I have received a lot of claims such as how the FBI was preparing to “arrest a 40-year-old white male from Nebraska who was a member of a militia plotting to set off bombs in shopping malls” to how “the vehicle was plastered with anti-government tea party like bumper stickers.” Yes, I even got the obligatory claims that the type of bomb was not “a typical type constructed by [Islamist wackos]” and that therefore such was “proof positive that some angry white guy” was the culprit. All of which are of course false, but hey, never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Right?

Well, it really kicked into overdrive today as moonbats started reading headlines about how an “American” had been arrested in the plot. Yeah, well … uh … there is more.

Yeah, the man arrested was indeed a “U.S. citizen” but he was also from Pakistan. His name is Faisal Shahzad. The Washington Post reports:

A 30-year-old American immigrant from Pakistan was taken off a plane bound for Dubai late Monday at John F. Kennedy International Airport and arrested in connection with a failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced.

Authorities said Faisal Shahzad of Shelton, Conn., had paid cash for a Nissan Pathfinder that was found packed with explosives Saturday night on a tourist-crowded block in Midtown Manhattan. The vehicle was set ablaze but failed to detonate.

Officials located Shahzad after a sweeping two-day investigation that yielded what senior Obama administration officials described as a flood of international and domestic clues suggesting a plot involving more than one person.

No word on his religion yet but it doesn’t look like he is an angry, white, tea party going Christian. So sorry that the narrative did not work out for you leftists. Again. Maybe you will eventually get lucky and get your angry white man committing an act of terror someday, but not today. There is always, “hope,” right?

Now, according to President Mahmoud INeedAJihad the 9/11 attacks are just a “big lie.” This is different than previous statements he has made on the topic such as in 2007 where his official line was:

At the time, he also told Iranian state TV the attacks were “a result of mismanaging and inhumane managing of the world by the U.S,” and that Washington was using Sept. 11 as an excuse to attack others.

It is amazing how a story can change isn’t it? Now instead of the 9/11 attacks being the result of America’s actions it was, according to the wacko President of Iran, “complicated intelligence scenario and act,” by the United States.

Well, what’s another nutball for the Truther movement I say. Maybe he and Debra Medina can compare notes? And maybe he can give her answers to some of the questions she has surrounding the events of that fateful day since she apparently is not sure what exactly happened.

Eric Holder, the Attorney General of the United States and the same man who pushed hard for the pardon of the FALN terrorists under former President Clinton, has once again proven to be the best friend a terrorist can have. With his announcement that he was moving forward with a civilian court trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a decision he claimed to have made on his very own in order to shield President Obama, Mr. Holder has once again shown America how dangerous liberals are and why they should be absolutely nowhere near our government and our liberties. He has given every terrorist a glimpse of how to attack us in the future. Do not fight us on the battlefield where you will get a military tribunal but rather come to our shores and start attacking our citizens and we will give you a cushy cell and a platform for you to denounce the infidels of the west.

Forget the possibility that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed might not be found guilty by a bunch of people, as the saying goes, too stupid to avoid jury duty. Liberals poo poo the thought. Not like anyone that was clearly guilty has ever been set free right? The fact that our government is even taking this risk when Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has already pleaded guilty in a military court is baffling. But no more baffling than why liberals think that policies where government takes over key aspects of the lives of their citizenry and tried over and over in China, the former Soviet Union, NAZI Germany, France, Great Britain, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea will work this time around simply because they are in charge.

Yeah, I know, liberals get all upset when each and every week I expose how their policies are absolutely horrendous and failures. And I know you liberals that find my columns each week are really upset by the truth. However once again we have yet further proof that liberals are indeed like their fellow travelers from Hitler to Stalin to Mao to Chavez to Castro. In a remarkable move this week President Obama basically declared that the entire trial process of Mr. Mohammed is a show trial.

Yes, that’s right, just like the show trials of the Soviets, the NAZIs and any other of the numerous far left regimes that have plagued this planet for centuries. Oh, but do not take my word for it! Take President Obama’s own words where he all but declares that KSM is guilty and will be put to death.

Speaking to NBC’s Chuck Todd President Obama proclaimed, “I don’t think it will be offensive at all when [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is] convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him.”

Yep, you heard right. KSM is guilty by decree of President Obama. Just like Stalin, Hitler and others have all proclaimed others that they wanted dead, guilty during their own reigns. Of course this lunatic is guilty. But to have the President running around declaring him that after his administration just awarded him a trial by jury?

