Cindy Sheehan Sides with Hugo Chavez, Would Rather Live Under Chavaz… Please do

Cindy Sheehan once again shows what the far left is all about and just how out of touch this woman truly is. Normally, I would just change the channel. However, in Cindy’s case, please keep talking.

She’s called President Bush the biggest terrorist in the world and she stood side by side with socialist dictator Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Now she begins a two-month hunger strike to get the American people to join her mission to end the war.

So GWB is the biggest terrorist and not Osama Bin Laden. Somehow as well Hugo Chavez is not a dictator. We have nuts running around like Kim Jong Il of North Korea provoking civilized countries by test firing missiles and GWB is the problem. Cindy Sheehan actually has the nerve to state that Chavez has been democratically elected 8 times. Does anyone in the Democratic Party understand that she is as Allahpundit says, “the gift that keeps on giving”. 

Two month hunger strike … 30 days of observation may be the ticket. Are we to assume Saddam Hussein was democratically elected as well with 99.9% of the vote?

What more else will this woman do for her 15 minutes of shame?

Video. More Video here.

 MSNBC’S Norah O’Donnell: Would you rather live under Hugo Chavez than President Bush?

Sheehan: Um, yes, (giggle). You know, Hugo Chavez is not a dictator like you, like you introduced him. He’s been democratically elected eight times.

O’Donnell: Saddam Hussein was democratically elected.

Sheehan: Yeah, hold on a second, though. He is not anti-American. He has helped the poor people of America. He has sent aid to New Orleans. He has sold heating oil to disadvantaged people in America, in the United States of America, at low cost. The people of his country love him.

As Michelle Maklin has stated, if Cindy Sheehan would rather live under Hugo Chavez where is the fund raiser to buy her that one way ticket. Michelle has even done the leg work on Expedia to to find her a ticket. Count us in.

Ankle Biting Pundits are also are also calling for a fund raiser for Cindy’s ticket to Venezuela.

So Cindy, we’re not even asking you to put your money where your mouth is. 

We’re just asking you – no, we’re begging you – to leave.

New York Times commits to passport awareness campaign

Could someone please explain how difficult it is to get a passport? To comply with Homeland Security, the required need of a passport for entering the US seems like a small price to pay. It is about time we have a standardized form of ID for all entering the country. 9–11 still took place last I heard. 

I would also like to know why the New York Times is more worried about  the Caribbean’s tourism than they are about releasing secrets regarding how the CIA and Treasury Department are tracking international banking transactions by terrorist operatives. It couldn’t possibly be because they get a tremendous amount of revenue from Caribbean tourism ads could it? Looks like another in a group that puts money and tourism over security.

OBVIOUSLY CONCERNED with the devastating effect the Western Hemisphere Passport Initiative will have on the region, the New York Times has committed US$1 million (J$65 million) to a Caribbean public awareness campaign.

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Supreme Court Stupidity; Salim Ahmed Hamdan Decision … SCOTUS 5-3 that the trials for 10 foreign terror suspects violate U.S. military law & the Geneva conventions.

Today the Supreme Court just made this country a little less safe. The Supreme Court ruled 5–3 that President George W. Bush over-stepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for GITMO detainees and that the trials for 10 foreign terror suspects violate U.S. military law and the Geneva conventions.

The court declared 5-3 that the trials for 10 foreign terror suspects violate U.S. military law and the Geneva conventions.

The ruling raises major questions about the legal status of the approximately 450 men still being held at the U.S. military prison in Cuba and exactly how, when and where the administration might pursue the charges against them.

The judicial stupidity astounds me. Treat them like criminals? What next, bail? Why don’t we just let them out on remand with the promise to show up to court. Why not, we do it for illegal aliens that are caught.  Hell, lets afford them all the rights of American citizens, the very same people that they are trying to kill.

Only in America can a case be brought to a court by Osama bin Laden’s former driver and be won. The Supreme Court should be ashamed of itself this evening. But with such recent rulings like seizing American citizens private property with Eminent Domain, is it any wonder.

“It is profoundly disturbing that the court would take away from the commander in chief the sole discretion of determining what is militarily necessary,” he said, describing the ruling as “a historical disgrace on the court.” (Yahoo News)

President George W. Bush’s news conference video

Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the court, said the Bush administration lacked the authority to take the “extraordinary measure” of scheduling special military trials for inmates, in which defendants have fewer legal protections than in civilian U.S. courts.

