As the latest bit of insanity from a man who in his own mind (and the minds of about 10% of the Republican Party) thinks he can be not just President, but a good President at that, Ron Paul is denouncing the US for “assassinating” a US citizen. The remarks came today in New Hampshire.

Which US citizen has the US assassinated you ask? Well, this morning Anwar Al-Awlaki assumed room temperature after assuming a temperate of quite a bit higher after being struck by a bomb. Al-Awlaki has been waging war against the Unites States and has been recruiting people to wage war against the United States. He was killed as anyone on he field of battle would have been. No quarter was given. Nor should it have been.

But if Ron Paul had his way, we would never be able to kill a terrorist if they were a US Citizen. God only knows what he would have done. Perhaps he would have put up a big roadblock with bright lights and sirens and dispatched two or three hundred troops, putting all of them in harms way mind you, and demanded that Al-Awlaki be taken into custody (of course he would come willingly right?) and be done so with nothing more threatening than a Q-tip? Yeah. Ok there Mr. Paul. Just go back to sending out requests for earmarks that you claim to be so much against and then pathetically spin your excuse for your blindly loyal followers as to why you are not a hypocrite.

Oh, and please, all you Paulbots who go into fits of rage akin to that a liberal pantywaist every time someone says the uncomfortable truth about “your man”? Don’t bother writing me to complain. You will just be wading your breath.

Boo hoo! Ron Paul is no libertarian. He is what we libertarians call weapon’s grade crazy!

The names of the men are: Irfan Nasser, Irfan Khalid, Ashik Ali, Rahin Ahmed, Bahader Ali and Mohammed Rizwan.

Hmmm. My guess is once again we are seeing the work of Radical Islamists here in the name of Allah. What say you?

So how will the yummy brains at the TSA respond to this new threat? Well let’s look at their track record so far.

When terrorists tried blowing up a plane with a shoe bomb we had to take off our shoes at security. When terrorists wanted to bring liquid components onto planes and try to assemble the bomb on board we were not allowed to carry liquids on planes. When the underwear bomber failed the TSA started plans to use full body scanners and conduct grope sessions at security checkpoints.

So what is the obvious TSA response to implanted bombs? Well duh! Obviously random dissections of passengers!

Excuse me sir? Yes you, the 53 year old gray haired grandfather. You have been selected for our enhanced internal cavity screening. Please kiss you wife and children goodbye as you will not likely survive the procedure. But the plane will be safe!

And I am sure that “Blogger Bob” over at the TSA’s official blog will tell us all how this is constitutional and to stop complaining. Hey. It is what he does. It is what his handlers tell him to do.

Since then it has only gotten worse and now they are admitting it. Amid questions about why Libyan rebels get US aide and air strikes while rebels in other countries do not, the administration’s deputy national security adviser, Denis McDonough, annunciated the Obama Doctrine.
the Hill:

“We don’t make decisions about questions like intervention based on consistency or precedent,” said Denis McDonough, the administration’s deputy national security adviser, amid an off-camera gaggle of reporters. “We make them based on how we can best advance our interests in the region.”

This of course covers Obama’s ass when he does not do the same thing elsewhere. And of course it explains how a man who railed against Iraq can justify Libya. After all consistency has nothing to do with anything.

What a concept! What a copout!

Feds bust suspected Yemeni terror ring in N.C.
Convenience stores, mosque raided in alleged al-Qaida finance scheme

Federal agents have raided several convenience stores and a mosque in tiny Henderson, N.C., while arresting at least two Muslim men in connection with the raid.

Authorities suspect the stores were operating a so-called hawala money-transfer network supporting terrorist activities in Yemen, including al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, WND has learned. AQAP’s leaders include fugitive al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been linked to 10 major terror plots in the past year alone.

