Paul,
Not long ago you were telling me how you did not like having someone take over something for which you worked on and believed in (the EDL) now you are doing it to my people. When I offered you a place in the Ancient Order of Templar Knights you refused by stating you were to busy to do what we needed to be done. Now I see you are trying to take over our name, a name that has been in use for 207 years, do you think this is right? While we of the Ancient Order of Templar Knights applaud your efforts with the EDL or the EDL – St. George we do not wish to be tied in with the EDL, nor can we allow our name to be used as associated with them, and I am sure you understand and will remove our name from your blog, and cease using our name in all of your endeavors.
Sincerely,
James von Braun, Grand Master (Ret.)
Ancient Order of Templar Knights
Monday, November 2, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
C.A.I.R. Terrorist in the open?
Rep. Sue Myrick op-ed:
Last week, I held a press conference on Capitol Hill attended by three of my colleagues in the House of Representatives to call for a federal investigation (s) into a non-profit group called the Council on American Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R.)
Here are the facts:
1. CAIR has documented ties to the terrorist organization HAMAS. This is stated fact by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
In an April 28, 2009 letter to US Senator Jon Kyl, the FBI wrote the following:
“As you know, CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in the United States v. Holy Land Foundation et al. (Cr. No. 3:04-240-P (N.D.TX.). During that trial, evidence was introduced that demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders (including its current President Emeritus and its Executive Director) and the Palestinian Committee. Evidence was also introduced that demonstrated a relationship between the Palestinian Committee and HAMAS, which was designated a terrorist organization in 1995. In light of that evidence, the FBI suspended all formal contacts between CAIR and the FBI.”
In case you are not familiar with the Holy Land trial referenced above, it was a Dallas, Texas trial that ended with guilty verdicts on 108 counts of funneling money ($12 million) to HAMAS.
2. The purpose of our press conference was to make public an internal CAIR memo that documented CAIR's stated goal of placing CAIR interns in the offices of members of Congress, especially the members who serve on the Homeland Security, Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. Let me be clear here, CAIR, a group whom the FBI says is affiliated with the terrorist group HAMAS, is trying to place their interns in the offices of those members who serve on the three committees that handle national security related issues. National Security is the first responsibility of the federal government.
3. Following our press conference, CAIR, immediately labeled we four members as bigots and started their public relations campaign to discredit us by claiming that we were against Muslims working on Capitol Hill. We never said that. At no time during our press conference did we even insinuate that we were investigating Muslims being interns on Capitol Hill. Go to http://www.youtube.com/suemyricknc09 and watch the press conference yourself.
Our focus was and is on CAIR and CAIR alone, not Muslims.
Likewise CAIR tried to make this a Republican vs. Democrat thing, because the four members at the press conference happened to be Republican.
How then does CAIR explain Democrat Senator Charles Schumer’s call earlier this year for a government-wide ban on CAIR in the federal government due to their ties to HAMAS? Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer has likewise made public her opinions of CAIR and any Google search will find her remarks.
4. CAIR is spending time, money and energy to position themselves as the spokespeople for the moderate Muslim community. Problem is CAIR is not a moderate Muslim organization. It is a radical front group for HAMAS. So who is CAIR competing with for this designation? The real moderate Muslim groups/individuals in America. Groups and individuals like the following who are committed to countering Islamist extremism:
Dr. Hedieh Mirahmadi – President World Organization for Resource Development and Education (WORDE) Zeyno Baran – Director for the Center for Eurasian Policy at the Hudson Institute Farid Ghadry – President of the Reform Party of Syria Manda Zand Ervin – Founder and director of the Alliance of Iranian Women Omran Salman – Arab Reformists Project, 'Aafaq (Arabic for “horizons”).
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser – American Islamic Forum for Democracy Karim Bromund – Director of Inter-Religious Affairs for the Islamic Supreme Council of America
I SUPPORT the Muslim individuals and groups mentioned above. These groups renounce terrorists and their radical ideology. They are trying their hardest to be heard and recognized in America, but are being overshadowed and out-funded by CAIR. Today, when something happens that impacts the Muslim community, the media calls CAIR (an unindicted co-conspirator to terrorism and a HAMAS front group) for comment on behalf of American Muslims. What an insult the media is performing on the Muslim community. Instead they should be calling Muslim groups/individuals like those named above. This is part of the reason we are focusing our attention on CAIR and exposing them for who they are. For one they pose a threat to our national security, and two, they deny the ability of legitimate Muslim groups to gain credibility.
5. In July of this year I held a summit on Capitol Hill where I introduced the leaders of eight moderate Muslim organizations to the heads of several US Agencies, Members of Congress and congressional staff. For example, they met with representatives from the State Department, USAID, Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. How can I be against Muslims working on Capitol Hill and hold such an event? Go to http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3881/pub_detail.asp and read for yourself about this summit.
See through the lies and realize what is really going on here.
We are trying to expose a HAMAS Front Group (CAIR) for who they are, and they are crying we are anti-Muslim hoping that media outlets will ignore the terrorist claim and instead pick it up as a race/religion story. When those claims don’t work, they claim it’s a Republican political thing.
Americans, on this subject we need to stop the Republican vs. Democrat, Conservative vs. Liberal, Christian vs. Muslim division and unite on one simple point…. CAIR is a front group for HAMAS. It was named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in a terrorism case that lead to 108 convictions of funneling $12 million to HAMAS. Because of the evidence produced in that case, the FBI severed all ties with them. This same CAIR, by their own admission, is trying to place people inside the offices of members of Congress who deal with national security issues (judiciary, homeland security and intelligence committees). I serve on one of those committees, Intelligence, am the co-chairwoman of the House Anti-Terrorism Caucus, and have spent the better part of the last four years working every day on terrorism related issues.
