A Powerful Video of the North Korean Human Rights Crisis

It breaks my heart to see these poor people being tortured in prison camps and starving to death. When organizations send food it ends up being sold at market.. not given to the people who need it most.

WE DEFEATED IT!

Thank You Numbers USA for giving us a central point of mobilization!

FREE THE HADITHA MARINES!

WAR ON TERROR
Marine officer under fire gets support on 2 fronts
General backs up Haditha commander – and so does talk-host Michael Savage

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Posted: June 28, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2007 WorldNetDaily.com


Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani
A Marine officer on trial for failing to investigate alleged war crimes in Haditha is getting support on two fronts.

Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani did, in fact, brief his higher-ups on the pitched battle that pitted U.S. Marines against terrorists in the Iraqi village Nov. 19, 2005, said Maj. Gen. Richard Huck in a military version of a preliminary hearing in the case.

Chessani was brought up on military charges after Time magazine accused Marines of "massacring" civilians in the firefight in Haditha. Later, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., publicly accused Marine officers of a "cover-up."

Officials with the Thomas More Law Center of Ann Arbor, Mich., are representing Chessani, and spokesman Brian Rooney told WND Chessani now is awaiting a ruling from a hearing officer on his case.

"We're done with the evidence part of the hearing and we're waiting for the hearing officers to render his recommendation," Rooney told WND. "We were able to put all the events of Nov. 19 into context with the before, during and after of what the town of Haditha was like."

He said the area was known for its violence because of the high number of Marines who already had been attacked and killed there.

"They also had intelligence reports just before Nov. 19 that they were going to be attacked within 48 hours," he said.

On that day, Rooney said, Marines came under an attack that included both gunfire and explosives. One Marine in a Humvee was killed and two more were injured, and the resulting house-to-house battle between the outnumbered 4-man Marine "fire team" and the insurgents resulted in 24 Iraqi deaths, including 15 civilians.

After the attack, two insurgents were tracked by aerial drones. One of those insurgents was followed to another part of town, where he took part in another battle with Marines, the testimony said.

"This was a real battle, there wasn't some phantom menace," Rooney said. "There were real terrorists in that town.'

He said the second suspect monitored by the Marines fled from the first confrontation, and went into a home. A short time later he came out, with different clothing and carrying a baby.

Rooney said the testimony also included confirmation from Huck that he was briefed immediately on the firefights and bombings that left some civilians dead along with the insurgents. Such civilian deaths sometimes are inevitable, especially in locations such as Haditha, where terrorists had set up bases in a school, a mosque, and a hospital to be used to attack U.S. forces, testimony said.

"We were able to show that the Marines reacted the way they were trained, the way they were supposed to react," Rooney said.

Eight Marines were originally accused in connection with the battle. Charges filed Capt. Randy Stone have already been dismissed. Prosecutors said the government did not meet the burden of probable cause in his case.

Another defendant, Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt, also has had his Article 32 hearing, the military's version of a preliminary hearing, at which the judge noted the prosecution's arguments didn't seem to be supported by the evidence, even though he has not made a formal determination.

Rooney said such conclusions could have a huge impact on his client's case, as well as others that may come in the future. The officers were accused of failing to investigate and report of a "war crime," but if the determination that there was no war crime would stand, then no one could be facing charges for not investigating the "non-crime."

The tragedy, Rooney said, is that Chessani has been sidelined from his work in the war against terror by the allegations, at a time when his leadership could be used well in the battle.

"The terrorists are laughing in their caves," Rooney said. "The enemy knows our rules of engagement as well as we do. They know how to use propaganda better than we do. The whole trial is the result of propaganda."

The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm from Ann Arbor, Mich., is defending Chessani and believes he is being sacrificed for the sake of "placating anti-war critics."

Richard Thompson, president of the center said, "Because of them [terrorists] one of the most effective Marine combat commanders in Iraq has been eliminated by his own government."

