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Posted on 05/30/2004 12:05:02 AM PDT by JustPiper
Picture credit: TheCabal
Picture Credit:Calpernia
"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia - Tens of American, European and other hostages were released Sunday and a gunman believed to be the lead Islamic militant holding them was arrested, a Saudi security official said, adding that two other gunmen were "in the process of being arrested."
We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm
NJ has become the Dubai of the USA.
You're not kidding. Particularly around the Rutgers area.
I don't know if I got that email. I delete all I don't recognize without opening them.
I haven't heard anything about that email until your post.
>>>>While this sounds like the decision has been made by the school district. It sounds like this "Muslim activist" will push the issue in the courts until he gets what he wants. I would look for the ACLU, etc. to get involved. Another example of our system being used against us.
See post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1144669/posts?page=4058#4058
OMG, any updates this morning?
Wow...great detailed information. Sounds like they plan to methodically initiate their will on every public school. It seems that they usually start in schools in lower income areas and work from there.
There will probably be more stories in the news this coming year about removing all Christian / Jewish holiday symbols, removing ten commandments from courts. But all the while, our PC culture will be encouraging and enabling the Muslims to insinuate their religion into our communities.
bump!
The last time I was in NJ I had a hard time finding anyone who spoke English. I'm not talking about Patterson or Union City - I was out around Madison and Morristown.
Lo siento. No hablo English.
Parle vou francais?
POSTED: 8:27 am EDT June 10, 2004 UPDATED: 9:20 am EDT June 10, 2004
WASHINGTON -- The line of people waiting to get into the U.S. Capitol was halted briefly this morning while police checked out a suspicious package.
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terry Gainer said officers saw a man who they thought was acting strangely. Gainer said the man jumped over a barricade and attempted to retrieve something from a backpack.
Gainer said police then detained the man then inspected the backpack with the help of bomb-sniffing dogs. Gainer said nothing was found and an all-clear was sounded. Police then checked to see if any warrants were outstanding for the man and when no warrants were found, he was released.
The U.S. Capitol police chief said this has been a problem at different times during the night. People waiting in line have left items behind and when they do, police have to fear the worst and inspect them. Authorities are asking people if you plan on coming down to view the casket of former President Ronald W. Reagan, to please come empty-handed. Link to Article
I wonder if this group is related to yesterday's scare.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1151111/posts
Bush-Haters of the World, Unite!
The Weekly Standard ^ | 06/04/2004 | Erin Montgomery
Posted on 06/10/2004 11:34:36 AM EDT by neverdem
Amateur and professional Bush-haters gather in Washington for the Take Back America conference.
BILLIONAIRE AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIER George Soros, who is bankrolling the campaign against Bush, yesterday compared the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal to the attacks of September 11. "I think that those pictures [of prison abuse] hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself--not quite with the same force, because in the terrorist attack, we were the victims. In the pictures, we were the perpetrators and others were the victims," he said. "But there is, I'm afraid, a direct connection between those two events, because the way President Bush conducted the war on terror converted us from victims into perpetrators."
Soros also accused Bush administration officials of being "American supremacists," and claimed the United States went to war "on false pretenses." He stated that there was "no connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda," and that America did not go to war "for the sake of the Iraqi people." Senator Hillary Clinton introduced Soros in front of a packed ballroom and commended him for his fearlessness and generosity. In her 20-minute speech she, to whoops of delight from the audience, likened the president to the robber barons of the late-19th century and warned the audience about the conservative media machine: "Now, you're going to hear, if you haven't already, many, many attacks on George Soros. . . . And, you know, we have two kinds of media left, it seems to me. We've got the so-called mainstream media . . . and then we've got the advocacy media that is turning war into propaganda."
I just happened to choose tomorrow to go to NYC for the day!
Hope this is all just a hoax, I'll be taking the Metro-North into Grand Central in the morning. :)
Une peu. Or is it un peu? I don't know what language they were speaking but the gas station attendants looked middle eastern and the fast food employees looked hispanic. Maybe they all spoke english but just didn't want to give me directions! LOL
I was gently teasing you Calpernia, but I wanted to get this out as I think those of us on TM and possibly LEO's on high alert may be particularly susceptible to this kind of virus.
We're all looking for possible info on attacks and may be more tempted to open this kind of e-mail.
I do the same as you, delete anything I get from someone I don't know.
Yes, you make an excellent point. It stands to reason that if AQ has the old suitcase nukes, they have some of the other hardware as well.
Which reminds me--AQ was bragging about having several planes stashed in the US countryside. I wonder if one of them is the missing plane we discussed long ago?