If we Americans fail to set aside our political, religious and ideological differences and unite when we encounter the enemy in such stark and plain terms, then God help us.
Last week, I held a press conference on Capitol Hill attended by three of my colleagues in the House of Representatives to call for a federal investigation (s) into a non-profit group called the Council on American Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R.)
Here are the facts:
1. CAIR has documented ties to the terrorist organization HAMAS. This is stated fact by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
In an April 28, 2009 letter to US Senator Jon Kyl, the FBI wrote the following:
“As you know, CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in the United States v. Holy Land Foundation et al. (Cr. No. 3:04-240-P (N.D.TX.). During that trial, evidence was introduced that demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders (including its current President Emeritus and its Executive Director) and the Palestinian Committee. Evidence was also introduced that demonstrated a relationship between the Palestinian Committee and HAMAS, which was designated a terrorist organization in 1995. In light of that evidence, the FBI suspended all formal contacts between CAIR and the FBI.”
In case you are not familiar with the Holy Land trial referenced above, it was a Dallas, Texas trial that ended with guilty verdicts on 108 counts of funneling money ($12 million) to HAMAS.
2. The purpose of our press conference was to make public an internal CAIR memo that documented CAIR's stated goal of placing CAIR interns in the offices of members of Congress, especially the members who serve on the Homeland Security, Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. Let me be clear here, CAIR, a group whom the FBI says is affiliated with the terrorist group HAMAS, is trying to place their interns in the offices of those members who serve on the three committees that handle national security related issues. National Security is the first responsibility of the federal government.
3. Following our press conference, CAIR, immediately labeled we four members as bigots and started their public relations campaign to discredit us by claiming that we were against Muslims working on Capitol Hill. We never said that. At no time during our press conference did we even insinuate that we were investigating Muslims being interns on Capitol Hill. Go to http://www.youtube.com/suemyricknc09 and watch the press conference yourself.
Our focus was and is on CAIR and CAIR alone, not Muslims.
Likewise CAIR tried to make this a Republican vs. Democrat thing, because the four members at the press conference happened to be Republican.
How then does CAIR explain Democrat Senator Charles Schumer’s call earlier this year for a government-wide ban on CAIR in the federal government due to their ties to HAMAS? Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer has likewise made public her opinions of CAIR and any Google search will find her remarks.
4. CAIR is spending time, money and energy to position themselves as the spokespeople for the moderate Muslim community. Problem is CAIR is not a moderate Muslim organization. It is a radical front group for HAMAS. So who is CAIR competing with for this designation? The real moderate Muslim groups/individuals in America. Groups and individuals like the following who are committed to countering Islamist extremism:
Dr. Hedieh Mirahmadi – President World Organization for Resource Development and Education (WORDE) Zeyno Baran – Director for the Center for Eurasian Policy at the Hudson Institute Farid Ghadry – President of the Reform Party of Syria Manda Zand Ervin – Founder and director of the Alliance of Iranian Women Omran Salman – Arab Reformists Project, 'Aafaq (Arabic for “horizons”).
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser – American Islamic Forum for Democracy Karim Bromund – Director of Inter-Religious Affairs for the Islamic Supreme Council of America
I SUPPORT the Muslim individuals and groups mentioned above. These groups renounce terrorists and their radical ideology. They are trying their hardest to be heard and recognized in America, but are being overshadowed and out-funded by CAIR. Today, when something happens that impacts the Muslim community, the media calls CAIR (an unindicted co-conspirator to terrorism and a HAMAS front group) for comment on behalf of American Muslims. What an insult the media is performing on the Muslim community. Instead they should be calling Muslim groups/individuals like those named above. This is part of the reason we are focusing our attention on CAIR and exposing them for who they are. For one they pose a threat to our national security, and two, they deny the ability of legitimate Muslim groups to gain credibility.
5. In July of this year I held a summit on Capitol Hill where I introduced the leaders of eight moderate Muslim organizations to the heads of several US Agencies, Members of Congress and congressional staff. For example, they met with representatives from the State Department, USAID, Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. How can I be against Muslims working on Capitol Hill and hold such an event? Go to http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3881/pub_detail.asp and read for yourself about this summit.
See through the lies and realize what is really going on here.
We are trying to expose a HAMAS Front Group (CAIR) for who they are, and they are crying we are anti-Muslim hoping that media outlets will ignore the terrorist claim and instead pick it up as a race/religion story. When those claims don’t work, they claim it’s a Republican political thing.
Americans, on this subject we need to stop the Republican vs. Democrat, Conservative vs. Liberal, Christian vs. Muslim division and unite on one simple point…. CAIR is a front group for HAMAS. It was named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in a terrorism case that lead to 108 convictions of funneling $12 million to HAMAS. Because of the evidence produced in that case, the FBI severed all ties with them. This same CAIR, by their own admission, is trying to place people inside the offices of members of Congress who deal with national security issues (judiciary, homeland security and intelligence committees). I serve on one of those committees, Intelligence, am the co-chairwoman of the House Anti-Terrorism Caucus, and have spent the better part of the last four years working every day on terrorism related issues.
If we Americans fail to set aside our political, religious and ideological differences and unite when we encounter the enemy in such stark and plain terms, then God help us.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Christian vs. Muslim, incite into chaos…
Christian versus Muslim is this correct, or should it be civilization versus chaos. How about neither, it is just the time worn story of good vs. evil, it’s as simple as that.
