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Fifth is Frying Up Homeland Security Bacon (KY Columnist Sez Arabs "Justified" in NUKING Israel!)
Lexington Herald-Leader ^ | 01/29/2006 | Larry Webster

Posted on 02/03/2006 12:58:57 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, like the political leadership of Kentucky, has been taking the Fifth.

If you take the Fifth, do they have to stop torturing you right then under the new paradigm that says that we are in a permanent war, and when in war, torture and spying on any of them is legal if 1 in 260 million Americans says so?

Homeland Security was fresh off its success as a cumbersome bureaucracy in New Orleans when it was impolitely called the "new Gestapo" by one of the few Americans who are American enough to stand astride the abyss of fascism into which Osama bin Laden is about to plunge us and cry, "Halt!"

The only legitimate function of Congress in the days of the new monarchy is to take money from Peter and give it to Paul. And because congressional seniority has made U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, who used to be a real Republican, act like a pork-loving Democrat and given him leave to do so, Kentucky's Fifth District has been put in charge of protecting all the 434 districts when it comes to Homeland Security.

The Fifth District was originally designed to eliminate a Republican in Congress, but the state legislature proved as adept at gerrymandering as it is at trying to eliminate sexual perversion by making pervs live in tree tops 1,000 feet from other genitalia.

Now the Fifth is looking forward to the return of the good old days when our congressman just got people to mail us checks and we didn't have to have this Homeland Security albatross around our necks.

Homeland Security is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. Never mind that the people in the Fifth are willing to sit by and let their own homeland be destroyed as surely as if bombed by jihad. We can play war games on strip jobs because they resemble the desert. The Fifth is controlled by oligarchs and tribal leaders, and we know how to deal with them.

We have more prisons in the Fifth than any other district on Earth and more coming. To fill them, we soon will have to start storing disenchanted Arabs who do not believe the Scriptures and who wonder why Israel can have nuclear bombs and Iran cannot.

Somebody named Elaine Shiber, the smartest person from Van Lear since Loretta Lynn, catalogued in a Herald-Leader commentary some of the terrorist acts committed as Zionists weary of genocide took up horrors on a lesser scale to have a place to alight.

It takes courage, as Shiber did, to inquire as to whether the outrage your enemy harbors is justified or not, and it takes courage to challenge the idea of Israel, with charges of anti-Semitism being the standard recompense for so doing.

But when you read what she reported and know that 40 times that much happened at the hands of Israel, you know why no Arab can have a nuclear weapon. They could be morally justified in using it.

So our vacant prison cells in the Fifth will feature Iranians and Syrians and the males of any other Arab nation that gathers enough strength to right old wrongs. We look forward to getting to beat them and pile them up nekkid.

Every now and then a Middle Easterner with a long beard is thought to have been buried in a rock tomb but is seen alive again by his disciples and records pep talks for them that are broadcast over countless mounts. We have vowed to kill all his followers, but their numbers are growing beyond our capacity to kill them.

After four years of fear and millions of words of printed analysis mostly designed to avoid the real reason we are in an undeclared war, only Shiber of Van Lear has presented facts underlying the outrage of our enemies.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; islam; islamofascism; israel; kentucky; larrywebster; nexttotennessee; peskyjoooos; terrorapologist; waronterror

1 posted on 02/03/2006 12:58:59 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: Alouette; SJackson; veronica; Slings and Arrows

Ping


2 posted on 02/03/2006 12:59:42 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

I get the impression that the decision to nuke Israel has already been made, and people like this creep and Buchanan and PC Roberts are the vanguard sent ahead to prepare the public and set up the shabby pretense.

Damn them.


4 posted on 02/03/2006 1:05:46 AM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Deepkimche
Let me pull a quote for you:

Somebody named Elaine Shiber . . . catalogued . . . some of the terrorist acts committed as Zionists weary of genocide took up horrors on a lesser scale to have a place to alight. . . . [W]hen you read what she reported and know that 40 times that much happened at the hands of Israel, you know why no Arab can have a nuclear weapon. They could be morally justified in using it.

5 posted on 02/03/2006 1:07:52 AM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
This says it all:

Larry Webster is a Pikeville lawyer.

6 posted on 02/03/2006 1:09:41 AM PST by talosiv
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

I have sympathy for you, KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle, as I am Dan trapped in still liberal but changing Kentucky and have to live with this silly crap. Lexington and Louisville are cesspools of leftist puss.


7 posted on 02/03/2006 1:41:09 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: Deepkimche
Can I get this translated into English, please?

Does Babelfish have a drunk to sober translation program?

8 posted on 02/03/2006 1:47:58 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Deepkimche

No translation is needed. One only has to smell it.


9 posted on 02/03/2006 2:54:46 AM PST by Malesherbes
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"But when you read what she reported and know that 40 times that much happened at the hands of Israel, you know why no Arab can have a nuclear weapon. They could be morally justified in using it."

Why do people like Webster wear pointy, white hats instead of the swastikas of their friends a few miles to the north?
10 posted on 02/03/2006 3:35:01 AM PST by familyop ("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." --President Bush)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I quit bothering with the Lexington Liberal-Leader quite some time ago.

But the author of this piece did get something right:

The Fifth District was originally designed to eliminate a Republican in Congress...

YEP! And even tho' Rep. Hal Rogers(R) has turned into quite the spender, it has been absolutely hilarious over the years watching the Dimmies trying to get rid of him through gerrymandering and failing miserably...

11 posted on 02/03/2006 3:40:02 AM PST by LRS
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Oh .. goody.