Mohamed Mohamed Nagi, 33, and Abdullah Ahmed Almuwallad, 32, have been charged with food stamp fraud. Additionally, Almuwallad has been charged with transporting stolen cigarettes and possession of the illegal stimulant cathinone, more commonly known a khat. Khat is popular in many countries of the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa, but in Yemen it’s a full-blown national addiction.

Muslim men involved in terror plots? Unheard of! We all know that it is white males who express a desire for limited government and who actually, gasp, think that they have a right to keep and bear arms because the Constitution says so who are the REAL terrorists! Right?

This must be a mistake. These poor men must have been really members of the Knights of Columbus or possibly the Elks Club and their real names surely must be John Smith and Harry Rodgers. Because this is completely out of character for members of the “Religion of Peace.”

So with the Thanksgiving weekend upon us as you travel please consider the following twenty-five fun activities to partake of at security checkpoints when you travel. Please note however that doing any of the following items will probably not be well received by the TSA agents at any airport who are very gruff and not happy at all when they are made an even bigger joke than they already are. But hey, if you are feeling a little frisky, go for it and make sure that you have your video camera rolling when you do.

1) Wear a shirt saying, “I was sexually assaulted by the TSA and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!”
2) When asked to go through a full body scanner and have a naked picture of yourself taken, turn to the TSA agent watching over you and tell them that you would like one 8×10, two 5×7’s and a sheet of wallets.
3) Pretend there is someone standing next to you. Carry out a serious conversation with your imaginary friend the entire time you are in line. After the TSA agent makes you go through the full security procedure but fails to acknowledge your imaginary friend, start questioning why he (or she) is so special as to not warrant screening. Ask them seriously if it is because he (or she) is Muslim and they do not want to be accused of profiling.
4) Take a copy of your pocket Constitution out and while standing in line repeatedly read, in an assertive voice, the fourth and fourteenth amendments.
5) Pretend to be a schizophrenic with two distinct personalities; one conservative and one liberal. Start a fight with yourself about whether or not the latest enhanced security procedures constitute a violation of your rights. End with the liberal personality calling your conservative personality a, “homophobic, bigoted Islamophobe.”
6) Make sure to have one of those stereotypical porno soundtracks, the ones that sound like Boom Chickah Waaah Waaaaaaaah, loaded on your iPhone and play it any time you are selected for the enhanced pat down.
7) After passing through security, turn and shake the hand of the nearest TSA agent and in a pitying voice say, “Some people say that people ‘like you’ cannot function in society. But it is so good to see the federal government at least giving you a chance.”
8 ) If you have young children such as infants or not yet toilet trained toddlers, pack a diaper bag full of stinky, used diapers and insist that it be searched thoroughly by hand. Or, better yet, leave it unclaimed on the screening conveyor belt and just walk away. Eventually someone will have to look inside.
9) Following up on the diaper theme … wear an adult diaper yourself and use it as much as possible before passing through security. That should give the screener a nice surprise during the pat down!
10) Pretend, in a mime like fashion, that there is an invisible wall around the full body scanner you are directed to use. Then shrug your shoulders and wait patiently for the TSA agent to unlock the imaginary door.
11) Comment that the agents at the check point, “are not security professionals highly trained in the detection of terrorists … but they did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”
12) Ask to join the TSA’s Frequent Groping Program and ask how many points you earn for each frisk, what you can redeem them for and if there are any blackout dates.
13) Ask annoyingly pointless questions of every TSA agent that you see. Examples include, “Do these jeans make my butt look big?” “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop?” “Do you know the way to San Jose?” and “What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”
14) Wear clothes that are several sizes too big and when you are put into a full body scanner start sinking to the ground crying, “I’m melting … mellllllting,” like the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz.
15) Any time a TSA agent asks you a question, respond by telling them, “That information is classified,” and indignantly tell them, “You are not cleared to be briefed on that.”
16) Stand before the check point and start calling out, “Ok, all you white, middle class Americans of European heritage, please proceed directly to the enhanced screening areas, remove all items from your pockets and prepared to be searched! All of you of Arabic or Persian origins, ESPECIALLY if you are Muslim, please proceed to the nearest speedy pass lane. No waiting! No enhanced scrutiny!”
17) Tell the TSA that as a proud member of the Tea Party Movement, and knowing how the government thinks persons as yourself are the real threats to American National Security, you insist on having the enhanced, enhanced, double grope pat down including full body cavity search with a twist.
18) Demand to see the credentials of every TSA agent you come into contact with and who wants to touch or view you or your luggage. Take five minutes to review fully each credential while nodding and saying, “Hmmmmm” a lot. Insistently question them about their activities up until you and they crossed paths. Ask questions like, “Has this badge been in your possession at all times?” and “So where are you off to today?”
19) While being patted down, constantly try to ask the TSA agent doing the frisking out on a date.
20) Present the TSA agent with a Get Out Of Jail Free card from the board game Monopoly and demand to be let through the check point unmolested.
21) Purchase one of those paper thin hospital gowns with the slit down the back and wear it instead of clothes to the airport when you plan to travel.
22) Arrive at the checkpoint wearing S&M paraphernalia. Vehemently refuse the full body scan and insist upon an “enhanced” pat down. Make the TSA agent wait while you put on your ball gag. After being frisked, angrily ask to speak to a supervisor. When he or she asks what the problem is, call out loudly, “You call that an ENHANCED pat down! I demand better!”
23) If chosen for an enhanced pat down and you are a man, when they try to have a man perform the pat down act indignant. Politely inform the TSA that you are a lesbian trapped in a man’s body and you demand to be frisked by the cutest female TSA agent to be found. If you are a woman, proclaim yourself a gay man trapped in a woman’s body and demand the sexiest TSA male agent that can be found pat you down.
24) Pretend to be Dustin Hoffman from the movie Rain Man. While rocking your body back and forth constantly mutter to yourself phrases like, “You’re an excellent screener,” “Uh oh, fifteen minutes to sexual assault,” and especially after being screened say, “Definitely feel violated, definitely, definitely violated.”
25) If you are traveling with a child, train them to ask loudly after going through an enhanced pat down procedure, “Mommy, didn’t the guards at the NAZI prison camps also just say that they were ‘following orders’?”