The Muslims of the world are getting a bad rap for what the nut cases of their religion do. In fact there are more Muslims killed and injured by their own Jihad fanatics than all of the “terrorist” acts combined, but does this excuse the Muslims, no. The “good” Muslims should not be supporting the Jihadist of their religion, they should be against them as much as any Christian or Jew, or any other religious group on Earth. There can only be one answer to the Jihadist, and that is death, give them their wish, send them to their Valhalla of virgins. When people kill any and all non members of their religion, be they man, women, or children, the only thing they deserve is death.
England is about to be taken over by Muslims, not by violence, but by attrition and stealth, they use our ways to undermine our values and customs and then when we object the stupid politicians go against us in favor of the Muslims and their demands. In England they are demanding that Sharia Law become a legal system and all are subject to it, and the politicians are currently considering it, in fact Sharia law has been implemented in a few areas even as we speak. In America our President has it seems a hidden agenda in favor of Muslims and their demands, and this cannot be tolerated here nor anywhere.
In England the EDL has a protest march scheduled for 10/31 and interestingly enough so does the Jihadist, coincidence, I doubt it, it’s most likely a cleaver way to break up a protest they do not want to happen and to do so by violence, in a way that they are not blamed for it. Cancel the protest march, the EDL can’t, to do so says to the Jihadist to go ahead and take my country we don’t care, and for the Jihadist to cancel would mean to loose the world as a Muslim world, now what?
Now what? Now we the people of all religions of the world must stand together and drive these monsters of Jihad out of our countries and off the face of the Earth. Muslims, Christians, Jews, all must do this together and do it now, for we can no longer wait for as they grow stronger our politicians grow weaker, they no longer represent us, their citizens, they are not afraid of us but they are of them and with this it is up to us to help them and ourselves rid the world of terror.
There are those out there that will say I am spreading racial hatred or religious intolerance but I am not, I do not say to eradicate Islam, I say to eradicate the Jihadist who are killing innocent people throughout the world, the world has declared war on terrorist and what are the Islamic Jihadist but Terrorist using religion to kill as they see fit. Remember the olde saying; “One for all, and all for one” well there is no better time than the present to put this into action and save our world…
The Muslims of the world are getting a bad rap for what the nut cases of their religion do. In fact there are more Muslims killed and injured by their own Jihad fanatics than all of the “terrorist” acts combined, but does this excuse the Muslims, no. The “good” Muslims should not be supporting the Jihadist of their religion, they should be against them as much as any Christian or Jew, or any other religious group on Earth. There can only be one answer to the Jihadist, and that is death, give them their wish, send them to their Valhalla of virgins. When people kill any and all non members of their religion, be they man, women, or children, the only thing they deserve is death.
England is about to be taken over by Muslims, not by violence, but by attrition and stealth, they use our ways to undermine our values and customs and then when we object the stupid politicians go against us in favor of the Muslims and their demands. In England they are demanding that Sharia Law become a legal system and all are subject to it, and the politicians are currently considering it, in fact Sharia law has been implemented in a few areas even as we speak. In America our President has it seems a hidden agenda in favor of Muslims and their demands, and this cannot be tolerated here nor anywhere.
In England the EDL has a protest march scheduled for 10/31 and interestingly enough so does the Jihadist, coincidence, I doubt it, it’s most likely a cleaver way to break up a protest they do not want to happen and to do so by violence, in a way that they are not blamed for it. Cancel the protest march, the EDL can’t, to do so says to the Jihadist to go ahead and take my country we don’t care, and for the Jihadist to cancel would mean to loose the world as a Muslim world, now what?
Now what? Now we the people of all religions of the world must stand together and drive these monsters of Jihad out of our countries and off the face of the Earth. Muslims, Christians, Jews, all must do this together and do it now, for we can no longer wait for as they grow stronger our politicians grow weaker, they no longer represent us, their citizens, they are not afraid of us but they are of them and with this it is up to us to help them and ourselves rid the world of terror.
There are those out there that will say I am spreading racial hatred or religious intolerance but I am not, I do not say to eradicate Islam, I say to eradicate the Jihadist who are killing innocent people throughout the world, the world has declared war on terrorist and what are the Islamic Jihadist but Terrorist using religion to kill as they see fit. Remember the olde saying; “One for all, and all for one” well there is no better time than the present to put this into action and save our world…
Saturday, September 26, 2009
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Dudley DoRight Syndrome:
To all my brother knights out there, do you remember, when you first felt the calling, how it felt, how you wanted to save the world, when you lost it?
I was born a Knight of the Holy Roman Empire 150 years after it was dissolved by Francis II. All of my young life was dedicated to defending those who could not defend themselves, fight after fight, loosing to none, defending all.
On February 15th, 1981 I lost the calling, on that day at 05:15Hrs the hero I never realized I had, the King of my world, my Father died, and with him my calling.
A few months later I married and over the next 8 years we had 5 children to rear, to train, and to educate in the ways of the warrior. As my first born son grew he to heard the calling and when old enough, raised to the challenge, until the day his wife betrayed him, and he too lost his calling and fell into poverty and despair.
When my marriage ended, I found myself again at the crossroads of choice, I could wallow in despair or I could get my act together and once again be the Knight I was born, I choose to once again rise from the ashes and do what I was born to do, protect and enforce. There are still times when I question the wisdom of putting myself in harms way for others who would not do the same for others, but then if they did help others then they would not have needed me.
