Posted on 05/16/2007 10:40:54 AM PDT by doc maverick
"Grayban received two phone calls on Sunday night from a foreigner, threatening his life.
"The caller used a hacked phone (or internet line) to disguise the location from which he was calling. (Please see jpeg of record/caller ID attached at bottom of page).
"The caller told Scott the precise street on which he lives, that he lives across from an auto shop, that he has a solar panel in his apartment window and the make of the car he drove to the mall on Saturday."
As the blogger pointed out, "These aren't details anyone could obtain from Google Earth."
Someone is following Scott Grayban in Washington State. Yet the local FBI office told him to call the police. The local police told him to call the FBI and his phone carrier (Vonage) said there's no way to trace the call."
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
That is frightening. I’d be suing Vonage right now, to force them to disclose the caller.
Well, isn't that special...?
And this country says it is fighting a war on terrorism?
I’ll post whatever the hell I want and I don’t care if it offends the islamderthal hog bumpers. I live in a small, close knit, and heavily armed community.
Good luck Haji.
TSN ping.
I’ll post what I like about the Islamofascists and if they want to come after me about it they’d better have skin that can stop .45 ACP hollow-points.
Walk softly and carry a bazooka.
Typical PC FBI, which rushed to Gilford College when some Palestinian students alleged they had been the victims of a hate crime (later disproven), and interviewed them even before local police had questioned them.
And which studied whether a man making a film of burning a Koran was a hate crime.
But threats from Islamics, or the New Black Panther Party (directed inside a courtroom at a defendant in the Duke lacrosse case), are not considered hate crimes and the FBI (or FIB, as some would have it) will keep hands off.
(If you check out http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/images/civilrights.jpg
you can see the latest DOJ civil rights poster in Arabic...)
Threats, intimidation, violence... all standard tactics. It also helps when you don’t use your real name.
WASHINGTON TIMES
TODAY'S EDITORIAL May 15, 2007
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070514-093346-1946r.htm
We've all seen this phrase in block letters: "REPORT SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY," followed by a 1-800 number. But if a House Democrat manages to kill a tipster-immunity measure under consideration in Congress this month, people who report suspicious behavior could be sued in civil court if the accused are not charged with a crime. November's frightened U.S. Airways "John Doe" passengers in Minneapolis are already in the crosshairs.
The lawmaker in question is Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. He thinks that granting tipsters immunity amounts to racial and religious profiling. Yes, that's the Democrats' "homeland security" pointman in the House speaking.
For two months, Mr. Thompson has deployed the profiling argument against this measure, tucked into the House transportation-security bill. The good news is that a bipartisan House majority already passed it 304-121 seven weeks ago. But sadly, Mr. Thompson is expected to strip it from the bill. He is expected to be the lead House negotiator in the coming weeks when the bill reaches conference committee, and if he is, he will have considerable sway over the final product.
Mr. Thompson would stand alone among key homeland-security players, all of whom support immunity, if he blocks it. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat who chairs the Senate committee and ranking Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, both support it. So does Rep. Peter King, New York Republican, the ranking member in the House homeland-security committee.
How damaging it would be to leave tipsters on the hook; there could be few better ways to staunch the flow of information. Think of last week's Fort Dix tipster and ask yourself whether you would report suspicious behavior in a similar position.
The cutting edge of this debate, the case of the anonymous U.S. Airways passengers in Minneapolis, is not encouraging. These passengers observed six imams refuse to sit in their assigned seats, request metal-bearing seatbelt extensions and speak loud condemnations of the United States. After frightened passengers reported this behavior, the imams were removed from the flight. Troublemakers are routinely removed for less. But the "John Does" were sued along with the airline and regulatory authorities.
Listening to Mr. Thompson's March 27 floor remarks, it's clear that he thinks an absence of legal charges against the accused means that the tipsters can be penalized in court. This shifts the precarious balance between liberty and security much too far in one direction.
Think about this Catch-22 for a moment. The government encourages ordinary citizens to pass on potential terrorism information, as it should. But those citizens can now be sued if no charges are filed. One can literally be sued for reporting provocative behavior on an airline. We're clearly a long way from September 11. What a disgrace.
Damn right.
For about two months, I had a picture of Mohammed with the bomb turban taped to the guitar I use most often to play out. I was, obviously, courting trouble, and was daring anybody to issue a fatwa on me. I looked at it as a freedom of speech issue, and an opportunity to educate. Never happened, so I guess I just live in a Mohammedan-free place. My wife finally forced me to take it off.
My question, is it wrong to try and provoke these people, not for its own sake, but in order to get them to react and try to show them how f-ed up they are?
Wow! A tax-exempt terrorist training camp operating right here in our own back yard, so to speak, and out in the open. Truth really is stranger than fiction.
No wonder the DemRats don’t want US intelligence listening in on non-international calls. It might catch some of their terrorist buds that living right here. And it might catch some DemRats in cahoots with them, too. It all makes sense now.
I would have been telling that caller bring it on...I am so d@mn sick of these kooks. Vonage should be made to trace the call. I heard Vonage stinks anyway. This is how our govt is defending us??? hmmmm I am disgusted with them too . If any Islam kook wants to threaten anyone whose posted on a site and the FBI or local police don’t want to find that person I think its time to defend ourselves since they can’t be counted on. However I would like to know more about this....It ought to be swiftly dealt with IMO. I get more sick & tired of Muslims everyday. ~P~
related article: Radical Muslim paramilitary compound flourishes in upper New York state
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