Joel's Rant

Here’s a story that should make blood shoot from your eyes.  Three Navy SEALs are going to a court martial in January for the crime of punching a terrorist in the stomach.  And the evidence against them is the word of the terrorist.  Are you getting this?

There is something very bad happening to our country.  We are completely losing our sense of “right” vs. “wrong” and maybe even “good” vs. “evil”. 

Who was the terrorist that was punched?  You might recall back in 2004 that a terrorist group in Fallujah, Iraq ambushed four Blackwater guards and murdered them. After that their bodies were burned, dragged through the city and then two of bodies were hung from a bridge for the world to see and photograph.  Ahmed Hashim Abed, the man captured by the Navy Seals, was the leader of that terrorist group.

Some hours after he was captured he alleged to a group of Iraqis that he had been punched, and that’s where we are today.  A terrorist makes a claim of merely being punched, in a war zone and while in the act of being captured mind you, and three American warriors are placed in career ending jeopardy and perhaps even worse.  Instead of being hailed as hero’s these SEALs are arrested.  Is this crazy, stupid or diabolical?  This can only be characterized as one or more of those, right?

We are clearly living in some sort of “bizarro world” in which enemies are victims, down is up and yes is no, no?  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 massacre, is provided constitutional rights and a world-class pulpit from which to denounce America. The CIA intelligence officers that waterboarded KSM and got him to spill his guts about Al Qaeda and other terrorist plans, which included the plot to fly planes into buildings in Los Angeles, are put on criminal trial.  The attorney general, Eric Holder, tells a Senate hearing that there are terrorists that have been captured, and others that will be captured, that were read Miranda warnings and that may eventually include Osama bin Laden himself.

Just a few weeks ago an Islamic terrorist attacked and killed 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas and the President of the United States essentially refers to it as merely an unfortunate incident instead of what it was.  When he first reported the attack to the nation it was only after first joking with some Native Americans attending a meeting in Washington.  In fact, the Army Chief of Staff says on national television that the incident’s biggest loser, in effect his biggest worry, is that the “ethnic diversity” of the military could suffer. 

A few months earlier an Islamist terrorist attacked and killed an Army recruiter in Arkansas and there’s virtually no media or political discussion about it at all, other than some perfunctory mention of it in the evening news.  And the examples of stupidity and dangerous behavior by our dear leaders go on and on.

Fighting a war is dirty business.  As George Orwell once said “….we sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those that would do us harm.”

The defense of our nation requires a special breed of operative or warrior to undertake dangerous and thankless missions, most of the time for which they get no glamour or glory.  Judicial proceedings like this against the SEALs, while providing terrorists with the full rights and protections of an American citizen, proves that our leaders have stacked the deck against us, that there now exists a disturbing difference between the people of our country and the elites of our country and something needs to be changed.  One can only hope.

A country that prosecutes its heroes and protects its enemies is not a serious nation.  And that’s all there is to it.

 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576646,00.html

In his 1993 State of the Union speech Bill Clinton stated emphatically that the economy would collapse without passing health care reform that year.  If you see the video below you’ll see how energized his remarks were, how the sky was about to fall, that everything we knew would cease to exist and all that.
 
The same goes for Barack Obama.  Everything will fail unless we do what he says…..and it must be done immediately.  Health care reform, bailouts, stimulus plans, more stimulus plans, trillions upon trillion and on and on and do it immediately, it must be done immediately.
 
But our warriors are presently fighting in Afghanistan and need reinforcements for the “necessary war” and the dithering goes on.  Always contemplating to “get it right”.  The hand-picked field commander and the genius who won the war in Iraq both say they need reinforcements to win in Afghanistan and this “community organizer” and disciple of Saul Alinski, who surrounds himself with self-avowed communists, Maoists, Marxists, NAMBLA supporters and other miscreants says he’s thinking.  Of course none of his kids are fighting in Afghanistan.  So the “other parent’s” warriors fight, and sometimes die, and the president’s thinking.  Thinking about what?
 
If anyone believes I’ve mischaracterized the president or his minions please let me know.
 
 
http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/11/bill-clintons-dire-warning-in-1993-on.html

What exactly is happening to my country!  Everything is under attack.  Here’s the latest irresponsible assault on America’s ability to conduct war.
 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is being brought to New York City for trail as being the mastermind of the September 11th terrorist attack and invasion of the United States.  Why?  Why is the Obama Administration doing this?
 
KSM has already admitted to being the mastermind.  He has already stated that he developed and adjudicated the planning details from “A to Z”.  He’s the guy.  And, by the way, he’s quite proud of it. 
 
But that’s not good enough for the Obama Administration and the political left.  Because KSM was waterboarded, all of those claims he made might have been false, made under duress.  So now, whether we like it or not, the Obama Administration wants to get to the real “truth”.  I suppose it’s possible KSM’s actually just a sheep farmer from Afghanistan that was picked up on the battlefield and was merely in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Yeah, that’s the ticket.
 
So why are Barack Obama and Eric Holder forcing this attack on American military justice through the civilian courts?  Even in this there must be politics for these people.  It’s not enough to just do the right thing.  They must interfere because they believe they can gain some sort of political advantage.  And what is that political advantage?
 
