http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/ A place for political discussions en Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:29:31 GMT vBulletin 1440 http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/ http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60245&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:32:24 GMT KOP, April, is one you behing this? :fest09: *US church defiant despite condemnation of Koran burning (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11223457)* A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11... KOP, April, is one you behing this? :fest09:

US church defiant despite condemnation of Koran burning

A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.

The top US commander in Afghanistan warned troops' lives would be in danger if the Dove World Outreach Center in Florida went through with the plan.

Muslim countries, the US government and Nato have also hit out at the plan.

But organiser, Pastor Terry Jones said: "We must send a clear message to the radical element of Islam."

The controversy comes at a time when the US relationship with Islam is very much under scrutiny.

There is heated debate in the country over a proposal to build a mosque and Islamic cultural centre streets from Ground Zero, site of the 9/11 attacks, in New York.

'Significant problems'

Despite having a congregation of just 50, the plans of the church in Gainesville have gained worldwide notoriety, sparking demonstrations in Afghanistan and Indonesia.

Gen David Petraeus, the top US commander in Afghanistan, said on Monday that the action could cause problems "not just in Kabul, but everywhere in the world".

"It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems," he said in a statement.

The Vatican, the Obama administration and Nato have also expressed concern over the plan.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Tuesday that "any type of activity like that that puts our troops in harm's way would be a concern".

Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen blasted the plans, telling reporters that burning Korans violated the Nato alliance's "values".

Dr Jones - author of a book entitled Islam is of the Devil - has said he understands the general's concerns but that it was "time for America to quit apologizing for our actions and bowing to kings".

Another pastor at the church told the BBC that members intended to burn several hundred copies of the holy book on Saturday evening, the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in defiance of an order by the city not to hold an open air bonfire.

Muslims consider the Koran to be the word of God and insist it be treated with the utmost respect. Any intentional damage or show of disrespect to the holy book is deeply offensive to them.

An interfaith group of evangelical, Roman Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim leaders meeting in Washington on Tuesday condemned the proposals as a violation of American values and the Bible.

News of the bonfire has also sparked protests in Afghanistan and Indonesia.

In Kabul on Monday, about 500 protesters chanted "long live Islam" and "death to America" as they set fire to an effigy of Mr Jones.

Thousands of mostly Muslim demonstrators rallied around Indonesia at the weekend.

Story retracted

Claims that US soldiers have desecrated the Koran in both Afghanistan and Iraq have caused bloodshed in the past.

There were deadly protests in Afghanistan in 2008, when it emerged that a US soldier deployed to Iraq riddled a copy of the holy book with bullets.

And further lives were lost in Afghan riots in 2005 when Newsweek magazine printed a story alleging that US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet.

The story later turned out to be false and was retracted by the magazine. ]]> Lets Talk Politics xtvcasting http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60245 http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60243&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:36:13 GMT I don't agree with everything the man has to say, but it's close enough I wouldn't vote against it

http://global-economics.ca/fixing_immigration.htm


some of you might find Patrick Grady interesting, what he says applies just as much to America or Australia as it does to us

:) ]]> Lets Talk Politics aiti http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60243 http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60234&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:50:02 GMT Globalist Soros Launches Frontal Assault Against Tea Party

Soros and the foundation left have launched a website designed to go after the growing Tea Party movement. Teapartytracker.org will post video interviews and blog entries gathered by folks on the false left who never grow weary of demonstrating their outrage over the very idea of a grassroots political effort overthrowing establishment Democrats and Republicans in the district of corporate criminals.

http://www.teapartytracker.org/ ]]> Lets Talk Politics KingOfPain http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60234 http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60229&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:36:30 GMT *Labor Day Has Become Government Day* Posted September 6th, 2010 at 9:00am This Labor Day marks a milestone in the history of the U.S. union movement. It is the first Labor Day on which a majority of union members in United States work for the government... Labor Day Has Become Government Day

Posted September 6th, 2010 at 9:00am


This Labor Day marks a milestone in the history of the U.S. union movement.

It is the first Labor Day on which a majority of union members in United States work for the government. In January the Department of Labor reported that union membership in government has overtaken that in the private sector. Three times as many union members work in the Post Office as in the entire domestic auto industry. The face of the union movement is not a worker on the assembly line but a clerk at the DMV.

