Treason

I wonder if this word still has meaning. An individual such as Adam Gadahn regularly issues statements calling for the death of Americans and terrorist attacks against the United States, yet I have zero doubt that in the event that Gadahn is ever captured by U.S. forces or somehow is taken into custtody, there would be no shortage of groups such as the ACLU which would fall all over themselves to represent him and screech that he should be given a "fair trial", and that, in short, there is no such thing as treason. No, they would say, he was just exercising his right to free speech.

http://voanews.com/english/2008-01-06-voa17.cfm

If Gadahn is ever captured, just watch. I have no doubt that I will be proven right.

Christmas shopping for al Qaeda

ABC News is reporting that al Qaeda may have plans to hit shopping malls in the Chicago and Los Angeles areas over the Christmas shopping season: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/exclusive-fbi-a.html. I am assuming that the government is already aware of this information and is investigating it. I am curious, however, as to why this would not be front page news in the Chicago Tribune or Los Angeles Times. You would figure that this would be something that would interest the readers of those respective newspapers, but what do I know? And, I have little doubt that the ACLU would scream bloody murder if either Chicago or Los Angeles Police stepped up surveillance of areas where Muslims live in either city. It's simply not acceptable to "profile" those who want to kill us, after all...............

UPDATE (9:03 a.m., Saturday): Sure enough, the protesting has begun: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gEBi7jBE6u4K4jS7EHGWQiZ5nRSg.

I disagree with the ACLU (yeah, again)

Governor Charlie Crist of Florida has hung a Mezuzah on the doorway to his office in Tallahassee: http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/273775.html. The Mezuzah was a gift from a fellow Florida Republican lawmaker.

What grabbed my attention about this story was that the move incurred the ire of the ACLU. Not a big shock, I know. How much do you want to bet that if he had displayed a Koran, the ACLU wouldn't have said anything?

The Fifth Column

We have always known that they are out there, but a New York Times piece on one particular Islamofascist terrorist-loving blogger is particularly illuminating: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/us/15net.html?_r=1&oref=slogin. This guy was born in Saudi Arabia (what a shock!), but grew up here in the U.S. Yet, he harbours a hatred of the United States that borders on the pathological.

I suppose that eventually, someone will try to shut his blog down, but I'll bet that he has the ACLU on speed dial.................

What rights should a terrorist-wannabe have?

Interesting editorial in today's Wall Street Journal on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that an aspiring terrorist could not be detained as an enemy combatant: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010207. The basis of their holding was that this particular individual had never taken up arms on a foreign battlefield against the United States. The fact that he wanted to do it here seems not to have mattered.

What sense does that make?

The ACLU strikes again

I know that there is much romanticizing of the ACLU in the MSM, as well as in Hollyweird (check out Michael Douglas' homage to the organization in the movie "The American President" if you don't believe me), but the more I hear and read about it, the more I dislike it: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010198.

Why does it seem as though the ACLU is against any and all actions which make us safer? Why does it seem as though the ACLU values the "rights" of terrorist-wannabes and their sympathizers over my right to not die in a terrorist attack? Am I missing something here?

Speaking of our friends at the ACLU..........

..............now they are busy suing Boeing because its planes were used to transport terrorist-wannabes to holding areas: http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/ss_terror_06_01.asp. I hate to demonize any group, but for God's sake, does the ACLU EVER do anything that is in the best interests of the country? Does anyone at that organization EVER sit back and think, "Well, we could be endangering lives with what we are doing?"

Un--freaking--believable.