The Thomas More Law Center said Chessani is described by fellow officers as a focused, hands-on commander who followed the Law of War and was sympathetic to the plight of innocent Iraqis. He is a committed Christian with a wife and five children, and has served his nation honorably for more than 19 years with tours of duty in Panama, the first Persian Gulf War and three tours in Iraq.

Cases still are pending against Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich; Sgt. Sanick P Dela Cruz; Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum; 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson and Capt. Lucas McConnell.

Thomas More Law Center officials are still raising funds for their battles on Chessani's behalf. They say the reasonable costs of the case – to date – have reached about $325,000 and almost $200,000 has been donated for the cause. A big bump in support came when radio talk-show host Michael Savage added his voice to those concerned about justice.

On his website, he's linked a Charlotte Conservative News report detailing how the "Time" article was based on information from known insurgents.

There, writer Michael Kraft said the Time sources "were known insurgent propagandists and it was [that report] that created the Haditha massacre hoax."

Rooney said not only had Savage personally contributed money but had his audience, adding significantly to the resources available.

Savage told his listening audience Monday he would devote whatever time and resources are necessary to clearing Chessani and then pursuing those who have "persecuted" him. He pledged Tuesday to hold a fund-raiser for the Chessani family once he is cleared.

"We have come a long way from the scandalous remarks of Congressman John Murtha and the yellow journalism of Tim McGirk and Time Magazine," said the law center's recent update on the case. "The truth of November 19, 2005, is finally coming out. The support of people like yourselves has in no small way allowed this to occur. We at the Thomas More Law Center have been able to put forward such a robust case because of prayers and contributions you have given to us for Lt. Col. Chessani."

How NOT TO Hire An American!

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Border Patrol On Amnesty!

STOP AMNESTY NOW! Write Your Senators!

NO AMNESTY!

..."There can be no divided allegiance here Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.

We have room for but one flag, the American flag.
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

~ Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Shoot the Bastard!

International treaty used in motion to dismiss molestation case

By Daniel Silliman

dsilliman@news-daily.com



Even the defense attorney admitted it was a long shot.

Citing an international treaty, Stephen Mackie argued charges of aggravated child molestation, aggravated battery and cruelty to children should be dismissed because police didn’t tell the accused man he could seek advice from the Mexican consulate.

According to the Vienna Convention, signed in 1963, “foreign nationals” have to be advised of their right to seek legal council from their country’s consulate, when they are arrested.

Mackie said the requirement -- sort an international version of Miranda rights -- said the consulate officer could help the defendant navigate the unfamiliar laws of the country and explain the rights of the individual, such as the right to remain silent.

The United States Supreme Court’s rulings on the application of the treaty are mixed, Mackie told Clayton County Superior Court Judge Matthew Simmons. “I know the law is against me, as it currently stands, but that could change,” Mackie said. A second pre-trial motion, citing the same international treaty, asked to have the defendant’s statements to police suppressed.

The prosecutor, Deputy Chief District Attorney John Turner, said he’d never seen the Vienna Treaty used as a defense in a superior court. “It’s just something you rarely see, or in my case, never,” he said.

The defendant, Eligio Chia-Duran. Chia-Duran, wore a black headset, during the proceedings, and listened to his lawyer’s arguments through a translator. Wearing a red, Clayton County Jail jumpsuit, he occasionally looked over his shoulder to glance at the two Forest Park Police Department detectives who arrested him the day after Christmas.

Chia-Duran. Chia-Duran, a native of Mexico, is accused of molesting an 8-month-old girl. When the girl was brought to Southern Regional Medical Center, on Dec. 25, she had 30 bruises on her body, her ribs, vertebrae and skull were fractured, leaving her paralyzed. She had blood in her diaper, her brain was bleeding, and physical evidence suggested she had been molested.

Turner said about 100 pages of single-spaced medical records, verified by more than five doctors, is “unrefutable” evidence against Chia-Duran. Chia-Duran faces a possible maximum sentence of 60 years in prison.

Turner argued there was no evidence of “harm or prejudice,” because Chia-Duran wasn’t told of his right to seek help from the Mexican consulate, and the detectives had no way of knowing the man wasn’t an American citizen.

