political world: When you screw up, why do the rest of us have to pay for it? 3. Profiling. The new idiotic TSA restrictions inflicted on the flying public as a result of intelligence and security lapses by the CIA, State Department and airport security in Amsterdam include but are not limited to the following: passengers restricted to their seats for the last hour of transatlantic flights; nothing allowed on their laps for the last hour of flight; increasingly intrusive pat downs by screeners; and a move for full body scans at the airports. None of this will be able to identify a potential terrorist or keep him or her off the next transatlantic flight. This government has absolutely refused to profile terrorists; identify young Islamic radicals who think murdering people is more important than living. It is long past time to adopt the Israeli El Al approach to preflight screening and start profiling Muslims that want to commit mayhem. Sooner would be rather than later. 4. Fannie. The Obama administration removed caps on treasury support for bad mortgage loans held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Christmas Eve. The caps for US Treasury liability by both corporations were previously set at $200 billion apiece. There are no caps for the next three years. The action was taken quietly, over the Christmas holiday, via Executive Order. Remember that Fannie and Freddie were at the heart of the financial collapse in late 2008. They have not been forced to modify their business models. They have not been reformed. On the other hand, they have been given hundreds of billions of dollars from the treasury to ostensibly remove the toxic assets from their books. This hasn’t happened either. Congress is poised to expand the practice of giving mortgages to people who cannot afford them. Fannie and Freddie are ratholes for our hard-earned tax dollars. The real estate market will not be able to repair itself at any level until both corporations are shut down, forced into bankruptcy, and liquidated. This action to keep them operating by both congress and the Obama administration is intentional and will be a huge, festering carbuncle on our chances for economic recovery until they are shut down and the marketplace allowed to operate freely. 5. Black Panthers. Dafydd in Big Lizards wrote a extended summary of the Philadelphia Black Panther case dismissed by Eric Holder’s (In)Justice Department earlier this year. The Panthers were convicted earlier this year for voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place in November 2008. The Panthers refused to participate in the case and were convicted in absentia. The Holder (In)Justice Department filed a notice of voluntary dismissal last May asking the court to dismiss the case after the verdict had been rendered. The career prosecutor who brought the case was transferred from the (In)Justice DC office of Voting Rights Enforcement to an (In)Justice office in South Carolina. A month after the political appointees overruled the career prosecutors and had the case dismissed, the US Commission of Civil Rights sent a letter to DoJ asking why the case had been dismissed. December last year, DoJ ordered the career prosecutors involved not to cooperate with the Civil Rights Commission, which was about the point where the transfer to South Carolina happened. It is clear that DoJ thinks they have something to hide. Given that the Civil Rights Commission has the right to subpoena information from any federal agency, it will be interesting to see how far this goes. Perhaps the transfer out of DC was a good thing after all. 6. MA Special Election. There will be a special election in MA to replace Teddy Kennedy on January 19. The democrat is a 100% ACORN toady. The Republican who is currently polling within 9% is a relative unknown and relatively underfunded. At first glance, this looks like a slam dunk for the leftists. But it may not be, as the Republican is running on defeating ObamaCare. While I am not familiar with senate rules on cloture if there is no conference committee action on a piece of legislation, less than 60 votes for the democrats in the senate will certainly be a positive event, because there are other awful pieces of legislation that are going to come out of the senate this year. Better to stop them now then undo them later. The Republican is named Scott Brown, and he may very well be out of the Snowe – Collins mold, but as long as he will not caucus with Harry Reid, this is a good first step. 7. Nelson. Self identified prostitute Ben Nelson (D, NE) who famously sold his vote for taxpayer funded goodies for Nebraska is not faring too well over the holidays. He has been “Jokerized” in a poster that has started showing up around the state. He is getting roundly blasted by people in his state. He is in big enough trouble that he took out a campaign ad and broadcasted it during the Nebraska – Arizona bowl game in an attempt to explain his support for ObamaCare. The ad was suitably whiney and did no political good for him. He normally gets elected with between 60-70% of the vote statewide and is next up for reelection in 2012. He is polling at 30% against the Republican governor of Nebraska in a theoretical race in 2012. While a lot of things will happen over the next three years, Nelson is clearly in trouble. I do expect democrat insiders have told Nelson the same thing they have told Begich and other self-described democrat moderates; vote with us and we will take care of you if your voters throw you out of office. If the rules have all been changed by the democrats in an effort to create another hundred million dependent people by destroying the economy and their savings, the rules for federally funded retirements and leftist funded jobs can also be changed. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. 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