The decision blocked a trial for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who worked as a bodyguard and driver for Osama bin Laden. Hamdan, 36, has spent four years in the U.S. prison in Cuba. He faces a single count of conspiring to commit terrorism against U.S. citizens from 1996 to November 2001.

(Camp Delta 4 military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba, Reuters)

Think about what these left leaning robe wearing fools just did. John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Anthony Kennedy have effectively put terrorist in the same category as US citizens.

“We conclude that the military commission convened to try (Salim Ahmed) Hamdan lacks power to proceed because its structure and procedures violate” the international agreement that covers treatment of prisoners of war, as well as the Uniform Code of Military Justice.”

Uniform code of military justice? Geneva conventions? WTF. Who the hell are you people kidding? Maybe you five black rode wearing idiots would like to tell the families of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca of Houston, TX and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker of Madras, OR who were just laid to rest who were savagely and inhumanely tortured by these very same sub-humans you wish to provide refuge with the Geneva conventions. Where is the outrage over these two American soldiers violation of their Geneva Conventions rights?

Two American soldiers have been tortured to death, their bodies mutilated.Al-Qaeda in Iraq has bragged on the Internet that its new leader, apparently eager to boost his image as a butcher, personally “slaughtered” Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Texas, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Oregon. The Arab term “nahr,” which applies to the ritual slitting of a sheep’s throat, was used.

The lack of common sense and putting the United States ability to fight terrorism first and foremost is disgusting. However, somehow its OK when American soldiers are tortured. But these sub-humans who make torture a way of life and a sport are supposed to be protected by the very laws they care nothing about.

Terrorist treated as criminals. I want you all to think about Nick Berg, a free-lance telecommunications contractor from West Chester, PA  who was savagely be-headed. We will not show or link to the video; however, it is easily enough accessible on line. We would treat these savages in accordance with the Geneva convention and as criminals? What planet do these justices live on?

In a grainy execution video eerily similar to one in 2002 that showed al-Qaeda operatives executing a Wall Street Journal reporter in Pakistan, Berg was shown sitting in an orange jumpsuit in front of five armed, hooded men.

Berg’s body was found on a highway overpass in Baghdad on Saturday.

One really has to wonder what the hell these people are thinking and the damage they just caused. The hell with the military tribunals, these fools just gave terrorist thug assassins protection rights under the Geneva Convention. The SCOTUS blog states it perfectly:

Even more importantly for present purposes, the Court held that Common Article 3 of Geneva applies as a matter of treaty obligation to the conflict against Al Qaeda. That is the HUGE part of today’s ruling. The commissions are the least of it. This basically resolves the debate about interrogation techniques, because Common Article 3 provides that detained persons “shall in all circumstances be treated humanely,” and that “[t]o this end,” certain specified acts “are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever”—including “cruel treatment and torture,” and “outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment.” This standard, not limited to the restrictions of the due process clause, is much more restrictive than even the McCain Amendment.

The only ones that had a clue that we are in a war against terrorist were the Supreme  court’s conservatives — Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who was appointed by Bush who dissented.

The court’s willingness, Thomas wrote in the dissent, “to second-guess the determination of the political branches that these conspirators must be brought to justice is both unprecedented and dangerous.”

As bad as a ruling that this is by the Supreme Court, the ACLU, libs and terrorist rights sympathizers best not pop the champaign so soon. As others have referenced, the SCOTUS just gave Republicans and George Bush a huge political gift. I believe the Counterterrorism blog is right on the mark.

The President and GOP leaders will propose a bill to override the decision and keep the terrorists in jail until they are securely transferred to host countries for permanent punishment. The Administration and its allies will release plenty of information on the terrorist acts committed by the detainees for which they were detained.

They will also release information about those terrorist acts committed by Gitmo prisoners after they were released. They will challenge the “judicial interference with national security” and challenge dissenting Congressmen and civil libertarians to either stand with the terrorists or the American people.

If anyone wants to know why Democrats will not win the White House or the House or the Senate, one only needs to look at the statements of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Frankly it should scare the hell out of all of you, no matter what your political affiliation is.

WASHINGTON, June 29 /U.S. Newswire/ — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today following the United States Supreme Court decision that trying Guantanamo detainees before military commissions violates U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions:

“Today’s Supreme Court decision reaffirms the American ideal that all are entitled to the basic guarantees of our justice system. This is a triumph for the rule of law.