“He didn’t tell police he was a foreign national,” Turner said. “The police dealt with him they way they would with any citizen.”

Detective Kelvin Jackson said, after the hearing, that he knew foreign nationals had to be told of that right, but the man had a South Carolina driver’s license and didn’t give him any reason to think of the Treaty of Vienna.

Mackie, a privately-retained attorney from Sandy Springs, Ga., said the argument was only a pretense. “The man doesn’t speak any English,” he said. “I think it’s kind of specious to suggest the police didn’t know he was a foreign national.”

Judge Simmons ruled against the motion to dismiss the case, and against the motion to suppress Chia-Duran’s statements to police. He did grant Mackie a month continuance, in the case, to allow him time to review medical records and consult a medical expert.

The prosecution and defense are in talks about negotiating a plea. Turner said the district attorney’s office has agreed to a 15-year sentence, if Chia-Duran pleads guilty by Friday, June 22.

The trial is set to begin next month.

COMMON GOOD?

Hillary Clinton and socialism's "common good" path to communism in America

Jan Ireland Jan Ireland
July 6, 2004


The Bush tax cuts enabled America to climb out of the Clinton recession despite the financial devastations of 9/11 and stock market downturns. Ten straight months of economic progress and job creation have made the economy robust.

So it is incongruous that Hillary Clinton would tell a San Francisco audience recently that Democrats will rescind the Bush tax cuts for the "common good."

Mrs. Clinton's plan is not only wrong, it's socialist.

Ronald Reagan defeated communism, but we are still being leeched by creeping socialism. The 45 communist goals read into the Congressional Record in 1963 linger, and they were supposed to be for the "common good" also.

The phrase itself a few decades ago was anathema. It does not appear in the 1945 United Nations charter, though that institution is about nothing if not socialism. Mrs. Clinton's rarely-mentioned very radical mentor, Saul Alinsky, revered it. "The radical is that unique person to whom the common good is the greatest personal value."

The inscription on the Liberty Bell exhorts "Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." And Ronald Reagan reminded "...the guiding hand of Providence did not create this new nation of America for ourselves alone, but for a higher cause: the preservation and extension of the sacred fire of human liberty."

In the coming presidential election America has a clear choice: Mrs. Clinton and universal socialism versus Ronald Reagan and universal freedom. George Bush has Ronald Reagan's fire of freedom. John Kerry must bow to the Clintons, though his personal record certainly is socialist.

The rapacious Mrs. Clinton wants to empower the government to take what it wants. We see her proclivities in the monstrous HillaryCare attempt ("It's time to put the common good, the national interest, ahead of individuals"), in the idea that the "village" (state) should raise the child, in the greedy timing of the eight million dollar book advance, in the shrill escalating rant similar to Dean's and Gore's. (Socialists always exempt themselves from the restrictions they place on others.)

Founder James Wilson wrote "Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression." It is irrefutable. Government taking from one group to give to another approved group is socialism, Marxism, and/or communism.

The words "common good" are not of themselves evil of course. A group called Common Good works to reform the lawsuit culture in America. Bayer relaxed its Cipro patent during the anthrax scare for the "common good."

But a religious group wants "...to develop religiously and politically informed advocates for the common good." Another has a vote litany. Libertarian Socialist Noam Chomsky wrote about The Common Good. The European Union demands to manage markets for the "common good" despite the incomparable success of America's capitalism and the obvious decline of socialist and communist systems in recent decades. Right under our noses in Congress is the Progressive Caucus, a group of about 50 legislators who are openly socialist.

Libertarian Ilana Mercer writes "The common good piety should raise as much suspicion as Hillary Clinton's reference to 'our children' ought to. What is paraded by government and its lapdogs as the common good very often conceals an intention to override individual rights and interests."

Objectivist Ayn Rand said "America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices for 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men ..."

Socialism reaches into our pocketbooks and lives incrementally, always cloaked in some "common good" guise exhorting us to make America better, fairer, more equal. Life is not fair and equal. Socialism takes from producers what it cannot and will not produce itself.