There was arabic graffiti adjacent to the train tracks near New Brunswick, NJ.
>>>Une peu. Or is it un peu
Bless you. Catching a cold? Allergies?
(being a wiza gal)
Yes, English is no longer the state language in NJ.
I would have guessed a sonic boom if not for the smoke . . .
I guess I am just trying to be clear on the Israeli issue. There is hardly a more complicated situation on the planet than the Israeli-Palestinian one. A few months ago I said something on another thread that someone perceived as not "pro-Israeli" enough and I was accused of shilling for A.N.S.W.E.R.
The politics are excruciating. So, it is impossible not to offend someone. And then spiritual convictions, theology, interpretations of scripture and eschatology get thrown into the mix to make an explosive issue even more volatile.
The differences between dreams and illusions is that one is based in reality and one is not. We lived in an illusion before 9/11. The war was already being waged, but we did not want to see it. The peace was an illusion. We had our first taste of the nightmare in the spring of 1993 when the towers were attacked and in the fall when al Qaeda directed the Mogadishu operation against our Rangers. But we chalked it up to a bad dream, shook it off, and went back to bed. And the cancer grew.
As ridiculous as it might sound at this point, with the Mideast teetering on the edge of all out war, the possibility of a complete and comprehensive Mideast peace has never been as real. It may be a dream, but it not an illusion.
When Reagan took over in 1981, things looked pretty bleak. They tried to kill him two months into office, and then two years later, the world for the third time (1962 Cuba and 1973 Yom Kippur War being the first two) came as close as it ever had to global nuclear holocaust (nuclear tensions in fall of 1983 with Able Archer and RYAN exercises). Yet two years later, we were talking, and two years after that they were reforming, and two years after that, they were protesting, and two years after that, they simply disappeared.
Remember that in the years right after the Yom Kippur War of 1973, the groundwork began to be laid for what would become the Camp David Accords. The First Gulf War made possible the peace with Jordan. Iraq has now been neutralized as a threat and a staging ground for terrorists. The largest long-term intervention into the Mideast since World War I has destabilized both good and bad actors alike. Things will get much worse before they get better, but they will get better. And when the dust settles, the pieces may finally fall into place for the true and lasting peace all seek.
Things look awfully bleak today. They will probably look a lot more bleak a few months from now, but not all dreams are illusions. If someone were to go back in time to 1984, and tell them in ten years the Soviet nightmare will be gone, even the most conservative anti-communists would have thought them mad.
I am not going to predict that in ten years this will be over. But the terrorist nightmare will end one day. And some if not most of us will live to see it.
The President was ridiculed for saying that the increasing violence in Iraq was a sign we are winning. But it is indeed the desperation that is causing this spasm of terror. They are about to be checkmated, and they know it. The game does not end with checkmate. But the outcome is determined.
We are winning. And they know it. And no matter how many of us they kill, we will still win in the end. They are on the verge of "mathematical elimination" from the possibility of a strategic victory.
"The enemy is filled with fury because he knows his time is short".
While we're on the subject......
Paterson passes anti-Patriot Act resolution
The Associated Press
6/10/2004, 11:30 a.m. ET
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) -- This city has become the ninth New Jersey municipality to go on record opposing the USA Patriot Act or provisions of the anti-terrorism law, saying it unacceptably compromises civil liberties.
The City Council approved the resolution at Wednesday night's meeting.
Passed by Congress shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Patriot Act gives authorities wider investigative latitude, including stepped-up electronic surveillance, so-called "sneak-and-peek" searches in which the subject of a search warrant is unaware his property has been searched and broader monitoring of a person's Internet and library usage without their knowledge.
The protest vote took on special significance here, in the heart of New Jersey's Arab-American community. As many as six of the Sept. 11 hijackers either lived or spent time here shortly before the attacks, and many Paterson residents were among the nearly 1,200 people detained by authorities in the ensuing investigation.
"The resolution is not about Arab and Muslim Americans," said Aref Assaf, president of the New Jersey chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which got the measure listed on the council agenda for a vote. "It is about the civil rights of all Americans. America will be better for it."
Backed by civil rights groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, similar resolutions have been adopted by governing bodies in Willingboro, Princeton, Highland Park, Ewing, Mullica, Franklin in Somerset County, Montclair and Phillipsburg.
Nationwide, four states — Alaska, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont — have passed measures either criticizing the Patriot Act or calling on the federal government to make sure it respects individual rights while enforcing the law and investigating terrorism. And 325 municipalities or counties across the country have passed similar resolutions.
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