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Sort of like … oh I don’t know … like how Muslims who keep talking about how they want to promote peace and understanding shouldn’t be even thinking about putting up a Mosque at ground zero or even in the immediate vicinity thereof. They of course have a right to do it. But it is a highly insensitive plan considering that it was wackjob Muslims who flew planes into the World Trade Center Towers on a fateful September morning nine years ago. And it is especially tactless considering that it has been standard operating procedure for Muslims over the centuries to build holy shrines on the sites of their conquests.

Yeah, call me silly for saying that ulterior motives will always be suspected if that Mosque goes up. Forgive me for thinking. I know that such an act is unpopular these days because thinking leads to uncomfortable realizations. But thinking some more anyway, and ticking off those who hate the fact that I do it, we all know damn well that radical lunatics from around the world will make pilgrimages to the proposed New York City mosque to celebrate the Islamic conquest of the infidels. Deny this if you like. But you only show how ignorant you are of those that think like those nineteen hijackers on September 11th, 2001.

Yes, it is September 11th again. How did you guess? And once again it seems to be fashionable on the run up to this day every year that some people seem Hell bent on finding new and innovative ways to blame America for the anger of radical Muslims around the world. That is precisely why I started out this article with a mention of Mr. Jones.

See, because Mr. Jones has threatened to defile the sacred book of Islam, radical Muslims around the world are once again rushing to partake of their favorite pastime which is rioting, protesting and denouncing America. There will be flag burning and maybe even a beheading or three. These loons are using Mr. Jones as the latest reason to take to the streets and shout, “death to America!” Please note that when those nineteen hijackers flew planes full of civilians into several targets up and down the east coast these same people did not condemn the act but also, not surprisingly, cheered in the streets, lit American flags on fire and denounced the, “Great Satan.”