This is a dramatic shift for the union movement. The early trade unionists did not believe that unions had a place in government. They believed the purpose of unions was to redistribute business profits from owners to workers … and the government makes no profits. Not until the 1960s did unionizing government employees become widespread. Now government employees make up 52 percent of all union members.

So what? Why should Americans care if unions are now dominated by workers who get their paychecks from governments, instead of workers who get their paychecks from private firms? There’s one simple reason: private firms face competition; governments don’t.

Collective bargaining, the anti-trust exemption at the heart the labor movement’s power, was created to help workers seize their “fair share” of business profits. But if a union ends up extracting a contract from a private firm that eats up too much of the profits, then that firm will be unable to reinvest those resources and will lose out to competitors. But when a union extracts a generous contract from a government, there is no check on that spending. Instead of being forced out by more efficient competitors, the government just raises taxes.

The shift from private to public sector has fundamentally changed organized labor’s priorities. Unions used to support policies that would help their private sector employers grow. But now that they are largely dependent on the government, the only growth that unions are interested in is the growth of government. So unions push for tax increases across the country. Consider recent union activism:

• Illinois. Unions want state lawmakers to increase the state income tax from 3 percent to 5 percent and to expand the sales tax to cover some services. In April 2010 they organized rallies of government workers outside the state capitol shouting “Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes!” At that rally, a government union member was caught on camera chanting “Where’s the money?” and “Give up the bucks!”

• Montana. The Montana teachers union openly sees itself as a supporter of tax and spend politics. Its President boasts, “Were it not for us almost any one of the … anti-tax and spend ballot issues proposed in the last 25 years would have passed.”

• New Mexico. Unions lobbied the state’s legislature to raise taxes to deal with its budget deficit. The union got its wish, but it was not the wealthy who paid – the legislature imposed a 2 percent sales tax on food.

• Washington state. Washington state has no income tax, and unions want to change that. They have placed an initiative on the November ballot creating a state income tax and are among the top donors to the campaign to pass it.

Government unions are the backbone of the Obama dependency economy. Taxpayers should not have to subsidize union campaigns, much less those that call for tax increases. At the very least Congress should end the automatic payroll deduction of union dues.

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/09/06/morning-bell-labor-day-has-become-government-day/ ]]> Lets Talk Politics KingOfPain http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60229 http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60218&goto=newpost Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:38:19 GMT http://www.dare2sayit.com/racist_history_of_the_democratic.htm analize this!!!! http://www.dare2sayit.com/racist_his...democratic.htm

analize this!!!! ]]> Lets Talk Politics calster http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60218 http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60209&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:15:14 GMT How can we call it Labor Day weekend, when Tuesday morning, 14.9 million + have no job to go to??? While I don't agree with Newt Gingrich everytime he opens his mouth, this is one that I have to agree with him on.
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Gingrich Laments Unemployment Day Weekend

Friday, 03 Sep 2010 12:07 PM

By: Newt Gingrich and Dan Varroney

It is time for a fresh start.

The most compelling evidence for the President to take a new direction is his “jobs gap” which surpassed one-million in August. According to the St. Petersburg Times the American economy needs to create 292,000 jobs a month beginning in February 2010 to reach 5% unemployment by 2015. Today, the Obama jobs gap has widened to 1.3 million jobs.

Unemployment Day weekend will mark the official end of the Obama administration’s “Recovery Summer”. 14.9 million Americans are unemployed. 6.2 million people have been out of work for more than six months. And, over 450,000 people are filing unemployment claims each month. Yet, the White House continues to tout the $862 billion stimulus as a success.

As the President himself has noted, small businesses were responsible for over 60% of all jobs lost in the last three months of 2009. Elsewhere in the economy, home construction has fallen and businesses continue to keep investment capital on the sidelines.

In its most recent Small Business Survey, American Solutions entrepreneurs cited the federal government as the #1 culprit when it comes to imposing the most burdensome taxes or fees. In addition, twenty-seven percent (27%) of small businesses lose more than 10 hours per month complying with state or federal government requirements or regulations.