Gee, it is reassuring to know that Obama is so confident that after everything from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s confession to all information obtained during his detention is thrown out of civilian court because he was never read his Miranda Rights that this terrorist looser will still be found guilty.

And here is a question for you Mr. Obama. Now that you have publicly declared KSM guilty before his trial haven’t you just given him another golden opportunity to make a mockery of America?

I can see this now.

Judge: “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, how do you plead?”

KSM: “Not guilty your honor and my lawyer, Lynn Stewart, would like to make a motion …”

Lynn, the terrorist lover, Stewart (from her jail cell via video conference): “Your honor, due to President Obama’s remarks declaring my client guilty, when he is clearly an innocent man being persecuted by the evil United States, I would like to bring before the court a motion for a change of venue. Obviously my client can no longer receive a fair trial here based on such egregious statements!”

Judge: “Hmmm … I am inclined to grant this motion. Where would you like to propose for a change of venue?”

Lynn, the terrorist lover, Stewart: “We feel that the only place where my client can receive a fair trial is in Iran.”

Judge: “I don’t think that I have the authority to move this court to that location. You need to pick a place within the United States.”

Lynn, the terrorist lover, Stewart: “Well it is obvious that my innocent client could never receive a fair trial within the United States. I move to dismiss all charges.”

Judge: “Reluctantly I agree. The jury pool is clearly tainted. All charges against Mr. Mohammed are summarily dismissed. He is free to go. Bailiff, return Mr. Mohammed’s things including his bomb making materials and his list of CIA operatives operating abroad.”

Oh, yeah, it is all a big joke right? Again, nothing like this could EVER happen in a court of law, right?

O.J. call your office.

Americans keep getting taught important lessons. Americans however also keep ignoring those important lessons. Who knows why exactly they do this. Perhaps they are just too stubborn and too desirous to live in a world that does not exist. We all know that fools abound and surround us so it would not be that hard to imagine.

So here we are once again with another tragedy that did not have to happen and blood spilled. This time it is the blood of soldiers as a lunatic follower of the Religion of Peace took out his guns and mowed them down where they stood. He did this as they prepared to head overseas to fight his radical Islamic terrorists brothers and sisters in arms who want nothing but everyone to kneel before them and their god.

How did this happen? Oh, let us count the ways!

As the days drag on and the families of these soldiers are left to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives, we keep learning more and more about Nidal Malik Hasan. You will note that I will no longer refer to him as Major Nidal Malik Hasan because for all intents and purposes he is no longer a member of our armed services in good standing and does not deserve that honor.
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Apparently our military is still suffering from political correctness because with the information we now have at hand it is obvious that Nidal Malik Hasan should never have been in a uniform and among our soldiers. But no one wanted to do anything about the warning signs apparently. You know, there is a bureaucracy to appease and they certainly did not want to be seen as picking on poor Mr. Hasan because of his radical religion. Oh no … perish the thought!

People have tried to defend him by saying that he was an outcast because of his religion. But what do we learn? We learn that yes, that was indeed true. But it was true because he was continually talking about how right it was for Muslims to stand up against liberty, oppress others and justified suicide bombings! When the half story becomes the full story everything becomes much clearer as usual. But no one wanted to do anything, even as he stood before his fellow soldiers and ignored what he was supposed to be speaking on and ranted and raved about the glory of Allah.

Hasan was on at least one watch list of one government agency after he was found to be trying to contact members of terrorist organizations. Yet no one acted.

He was a troublemaker and lazy. Yet he was promoted.

He was a subpar soldier. So they transferred him to a base where others could pick up the slack that he would inevitably bring.

Oh the perfection and efficiency of government! The evidence that Hasan should have been drummed out of the service and then hauled up on criminal charges is overwhelming. But government bureaucracy did nothing. Americans can only wait and hold their breath until the same things happen with our health care which government now also wants to control. But still even as we have yet another failure of government to look at members of Congress and the mindless sheep that vote for them every couple of years are still ready to give them another chance to screw up our lives, pretend that problems do not exist, promote the incompetents and make us all suffer.

This is the way government works and why it should always be as small as possible. Because the smaller government is the less often it can screw up.