At the end of my first marriage I met my present wife and found that she was a female me, her desire to protect was as strong as mine ever was and she to went through the trials and tribulations of doubt and despair, and came out on top.
As I have aged I have seen to many people claim to have the calling and yet know nothing of what the calling truly is, many think it is a call to war, to fight and kill those who live differently than we, or who believe differently than professed Christians. While I have aged I have also tempered my need to enforce and the physical protection I once provided has been replaced with wisdom and the knowledge that to enforce and protect need not be only by physical force, that time and understanding tempered with the knowledge that if need be the physical can still take place, for while violence is or should be the last resort it still has it place when protection is required.
To be a Knight in today’s society one must also be a negotiator and social psychologist in order to understand that our way is not the only way to live, but one must also know that those who will not listen must be convinced that violence only hurts those they are trying to protect, and whether they choose to listen by negotiations or by violence they must be taught that we must all live together as individual societies and cultures, without the violence that has been the way since the beginning of time.
I was born a Knight of the Holy Roman Empire 150 years after it was dissolved by Francis II. All of my young life was dedicated to defending those who could not defend themselves, fight after fight, loosing to none, defending all.
On February 15th, 1981 I lost the calling, on that day at 05:15Hrs the hero I never realized I had, the King of my world, my Father died, and with him my calling.
A few months later I married and over the next 8 years we had 5 children to rear, to train, and to educate in the ways of the warrior. As my first born son grew he to heard the calling and when old enough, raised to the challenge, until the day his wife betrayed him, and he too lost his calling and fell into poverty and despair.
When my marriage ended, I found myself again at the crossroads of choice, I could wallow in despair or I could get my act together and once again be the Knight I was born, I choose to once again rise from the ashes and do what I was born to do, protect and enforce. There are still times when I question the wisdom of putting myself in harms way for others who would not do the same for others, but then if they did help others then they would not have needed me.
At the end of my first marriage I met my present wife and found that she was a female me, her desire to protect was as strong as mine ever was and she to went through the trials and tribulations of doubt and despair, and came out on top.
As I have aged I have seen to many people claim to have the calling and yet know nothing of what the calling truly is, many think it is a call to war, to fight and kill those who live differently than we, or who believe differently than professed Christians. While I have aged I have also tempered my need to enforce and the physical protection I once provided has been replaced with wisdom and the knowledge that to enforce and protect need not be only by physical force, that time and understanding tempered with the knowledge that if need be the physical can still take place, for while violence is or should be the last resort it still has it place when protection is required.
To be a Knight in today’s society one must also be a negotiator and social psychologist in order to understand that our way is not the only way to live, but one must also know that those who will not listen must be convinced that violence only hurts those they are trying to protect, and whether they choose to listen by negotiations or by violence they must be taught that we must all live together as individual societies and cultures, without the violence that has been the way since the beginning of time.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Political Correctness Can Be Deadly
Dear James,
Political correctness can be annoying, frustrating, even exasperating.
But sometimes it can be deadly.
The commentary below exposes what can only be described as an infuriating excess of political correctness that will not only compromise our war against Islamist terrorism — it may cost people their lives.
The ACLU, in its obsession to put the “rights” of alleged terrorists ahead of law-abiding citizens and CIA agents, has been caught surreptitiously photographing CIA agents in order to show their pictures to alleged terrorists the ACLU is defending.
By doing so the ACLU has put these agents’ lives at risk in what appears to us to be an obvious violation of federal law, such as The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.
Will the Justice Department properly investigate the ACLU? We hope so.
But given Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent wrong-headed decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate interrogation actions by CIA interrogators, it’s difficult not to conclude that Holder’s sympathies lie more with the ACLU than they do with safeguarding the lives of Americans and CIA agents.
Many experts and observers are concluding that the direction the Justice Department is going will ultimately undermine our intelligence gathering as interrogators, fearful they may eventually be prosecuted, will choose to avoid any tactic that even remotely could be interpreted as “excessive.” How many terrorist plots will thus not be foiled, and how many people will die as a result? Only time will tell.
One of the interrogation practices that is being questioned is the blowing of cigar smoke in the face of an alleged terrorist. Can anyone outside of the anti-American left, the ACLU, and Eric Holder honestly believe that blowing cigar smoke in the face of a terrorist is “excessive,” or worse than the ACLU photographing CIA agents to show their pictures to terrorists?
This goes beyond absurd. This goes beyond political correctness run amok.
America, we must rise up against this insanity.
________________________________
ACLU: Spying for America's Enemies
Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/08/26/aclu_spying_for_americas_enemies
Savor the silence of America's self-serving champions of privacy. For once, the American Civil Liberties Union has nothing bad to say about the latest case of secret domestic surveillance -- because it is the ACLU that committed the spying.
Last week, The Washington Post reported on a new Justice Department inquiry into photographs of undercover CIA officials and other intelligence personnel taken by ACLU-sponsored researchers assisting the defense team of Guantanamo Bay detainees. According to the report, the pictures of covert American CIA officers -- "in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes" -- were shown to jihadi suspects tied to the 9/11 attacks in order to identify the interrogators.
The ACLU undertook the so-called "John Adams Project" with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers -- last seen crusading for convicted jihadi assistant Lynne Stewart. She's the far-left lawyer who helped sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted 1993 World Trade Center bombing and N.Y. landmark bombing plot mastermind, smuggle coded messages of Islamic violence to outside followers in violation of an explicit pledge to abide by her client's court-ordered isolation.
