http://www.prudenpolitics.com/newsletter?utm_source=P&P%20Auto%201&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7481 Trust us. Would your government – and the private contractors your government hires to do the work – do anything bad? Snooping into the intimate details of the lives of everyone is not nice. Besides, it could be worse, and that’s all the proof anyone needs to see that it’s not really bad at […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3757/missile-defense-new-york-times Recent news is that both North Korea and Pakistan have sought help in developing EMP weapons; Iran has launched its missile tests in an EMP mode. The U.S. could, for a small additional expense, protect the country from EMP and nuclear threats through the production of short and medium defense radars and interceptors, now […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/350622/power-and-power-wielders-andrew-c-mccarthy In the latest NSA surveillance controversies, there are two major, inseparable issues: (a) Is the awesome power to collect information essential for national security in light of our current threat environment, and (b) even if it is, should we trust the government to wield this power both lawfully and prudently? The problem national security […]
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/06/10/are-we-being-imprismed Is there anyone in government we can trust? It seemed as if we’d be able to focus on the Eric Holder subset of the Obama scandal parade for at least a few days. But we were interrupted by revelations about Obama’s telephone and email snooping published in the Guardian, a Brit newspaper not known […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/kill-bill-killians-assault-on-freedom-of-speech
As I noted in my last column, “The Stinking Badges of Our Federales” (June 2nd), the Department of Justice is again on the attack against freedom of speech. The occasion for this guerilla attack is a talk to be given by United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee Bill Killian during an event sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee.
His talk will be about civil rights restrictions on speech in the “social media” as it applies to Muslims – that is, speech that criticizes Muslims and Islam, not speech by Muslims that could be defined as “bigoted” or “hateful” – and there is far, far more of that than there is of the occasional nose-thumbing of Muslims and Islam). It will be about “inflammatory speech,” which could mean anything, even a scholarly disquisition on the origins and practice of Islam. Judicial Watch reports that the event, called “Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society,” will
feature the region’s top DOJ official, who serves as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and an FBI representative. The goal is to increase awareness and understanding that American Muslims are not the terrorists some have made them out to be in social media and other circles, according to a local newspaper report. The June 4 powwow is sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee.
The area’s top federal prosecutor, Bill Killian, will address a topic that most Americans are likely unfamiliar with, even those well versed on the Constitution; that federal civil rights laws can actually be violated by those who post inflammatory documents aimed at Muslims on social media. “This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion,” Killian says in the local news story. “This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are.”
So, civil rights laws will be “interpreted” to identify “harmful” statements made on Face Book and other social media and help the DOJ and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to lodge suits against anyone expressing his freedom of speech if it offends Muslims and Islam.
Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs is on the warpath and is urging readers near and far to assemble in Manchester, Tennessee to vigorously demonstrate opposition to Killian’s trial balloon of selective censorship in favor of Muslims and Islam.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/us-naval-academy-instructor-teaching-on-behalf-of-us-muslim-brotherhood?f=puball
Three high level Muslim Brotherhood operatives will be teaching a 6-week course titled “Muslim World Affairs” at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Collectively, they are members of two Muslim Brotherhood organizations – IIIT and ISNA – named as “unindicted co-conspirators” in the Holy Land Foundation – Hamas funding trial, the largest terrorist funding trial in U.S. history.
The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) is a Saudi-Wahhabi organization that promotes Islam and shariah. It receives most of its funding from an organization that finances Al Qaeda (SAAR or SAFA Trust). IIIT and ISNA are listed in the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan for America (The Explanatory Memorandum for the General Strategic Goals for the Group in North America written in 1987) as organizations that share the common goal of “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within” in order to make Islam “victorious over all other religions.”
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which finances terrorism, is the largest Islamic organization in North America and is charged with enforcing strict Wahhabism in America’s mosques. (A 2005 Freedom House study found that over 80% of America’s mosque taught Saudi Wahhabist hate ideology).