George Washington warned "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

Mrs. Clinton courts socialism. We've defeated communism once in our lifetime, but "common good" socialism could revive the scourge. Patriotic Americans must actively reject the shill — at the ballot box this November. For the real common good.

Be All that you can be...

Iran Kidneys For Sale.. Come and Get Em'

Sorry, I'm missing part 3. but I'll continue to search for it.
Amazing isn't it?

Remembering the Victim

A father has been found guilty of murdering his 20-year-old daughter because she fell in love with the wrong man.

Banaz Mahmod was strangled in a so-called "honour" killing and buried in a suitcase in a back garden. Her father Mahmod Mahmod and his brother Ari Mahmod ordered the murder because they believed she had shamed the family.

Banaz told police four times that she feared they wanted to kill her, even writing a letter naming those she thought would do it - one of whom later admitted his part in the killing and two who fled the country.

On another occasion her fears were dismissed by a female police officer who thought she had made up the story to get her boyfriend's attention. She is one of a number of Metropolitan Police officers now facing an internal disciplinary investigation over the handling of the case.

Mahmod, 52, and Ari, 51, both from Mitcham, south London, were found guilty of Banaz's murder following a trial lasting nearly three months. Banaz had helped convict them from beyond the grave with a video message played to jurors in which she told how she feared she was going to die.

She recorded the footage, in which she said she was "really scared", following an earlier attempt by her father to kill her on New Year's Eve 2005. Banaz fled but later went back to her family and tried to carry on her relationship with boyfriend Rahmat Sulemani in secret. But when they were discovered and Rahmat was threatened by Ari's associates, she contacted police again.

Banaz was urged to stay at a safe house but told officers she believed she would be all right at home because her mother was there. The following day, on January 24, she disappeared. Her decomposed body was discovered in Handsworth, Birmingham, three months later.

Mohamad Hama, 30, of West Norwood, south London, an associate of Ari, has already pleaded guilty to the murder. Darbaz Maref-Rasull, 24, of Hounslow, west London, was cleared, with Ari, of conspiracy to pervert justice. Pshtewan Hama, 26, also of Hounslow, has already pleaded guilty on the same count.

Neither Mahmod nor Ari showed any emotion as the verdicts were delivered. They were both remanded in custody to be sentenced at a later date.

Rahmat shook his fist in celebration and wiped tears from his eyes as he watched the jury return with their decision.

Barnum and Bailey Circus

I was going to visit the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus when it came to New Orleans with my family and Richard as just something to do. In the past I've always been against circuses that use animals, because of the awful neglect and abuse of the animals. Before purchasing tickets I had to weigh in my mind if paying $16-$80 for a ticket could soothe a guilty conscience... I decided it could not. While an evening of cotton candy and peanuts sounded like a good time, I'd rather spend my money on shopping, eating out or a good movie (at least then I could rest easy knowing I didn't contribute to the abuse of an innocent animal). Don't worry I'm not about to go all PETA on you, I'm not about that... However, when you have a chance to try to make a difference for the better you should try, right? I'm not saying one person is going to make a huge difference, but every little bit helps.

Besides my favorite parts of the circus were always the non-animal acts like the trapeze, high-wire, or bendable man. Watching a bear ride a bike or someone balancing on a horse while it goes around in a circle is not very riveting to me. However, I will continue to patronage non-circus events like Cirque du Soleil.

If you need more convincing not to support Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey, please see the link below for a link to a fact sheet.
http://www.circuses.com/pdfs/RinglingFactsheet.pdf

My Travels

ONLINE JIHAD

This is an interesting video I found on MSN about how jihadists are using online propaganda to stir anti-war sentiment among Americans.