The ACLU's team used lists and data from "human rights groups," European researchers and news organizations that were involved in "(t)racking international CIA-chartered flights" and monitoring hotel phone records. Working from a witch-hunt list of 45 CIA employees, the ACLU team tailed and photographed agency employees or obtained other photos from public records.
And then they showed the images to suspected al-Qaida operatives implicated in murdering 3,000 innocent men, women and children on American soil.
Where is the concern for the safety of these American officers and their families? Where's the outrage from all the indignant supporters of former CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose name was leaked by Bush State Department official Richard Armitage to the late Robert Novak? Lefties swung their nooses for years over the disclosure, citing federal laws prohibiting the sharing of classified information and proscribing anyone from unauthorized exposure of undercover intelligence agents.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero refused to comment on Project CIA Paparazzi and instead whined some more about the evil Bush/CIA interrogators. Left-wing commentators and distraction artists are dutifully up in arms about such "inhumane" tactics as blowing cigar smoke in the faces of Gitmo detainees. But it's Romero blowing unconscionable smoke:
"We are confident that no laws or regulations have been broken as we investigated the circumstances of the torture of our clients and as we have vigorously defended our clients' interests," he told the Post. "Rather than investigate the CIA officials who undertook the torture, they are now investigating the military lawyers who have courageously stepped up to defend these clients in these sham proceedings."
Courage? What tools and fools these jihadi-enablers be. Civil liberties opportunism is literally a part of the al-Qaida handbook. A terrorist manual seized in a Manchester, England, raid in 2005 advised operatives: "At the beginning of the trial ... the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by state security before the judge. Complain of mistreatment while in prison." Jihadi commanders rehearsed the lines with their foot soldiers "to ensure that they have assimilated it."
Since 9/11, the selective champions of privacy have recklessly blabbed about counter-terrorism operations, endangered the lives of military and intelligence officials at Gitmo, and undermined national security through endless litigation. They accused Bush immigration officials of xenophobia for pursuing visa over-stayers from jihadi-friendly countries. They accused local law enforcement, FBI and other homeland security officials of "racial profiling" for placing heightened scrutiny on mosques and jihadi-linked charities.
Now, caught red-handed blowing the cover of CIA operatives, they shrug their shoulders and dismiss it as "normal" research on behalf of "our clients."
But don't you dare question their love of country. Spying to stop the next 9/11 is treason, you see. Spying to stop enhanced interrogation of Gitmo detainees is patriotic. And endangering America on behalf of international human rights is the ultimate form of leftist dissent.
Political correctness can be annoying, frustrating, even exasperating.
But sometimes it can be deadly.
The commentary below exposes what can only be described as an infuriating excess of political correctness that will not only compromise our war against Islamist terrorism — it may cost people their lives.
The ACLU, in its obsession to put the “rights” of alleged terrorists ahead of law-abiding citizens and CIA agents, has been caught surreptitiously photographing CIA agents in order to show their pictures to alleged terrorists the ACLU is defending.
By doing so the ACLU has put these agents’ lives at risk in what appears to us to be an obvious violation of federal law, such as The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.
Will the Justice Department properly investigate the ACLU? We hope so.
But given Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent wrong-headed decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate interrogation actions by CIA interrogators, it’s difficult not to conclude that Holder’s sympathies lie more with the ACLU than they do with safeguarding the lives of Americans and CIA agents.
Many experts and observers are concluding that the direction the Justice Department is going will ultimately undermine our intelligence gathering as interrogators, fearful they may eventually be prosecuted, will choose to avoid any tactic that even remotely could be interpreted as “excessive.” How many terrorist plots will thus not be foiled, and how many people will die as a result? Only time will tell.
One of the interrogation practices that is being questioned is the blowing of cigar smoke in the face of an alleged terrorist. Can anyone outside of the anti-American left, the ACLU, and Eric Holder honestly believe that blowing cigar smoke in the face of a terrorist is “excessive,” or worse than the ACLU photographing CIA agents to show their pictures to terrorists?
This goes beyond absurd. This goes beyond political correctness run amok.
America, we must rise up against this insanity.
________________________________
ACLU: Spying for America's Enemies
Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/08/26/aclu_spying_for_americas_enemies
Savor the silence of America's self-serving champions of privacy. For once, the American Civil Liberties Union has nothing bad to say about the latest case of secret domestic surveillance -- because it is the ACLU that committed the spying.
Last week, The Washington Post reported on a new Justice Department inquiry into photographs of undercover CIA officials and other intelligence personnel taken by ACLU-sponsored researchers assisting the defense team of Guantanamo Bay detainees. According to the report, the pictures of covert American CIA officers -- "in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes" -- were shown to jihadi suspects tied to the 9/11 attacks in order to identify the interrogators.
The ACLU undertook the so-called "John Adams Project" with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers -- last seen crusading for convicted jihadi assistant Lynne Stewart. She's the far-left lawyer who helped sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted 1993 World Trade Center bombing and N.Y. landmark bombing plot mastermind, smuggle coded messages of Islamic violence to outside followers in violation of an explicit pledge to abide by her client's court-ordered isolation.
The ACLU's team used lists and data from "human rights groups," European researchers and news organizations that were involved in "(t)racking international CIA-chartered flights" and monitoring hotel phone records. Working from a witch-hunt list of 45 CIA employees, the ACLU team tailed and photographed agency employees or obtained other photos from public records.
And then they showed the images to suspected al-Qaida operatives implicated in murdering 3,000 innocent men, women and children on American soil.