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First, let us recap the past couple of weeks. Over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, Israel has once again taken their own security seriously. At least they have taken it seriously for the time being anyway. After continuing to have rockets fired upon their citizens from Palestinian controlled lands in Gaza, during a period of supposed cease fire with the terrorist group Hamas none the less, the Israelis have answered back in a massive fashion. This has of course in turn caused the typical handwringing of terrorist apologist, appeasers, isolationists and general nitwits around the world that occurs whenever someone dares to defend themselves against continued aggression.

Oh, these people have plenty of ready made excuses to justify their disdain for Israel’s action of course. They claim that the response is “disproportionate”; that Hamas is only firing a handful of rockets and injuring a few Israeli civilians so therefore Israel should not answer with a full scale military bombardment and invasion. They claim that the Palestinians have “legitimate” gripes against Israel that tend to blame Israel for every problem Hamas and previous terrorist groups have not been able to solve for the Palestinian people which, it just so happens, is every problem of the Palestinian people. They claim that Israel is to blame for daring to set up walls and checkpoints but fail to note that those walls and check points are up because Hamas terrorists try to send suicide bombers into Israel to blow up bus loads of civilians and cafes full of women and businessmen.

What you rarely, if ever, hear out of the mouths of the terrorist apologists and their assorted associates is a recognition that the Palestinian people are the ones that elected Hamas to lead them. They are the ones that sit around and let their children watch television shows where the cute characters talk about killing Jews and martyring themselves for the glory of Allah. And you would be darn lucky to hear them ever stand up, with the with the same fervor you currently hear coming from their mouths against Israel, against the repeated Hamas rocket attacks deliberately targeting Israeli civilians.

For years, decades really, Israel has shown restraint and made concession after concession to a group of people who have repeatedly attacked them and violated any number of ceasefire resolutions. For years, again decades really, Israel has responded to repeated attacks on their country, a country mind you that is recognized as having a right to exist by everyone except those radical states engaged in attacking Israel, and done so at times forcibly but mostly half-heartedly. Most of the time when they have responded forcibly they have either been pressured by the international community to restrain themselves and then retreat or have restrained themselves after quickly growing weary of defending themselves.

Shockingly these tactics have not cured any of the problems facing Israel! I know! It is such a huge surprise! Even more shockingly, the attacks by the terrorists keep coming. The bombs continue to go off. The rockets continue to rain down. The extreme factions of Islam continue to call for the destruction of Israel and work tirelessly towards those ends.

The way to solve the problem once and for all however is quite simple, although cruel sounding to those that wish to make continued excuses for terrorists and thugs and those that keep electing them into power. The answer is that the Palestinian people must be made to suffer.

While Hamas attacking Israel appears to be the problem to people looking only upon the surface for answers, the true reason for the current situation is beneath that but still very simple to understand. It is the Palestinian people that keep Hamas in power. It is the Palestinian people who, by their own actions and even inaction, keep a terrorist group in control of their lands.

Kill one Hamas leader and another delusional Palestinian jumps up to take his place. Bomb a rocket launching pad manned by terrorists, wiping them out, and more Palestinians come forward to learn the trade and man the next one. It is a self feeding cycle. While it is true that the Palestinian people suffer greatly under Hamas rule they are still not suffering enough to enact a change. They insanely believe that they suffer worse because of Israel’s actions than because of those of their leaders.

Israel has to push the Palestinian people to the brink of realization that supporting Hamas and the terrorists is the worst option they have. Then they push them over that brink. It means making them suffer the consequences of their own actions to a point where they grow so tired of the death and the destruction that even they will be forced to throw up their hands and proclaim, “Enough!”

Do I recommend that Israel treat the civilians as though they are combatants? No. Should Israel indiscriminately target women and children? No. And thankfully they do not do either of those things except when the terrorists place themselves among such targets and leave Israel with no other option.

But there are some things that Israel should do. They should plow through Gaza until the leaders of Hamas are either dead or they surrender unconditionally. They should fight block to block, street to street and house to house killing anyone that has taken up arms in defense of Hamas. They should blow up every rocket launching pad they can find regardless of location. If it is by a school, blow it up. If it is by a Mosque, blow it up. If it is by a hospital, blow it up. Yeah, they may even hit that school, Mosque or hospital too by accident or kill a few civilians in the blast but the reality is Hamas made it a valid military target the second they set up operations nearby.

Oops. Sorry. That is the reality of war. Don’t like it? Then do something about those terrorists you keep electing.