Employers are hesitant to invest in new employees if they are unsure if there will be tax increases or new costs from healthcare reform. What drives success for entrepreneurs is certainty and policy that encourages growth with low costs, minimal regulation, predictable tax rates and a highly trained and skilled work force.

Early in his administration the President tried the opposite approach and failed miserably. President Obama pressed Congress to pass an $862 billion massive government stimulus package and a $1 trillion health care entitlement program. There has been no job creation as a result of either. Not to be outdone, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans a lame duck session for the U.S. Senate to consider a new national energy tax. This proposal is estimated to kill 5.1 million jobs over the next 40 years and cost the American economy $125.9 billion per year, or $1,042 per household.

As the President considers what to do next, he should turn to an already existing jobs plan that has been introduced in the U.S. House: the Economic Freedom Act of 2010 by Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan and Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz

The plan is straight forward. Lower taxes and make the United States the most competitive country in the world for new business investment. The legislation reduces payroll taxes by fifty percent for both the employer and employee for one year, allowing for greater take home pay for individuals and more money for companies to hire new employees and make new capital investments.

To spur manufacturing, the plan allows small firms to expense 100 percent of the cost of new purchases. To make the U.S. more competitive, the legislation reduces the corporate income tax rate to 12.5 percent and completely eliminates the capital gains tax. These two bold tax reforms will be an enormous boost to productivity and stop jobs from going overseas by making the United States -- not India or China -- the best place in the world to start and run a business.

Finally, the plan permanently eliminates the Death Tax and its perverse double taxation of family business generated wealth, which will be a tremendous incentive to continue the growth of small firms from one generation to the next.

Economic certainty, not arbitrary rulemaking, is what the American entrepreneur needs from its government. If Congress and the President want to do something to help the economy this fall, they should permanently lower the tax burden on economic productivity. If not, it’s likely the voters will permanently eliminate the current big spending Congress.

Newt Gingrich is the Former Speaker of the U.S. House and General Chairman of American Solutions. Dan Varroney is its Chief Operating Officer and a co-author of To Save America, Speaker Gingrich’s recent book.
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HAPPY UNEMPLOYMENT DAY WEEKEND TO ONE AND ALL. IF YOU HAVE A JOB, THANK GOD FOR IT AND IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD, THEN, THANK THE MONKEY THAT YOU THINK THAT YOU DECENDED FROM. ]]> Lets Talk Politics Iron Horse http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60209 http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60208&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:50:13 GMT While Republicans have known this for some time, MANY Democrats are coming to the belief that it's true. Too many undelivered promises. Obama (and this has nothing to do with race) reminds me of that little penguin in ''Happy Feet''. His feet are moving faster than everything around him, but nothing happens. But he's happy.
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Analysts: 9.6% Jobless Puts GOP on Verge of Senate Takeover

Friday, 03 Sep 2010 01:38 PM

By: David A. Patten

A perfect storm of economic reversals, including Friday's news that August unemployment rose to 9.6 percent, has pushed Democrats to the brink of losing both the Senate and the House in the midterm elections, leading political analysts say.

For the first time, the nation's top political analysts are agreeing that a complete GOP takeover of Congress is now plausible.

The University of Virginia's Larry J. Sabato rocked the inside-the-Beltway crowd this week with his projection that Republicans now have a solid shot at capturing 50 seats in the Senate.

"The direction at this point is very clear," Sabato tells Newsmax. "It is a Republican year. The primary reason is the weak economy, overwhelmingly so, in fact. And the economy isn't going to turn around fast enough to erase GOP gains on Nov. 2."

Sabato writes in his widely followed Crystal Ball report that Democrats' self-proclaimed "Recovery Summer" has "become a term of derision." He adds that most voters feel President Obama "has over-promised and under-delivered."

Sabato, who once believed Republicans would score a net gain of at most seven seats in November, now says eight and possibly nine seats are realistic numbers.

Picking up the 10 seats needed for outright control, he says, is an "outside shot" — but possible.

A gain of nine seats would be enough to throw the Senate into a 50-50 deadlock. Unfortunately for Republicans, tie-breaking votes in the Senate are cast by the Senate president, Vice President Joe Biden.