Where is the concern for the safety of these American officers and their families? Where's the outrage from all the indignant supporters of former CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose name was leaked by Bush State Department official Richard Armitage to the late Robert Novak? Lefties swung their nooses for years over the disclosure, citing federal laws prohibiting the sharing of classified information and proscribing anyone from unauthorized exposure of undercover intelligence agents.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero refused to comment on Project CIA Paparazzi and instead whined some more about the evil Bush/CIA interrogators. Left-wing commentators and distraction artists are dutifully up in arms about such "inhumane" tactics as blowing cigar smoke in the faces of Gitmo detainees. But it's Romero blowing unconscionable smoke:
"We are confident that no laws or regulations have been broken as we investigated the circumstances of the torture of our clients and as we have vigorously defended our clients' interests," he told the Post. "Rather than investigate the CIA officials who undertook the torture, they are now investigating the military lawyers who have courageously stepped up to defend these clients in these sham proceedings."
Courage? What tools and fools these jihadi-enablers be. Civil liberties opportunism is literally a part of the al-Qaida handbook. A terrorist manual seized in a Manchester, England, raid in 2005 advised operatives: "At the beginning of the trial ... the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by state security before the judge. Complain of mistreatment while in prison." Jihadi commanders rehearsed the lines with their foot soldiers "to ensure that they have assimilated it."
Since 9/11, the selective champions of privacy have recklessly blabbed about counter-terrorism operations, endangered the lives of military and intelligence officials at Gitmo, and undermined national security through endless litigation. They accused Bush immigration officials of xenophobia for pursuing visa over-stayers from jihadi-friendly countries. They accused local law enforcement, FBI and other homeland security officials of "racial profiling" for placing heightened scrutiny on mosques and jihadi-linked charities.
Now, caught red-handed blowing the cover of CIA operatives, they shrug their shoulders and dismiss it as "normal" research on behalf of "our clients."
But don't you dare question their love of country. Spying to stop the next 9/11 is treason, you see. Spying to stop enhanced interrogation of Gitmo detainees is patriotic. And endangering America on behalf of international human rights is the ultimate form of leftist dissent.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Templar Prayer
Templar prayer in Latin with English Translation
Sancti spiritus adsit nobis gratia. Maria, Stella maris, perducat nos ad portam salutis. Amen.
Domine, Jesu Christe, sancte pater, aeterne Deus, omnipotens, sapiens creator, largitor, administrator benignus, et carissimus amator, pius et humilis redemptor, clemens, misericors salvator, Domine, te deprecor humiliter et exoro ut illumines me, liberes et conserves fratres Templi, et omnem populum tuum chistianum turbatum.
Tu, Domine, qui scis nos esse innocentes, facias liberari, ut vota nostra et mandata tua in humilitate teneamus, et tuum sanctum servitium et voluntatem faciamus ; contumelias iniquas, non veras, contra nos oppositas per graves oppositiones, et malas tribulationes et tentationes, quas passi fuimus, et pati ulterius non possumus.
Omnipotens, aeterne Deus, qui beatum Joannem evangelistam et apostolum tuum valde diligis, qui super pectus tuum in caena recubuit, et cui secreta caeli revelavis et demonstravis, et stante in ligno sanctae crucis, pro redemptione nostra, sanctissimam matrem tuam virginem commendavis, in cujus honore gloriose fuit facta, et fundata religio ; pro tua sancta misericordia liberes et conserves, prout tu scis nos esse innocentes a criminibus contra nos oppositis, et operas possideamus, per quas ad gaudia paradisi perducamur, per Christum dominum nostrum. Amen.
TRANSLATION
May the grace of the Holy Spirit be present with us. May Mary, Star of the Sea, lead us to the harbor of salvation. Amen.
Lord Jesus Christ, Holy Father, eternal God, omnipotent, omniscient Creator, Bestower, kind Ruler and most tender lover, pious and humble Redeemer; gentle, merciful Savior, Lord! I humbly beseech The and implore Thee that Thou may enlighten me, free me and preserve the brothers of the Temple and all Thy Christian people, troubled as they are.
Thou, O Lord, Who knowest that we are innocent, set us free that we may keep our vows and your commandments in humility, and serve Thee and act according to Thy will. (Dispel) all those unjust reproaches, far from the truth, heaped upon us by the means of tough adversities, great tribulations and temptations, which we have endured, but can endure no longer.
Omnipotent, eternal God, who hast so loved the blessed John the Evangelist and Apostle, that he reclined upon Thy bosom at the Last Supper, and to whom Thou revealed and showed the Mysteries of Heaven, and to whom, while suspended on the Holy Cross, for the sake of our redemption, Thou commended Thy most Holy Mother and Virgin, and in whose honor (our) Order was created and instituted; through Thy Holy mercifulness, deliver us and preserve us, as Thou knowest that we are innocent of the crimes that we are accused of, so that we may take possession of the works, by which we may be guided to the joys of Paradise, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Sancti spiritus adsit nobis gratia. Maria, Stella maris, perducat nos ad portam salutis. Amen.
Domine, Jesu Christe, sancte pater, aeterne Deus, omnipotens, sapiens creator, largitor, administrator benignus, et carissimus amator, pius et humilis redemptor, clemens, misericors salvator, Domine, te deprecor humiliter et exoro ut illumines me, liberes et conserves fratres Templi, et omnem populum tuum chistianum turbatum.