What Israel needs to do is wash, rinse and repeat this strategy over and over and over again, never pulling out of the “Palestinian Territories” until the Palestinians come crawling on their knees and beg for peace. Only when the civilian population of Gaza is so frustrated with the thought that the Israelis are killing a hundred Palestinians for every one or two Israelis that are merely wounded by haphazard rocket fire and realize that they can never win this battle will there be anything resembling a lasting peace in the region. Only when mothers and fathers are so sick of seeing their sons and daughters being cut down without being able to take a single one of the evil Zionists with them will there be a realization that everything they have been attempting is futile.

Few people thought that Imperial Japan would surrender to the Allies in World War II. But a pair of nuclear weapons dropped on their heads made them come to a quick realization that victory would not be theirs. Only then did warriors who swore to never be taken alive quickly change their tune. When they realized that they would never be afforded the option of victory or an “honorable” death and that their only option was indeed death is when the little light bulb in their noggins went off.

Funny how the certainty of death has a sobering effect is it not?

I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.
A day in September and going to work.
On the way there I was planning my day.
Hearing the news of an attack on our home.
Watching on television as the twin towers were set ablaze.
I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.

I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.
The news of those cowards that killed even more.
As they plowed another plane into the Pentagon.
Those that rallied on board a fourth plane.
Those that sacrificed and put it all on the line in Shanksville, PA.
I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.

I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.
Praying for those that we knew who were dead.
Praying for those that we hoped to have survived.
Confusion that gripped a nation trying to come to a realization as to what happened.
The roar of fighter jets in the sky above.
I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.

I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.
The radicals claiming that this was not over.
How they would make us pay for imagined sins in their own little brains.
The way Americans rallied against the face of evil.
And a man with a bullhorn standing among what was now rubble.
I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.

I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.
A brief moment of unity in Washington, DC.
Unity that quickly started to faded as politics came into play.
A choice to fight back and not cower and hide.
Political back biting and then claims of big lies.
I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.

I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.
Soldiers who prepared to head off for a war.
Others that wrung their hands at the thought of defending our selves.
Brave men and women alike that went overseas.
And not a single one of them forced to do so with a gun to their head.
I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.

I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.
A powerful defeat of the evil from that September day.
And others that plotted and told us that this was all wrong.
The betrayal of our men, our women, our country.
Slurs comparing our soldiers to NAZIs, Pol Pot and others.
I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.

I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.
Hollow men of a by gone era implying our soldiers were murderers.
Vigorous defense of such claims and trumped up charges.
The faces of men and women with purple fingers and with some more liberty than the day before.
And anger in my gut at those who claimed that it was still all wrong.
I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.

I have not forgotten, nor will I forget.
That for one shining moment a belief in liberty united us all.
A belief that all were given by God himself the right to such.
How many have tried to taint our reaction.
How many have tried to claim it was too much.
How many have tried to lie about why all was done.
How many have at every turn worked to undermine the mission.
How many have sought to do so for no other reason than the pursuit of their own power.
How many have sought to use these lies to rally against doing what was right and just to take America down a notch.
How evil still exists and continues to plot our demise.
How the dead are still gone and without vigilance and determination more will leave us.
No, I certainly have not forgotten.
And you bet your ass I will never, ever forget.

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But what really is the concept of blowback?  It’s actually a one word statement of a longer common principle we are all familiar with; every action has an equal and opposite reaction.  “Blowback” is simply the consequences of one’s actions.  And despite the way it is often used by simple minds to try and justify their simple opinions, creating blowback is not carte blanche bad.  It is simply the product of action.

You do A and B results.  That is “blowback”.  And it varies in degrees.

Let’s say I decide in the spring to plant tomatoes instead of potatoes.  But come harvest I want some nice crisp french fries.  Well, then I’ll have to go to the store and spend money on potatoes someone else grew.  Blowback.

Maybe you decide to rob a bank to try and make a quick couple bucks and get shot by the cops in the process.  Blowback.

My neighbor decides he wants to park his truck illegally on the no parking side of the street outside of his house and the cops show up to give him a ticket.  Blowback.

He then gets upset and decides to complain about people actually parking legally on the side of the street where parking is allowed and makes a butthole of himself and ticks off his neighbors.  Blowback yet again.

A man shoots a woman in broad daylight in front of twenty people and no one comes forward to finger the perpetrator.  When the neighborhood becomes riddled with crime because no one has any courage, that’s blowback too.