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=902915BA-3475-4AA2-8310-689AA21823F0&t=c24&f=06/64&p=Source_Nightly%20News&fg=>1=10056

Some of my Favorite Recent Editorial Cartoons

A VIEW BEHIND THE VEIL

An interesting article about life for women in Saudi Arabia from an American journalists point of view.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-women6jun06,0,5491632,full.story

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — THE hem of my heavy Islamic cloak trailed over floors that glistened like ice. I walked faster, my eyes fixed on a familiar, green icon. I hadn't seen a Starbucks in months, but there it was, tucked into a corner of a fancy shopping mall in the Saudi capital. After all those bitter little cups of sludgy Arabic coffee, here at last was an improbable snippet of home — caffeinated, comforting, American.

I wandered into the shop, filling my lungs with the rich wafts of coffee. The man behind the counter gave me a bemused look; his eyes flickered. I asked for a latte. He shrugged, the milk steamer whined, and he handed over the brimming paper cup. I turned my back on his uneasy face.

Crossing the cafe, I felt the hard stares of Saudi men. A few of them stopped talking as I walked by and watched me pass. Them, too, I ignored. Finally, coffee in hand, I sank into the sumptuous lap of an overstuffed armchair.

"Excuse me," hissed the voice in my ear. "You can't sit here." --- Click on the link to read the full story----

TAPE SHOWS JFK FIEND'S APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION

Check out this story and video...
Here's the first chilling look at Brooklyn terrorist wannabe Russell Defreitas, courtesy of surveillance tape from the local diner where he allegedly plotted to blow up JFK Airport.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06052007/news/worldnews/tape_shows_jfk_fiends_appetite_for_destruction_worldnews_jennifer_fermino__david_seifman__chuck_bennett.htm

RADICAL ISLAM ALIVE IN THE POCONOS!