Tu, Domine, qui scis nos esse innocentes, facias liberari, ut vota nostra et mandata tua in humilitate teneamus, et tuum sanctum servitium et voluntatem faciamus ; contumelias iniquas, non veras, contra nos oppositas per graves oppositiones, et malas tribulationes et tentationes, quas passi fuimus, et pati ulterius non possumus.
Omnipotens, aeterne Deus, qui beatum Joannem evangelistam et apostolum tuum valde diligis, qui super pectus tuum in caena recubuit, et cui secreta caeli revelavis et demonstravis, et stante in ligno sanctae crucis, pro redemptione nostra, sanctissimam matrem tuam virginem commendavis, in cujus honore gloriose fuit facta, et fundata religio ; pro tua sancta misericordia liberes et conserves, prout tu scis nos esse innocentes a criminibus contra nos oppositis, et operas possideamus, per quas ad gaudia paradisi perducamur, per Christum dominum nostrum. Amen.
TRANSLATION
May the grace of the Holy Spirit be present with us. May Mary, Star of the Sea, lead us to the harbor of salvation. Amen.
Lord Jesus Christ, Holy Father, eternal God, omnipotent, omniscient Creator, Bestower, kind Ruler and most tender lover, pious and humble Redeemer; gentle, merciful Savior, Lord! I humbly beseech The and implore Thee that Thou may enlighten me, free me and preserve the brothers of the Temple and all Thy Christian people, troubled as they are.
Thou, O Lord, Who knowest that we are innocent, set us free that we may keep our vows and your commandments in humility, and serve Thee and act according to Thy will. (Dispel) all those unjust reproaches, far from the truth, heaped upon us by the means of tough adversities, great tribulations and temptations, which we have endured, but can endure no longer.
Omnipotent, eternal God, who hast so loved the blessed John the Evangelist and Apostle, that he reclined upon Thy bosom at the Last Supper, and to whom Thou revealed and showed the Mysteries of Heaven, and to whom, while suspended on the Holy Cross, for the sake of our redemption, Thou commended Thy most Holy Mother and Virgin, and in whose honor (our) Order was created and instituted; through Thy Holy mercifulness, deliver us and preserve us, as Thou knowest that we are innocent of the crimes that we are accused of, so that we may take possession of the works, by which we may be guided to the joys of Paradise, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
In Response
Highlander’s Oratory:
The time is coming when the Knight’s of the Temple will once again be needed, and I am here to tell you we will be ready, ready to fulfill our destiny, ready to fill the needs of the Christians of the world.
For 700 years we have patiently waited and prepared for our time to come once again. World events are showing us that that time is closer than people would like to believe, the serpent has risen and is showing her ugly self to all those who can see.
There are many neo-Templar organizations out there claiming to be the true descendants of the original Poor knight’s of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, and yet they belong to and support the very satanic organizations that the Templar’s abhor. It will be the Knight’s of the Temple who are true to the values set by Christ that will come when we are called, do not be fooled by the pretenders to the faith.
The world is at deaths door and Satan is eagerly waiting to open it wide for us to enter. Morality is at an all time low, disease is rampant worldwide, and religious hatred is higher now than during the time of the Crusades. The Plutocrats are ready to fulfill their long planned destinies and we have let them.
America has slept, England has slept, Canada has hid, Mexico has acted, Germany is positioning herself to rule, France is falling apart, the Middle East is set to blow itself apart and certain countries in Asia are helping this occur, the Church is powerless to help and yet the world fails to see, fails to act.
Throughout time there has always been a “Dragon” that surfaces to “save” the world, in WW1 and WW2 it was the United States, who will it be for WW3? The United Nations wants it to be them, but it cannot be for they are one of the 7 heads of the Whore of Babylon, they care only for world domination, they wish to destroy Christianity, they wish to strip us of our freedoms of our very existence and happiness. Another head of the whore is the European Union and its quest for the control of all of Europe.
Will the sleeping Dragon awaken in time to save the world or will the Dragon sleep til the end?
The Knight’s of the Temple are not the Dragon but we have awakened and wait in prepared silence until we a called upon to act, let us hope that the Dragon awakens first.
Will the Dragon save the world or will it take Christ’s coming to save us, either will work for the Templar’s, for Christ is the Master of us all and the Knight’s Templar are waiting to serve.
Highlander, 2009
The time is coming when the Knight’s of the Temple will once again be needed, and I am here to tell you we will be ready, ready to fulfill our destiny, ready to fill the needs of the Christians of the world.
For 700 years we have patiently waited and prepared for our time to come once again. World events are showing us that that time is closer than people would like to believe, the serpent has risen and is showing her ugly self to all those who can see.
There are many neo-Templar organizations out there claiming to be the true descendants of the original Poor knight’s of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, and yet they belong to and support the very satanic organizations that the Templar’s abhor. It will be the Knight’s of the Temple who are true to the values set by Christ that will come when we are called, do not be fooled by the pretenders to the faith.
The world is at deaths door and Satan is eagerly waiting to open it wide for us to enter. Morality is at an all time low, disease is rampant worldwide, and religious hatred is higher now than during the time of the Crusades. The Plutocrats are ready to fulfill their long planned destinies and we have let them.
America has slept, England has slept, Canada has hid, Mexico has acted, Germany is positioning herself to rule, France is falling apart, the Middle East is set to blow itself apart and certain countries in Asia are helping this occur, the Church is powerless to help and yet the world fails to see, fails to act.