What if some brave man actually comes forward and agrees to testify against the criminal only to have his life threatened by the members of a local gang to which the criminal belongs?  Yep, you guessed it – blowback.

The gang members succeed in shooting him dead?  Very unfortunate blowback.

Try to eliminate unconstitutional spending on social programs like Welfare and don’t get enough votes from those wedded to such socialist policies to be re-elected?  Blowback raises its ugly head yet again.

When the founding fathers decided to declare independence from Great Britian and the result was thousand of dead Americans during two wars that followed what was that?  Uh, huh.  Blowback.

Decide that paying tribute to Muslim pirates who were enslaving American citizens and get even more piracy and more Americans forced into slavery as a result of the appeasement? Yep, blowback strikes again.

Declare war on NAZI Germany who is waging a war of aggression, slaughtering millions of Jews in ovens and gas chambers, have American men and women die in the ensuing war and draw the ire of several nations for fighting against them and such an atrocity?  There’s that blowback thingy again.

Promise to help a group out if only they would rise up and start to overthrow their dictatorial leader only to not show up and make good on your promise and have them hate you now too?  Ouch.  Blowback!

Now, what do we see through all these real world examples?  Well, we see clearly that sometimes this phenomena called blowback is a bad thing that actually can come from doing the right thing just as it can come from doing the wrong thing.  That is not something people looking for a nice, short, one size fits all catch phrase like to have to be exposed to however.  To them decrying “blowback” is a simple way to defend their position regardless of whether or not it is sound.

“Blowback” is bad.  And according to their theory, being bad it must be avoided.  But the problem is that it ultimately cannot be avoided.  It’s a catch 22.  Sort of damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

I generally tend to find that those who decry “blowback” as a reason against action in everything from local to foreign affairs are people that just don’t want to deal with consequences and making moral judgments.  Even though by taking such a tactic they are still having to deal with consequences and are making moral judgments. To quote a famous lyrical line, “if you chose not to decide you still have made a choice.”  And you are probably no better prepared to deal with the inevitable blowback that decision results in I’m sad to say.

As we see in the example above where the locals refuse to finger a criminal, confront evil and chose inaction for fear of “blowback”, they still get blowback just the same.

On an international scale, fear of blowback is often perpetrated by those that have an “I’ve got mine now go fend for damn yourself” mentality who forget our own history of asking for and receiving help from the likes of France during our own revolution.

But history is not important.  Remember, they’ve got theirs.  No go away!  Don’t ask them for help.  Shoo!

Blowback happens.  Much like excrement I’m sad to say.  It’s a fact.  Whether you chose to act or opt instead for inaction you get blowback of one form or another.  Whether you chose to act or opt instead for inaction, I have bad news for you, someone is not going to like you.  Maybe that dislike is justified or maybe it is irrational.  But that doesn’t matter.

Decrying “blowback” as a reason not to act is silly.  Especially knowing this.  Choosing not to act and intervene on behalf of someone in a given situation against evil is still a choice.  A very, very bad choice.  And all you have done by making such a bad choice is possibly created two enemies instead of one; the evil which probably already hates you and the people that would have been willing to be your friend, even if tentatively, had you helped them.  At best you’ve created only one new enemy.  Which is one more than you had previously.

All actions we take result in another action which result in another action which in turn result in another action whether we chose to remain neutral, stand by side A or ally with side B.  Decrying “blowback” and quaking before the possibility of the ifs and buts that might come as the result of ones actions is really nothing more than justifying cowardice.  And it can be paralyzing for some.

Choosing not to decide or choosing to not do what is right on purpose can have just as dire of consequences as making poor choices and decisions.  Making reasoned choices is important and good.  Being paralyzed by fear is bad.

Make no mistake, I am not suggesting the United States run around the world lending our military to every cause.  I’ve talked about making reasoned choices in how we act and not every situation requires that we do.  But each situation does require independent thought.  And if in the end action is a sound choice it should be taken.

In the end, the best thing is to simply do the right thing.  The best thing to do is stand by people who want to at least try for liberty and some semblance of freedom.  Just remember that they, like you, are probably not perfect.  They will make mistakes in that pursuit and you probably will not agree with everything they themselves want to do in their quest.

But it’s best to give them a chance if you think they are honest and sincere in their desire. Because the blowback is coming whether you like it or not; whether you act or not.  That’s called reality.

