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To: Travis McGee; EternalVigilance; Czar; tet68; crazyhorse691; Smokin' Joe; RegulatorCountry; ...
On a semi-related note, regarding the (often purposeful) impotence of our government 'protectors' ...

I saw a segment on FoxNews yesterday morning about a town in NY called 'Islamberg' and the particulars rang a bell with me. So I called my sister at her work and asked her whether this town is the same one that she has been telling me about for several years. Sure enough, it is.

My sister and her husband moved to a very remote part of the state three years ago, for reasons that I am sure would be understood by most of you. Over the past few years, she has often called me and told me horror stories about the behaviors of the (exclusively Muslim) residents of the nearby 'town' of Islamberg – behaviors that she observes when they do business with her company.

They regularly come into the heating oil business where she works. They are surly and arrogant, and their demeanor is aggressive and unsettling. And, what makes it worse is that, almost to a person, they are getting their heating oil and propane for free -- from HEAP, the government program that provides assistance to low-income state residents. Many of them are also food stamp recipients. She tells me that her company alone dispensed over $25,000 in free heating oil and propane to these people last year alone.

Not only are they arrogant and demanding, but they make it a purposeful practice to come into her office five minutes before the office closes for the day, forcing her to stay later than she normally would in order to serve them.

On several occasions, a car or truck has pulled up, asked her to fill their propane tanks, and the person who has come into the office has claimed that he has a ‘bad back’ and requested that she carry the tank out to the car for him. The first and only time she did this, she discovered that there were two or three other able-bodied Islamic men sitting in the car. Needless to say, she never obliged again.

This link to a description of the ‘town’ is enough to make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. Not only are we allowing training camps for Islamic jihadists within our own borders, but, as my sister testifies, we are funding their existence with taxpayer dollars.

What's going on at Islamberg

~ joanie

131 posted on 06/09/2007 8:17:17 AM PDT by joanie-f (If you believe that God is your co-pilot, it might be time to switch seats ...)
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To: joanie-f

The camel’s nose is definitely in the tent.


132 posted on 06/09/2007 8:20:43 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: joanie-f

Somebody in the state government probably has them all on his voting rolls.

This is basically what killed the Democratic government of Athens—power-hungry politicians catering to the mob and giving them presents in return for their votes.

The Roman Republic had what Greek political theorists of the time called a “mixed government.” We might call it “checks and balances.” When the checks and balances broke down under the pressure of populism (Julius Caesar was the leader of the Populares in his time, while Cicero was one of the Optimates), then the Republic fails. Bread and circuses become the means of governing. Imperial power is not usually conservative, but is the end result of populism or vote-buying, as Plato and Aristotle argued.

If America gets a dictator or emperor, he will almost certainly be a Democrat.


133 posted on 06/09/2007 8:41:58 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: joanie-f
"Not only are we allowing training camps for Islamic jihadists within our own borders, but, as my sister testifies, we are funding their existence with taxpayer dollars."

And all of this while our federal government does what it does best--nothing. Actually, worse than nothing. The head of the FBI (Mueller) has lunch with CAIR, mosques are going up all over the place, and thousands more foreign trouble makers (dependents) are invited into our country as a "humane" gesture.

One begins to wonder if the entire War on Terror isn't some kind of grotesque joke. We're "talking" to North Korea and Iran, and Syria is evidently next on the talk list. All of this is in lieu of those strong presidential declarations right after 9/11--remember what was going to happen to nations which sponsored or supported terrorism? Suddenly all of that has succumbed to the soft diplomacy of "talk".

But of course that doesn't mean we can't pull out all of the stops to grant amnesty to the 20-30 million lawbreakers presently squatting in our country, waiting for our great protectors in Washington to wave their magic wand and pronounce them all "citizens".

I can't imagine why Americans would be upset, can you?

Lets do nothing some more...

140 posted on 06/09/2007 11:45:06 AM PDT by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: joanie-f

Shaking my head...


142 posted on 06/09/2007 12:24:50 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
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