Throughout time there has always been a “Dragon” that surfaces to “save” the world, in WW1 and WW2 it was the United States, who will it be for WW3? The United Nations wants it to be them, but it cannot be for they are one of the 7 heads of the Whore of Babylon, they care only for world domination, they wish to destroy Christianity, they wish to strip us of our freedoms of our very existence and happiness. Another head of the whore is the European Union and its quest for the control of all of Europe.
Will the sleeping Dragon awaken in time to save the world or will the Dragon sleep til the end?
The Knight’s of the Temple are not the Dragon but we have awakened and wait in prepared silence until we a called upon to act, let us hope that the Dragon awakens first.
Will the Dragon save the world or will it take Christ’s coming to save us, either will work for the Templar’s, for Christ is the Master of us all and the Knight’s Templar are waiting to serve.
Highlander, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I do not promote violence
At the bottom of this article you will read what I am talking about.
Two people shot at Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington
Gerald Herbert / Associated Press
Police barricade visitors outside the museum. A spokesman for the museum announced that it will reopen tomorrow.
Officials say a man with a gun -- possibly a rifle -- entered the museum and shot a security guard, then himself was shot. Both men's wounds are described as serious.
By Josh Meyer and Kate Linthicum
11:43 AM PDT, June 10, 2009
Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington -- Authorities in Washington, D.C. said two people have been shot today at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
A man entered the museum through the 14th Street entrance about 12:50 p.m. EDT with a long gun, either a rifle or shotgun, according to Sgt. David Schlosser of the U.S. Park Police.
The gunman was reported wounded in the incident. Officers immediately rushed to the scene, near the Washington Monument bordering the National Mall.
Authorities disclosed no information about the shooter but have told reporters that at least two men were taken to local hospitals with "serious" gunshot wounds.
A law enforcement official who has received several briefings on the shootings said the shooter does not appear to have worked at the museum or to be the spouse of an employee. That would suggest that he was not a disgruntled employee or targeting someone in an incident of domestic violence, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the shooting.
The official also cautioned that conflicting information was coming in about the incident.
The FBI is assisting in the investigation along with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department. "All aspects will be investigated," said Richard Kolko, an FBI Supervisory Special Agent and spokesman at bureau headquarters.
One witness, Dave Unruh, of Wichita, Kan., told the Washington Post that he was waiting to enter the museum when he heard one gunshot, then a sequence of four or five gunshots. He said he then heard someone scream, "Hit the floor!" He and his wife, Karen, and their two teenage grandchildren hit the floor and were subsequently herded out of the building by authorities, the Post reported on its website.
The museum draws about 1.7 million visitors each year and is also near the White House and U.S. Capitol.
It normally has guards positioned inside and outside and other security measures in place because of its focus on the genocide of Jews committed in World War II in Europe and other more recent atrocities. All visitors must pass through metal detectors and their bags are screened.
White House officials were preparing to give a briefing.
josh.meyer@latimes.com
An email from a reporter at the LA Times… The suspects name is James von Braun
Hi,
I’m writing because somebody by the name of James von Braun is a suspect in today’s shooting at the Holocaust Memorial. Does your blog have any connection to that suspect?
Thank you so much,
Kate Linthicum
Los Angeles Times
(213) 237.4431 (o)
(505) 463.0852 (m)
Two people shot at Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington
Gerald Herbert / Associated Press
Police barricade visitors outside the museum. A spokesman for the museum announced that it will reopen tomorrow.
Officials say a man with a gun -- possibly a rifle -- entered the museum and shot a security guard, then himself was shot. Both men's wounds are described as serious.
By Josh Meyer and Kate Linthicum
11:43 AM PDT, June 10, 2009
Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington -- Authorities in Washington, D.C. said two people have been shot today at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
A man entered the museum through the 14th Street entrance about 12:50 p.m. EDT with a long gun, either a rifle or shotgun, according to Sgt. David Schlosser of the U.S. Park Police.
The gunman was reported wounded in the incident. Officers immediately rushed to the scene, near the Washington Monument bordering the National Mall.
Authorities disclosed no information about the shooter but have told reporters that at least two men were taken to local hospitals with "serious" gunshot wounds.
A law enforcement official who has received several briefings on the shootings said the shooter does not appear to have worked at the museum or to be the spouse of an employee. That would suggest that he was not a disgruntled employee or targeting someone in an incident of domestic violence, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the shooting.
The official also cautioned that conflicting information was coming in about the incident.
The FBI is assisting in the investigation along with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department. "All aspects will be investigated," said Richard Kolko, an FBI Supervisory Special Agent and spokesman at bureau headquarters.
One witness, Dave Unruh, of Wichita, Kan., told the Washington Post that he was waiting to enter the museum when he heard one gunshot, then a sequence of four or five gunshots. He said he then heard someone scream, "Hit the floor!" He and his wife, Karen, and their two teenage grandchildren hit the floor and were subsequently herded out of the building by authorities, the Post reported on its website.
The museum draws about 1.7 million visitors each year and is also near the White House and U.S. Capitol.
It normally has guards positioned inside and outside and other security measures in place because of its focus on the genocide of Jews committed in World War II in Europe and other more recent atrocities. All visitors must pass through metal detectors and their bags are screened.
White House officials were preparing to give a briefing.
josh.meyer@latimes.com
An email from a reporter at the LA Times… The suspects name is James von Braun
Hi,
I’m writing because somebody by the name of James von Braun is a suspect in today’s shooting at the Holocaust Memorial. Does your blog have any connection to that suspect?
Thank you so much,
Kate Linthicum
Los Angeles Times
(213) 237.4431 (o)
(505) 463.0852 (m)
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