Much like the continuation of the war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq instigated by years of violating every aspect of the ceasefire which kept him from assuming tent temperature after being routed in 1991, the majority of Americans appear to favor striking at yet another foe of the United States and her allies. At least for now until American soldiers begin dying in a number they arbitrarily deem to be unacceptable most likely. Or maybe there is an off chance they will be able to hang in there until the media tells them that the ensuing war is a failure?

Iran has been threatening the world for years. Only the willfully blind and mentally retarded haven’t seen it and I have to apologize to the mentally retarded for lumping them in with people who should know better but are too entrenched in their own ideology to admit it. From promising to wipe Israel from the face of the Earth and push the Jews into the sea to arming terrorists in Iraq, the Iranian leadership has taken what the world has let them have. The only question right now is whether or not the world is willing to let them have a nuclear weapon capable of killing thousands in a single blow to make good on their threats.

Some nations have already said by their actions that an Iranian bomb is just fine with them. Some countries have worked hand in hand with the radical leadership of that nation for years to help push this technology and their nuclear program along.

I just want it to be clear that make no mistake, if we bomb (and justly so) Iran’s nuclear facilities or the Quds Force which is helping the faltering insurgency in Iraq there will be war. And it is not likely to be a war that will be completed in thirty minutes or less like your pizza. You will not be able to complain that you were “lied” to or “mislead” in a pathetic attempt to justify your lack of interest in the bloodshed that will commence.

If you support bombing Iran now will you become another in a long line of chickenhawks? Will you be hawkish enough to send soldiers to the fight but too chicken to finish it like so many in America are with the current war on terror? Because we don’t need any more of those sorts of people. We have plenty of them right now.

Yes, I know that right now I’m being labeled as a warmonger by simpletons (again the willfully blind) who would rather stick their head in the sand and hope that the world and all the troubles in it would pass them by. But I expect such nonsensical rhetoric from shallow individuals who abide by ideology over truth. And that truth is that there are bad people in the world. It’s not like I am suggesting we bomb Aruba to acquire some nice resort properties or something silly like that and advocating attacking someone that has done nothing to threaten harm to anyone.

So think carefully before you answer my original question.

Iranian President Mahmoud INeedAJihad and the radicals he leads are certainly not much more than a paper tiger or a roaring flea, but as many of the chickenhawks now running for the tall grass with regards to Iraq have found out it only takes a small and determined group of fanatics to cause more carnage than you might expect. Sure the carnage looks gruesome and they will not win the war because of it, but they will sure test your patience and your commitment.

A strike against Iran will provoke a response. But it is a response the United States and her allies can handle. Just do not poke the hornets nest unless you are ready to get stung. My fear is that most Americans are not willing to get stung however. And then it will only be a matter of time before the hornets swarm and sting anyway.

Hello Domino’s? Where’s our pizza?

Of course, they only succeed in this pursuit when discussing the Constitution amongst themselves.  When they journey out into the real world they run into people like myself who have spent a lot of time discussing how they distort and down right lie about what is in the document that established our current government.  When they try to engage in their favorite sport with normal Americans who are not willfully blind as to what the Constitution says and have a grasp of the English language beyond that of a first grader, they fail miserably with their spin which always leads to interesting, if not ignorant, slogans, rants and shout fests.

Rep. John “Cut and Run” Murtha may just be finding out that he and his liberal brethren have stretched the Constitution as far as the Constitution is willing to stretch even with a healthy suspension of logic, history and basic English however.  Last week, U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer ordered Rep. Murtha to give a sworn deposition in the case brought against him by Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich relating to his unwise, ignorant and self-serving comments about the marines in Haditha participating in “cold-blooded murder and war crimes”.  It is important to note that the case against these Marines has fallen apart.

Murtha’s defense, which was rejected so far by the judge, was that Murtha was immune from prosecution and even questioning about the incident because those comments were made while acting in his official role as a United States Representative.  This is an apparent reference to Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution and his “interpretation” of what it says which might get by people unable to actually read the Constitution.  But since I actually can, it isn’t going to fly with me and apparently not with the judge either.

For the record, Article I, Section 6 states in it’s entirety: “The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.”