It’s to put George W. Bush, the CIA and their methods of interrogation on trial for all the world to see.  That’s it.  There can be no other conceivable reason the bring KSM to New York City.  And just wait until this dangerous circus gets underway.  Wait to see how the evidence requirements of the civilian courts reveal intelligence secrets or perhaps cause KSM to be released altogether.  How about that one?  How about released onto the streets of Manhattan, or Brooklyn or Long Island or wherever?  Yeah, that’s the ticket.
 
And this spectacle gets all the more offensive when you consider that it’s entirely possible that right across the court house door from where KSM is belching his blasphemy about being “tortured”, the CIA intelligence officers who waterboarded him will similarly be on trial, put there by the Obama Administration.  Why?  For “illegally” carrying out the waterboarding that got KSM to spill his guts about the workings of Al Qaeda and other plots on the table, including the one being planned at that exact time to bomb buildings in Los Angeles.  It doesn’t get more politically deranged than that.
 
It’s time for this to come to an end.  We are at war with barbarians who would like nothing more than an opportunity to cut off your head and that of your children and other loved ones.  In light of the recent terrorist attack at Fort Hood, don’t you think it’s time to stop the stupidity?
 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703683804574533622533459520.html

Now here’s the deal.  The FBI knew that Nidal Malik Hasan had communicated with a radical imam nearly a year before the attack at Fort Hood but concluded he was no threat.  In fact they said his contacts, with a known supporter and collaborator of the 9/11 terrorists, were “fairly benign.”  Now more information is coming out that Nidal Malik Hasan was fully engaged in radical thoughts and beliefs and apparently did nothing to hide his support for jihad and fellow Muslims who take up arms against “infidels”. 

Yet no action was taken against him.  How can that be?  Haven’t we spent the greater part of the last 8 years preparing for the next terrorist attack?

In hindsight it’s all crystal clear.  Nidal Malik Hasan was a killer waiting to happen, a quintessential terrorist waiting to murder as many people as he possibly could before being sent off to meet his 72 virgins.  Given all that was known, well before his terrorist attack, why wasn’t he preemptively stopped?

Actually, when you think about it, it’s easy that it was missed.  What has been happening politically in our country over the last 8 years?  Every single effort has been made by those on the political left and the Democrat Party specifically, to cast the terrorists as victims and our military and intelligence services as outlaws.  They have even tried to eliminate the words “Islam”, “terrorist”, “Muslim extremist” and others from the lexicon of acceptable official political use.  Since the attack on 9/11 the democrats have raised issues with intelligence gathering, the methods used to extract information from the bad guys, and casting doubt on even the existence of fundamentalist Islamic radicals. 

They have chosen to criminalize CIA intelligence officers and paint the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay as merely “unfortunates” picked up on the battlefield and just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, nothing more.  Amazingly enough, democrats Barack Obama and Eric Holder have even directed the Justice Department to take action to decide if the CIA officers who waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, should be held criminally liable.  Is this unbelievable?

The democrats want to treat these barbarians as common criminals and have them tried in American courts rather than by military tribunals, as would normally be the custom in war for those picked up out of uniform.  In fact, why are they even being given a trail, in any court, at all?

The democrats have tried over the last several years to defund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their leadership has compared our soldiers to thugs, killers in the night, and terrorizers of women and children (see John Kerry) as well as comparing them to Nazi storm troopers (see Dick Durbin).

In this toxic and dangerous political atmosphere, poisoned by the Democrat Party and others on the political left, how could an FBI agent or intelligence officer or military commander not be confused about how to react to Nidal Malik Hasan’s aberrant behavior?  How could they correctly interpret his actions as potentially evil and malicious and hostile to Americans when the political establishment of the Democrat Party are telling him, through their words and deeds, otherwise?  And even if someone had the foresight to take some action, why would they?  What if they were wrong?  What could happen to their career?  Who among us, given the potential for the personal disaster of being labeled a racist, would want to take that risk?

There is clearly a fatal reluctance to recognize evil in the Democrat Party and that reluctance directly led to the first terrorist attack on American soil since September 11^th.  If for no other reason, these people need to be turned out of office.  

Here’s an excellent example of the war on Fox News brought into better focus. 
 
The first link below, is commentary authored by Joe Klein of Time Magazine, in which he talks about Fox being hateful and seditious ,but as is usual from those on the left, says nothing specific or provides any examples of why he’s thinking what he’s thinking.  If anything, he seems to agree with Fox News in their contempt for Van Jones and ACORN in that Barack Obama should pick his associates with more care.  Other than that, he’s a blank slate merely picking up on Obama administration talking points with nothing to back any of it up.  You’d hope one of these leftists would actually challenge anything Fox News broadcasts, but they can’t be cause it’s all true.  It’s always just invective.
 
The other link is by Mark Steyn and you should read this and compare it to Joe Klein’s.  Very interesting considering they’re talking about the same war on Fox News. 
 
Let me know what you think.
 
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/23/outfoxed/
 
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/obama-news-president-2620879-chicago-bring