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Beckwith Responds To The Washington Post
The Obama File -- Latest News ^ | 6/28/2008 | Beckwith

Posted on 06/28/2008 9:35:21 AM PDT by Beckwith

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To: Alas Babylon!; All; 1035rep; 1curiousmind; 4woodenboats; 2ndDivisionVet; 5Madman2; 68skylark; ...

“It’s more than that. She (Danielle Allen) subscribes to the notion that the congregation of folks on the Internet who adhere to one political philosophy (almost always conservative) is dangerous and should be opposed”.

Her attitude has just been echoed by Islamic Iran’s President, Ahmadi-Nejad the Turd. He said that “ if the proliferation of computers in the country continues as it is now, it will destroy the country (meaning the regime) within THREE years”!

Obviously bloggers, Emails etc., despite the Mullahs having reduced the speed to as close to a crawl as they can, still allows for quick communication nationawide.

The Mullahs snatched the Soviet/(Khomeini) 1979 revolution from the Marxist-Islamist Mojaheddin and Fedayeen Soviet representatives because after strikes and social disobedience had shut down the organized government, the MOSQUES were the only national network (via phone in those days) that remained and gave the power to the Mullahs.

Now, the Internet may end up being the downfall of the Mullahs by providing a national network to help run the country when they lose power. Double edged sword but a notable one.

For instance, when Abas Palizdar, the whistle blower who outed some 51 clerics and senior adminisration officials with a detailed list of their corruption (eleven have been arrested - unavoidably, as their transgression was impossible to deny) - when Palizdar was arrested, there were immediate demonstrations in several cities as a reaction to his arrest.

Sidebar: the Abbas Palizbar who was first arrested (based on a single, private party complaint) turned out to be a wrong one! Same names. After the antimullah demonstrations in a handful of cities protesting the arrest, they released the ‘wrong’ Palizdar, who was accused in retaliation for corruption in the dairy industry.

A couple of days later they “re-arrested” the one they had originally targeted.

I have not had time to check the date and whether it refers to a prior but recent edict that owners of luxury cars would no longer be allowed to buy fuel for their vehicles at the subsidized prices nor receive ration cards.....

The price of gasoline was apparently suddenly upped from the equivalent of about under a $1 per gallon to reportedly four times that. When people woke up to this change, there were immediately protests that once other cities heard about it (Internet) they also held their own demonstrations.

The reason for my lack of clarity till I get a couple of calls back, is that this coincides with Western efforts to impose sanctions to prevent the sale of gasoline and diesel fuel to Islamic Iran. Which, unable to refine enough inside the country, imports nearly half or it’s gasoline requirement from outside.

Double whammy if it works. Blocks movement for the populace (not for the regime) and incites riots by people.

This would potentially more clearly identify/separate military and civilian movement/traffic for our satellites. Just as the sudden movement to reposition missiles by the Mullahs, has hopefully pinpointed where the missiles now are, even if we were not sure before they were moved.


161 posted on 06/29/2008 2:48:01 PM PDT by FARS
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To: Palladin
WHO IS THIS MAN?

MEET BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA


162 posted on 06/29/2008 2:52:46 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Beckwith

Good email exchange. I hope it continues and if Dr Allen is a logical and fair person she will see you have truth on your side


163 posted on 06/29/2008 3:05:27 PM PDT by dennisw (Barack Obama: A Phony Smile in an Empty Suit)
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To: Beckwith

Bumpitttt.


164 posted on 06/29/2008 3:11:05 PM PDT by Rocko ( "Where's the global warming? It's freezing in here." -- Bob Dylan)
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To: dennisw
“...if Dr Allen is a logical and fair person...”

I would assume an Einstein genius would be logical.

But, by not identifying her financial contributions to the Obama campaign, she's hardly a fair investigator.

165 posted on 06/29/2008 3:40:21 PM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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To: Beckwith
Thanks, B.....the Liberal MSM, (AP/NYT/WaPo/ABCNNBcBS/pBS) shall never tell the truth
(They'll be admitting their lying ..."pandering to Soviet Marxist-Socialists"...for 60+ years).

166 posted on 06/29/2008 3:50:29 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (If you aren't "advancing" your arguments,your losing "the battle of Ideas"...libs,hates the facts 8^)
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To: Jeff Head

Hey, Jeff, aren’t you offended that Danielle Allen and WaPo are not after you yet? (or maybe they are and I missed it)

As one of the best opp researchers on Obama’s lies and frauds I think you deserve to be taken seriously by the ‘genius’ (sic) Danielle Allen and her buds at WaPo.


167 posted on 06/29/2008 3:52:46 PM PDT by Enchante (Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
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To: Beckwith
But, by not identifying her financial contributions ($2,750) to the Obama campaign, she's hardly a fair investigator.