The long and the short of this section is that if you are an elected representative of the United States in either house of Congress you cannot be arrested while the Congress is in session, nor can you be arrested while traveling to or from said session.  It also grants immunity from prosecution for any “speech” or “debate” that takes place on the floor by saying that they “shall not be questioned in any other Place”.  Which would include a court of law.  The exceptions to this are of course given as when the Representative or Senator commits a Felony, Treason or “Breach of the Peace”.

Notice there is no exemption for acting in your “official role” beyond these limited descriptions.  It is important to note at this time that John “Our Troops Are Murderers” Murtha made the statements with regards to our soldiers and promulgated his charges at places other than during a “speech” or “debate” in the House such as at press conferences and on Chris Matthew’s television program.

So is he immune?  Should he not be questioned?  Should he just be free to continue to make these assertions? Not unless you really, really stretch the meaning of the Constitution and read between the lines by inserting language that isn’t there.  Making such statements during Speeches and Debates in the House may be deplorable and anti-American in as much that they were made without evidence and to prejudice the case against the Marines to promote John Murtha’s delusions, but his despicable acts would be protected.  However once he steps out of the Halls of Congress he has no more protection.

He is not being arrested either.  This is a civil suit, not a criminal matter.  So again, Article I, Section 6 does not apply.  Now, if he refuses the order to comply he could be faced with an arrestable offense such as contempt of court.  In such a case, he had better convince the House to remain in permanent session and always be in a constant state of travel to and from the Capitol when it is to avoid arrest.

You could also make a strong case that his words provided aid and comfort to the enemy since the Haditha incident was used by our enemies against America and freedom seeking Iraqis.  And since Treason is a clear exemption to this clause as well as the first amendment I certainly would be looking over my shoulder if I were Mr. Murtha.

But it’s just the Constitution.  Right?  And since when do liberals actually care about what the Constitution actually says? Since when do Congressmen care that their power is not unlimited?  So I am sure that John “Where’s My White Flag?” Murtha will continue to whine and twist and squirm in an attempt to avoid the truth.

All the while his fellow members of Congress can continue to their smoke screen to cover their own failures.  They can run cover for him and promulgate abuses of their power by waging a dog and pony show over things Rush Limbaugh didn’t even say with regards to our troops who are serving bravely over in Iraq and slamming General Petraeus and calling our troops NAZIs, stupid and anything else that they can think of.  All for what?  In order to try and further convince moonbats who naively believe that the troops really do agree with their stance on the war? Despite the fact that they are continually signing up and even re-upping to serve in a time of war for a mission the liberals detest so much?

Perhaps we are finally getting to a point where the Constitution has been stretched as far as it can be by the left to support their ideas and goals.  But even if it has, I doubt they will stop trying to stretch it even further.  At which point it is only a matter of whether it will snap back like a rubber band and leave a massive welt or completely break.

God help us if it is that latter.

Hey dude, what’s up!  I see you managed to give in to your vanity, finally pick up some of that “Just for Islamic Wackos” and take care of that gray beard of yours.  It really wasn’t very distinguished anyway.  Are they paying you well for your promotion of their product?  I should warn you however that they do use pig fat in the manufacturing of the product.

But enough small talk.  I’m glad to see that you decided to pop your little head out of your cave but I remind you it is still just a lowly cave.  Remember that.  Remember that it is you that is in that cave, cowering like a little schoolgirl and talking about how it is so great that other people are blowing themselves up in the name of Islam while you, I’ll remind you again, are hiding in a cave.  What’s the matter?  Haven’t you been able to find a bomb belt that matches your shoes yet?

Who was it that was just in Iraq?  Oh, that’s right!  It was President George Bush!  Not the “mighty” Usama!

You’d like people to believe that we are losing this war and that you and your gang of maniacs who believe women are second-class citizens and should be stoned if they are raped are winning.  But how is it that if we are supposedly losing this war you decided to start that it is our leaders who are able to walk around on the battlefield like they own the place while you, I repeat, are hiding in a cave?  This isn’t golf Usama.  You don’t get scored based on a handicapping system!

But apparently you aren’t so isolated that you haven’t been able to receive your email and the latest MoveOn.org talking points, Democratic Party fund raising letters, your subscription to the New York Times and also receive CNN on your satellite dish.  Maybe next time MoveOn.org decides to take out a full-page ad in the New York Times they should just put you up as their spokesman since the two of you seem to agree on so much.  Your  people should call their people assuming they haven’t already.