The U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the U.S. mililtary work closely with ISNA, which was one of 57 organizations that demanded that ALL federal government training materials deemed biased against Islam be purged and a mandatory re-training program for FBI agents, U.S. Army officers and all federal, state and local law enforcement be instituted. The “purge” was completed in six weeks and the retraining has begun.
Janet Levy,
Los Angeles
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
Every day brings new confirmation of how compromised the U.S. government, military, and intelligence apparatus really is. After the Obama Administration purged counterterror training materials of all truth about Islam and jihad, this is what they replaced it with.
“FEATURED STORY: US Naval Academy Instructor Teaching On Behalf Of US Muslim Brotherhood,” from the Global Muslim Brotherhood Watch, May 14 (thanks to Jeff):
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-law-eric-holder-ignored
The Justice Dept. rules for press subpoenas ….
Attorney-General Eric Holder talks about adopting new rules for how the feds subpoena reporter records. This is a typical Beltway ploy, one that “fixes” violations of old rules on the books by passing new ones. Doing so implies that there is a loophole in existing law that needs closing.
But, inconveniently for Holder, there has been since 1980 a DOJ press subpoena regulation (28 C.F.R. sec. 50.10) on the books. And Eric Holder clearly violated it. Rules in the Code of Federal Regulations carry the force of law, and thus bind those subject to them.
The full set of rules merits a read, but here is the money part:
(a) In determining whether to request issuance of a subpoena to a member of the news media, or for telephone toll records of any member of the news media, the approach in every case must be to strike the proper balance between the public’s interest in the free dissemination of ideas and information and the public’s interest in effective law enforcement and the fair administration of justice.
(b) All reasonable attempts should be made to obtain information from alternative sources before considering issuing a subpoena to a member of the news media, and similarly all reasonable alternative investigative steps should be taken before considering issuing a subpoena for telephone toll records of any member of the news media.
(c) Negotiations with the media shall be pursued in all cases in which a subpoena to a member of the news media is contemplated. These negotiations should attempt to accommodate the interests of the trial or grand jury with the interests of the media. Where the nature of the investigation permits, the government should make clear what its needs are in a particular case as well as its willingness to respond to particular problems of the media.
(d) Negotiations with the affected member of the news media shall be pursued in all cases in which a subpoena for the telephone toll records of any member of the news media is contemplated where the responsible Assistant Attorney General determines that such negotiations would not pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation in connection with which the records are sought. Such determination shall be reviewed by the Attorney General when considering a subpoena authorized under paragraph (e) of this section.
(e) No subpoena may be issued to any member of the news media or for the telephone toll records of any member of the news media without the express authorization of the Attorney General….
In cases of exigent national security, the A-G, or a senior national security official, can contact the press & request that the story be held. When six American diplomats were sheltered in Tehran by Canadian diplomats, reporters sat on the story for some three months, until the Americans were safely exfiltrated back to the States.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-puder/the-six-day-war-46-years-later/ It is hard to believe that 46 years have passed since the Six-Day War of June, 1967. The world has changed a great deal since then. Technology has revolutionized communications and warfare. Instead of war between nations and world wars, most of today’s conflicts occur within states as witnessed in recent years in the […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/fjordman/muslim-riots-and-left-wing-nonsense/ The May 2013 riots in certain immigrant-dominated suburbs of Stockholm raised eyebrows abroad. While I found them disturbing I cannot say that I was totally surprised by them. I’ve consistently warned against such a likely outcome under this pen name for what is now nearly a decade. The political elites not just in Sweden […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/middle-east-peace-process/
Editor’s note: Below is the first installment of a new FrontPage series that will expose the “Middle East Peace Process” and the true genocidal intent of the Arab Palestinians, Israel’s so-called “peace partners.” The translated video below was produced by Palestinian Media Watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_GcZLMSGk4&feature=player_embedded