IMO that's more the burden of the two reporters who glorified her. Like Deep Throat said to Woodward & Bernstein  -- "Follow the money". A simple internet check would have uncovered that. I see freepers do that in real time on a busy thread so how hard is that?

The reporters are to blame or perhaps their editor who excised that part

168 posted on 06/29/2008 3:55:25 PM PDT by dennisw (Barack Obama: A Phony Smile in an Empty Suit)
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To: maica

Good points - the Demagogues love to bleat and whine about the supposed “Republican playbook” but what we are witnessing here is very similar to what the Demagogues did in the “MD4Bush” matter — they are trying to pre-empt a whole line of criticism (and then by association many other sorts of criticism) of their candidate by smearing the critics. For all the whining about ‘smears’ these vicious depraved Demagogues do an awful lot of smearing themselves.


169 posted on 06/29/2008 3:57:02 PM PDT by Enchante (Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
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To: Beckwith

Mengaji is key!

My next move with Dr Allen would be — Do you know what a “mengaji” class is? Will you use your superior research abilities and status as a MacArthur Scholar to find out whether Obama went to these Koran recitation classes?

Which expat says only dedicated Muslims sent their children to in the Indonesia of 1967

If she is serious and logical she investigates Obama and his mengaji classes. If she is an ideologue she doesn’t


170 posted on 06/29/2008 4:04:21 PM PDT by dennisw (Barack Obama: A Phony Smile in an Empty Suit)
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To: maggief

WaPo should ask Danielle Allen the ‘genius’ (sic) what she knew and when she knew it about charlatans like Wright and Pfleger. Clearly she was there in the midst of the morass of racist preachers on the south side of Chicago — maybe she knew and noticed a bit more than Obama managed to notice in 20 years of listening to Wright?

Since Danielle Allen is a confirmed dishonest flack and campaign contributor for Obama she should be required by the media to explain her links to his campaign and her knowledge of the blatant racism and depravity that have forced Obama to distance himself so dramatically from the likes of Wright and Pfleger.


171 posted on 06/29/2008 4:06:30 PM PDT by Enchante (Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
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To: FARS
Just as the sudden movement to reposition missiles by the Mullahs, has hopefully pinpointed where the missiles now are, even if we were not sure before they were moved.

Heheheh :)

172 posted on 06/29/2008 4:17:54 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person)
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To: Jeff Head

We’ll say it as often as we like and as loud as we like.

Barack Hussein Obama is anti-American.

He might as well be a Muslim.


173 posted on 06/29/2008 4:46:46 PM PDT by Palladin (Barack Hussein Obama will confiscate your wealth.)
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To: Para-Ord.45; Beckwith
Why even talk to the radical left, be it WaPo, NY Times, MSNBC etc. You know they`re gonna cut and paste your words.At the worst, make you look like a “truther” and the least is make you look uninformed and unprofessional.

Even professionals make this mistake. These reporters can be very good at what they do...even the best editor who ever worked for me (15 years ago) called me last year, appalled that she had allowed herself to be lulled into talking with an NYT reporter.

Let that be a lesson to ya.

And to all who are unfamiliar with the workings of the Press.

174 posted on 06/29/2008 4:58:44 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Enchante
Either way, I'm fine with it. I am happy that tens of thousands are visiting the site...passing the word...and influencing untold others in a grassroots manner.

I believe we will defeat Obama and win this thing in that fashion.

175 posted on 06/29/2008 5:02:41 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Jeff Head

Another BUMP for Beckwith!


176 posted on 06/29/2008 5:25:56 PM PDT by Palladin (Barack Hussein Obama will confiscate your wealth.)
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To: Enchante

It is really hair-curlingly scary to see how many scenarios that have worked for Md dems are then used nationally. We are such a one party state that it is a safe lab for schemers to try out nasty tricks.


177 posted on 06/29/2008 5:29:06 PM PDT by maica (Peace is the Aftermath of Victory)
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To: FARS; devolve

Good post FARS. The WWW is spreading it’s Web. Now Google is trying to muffle it.


178 posted on 06/29/2008 5:33:43 PM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: Beckwith
Good article. But this statement:

"According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim's complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam."

Is not correct. Simple recitation of words alone is not sufficient for one to be recognized as a 'Muslim.'
Mere words are not enough. Just as with Christianity, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu etc., it requires more than the utterance of words for one to be recognized as a devotee.

In speaking with a learned Muslim scholar about this, even making the aj is not enough. It requires much more.

Just a point of clarification.
179 posted on 06/29/2008 5:45:40 PM PDT by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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To: potlatch

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Bumperooooo......


180 posted on 06/29/2008 5:47:10 PM PDT by devolve (- Fill your hand - Or run and still expire exhausted and crying -)
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