But Sabato, the author of "The Year of Obama: How Barack Obama Won the White House," sees a way Republicans could seize outright control of the Senate even they fall short of a 10-seat net gain in the midterms.

If Republicans can win nine seats, he says, then conservative-leaning senators who caucus with the Democrats may be tempted to switch parties — as moderates of both parties often do.

Writes Sabato: "It will be interesting to see how senators such as Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and others react."

Sabato isn't the only nationally respected analyst upping his estimate of GOP's chances of winning control of both houses because of the weak economy.

Charlie Cook, the nonpartisan political handicapper who writes the Cook Political Report, had projected a GOP pick-up of four to six Senate seats in November. He now projects Republicans will gain seven to nine seats, and concedes there's a "plausible argument" that Republicans could gain 10.

Democratic pollster and Fox News commentator Douglas Schoen, who has been warning since March that the GOP could grab both chambers, tells Newsmax: "We are now being vindicated. Healthcare was the precipitating factor in Democrats' decline."

He also suggested that Democrats could reverse their slide, but only if they are willing to alter their current economic policies.

"Democrats need a bold new economic agenda focusing on job creation through extension of Bush tax cuts for all, and a broad-based payroll tax holiday, as well as aid to small businesses," Schoen says.

There was no indication Friday that Democratic leaders are reconsidering their stimulus-oriented approach to fixing the economy, however, as President Obama delivered a statement on the economy from the Rose Garden.

After Obama blamed Republican leaders for not backing a loan program for small-businesses, one reporter asked him whether he regretted the so-called "Recovery Summer."

"I don't regret the notion that we are moving forward, but because of the steps that we've taken," Obama said.

Not all the news from Friday's jobs report was bad. Although the economy lost more than 54,000 jobs overall, most of the job losses were in the public sector. Private-sector employers actually added 76,000 jobs.

Economists estimate, however, that it takes between 200,000 and 250,000 new jobs each month to really improve unemployment.

Despite the steady drumbeat of dreary economic data, Sabato thinks a 10-seat net gain in the Senate is still probably optimistic. But he adds, "If the Republican wave on Nov. 2 is as large as some polls are suggesting it may be, then the surprise on election night could be a full GOP takeover."

He cites a statistic that should sound a serious note of trouble for Democrats.

"Since World War II," Sabato wrote, "the House of Representatives has flipped parties on six occasions (1946, 1948, 1952, 1954, 1994, and 2006).

"Every time, the Senate flipped too, even when it had not been predicted to do so. These few examples do not create an iron law of politics, but they do suggest an electoral tendency."

Sabato sees six Senate seats as tossups that could still go to either party. Of those, Florida is the only tossup seat that a Republican holds now. The other Senate seats up for grabs are California, Illinois, Nevada, Washington, and Wisconsin, he says. ]]> Lets Talk Politics Iron Horse http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60208 http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60207&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:26:11 GMT Are we going to return to the days of 1965 Watts demonstrations when blacks decided to burn their own homes and businesses while crying out ''Burn, Baby, Burn''???

Or, later became, Burn, baby, burn, Disco Inferno. Now, I've got that song in my head and can't get rid of it. It's been there since I read the article below. If I were guessing, I would say that this was probably done by white kids. Maybe adults. Some idiot left his fingerprints, so, they may not get him today, but someday. He'd better hope that he doesn't have any reason to give his fingerprints to authorities until the statute of limitations runs out. If he has already had his prints put in the system, well, that will end that for him.
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Authorities: Fire at Tenn. mosque site was arson

By TRAVIS LOLLER

updated 9/3/2010 5:30:57 PM ET
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Federal investigators have decided a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee was arson.

U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent Steven Gerido said Friday that lab tests confirmed an accelerant was used in the fire early Saturday in Murfreesboro.

The fire engulfed the cab of a dump truck, and authorities found fresh fuel pooled under a second dump truck and some fingerprints near the fuel tank.

The site is the location for a new Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, which has drawn increasingly vehement opposition, including protest marches and some vandalism. One opponent said she received death threats after appearing on "The Daily Show."