Thank you for your concern over issues so pressing to your failing jihad such as our mortgage interest rates.  I’m sure that there might be some here in the States that would give a hoot about your opinion on that, Nancy Pelosi, Cindy Sheehan and John Murtha come to mind, but most of us don’t honestly give darn about your opinion on that topic.

Also, I’m glad to see that your collection of writings by Noam Chomsky remains intact and I am certain that you and he are on each other’s speed dial. It is truly illuminating when you chose to cite another American hating scumbag.  It also shows your allegiance with the political ideology of our own political left who seek to enslave people to their will through any means by which they can convince them to cede their liberties.

I also like how you worked in the issue on every barking moonbat’s mind these days; Global Warming.  Nice touch.  It really makes them look like even bigger loons when you, the King of Loons, support their ideas and start bringing their rantings and ravings into your speeches.  The fact that you would choose to cite so many talking points and sound like a raving liberal should be noted by all who listen.

By the way, how much methane is in a camel’s fart anyway?  Doesn’t that awful smell get on your nerves after a while? Why don’t you go out and take a sample from your wife in the cave next door and have it tested for us.  How many humps does she have?  One or two?  You haven’t sent a picture yet of the wedding which I eagerly await.

We’d love to see how “green” you are.  Somehow I suspect about as “green” as Al Gore after getting caught once again spewing CO2 into the atmosphere while telling the rest of us to cut back.  But of course we know you are a hypocrite.  Can I reiterate that we are still waiting for you to strap a bomb belt on yourself?

I’m sure that gas powered generator from about 1985 which powers your lone light bulb and allows you to see that ugly mug of yours in the mirror every afternoon after you finally stop cowering under your blankets because you thought you heard a jet in the background and your broken down old military transport from the 1960′s are really “green”!

But then again, you aren’t exactly in a place right now where you can actually enjoy the creature comforts of civilized society.  Even the average Iraqi is doing better than your pathetic rear-end.  Which I am sure really gets your camel.

So since you don’t have running water and reliable electricity, I suppose that is as good of a dead horse for you to beat as any right?  Maybe we can get Harry Reid to slip an earmark or two in a bill for a couple million dollars to upgrade your lifestyle. But meanwhile you and Al Gore should get together and hold a summit.  He can send his private jet over to pick you up.  Hey, then you could actually use a real toilet, while on the plane at least, rather than squatting over a hole and wiping with your hand for a change!

Maybe, just maybe, if you were as concerned about how your hind end is getting kicked from one end of the globe to the other as you are over issues of pressing interest to liberals around the world you might actually stand a fraction of a chance of winning.  But honestly, you sound like the schoolyard bully.  You talk a good game, but when it comes time to fight you are nowhere to be found.  Perhaps you should just put on your burka and have what’s left of your manhood snipped off and start going by the name Usamette.

And while I appreciate and understand that you keep “warning” us and giving us an opportunity to become as insane as you are because you believe that it will give you justification when you finally manage, through sheer luck, to hit us again I will emphatically decline once again.

And speaking of which, what’s up with you?  I mean, six years?  All we’ve been hearing from you and your fellow maniacs since September 11th, 2001 was how all these grand attacks were going to happen on U.S. soil.  But so far not a thing.  Eventually you either have to crap or get off the pot Usama!  And so far you are a dog without much bite.  A dog in hiding I might remind you yet again.

Oh, sure we’ve had the occasional Jihadist snipe at people at gas stations or run an SUV through a crowd, but nothing of any merit and worthy of the “mighty” Usama “the has been” Laden.

I mean, really Usama, throw us a freaking bone here!  Or are you afraid that if you actually did do something that you’d face the same kind of united front that there was on September 12th, 2001 to find you and skin you alive?  If I were you I certainly would!  Because I doubt this time around the wimps will start breaking ranks within a couple days and wringing their hands.  Well, except for maybe Dennis Kucinich.  You can probably count on him to praise you and condemn the United States but we’ll deal with him later.

So, in closing, I would like to say that that if you have any of those pathetic followers of yours who are really itching to get their one way ticket to Hell and receive their seventy-two camel faced women that no man except for a pimple faced jihadi would touch with a ten foot pole, send them my way.  I’ve got a lot of ammunition and will be happy to expedite their travel plans and punch their tickets.

So get back to me Usama.  Until we talk again.

Laus Deo,

Mr. Jackson, American Infidel and Proud of it!

P.S. Your “Allah” can kiss my hairy white butt!