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Botching Fast and Furious

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/302642

Texas senator John Cornyn recently joined the growing number of Republicans who’ve called on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign. And a week from today, the House Oversight Committee will convene to consider pursuing a contempt-of-Congress citation against Holder. If the committee decides to proceed, the entire House will vote on the matter.

Holder has no intention of resigning, especially on the say-so of Republicans — but the attorney general has much to answer for, and Republicans should continue to make the case that he is wholly inadequate to his position and operating in bad faith.

Holder oversaw the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives during a time in which it ran Operation Fast and Furious — a program in which ATF agents deliberately allowed drug cartels to traffic more than 1,000 guns into Mexico and made no attempt to track the weapons as they changed hands. Two of the guns were found at the scene of a Border Patrol agent’s murder. Many more have turned up at other crime scenes, and as even Holder has admitted, the fallout from Fast and Furious will continue for “years to come.” Documents that were obtained by the Oversight Committee via leaks — in particular, wiretap applications — suggest that several high-ranking officials within the Justice Department knew that guns were being allowed to “walk.”

The Justice Department has conceded that Fast and Furious was a terrible idea and vowed to prevent its reoccurrence, but beyond that, Holder has spent more than a year refusing to come clean about the operation. In February of 2011, his department outrageously denied that gunwalking had even occurred, a statement it waited until December to retract. When the Oversight Committee requested various documents throughout 2011, Holder often waited months to provide them. Just last week, in congressional testimony, Holder asserted that the words “Fast and Furious,” found in a wiretap application along with references to gunwalking, do not refer to Fast and Furious.

Meet the Radical DOJ Lawyer Suing Florida to Keep Foreigners on Voter Rolls http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/06/12/meet-the-radical-doj-lawyer-keeping-foreigners-on-florida-voter-rolls/?print=1 The DOJ filed a complaint against Florida today to stop Florida from removing ineligible non-citizens from the voter rolls. (Yesterday DOJ, disgracing long-established tradition, leaked this impending news to a sycophantic blogger.) Florida has already discovered noncitizens who voted illegally in […]

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Force-Feeding British Schoolchildren Poison About Israel
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has a paid secretariat and a network of some 40 branches in the UK plus affiliated groups. Sinisterly, it includes the entire land of Israel on its logo.

Among its current links is the London Palestine Place fest (Palestine Place, incidentally, was the purpose-built and deliberately-named nineteenth century headquarters of a notorious London missionary society that existed for the sole purpose of converting Jews to Christianity!)

In its own words, which I take from its leaflet entitled “Palestine-Israel: The Basic Facts”, the PSC

“produces publications for its members and the general public and disseminates information through its website; lobbies the media, institutions, the British government and local MPS; organises public meetings, film shows, conferences, debates, boycott events. pickets and demonstrations at local, national and international levels; promotes relations between British and Palestinian oranisations and communities”

It’s promoted BDS with gusto since 2001, not least by picketing supermarkets selling Israeli goods, button-holing passers-by, and thrusting anti-Israel propaganda at them. “This is an excellent way to start up a discussion with the general public,” one member is quoted as saying. “You start with imported avocados and end up with the Fourth Geneva Convention!”

In my experience, there’s always a wad of Israel-demonising leaflets on hand at such demos. But what is not as generally known as it might be (for it’s not usually among the material distributed at pickets and rallies) is that in 2009 the PSC produced a particularly pernicious piece of propaganda aimed at poisoning impressionable teenage minds against Israel.

This pernicious piece of propaganda is called “Teachers Pack on Palestine” and a leaflet describing it was given to me hot off the press when, at a PSC-sponsored Israel-demonising exhibition of children’s drawings from Gaza, I was mistaken for a schoolteacher.

“Exploring Palestine through Citizenship” the leaflet (its punctuation leaving much to be desired) thus enthusiastically thrust at me begins. It continues (the non- italicised words in square brackets consist of my asides):

“PSC, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and CAABU, the Council for Arab-British Understanding have put together an excellent online educational resource designed to introduce secondary school students to Palestine. They are mainly geared towards the Citizenship Curriculum, but can be used in English, Media, History and Geography lessons.

1) Forced to leave home
After brainstorming what they would take from their homes if they had to flee at short notice, students will do short role-plays based on fleeing home.
[I guess these role models, Jews fleeing their homes in Jerusalem under the gaze of Arab troops, are kept under wraps]

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1303/why_the_shafilea_ahmed_trial_should_be_the_final_nail_in_the_coffin_of_multiculturalism

“To paraphrase Roger Scruton – it must be known that no matter what culture one hails from, individuals must accept rules, customs and procedures that may be alien to their old way of life. This is not an injustice. As immigrants come into the country in order to gain, it is therefore reasonable to remind them that there is also a cost – and that cost is one’s cultural norms that are reprehensible in Western civilization.In this country we have a great tradition and history of enlightened values of pluralism from the great Greek and Christian philosophers, such as Hobbes, Locke and Mill, who were able to say with authority and conviction which culture, society and method of existence was best. It is high time that we openly believe in such values too – and put the final nail in multiculturalism’s coffin.”