A $20,000 reward is being offered to anyone with information leading to an arrest.
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We may see more and more of this type of behavior. Once it starts, you know how it spreads. And, the second group learns from any mistakes made by the first group. Like the fingerprints. And, the third group learns from the first two. And, on we go. ]]> Lets Talk Politics Iron Horse http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60207 http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60202&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:50:56 GMT *When America was God’s Country* By Calvin E. Johnson Jr. Friday, August 27, 2010 The United States of America is a vast melting pot of many people of different origins and religions….And, thank God, we are still free to worship at the church, synagogue or mosque of our choice as our nation... When America was God’s Country

By Calvin E. Johnson Jr. Friday, August 27, 2010
The United States of America is a vast melting pot of many people of different origins and religions….And, thank God, we are still free to worship at the church, synagogue or mosque of our choice as our nation celebrates her 234th birthday as an American-Christian Republic.

But, today, some folks are questioning the wisdom, or lack of, in building a Mosque and Islamic Center near “Ground Zero” the sacred site where the World Trade Center was destroyed by terrorists on September 11, 2001. This is sacred-honored ground that some compare to the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where thousands were also senselessly killed.
Is this the same America of forty-five “45” years ago, when our nation celebrated the Civil War Centennial or over two-hundred “200” years ago, when our founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence? Are children still taught the words to the Declaration of Independence or Bill of Rights?
Why do some of our Washington representatives, who are sworn to defend the Constitution and American people, criticize the State of Arizona for upholding the Constitution and protecting their people?
If only we had the values of the 1960s when….
Mothers, Fathers, Grandmas and Grandpas shared stories and words of wisdom with their children. The young folks were encouraged to live more constructive and fruitful lives by avoiding cigarettes, alcohol and drugs and obeying the laws of God—that are the Ten Commandments and the laws of man.
During 1961-65, America remembered the men of the Union Blue and Confederate Gray of the War Between the States and….
In 1965 people enjoyed quality time at the drive-in or in-door picture show to see such great movies as: “Shenandoah” starring James Stewart, “A High Wind in Jamaica” starring Anthony Quinn, “Von Ryan’s Express” starring Frank Sinatra, “The Sons of Katie Elder” starring John Wayne and the academy award winner “The Sound of Music” starring Julie Andrews. Veteran Movie Director Henry Koster was still making family film classics like: Dear Brigitte starring James Stewart and Glynis Johns.
Television shows during the autumn of 1965 were magnificently transcending from black and white to color, that included such shows as: “The Lawrence Welk Show” on ABC, “Daniel Boone” staring Fess Parker on NBC and “The Andy Griffith Show” also starring Don Knotts on CBS.
During the 1960s, presidents hardly ever apologized for America, the family attended church on Sunday and streets were safer even though firearms were easier to purchase.
The music scene of 1965 exploded with excitement with such entertainers as: the Beatles, the Supremes, the Dixie Cups, Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Louis Armstrong, Tennessee Ernie Ford, George Jones and Loretta Lynn—to name a few.
In 1965, a Mother could safely leave her front door unlocked to go the store, school bands still played “Dixie” and everyone respected the fireman, policeman, paramedic, school teacher and soldier.
America has never been perfect, but Capitalism, not Communism, has endured the test of time. When I was growing up, no one quoted former Communist or Socialist leaders. Americans quoted from great men like: George Washington, Sir Winston Churchill, Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee.
The world looks toward America as the last hope for the free world. But, are we still the land of the free and home of the brave and is our motto still “In God We Trust?”
Calvin E. Johnson, Jr., Speaker and Author of the book “When America Stood for God, Family and Country.”
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]]> Lets Talk Politics april teruel http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60202 http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60201&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:26:31 GMT *This is our future* *Recent terror threats have been stopped, but we have refused to heed the warnings* By David Harris, Citizen Special August 30, 2010 This is our future



Recent terror threats have been stopped, but we have refused to heed the warnings



By David Harris, Citizen Special August 30, 2010







Police collect evidence at 91 Esterlawn Pvt. in Ottawa during this week's sweep of searches and arrests of terrorism suspects, Aug. 28, 2010.