“The rights of due process are among our most cherished liberties, and today’s decision is a rebuke of the Bush Administration’s detainee policies and a reminder of our responsibility to protect both the American people and our Constitutional rights. We cannot allow the values on which our country was founded to become a casualty in the war on terrorism.”

Nancy Pelosi, its these terrorist’s rights you are defending.

WIZBANG is dead on … The Democrats now have a new slogan for the Mid-term elections in 2006 and the Presidential elections in 2008 … “Vote for the Democrats. They’re the party for terrorists’ rights.”

Nancy Pelosi and the rest of you that relish in todays court decision, I realize you all have short term memory … but do you remember this … September 11, 2001.

So we would treat these people responsible for such acts as common criminals? See you in the polls in 2006 & 2008.

7 People arrested in Florida in Suspected Terrorist Plot against the Sears Tower

Terrorist foiled again in the United States. The best defense sometimes is a great offense. Seven people were arrested in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago’s Sears Tower and other buildings in the US. The ongoing investigation is supposed to result in a number of arrests and searches” in Miami.

The official told The Associated Press the alleged plotters were mainly Americans with no apparent ties to al-Qaida or other foreign terrorist organizations. He spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt news conferences planned for Friday in Washington and Miami.

(AP via Yahoo News)

Officials stated that there were no bombs or bomb making equipment seized; the arrests were performed to disrupt a plot in its early stages and to prevent domestic terrorism. The people taken into custody, you guessed it … members of a radical Muslim group. Oh, and one illegal alien. I guess the Haitian illegal immigrant was just in the US doing the job that Americans did not want to do.

Law enforcement sources told CNN that some of the suspects are members of a radical Muslim group and that at least one had taken “an al Qaeda oath.” They had carried out surveillance on the Sears Tower and FBI building in Miami, the sources said.

Federal law enforcement sources said five of the seven men were Americans, one was an illegal immigrant from Haiti whose visa had expired and the seventh was a resident alien.

Federal Agents Raid Suspected Terror Cell in Miami

FBI arrests seven in terrorism plot -source (Reuters)

The source, elaborating on a statement on the operation from Florida authorities, said the suspects had thought they were dealing with the international al Qaeda group but had been infiltrated by a U.S. government informant.

“In the past couple of days, the U.S. government has taken into custody seven people who were conspiring to conduct jihad (holy war) in the United States,” the law enforcement source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Other Bloggers covering the story:

Allahpundit, a great round up of information

The Gateway Pundit, This is nothing new for southern Florida …

“South Florida has been linked to several terrorism investigations in the past. Several of the Sept. 11 hijackers lived and trained in the area, including ring-leader Mohamed Atta.”

Michelle Malkin, JIHAD IN MIAMI

More Tourism Fears in Aruba & Caribbean; US Passport Rules Changes

If Aruba did not have enough to worry about with their declining tourism due to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway and the subsequent handling of the investigation; according to some experts it may get even worse. It is not just Aruba that will be affected but all Caribbean islands. The US Passport rules changes are slated to take effect in December 31, 2006 .

The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 mandated that the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, develop and implement a plan to require U.S. citizens and foreign nationals to present a passport, or other secure document when entering the United States.

In the proposed implementation plan, the Initiative will be rolled out in phases, providing as much advance notice as possible to the affected public to enable them to meet the terms of the new guidelines. The proposed time-line will be as follows:

• December 31, 2006 – Requirement applied to all air and sea travel to or from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda.

• December 31, 2007 – Requirement extended to all land border crossings as well as air and sea travel.

Tourism board throughout the Caribbean including the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Aruba, British Virgin Islands and St. Kitts as countries which may be hit.

A tourism conference in Bermuda has heard dire predictions about the impact on Caribbean tourism of new passport rules for Americans.

One official of the World Travel and Tourism Organization said countries which rely heavily on the US market may experience a reduction in American visitors.

The new changes will mean that US citizens will have to show a passport or like secure identification in order to return o the US from the Caribbean, Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda.

Currently, Americans need show only their drivers licenses or a birth certificate when they re- enter from those countries.

The new requirement by the Department of Homeland Security is supposed to make it harder for “terrorists” to enter the U.S.

Mr Miller said he expected Americans, only 20% of whom have passports, will find the new rules a handicap.

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