‘A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the others are his own affairs’

– John Stuart Mill On Liberty

‘Some cultures are admirable, others are vile’.

– Brian Barry Culture and Equality

Multiculturalism is often mistaken for Jeremy Waldron’s theory of cultural cosmopolitanism – the insouciance notion that one can associate oneself with many different cultures. For example, an individual may study Ancient Greek, eat Chinese cuisine, wear Italian designer clothes, listen to Mozart played by Australian aborigines, read French surrealist poetry, and so on.

However, multiculturalism is a political philosophy that allows for the creation of multiple identities, and challenges the totems of a nation-state’s existing culture.

Thus, those who advocate multiculturalism are advocating the resistance of homogenization and assimilation of Western enlightened values and norms – such as the rule of law, parliamentary democracy, freedoms of expression and conscience, modernity, equality and secularization – values that often have little resonance within the Muslim world.

Instead, multiculturalists endorse what has been described by the Canadian philosopher, Charles Taylor, as the ‘politics of recognition’ – the notion that public policy should be based on the concept of one’s identity and difference, rather than equal citizenship.

This means everyone is recognised by the law for their individual unique identity. As multiculturalism respects how one individual understands themselves and the world around them – their culture can thus essentially excuse any action, and it is us who must relinquish the space in which their cultures can flourish.

Such cultural actions can include ‘forced marriages’, ‘honour attacks’, or even in some extreme cases, ‘honour killing’. Indeed, ‘honour killings’ are so commonplace that it is estimated worldwide over 20,000 women are slaughtered each year.

In 2010 alone, 2,823 ‘honour attacks’ had been reported in the UK. Although, the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) estimated there were most likely another 500 honour attacks that were not covered in the survey.

The attacks are typically carried out in the West when family members adopt the cultural norms of Western society – such as dressing in Western attire, dating someone of a different culture, sex before marriage, and quite often the refusal of an arranged marriage.

This has resulted in ‘honour attacks’ that range from kidnapping, mutilation, beatings, acid attacks, and in some extreme cases, murder. Unsurprisingly, such crimes typically happen in concentrated, built up immigrant areas in the UK – mainly of Middle Eastern, and South Asian ancestry.

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Brooklyn House candidate calls Gadhafi his hero
The Hill
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
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Brooklyn House candidate calls Gadhafi his hero
Charles Barron calls Robert Mugabe and Moammar Gadhafi his “heroes.” He compared Israel’s government to the Nazis, says he won’t salute the American flag, and once offered that he wanted to “slap” the nearest white person. And come January, he could be central Brooklyn’s newest congressman. Read more…

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Iran’s oil exports plummet as sanctions hit
Reuters
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
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Iran’s oil exports plummet as sanctions hit

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Arizona police get ready to enforce immigration law
Reuters
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Tuesday ordered the redistribution of materials to train police to enforce the state’s tough immigration crackdown, in a sign that she expects the Supreme Court to endorse the measure in coming days. Read more…

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Rumsfeld: Israel Can’t Trust Obama – on The Glazov Gang
by Jamie Glazov
Dwight Schultz, Nonie Darwish and Tommi Trudeau mix it up on Frontpage’s television debate show.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/06/13/rumsfeld-israel-cant-trust-obama-%E2%80%93-on-the-glazov-gang/

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3103/jacques-rogge And so, then years later, instead of being remembered and mourned, the Israeli athletes who were killed for political reasons are being shoved aside for political reasons by the very people who claim to put sports before politics. Europe has temporarily forgotten its financial problems. This is the summer of sports. In June the […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/06/12/the-last-days-of-jews-in-the-islamicized-europe/ A few days ago, security guards were patrolling the streets near Rome’s Jewish school with metal detectors, searching for possible explosive devices. Rome’s largest synagogue, one of the oldest in the world, today looks like a military outpost, with private guards and policemen at every corner. The Jewish school is also a “sterilized area,” […]

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=2049 Recent findings by a June 12, 2012 Maagar Mochot poll, published by Israel Hayom on Tuesday, reflect a shift in the Israeli state of mind, from the euphoric days of the 1993 Oslo Accords up until the recent eruption of the tectonic “Arab Street.” Palestinian terrorism has skyrocketed since Oslo: 250 Israelis were murdered […]

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2141/NBCs-Chelsea-Clinton-Media-Responsible-for-Ameliorating-Islamophobia.aspx Almost exactly three years ago, President Obama addressed “Muslims around the world” from Egypt’s al-Azhar U in Cairo. He said he “consider[ed] it part of [his] responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.” As Geert Wilders writes in his must-read book Marked for Death: […]