Photograph by: Julie Oliver, The Ottawa Citizen




This is your future. That was my wretched thought on behalf of Canadians as I watched Thursday's Project Samossa news conference.
Samossa was the major national security investigation that erupted this week in counterterrorism raids and the arrest of four Muslim-Canadians. The government's charges against three of them imply a wealth of evidence that will shock the conscience of Canadians.
These charges and limited revelations suggest that we could be front-row witnesses to the most vile of manifestations of the Islamist jihad in this country. The allegation is that people living among us and enjoying the immense privileges of Canadian citizenship, are siding with enemy forces aiming to kill and maim our boys and girls serving in Afghanistan -- and maybe residents of Ottawa and other Canadian centres, too.
We shouldn't be surprised.
The Toronto 18 showed us the savagery of the 7th-century war that is being imported into our 21st-century neighbourhoods. Defendants included those who should have been a credit to educated youth. From some we would have expected gratitude of immigrants who had been welcomed to a gentle and generous nation. Canadians' reward was instead a conspiracy to rent Toronto with explosives, and blast our Parliament with invasion and a prime ministerial beheading.
Further hints -- and only hints -- of our growing predicament come from a series of recent convictions.
Think of Momin Khawaja, the handsome Department of Foreign Affairs software consultant and moonlighter in international bomb-making. Then there was Said Namouh, Quebec-based Moroccan bomb-plotter, and the Groupe Fatah Kamel, which drove a French counterterror magistrate to pin Canada as an international centre of North African Islamic extremism.
These threats were headed off by good luck and good security work, but are auguries of future violence, economy-defying instability and further pressure on civil liberties.
But why must this be our future? Because we refuse to heed warnings, learn basic lessons and act in a responsible way to preserve our well-being.
To understand this in the context of Islamic radicalism is to account properly for the main sources of Canada's escalating extremism. These sources are immigration and refugee influxes, and the homegrown extremist phenomenon.
Liberal politicians long ago turned immigration and refugee streams into vote-importing mechanisms. Conservatives continue to do so at the expense of Canadians' safety and tens of billions in net per annum immigration costs, plus attendant and overwhelming security costs. So pronounced is the pathology that not even a terrible recession could prevent Immigration Minister Jason Kenney from hiking immigration and refugee levels from what were already roughly the highest per capita in the world. These levels are too great to allow for reliable vetting in a world where war and ideological struggles rage, and we are a target.
Then there is the near-intractable problem of homegrown or self-radicalizing extremism. Here, we need vigorous efforts by Muslims to take up the work of Dr. Tawfik Hamid and others. They must interpret constructively the portions of the Koran and Hadiths that are routinely invoked to justify brutalizing infidels and non-radical Muslims. This requires challenging those people who embrace the Koranic interpretative doctrine of abrogation by which later militant "sword verses" can supersede earlier, more open and charitable verses.

As part of this, we must put a halt to Saudi funding and similar fundamentalist influence in Canada's Islamic and other institutions. Most emphatically, Islamist front organizations and fellow-travelling "Islamic rights" groups should be barred from the legitimizing table of security outreach.
Outreach has difficulties, and there is concern that some of our police and other security elements may be taking the easy way out when it comes to counterradicalizing and connecting with interest groups. The useful tool of community policing periodically metastasizes into unhealthy outreach programs with Islamic front organizations, as officials seek to appease and humour the louder -- and sometimes aggressive -- influences.
At the Samossa press conference, Ottawa police Chief Vern White inadvertently illustrated the problem in response to a question about reported privileged terrorism briefings for "leaders" of Ottawa's Muslim community, among a few others. The chief asserted that this private access, part of ongoing community outreach, was to reassure fearful members of "certain communities" that they would not be subject to "backlash." A reflection of the new politically correct policing, this remark suggests that some officials are accepting and feeding the Islamist victimology hype that has been repeatedly debunked by statistics showing that blacks and Jews continue to be the main targets of bigotry.
Are we prepared to accept this as our future?
A lawyer with 30 years in intelligence affairs, David Harris is director of the intelligence program INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc. He has consulted with intelligence organizations in Canada and abroad and served with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in 1988-90.


I am sorry my friends from the north has to go through this, but now they'll understand our stand on immigration. I hope that they'll make the right choices has i hope we well. ]]> Lets Talk Politics april teruel http://www.letstalkdirty.org/ltdforum/showthread.php?t=60201