Yet another post that, after reading it, makes one get the sensation that their head has been in a blender at high speed for ten minutes.;)





12 posted on 02/03/2006 3:54:43 AM PST by G.Mason
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

What extremely long, incoherent sentences. Something about Israel, wasn't it?


13 posted on 02/03/2006 4:15:54 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Here is the "smart" Elaine Shiber piece.

You will notice that she omits any mention of the Palestinian pogroms against the Jews in the 1920s and 1930s that led to the formation of Jewish paramilitary groups. And the Jewish immigrants paid for all the land they got at that time and more than it was worth, so said the British commission that investigated every Arab complaint. The Deir Yassin "massacre" was not a massacre at all but an operation in which Jews, after warning civilians to leave, cleared Arab snipers from Deir Yassin who had closed the Jerusalem road. But with the deck so stacked against the Jews by leaving all that out, it is no wonder that otherwise lightly informed people can be led to say ignorant and outrageous things.

It can only be described as anti-jewish hate speech.




Dividing Holy Land isn't Sharon's sin
By Elaine Shiber

Posted on Mon, Jan. 23, 2006
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/2006/01/23/news/opinion/13677762.htm

The Rev. Pat Robertson has been in a lot of hot water recently. His latest slip of the tongue, though, was a real doozy: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's massive stroke was God's retribution for "dividing the Holy Land."
Robertson was referring to the removal of Israeli settlements from Gaza, but he must have a very bad memory. The division of the Holy Land didn't begin with Sharon's Gaza fiasco.

It started more than 80 years ago, when European Zionists began moving in and trying to move out the peaceful native population, including Christians. In pre-Israel Palestine, Zionist terrorist gangs blew up buildings and massacred Palestinians.

The gangs' members included David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin, who led the Haganah, in which Sharon was a 1942 recruit.

Begin even boasted that Haganah's massacre of more than 200 Palestinians at Deir Yassin in 1948 played a pivotal role in Israel's statehood. By that time, half the Palestinians had been dispossessed of their homes, land and livelihoods, and most wound up in refugee camps.

While it isn't nice to speak ill of someone near death, a little reality check is in order as Sharon becomes more revered by many Israelis and will be remembered by others as "the man who brought Israelis and Palestinians to the threshold of peace." Let's look at some highlights of his career:

• In 1953, Sharon and 300 of his Force 101 commandos raided the Palestinian village of Qibya. The official U.N. report says Sharon and his men drove 69 Palestinians into their homes and blew them up.

• In 1971, Sharon's troops destroyed 2,000 homes in Gaza, uprooting 12,000 Palestinians and making them refugees for a second time. He arrested hundreds of young Palestinian men, deported them to Jordan and Lebanon and exiled 600 relatives of suspected guerrillas to the Sinai.

• In 1982, Defense Minister Sharon invaded Lebanon and pushed to its capital, Beirut. He cut off all water, electricity and food supplies and bombarded the city for nine weeks, using thousands of bombs (including illegal cluster bombs) and at least 60,000 shells. Israel eventually admitted to 963 civilian deaths, but independent estimates put the figure at 12,000.

A separate, 11th-hour attack on West Beirut, led by Sharon, killed at least 300 civilians.

Sharon also is responsible for the slaughter of nearly 2,000 men, women and children in two Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. International protests forced the Israeli government to temporarily demote Sharon to Minister Without Portfolio.

Sharon's Lebanese initiative cost close to 20,000 lives.

• Since becoming prime minister in 2001, Sharon has managed to despotically control the daily lives of Palestinians. Amnesty International reports that by the end of 2002, his army had killed more than 2,200 Palestinians (mainly civilians, including 380 children), detained without charge more than 7,200, demolished more than 3,000 homes, public buildings and water and electricity infrastructure and destroyed vast areas of agricultural land.

• Sharon's recent removal of illegal settlers in Gaza has its price for Palestinians. On the West Bank, his separation wall/fence continues to cut deeply into Palestinian land and violates international law. He has already annexed most of Arab East Jerusalem and is racing against time to expand illegal West Bank settlements.

When, if ever, the United States puts serious pressure on Israel to live up to the Bush administration's Mideast road map, only about 12 percent of Palestine will remain, leaving it so fragmented that its chances of being a viable state are dim. But that's the idea.

In the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Gordon Levy wrote that Sharon's policies of "blatantly ignoring the existence of Palestinians ... their needs and desires" and his destruction of their governmental infrastructure have been the catalyst for most of the region's violence. He says they are "largely responsible for the strength of Hamas and the emergence of Hezbollah."

You can push people only so far.

So, if Robertson is right and God truly did cut down Sharon for "dividing the Holy Land," it wasn't because he extracted settlers from Gaza who had no right being there in the first place. It was because of the heinous crimes against humanity he committed in the Holy Land.

A man of peace Ariel Sharon is not. The world should choose its heroes more carefully.



Elaine Shiber of Van Lear is a free-lance writer who has lived in the Middle East.


14 posted on 02/03/2006 4:51:04 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Mae it's too early in the morning for me, but Huh?


15 posted on 02/03/2006 4:54:36 AM PST by toddlintown (Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
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To: toddlintown

Mae=Maybe It IS too early!


16 posted on 02/03/2006 4:55:43 AM PST by toddlintown (Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Originally written in 3 colors of ink in a tattered spiral notepad.


17 posted on 02/03/2006 4:59:12 AM PST by Stentor
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To: Deepkimche
Can I get this translated into English, please?

My reaction was, "He gets paid to write this drivel?" Lame.

18 posted on 02/03/2006 5:17:45 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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