The mainstream media has also chimed in this week to tell the tale it is Mr. Jones who is provoking Muslims to act this way by threatening to burn Qur’ans. Also chiming in on the issue and wringing their hands over the action of lunatic Muslims has been General Petraeus and President Obama. Not to be outdone, Governor Eddie Rendell here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has also expressed outrage over Mr. Jones and his threatened act of desecration. Guess he needs something to keep his name in lights for the few remaining months he has in office.

This tale however about Mr. Jones inciting the Muslim street, if the truth be told, is actually a blatantly false storyline that is being fed to Americans. Radical Muslims do not need Mr. Jones as an excuse to hit the pavement and make asses out of themselves and show the world why goofballs like them need to be taken seriously and dealt with severely.

The list of things that offends radical Muslims is long. There is never a shortage of reasons for radical Islamists to riot in the streets. By my count there are now somewhere around three and a half million known items on this infamous list and any one of them sets off a riot and condemnation of America. More items are added every day as current ones just are not sufficient enough reasons to riot.

We know well the most notable items that cause radical Muslims to jump into contortions. Defile or even threaten to defile their holy book is right up there at number one. Support Israel when they are being bombed by Hezbollah or Hamas, draw a picture of Mohammed, perhaps with a bomb in his turban, or dare to speak ill of a Muslim nut job like Mahmoud I-Need-A-Jihad over in Iran and well we know that the radical Islamists will go nuts, pour into the streets and denounce America.

Heck, even if you mention how odd it is that one of the things that does not drive radical Muslims into a tizzy is the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children in flaming airplanes of death you get you standard, boilerplate, Islamic Wacko riot.

Other things on this long, very long, list that drives the radical Muslims into riot mode includes Christians, women daring not to cover their hair, bare female ankles, butterflies in Acapulco, the color puce, Orville Redenbacher popcorn, salt water, fresh water, having no water, the pathetic acting of Jake Lloyd in Star Wars: Episode 1, the sky being blue, piñatas, Riverdance, Minni Riperton’s “Loving You”, the Big Mouth Billy Bass singing fish novelty, the fact that the Big Mouth Billy Bass singing fish novelty doesn’t sign “Lovin’ You” by Minnie Riperton so that they can hate it even more, squirrels, sand in their sandals, Facebook, the Swedish Bikini Team, Mario Mendozia’s lifetime batting average of just 0.215, Pop Tarts, the moon, not having a sharp enough knife for which to cut out the hearts of unbelievers, people who spell the name of their holy book as Koran instead of Qur’an and people who spell the name of their holy book as Qur’an instead of Koran. Even soap and people bathing drives them to the streets with lighters, American Flags and gasoline in tow. Heck, this article alone is enough to send a radical Jihadi on the warpath because it is written by an infidel.

So forgive me for not buying the line that Mr. Jones is the reason radical Muslims are protesting and condemning America today. History shows us that these goofs protest America at the drop of a hat even if America has nothing to do with whoever dropped said hat. Mr. Jones may be looking to get a rise out of radical Islamist wackjobs, but they were radical Islamist wackjobs before his announcement and they will be radical Islamist wackjobs after September 11th comes and goes again this year regardless of what may happen on that day.

And as sure as the sun will rise in the east, these radical Islamist wackos will find something else to be upset about tomorrow so that they can hit the streets and riot again. After all, their only export is videos of their insanity and their lunatic rants.

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J.J. Jackson is a libertarian conservative author from Pittsburgh, PA who has been writing and promoting individual liberty since 1993 and is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. He is the Pittsburgh Conservative Examiner for Examiner.com. He is also the owner of The Right Things – Conservative T-shirts & Gifts http://www.cafepress.com/rightthings. His weekly commentary along with exclusives not available anywhere else can be found at http://www.libertyreborn.com

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?