Springtime in Islamberg Radical Muslim paramilitary compound flourishes in upper New York state By Paul L. Williams Ph.D., (author of THE DAY OF ISLAM)
With the able assistance of Douglas Hagmann, Bill Krayer and Michael Travis Friday, May 11, 2007 Dr. Paul Williams at the entrance of Islamberg Situated within a dense forest at the foothills of the Catskill Mountains on the outskirts of Hancock, New York, Islamberg is not an ideal place for a summer vacation unless, of course, you are an exponent of the Jihad or a fan of Osama bin Laden. The 70 acre complex is surrounded with "No trespassing" signs; the rocky terrain is infested with rattlesnakes; and the woods are home to black bears, coyotes, wolves, and a few bobcats.
Muslim Lane The entrance to the community is at the bottom of a very steep hill that is difficult to navigate even on a bright sunny day in May. The road, dubbed Muslim Lane, is unpaved and marred by deep crevices that have been created by torrential downpours. On a wintry day, few, save those with all terrain vehicles, could venture forth from the remote encampment. A sentry post has been established at the base of the hill. The sentry, at the time of this visit, is an African American dressed in Islamic garb - - a skull cap, a prayer shawl, and a loose fitting shalwat kameez. He instructs us to turn around and leave. "Our community is not open to visitors," he says. Behind the sentry and across a small stream stand dozens of inhabitants of the compound - - the men wearing skull caps and loose fitting tunics, the women in full burqa. They appear ready to deal with any unauthorized intruders. The hillside is blighted by rusty trailers that appear to be without power or running water and a number of outhouses. The scent of raw sewage is in the air. The place is even off limits to the local undertaker who says that he has delivered bodies to the complex but has never been granted entrance. "They come and take the bodies from my hearse. They won't allow me to get past the sentry post. They say that they want to prepare the bodies for burial. But I never get the bodies back. I don't know what's going on there but I don't think it's legal." On the other side of the hill where few dare to go is a tiny village replete with a make-shift learning center (dubbed the "International Quranic Open University"); a trailer converted into a Laundromat; a small, green community center; a small and rather squalid grocery store; a newly constructed majid; over forty clapboard homes; and scores of additional trailers. It is home to hundreds - - all in Islamic attire, and all African-Americans. Most drive late model SUVs with license plates from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
The locals say that some work as tollbooth operators for the New York State Thruway, while others are employed at a credit card processing center that maintains confidential financial records. While buzzing with activity during the week, the place becomes a virtual hive on weekends. The guest includes arrivals from the inner cities of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and, occasionally, white-robed dignitaries in Ray-Bans from the Middle East. Venturing into the complex last summer, Douglas Hagmann, an intrepid investigator and director of the Northeast Intelligence Service, came upon a military training area at the eastern perimeter of the property. The area was equipped with ropes hanging from tall trees, wooden fences for scaling, a make-shift obstacle course, and a firing range. Hagmann said that the range appeared to have been in regular use.
Islamberg is not as benign as a Buddhist monastery or a Carmelite convent. Nearly every weekend, neighbors hear sounds of gunfire. Some, including a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, have heard the bang of small explosives. None of the neighbors wished to be identified for fear of "retaliation." "We don't even dare to slow down when we drive by," one resident said. "They own the mountain and they know it and there is nothing we can do about it but move, and we can't even do that. Who wants to buy a property near that?" Islamberg's Grocery Store Islamberg's Grocery Store The complex serves to scare the bejeesus out of the local residents. "If you go there, you better wear body armor," a customer at the Circle E Diner in Hancock said. "They have armed guards and if they shoot you, nobody will find your body." At Cousins, a watering hole in nearby Deposit, a barfly, who didn't wish to be identified, said: "The place is dangerous. You can hear gunfire up there. I can't understand why the FBI won't shut it down." Islamberg is a branch of Muslims of the Americas Inc., a tax-exempt organization formed in 1980 by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, who refers to himself as "the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr," Gilani, has been directly linked by court documents to Jamaat ul-Fuqra or "community of the impoverished," an organization that seeks to "purify" Islam through violence.
Though primarily based in Lahore, Pakistan, Jamaat ul-Fuqra has operational headquarters in New York and openly recruits through various social service organizations in the U.S., including the prison system. Members live in hamaats or compounds, such as Islamberg, where they agree to abide by the laws of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, which are considered to be above local, state and federal authority. Additional hamaats have been established in Hyattsville, Maryland; Red House, Virginia; Falls Church, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; York, South Carolina; Dover, Tennessee; Buena Vista, Colorado; Talihina, Oklahoma; Tulane Country, California; Commerce, California; and Onalaska, Washington. Others are being built, including an expansive facility in Sherman, Pennsylvania. Before becoming a citizen of Islamberg or any of the other Fuqra compounds, the recruits - - primarily inner city black men who became converts in prison - - are compelled to sign an oath that reads: "I shall always hear and obey, and whenever given the command, I shall readily fight for Allah's sake." In the past, thousands of members of the U.S. branches of Jamaat ul-Fuqra traveled to Pakistan for paramilitary training, but encampments, such as Islamberg, are now capable of providing book-camp training so raw recruits are no longer required to travel abroad amidst the increased scrutiny of post 9/11. Over the years, numerous members of Jamaat ul-Fuqra have been convicted in US courts of such crimes as conspiracy to commit murder, firebombing, gun smuggling, and workers' compensation fraud. Others remain leading suspects in criminal cases throughout the country, including ten unsolved assassinations and seventeen fire-bombings between 1979 and 1990. The criminal charges against the group and the criminal convictions are not things of the past. In 2001, a resident of a California compound was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of a sheriff's deputy; another was charged with gun-smuggling' and twenty-four members of the Red House community were convicted of firearms violations.
By 2004 federal investigators uncovered evidence that linked both the DC "sniper killer" John Allen Muhammed and "Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid to the group and reports surfaced that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded in the process of attempting to obtain an interview with Sheikh Gilani in Pakistan. Even though Jamaat ul-Fuqra has been involved in terror attacks and sundry criminal activities, recruited thousands of members from federal and state penal systems, and appears to be operating paramilitary facilities for militant Muslims, it remains to be placed on the official US Terror Watch List.
On the contrary, it continues to operate, flourish, and expand as a legitimate nonprofit, tax-deductible charity.
(Paul Williams is the author of THE AL QAEDA CONNECTION and forthcoming THE DAY OF ISLAM. Lee Boyland is the author of THE RINGS OF ALLAH). Web Canadafreepress.com