Category Archives: Patriotism

Integrity

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While Politico’s bogus hit piece on Fred Thompson is being widely debunked, Fred Thompson showed biased hack Roger Simon the true meaning of integrity with his honest assessment of farm subsidy programs while talking to reporters in Iowa’s Bremer County:

AKD: What will you do for the farmers of Bremer County?

FT: (laughs)

AKD: You knew this was coming, right?

FT: I would continue to enjoy the fruits of their labor. I’ve been looking all over Iowa for a bad steak and I can’t find it. Been trying my best. It’s not a matter of what I would do for the farmers. Farmers are not looking for a president to hand them something. Farmers want fair treatment and a chance to prosper in a free economy and that’s what I would help ensure. There’s a lot of programs we’ve got out there, some of which are good programs, some of which are not. And I think that we need to work our way through that and make sure we’re doing what’s good for the country, not just the farmers, not just the people of Iowa, not just the people of Tennessee. But good for the country. A sound policy that makes sense. I think there’s a lot more that we could do for the working farmer in terms of ecological programs and environmental programs – land conservation, soil conservation – that would be fair and it would be beneficial to the nation and to Iowa and to our country. We’re going to have to phase out the corporate welfare system we’ve got, however. There are extremely rich people living in skyscrapers in Manhattan that are receiving subsidy payments. I think that’s wrong. I’d put a stop to that if it was within my power. That still continues in this latest Farm Bill and it’s not right. There ought to be a cutoff at some level and it’s not right ot have millionaires receiving farm subsidies.

Wow! Most politicians running would have been vague and supportive but Fred told the farmers of Iowa what they needed to hear to make a fair decision, even the things that some of the most powerful farmers wouldn’t like.

That’s integrity. Roger Simon told his readers what he wanted the story to be, disregarding the facts in the process. Simon isn’t unique in this as the MSM is constantly “interpreting” facts for the public. But Simon, as much as he’s just one of thousands of journalists who practice the same sort of fictionalizing, has presented himself as especially lacking in that one virtue I, and many other Americans, want in a leader. Integrity.

This act will unfortunately cost Fred some support, and Ace of Spades thinks it’s an example of Fred being more interested in proving his integrity than winning. But I guess that’s what integrity is sometimes, putting it ahead of personal gain.

For this especially I’m With Fred!

Satan’s Servant Saves Lives!

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Or at least Church of Satan High Priest Peter Gilmore did when he passed along information to the F.B.I. that ended up saving the lives of an unsuspecting elderly couple whose grandson may have been plotting to murder them.

From Newsnet5.com:

CORTLAND, Ohio — A northeastern Ohio high school senior who sent an e-mail to the Church of Satan threatening to kill his grandparents was taken out of school this week and remains in police custody, police said.

Andrew Culver, 18, told police the e-mail, detailing his intention to kill his grandparents and steal their money and car, was a joke, said Bazetta Township police Chief Charles Sayers.

According to police, Culver wrote he had access to an arsenal of weapons and wanted to “kill in the name of our unholy lord Satan.”

Culver sent the message on Wednesday to Peter Gilmore, the high priest of the New York City-based Church of Satan, Sayers said. Gilmore then alerted the FBI, which notified local police. Culver was taken out of class on Thursday and questioned by police, Sayers said.

“To send an e-mail making specific threats, to sign your name, that to me is not a joke,” Sayers said.

Gilmore said his church discards most of the hundreds of e-mails it receives a day. But Culver’s message stood out, he said.

“I thought it could be a joke, but with recent events in Colorado and Nebraska, I thought it was better to play it safe,” he said.

So the High Priest of the Church of Satan stepped up and did what every American should do but most don’t: get involved. He didn’t have to risk his life or put himself out, just shoot off an e-mail to the proper authorities.

Many Americans won’t even do that. Compare the Gilmore story to this atrocity in Minnesota where a woman was beaten and raped for an hour in an apartment complex hallway while security cameras filmed at least 10 of her neighbors witnessing what was happening and doing nothing.

Compare this to the horror of Dunbar Village, a crime ridden project in Florida where a gang of teens gang-raped and tortured a mother and her 12 year old son for three hours while neighbors ignored their cries for help. The area around Dunbar Village is a rape zone reminiscent of the French banlieues, and the people there and worse the citizens of Florida do nothing.

I wrote a post once called The High cost of Liberalism that ran down several disturbing crime stories, all of which were made possible by American tolerance for criminality and the inaction of the common man. I put forward that it is modern “Liberalism”, with it’s insistence on acquiescence to the state and extollation of passivity, that enables this sort of criminality. This story is the opposite of that phenomenon, where an iconoclastic “religious” leader did the opposite of what the prevailing societal wisdom would dictate, with remarkable results.

The High Priest of the Church of Satan saved the lives of two strangers by alerting the authorities to suspicious behavior, while the majority of Christians, and “social justice” activists and the hordes of people who claim to be doing a good deed when they slap a John Edwards bumper sticker on their car or sign a petition to stop a Wal-mart from being built continue to stand by and do nothing.

If that doesn’t shame us all into doing more to help our communities, nothing will. Peter Gilmore should be thanked, and congratulated, not just for saving that couples lives but for reminding us all of what it takes to be a good American.

h/t Dreamin’ Demon

Florida UAC Needs Your Help to Stop Islamist Gathering

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The Florida chapter of the United American Committee is rallying patriots to stop a CAIR and Islamic Circle of North America sponsored “campout” where non-Muslims are discouraged from attending. Discouraging non-Muslims from attending their event doesn’t seem like a something groups trying to help their fellow Muslims assimilate into American society should be doing.

Here’s part of the U.A.C. communique:

Terrorist supporters CAIR and the ICNA are sponsoring an Islamist camping event in Florida which no one is allowed to attend unless they are Muslim. The Orlando chapter of the United American Committee will be holding a protest during the event on December 29th from 12:00 noon to 3:00 PM at the entrance area in front of of Wekiwa Springs State Park, 1800 Wekiwa Circle Apopka, Florida. For more information on the protest see the press release below or please contact the Florida UAC at florida@unitedamericancommittee.org

Here’s why you should be supporting them if you’re in the area:

Yaya Abous of ICNA said, “Non- Muslim children are put on an indefinite waiting list and discouraged from attending”. Florida United American Committee will protest against what they deem is a discriminatory camping event on December 29th from 12:00 noon to 3:00 PM at the entrance area in front of of Wekiwa Springs State Park, 1800 Wekiwa Circle Apopka, Florida.

(Orlando, FL) The Central Florida Branch of the United American Committee (UAC) has uncovered information the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have irrefutable ties to terrorist and terrorist supporting organizations. ICNA and CAIR will be sponsoring a Muslim Youth Camp at Wekiwa State Park on December 29-31, 2007 funded partially by your tax dollars via Doc Stamp revenue.

ICNA currently has deep ties with the Terrorist Group called The Muslim Brotherhood of Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). ICNA was the top donor to a JI charity that, just one year ago, provided $99,000 to the head of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal.

CAIR national spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper said, “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.” (Statement by Ibrahim Hooper, Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 4, 1993)

Randall Todd “Ismail” Royer, a former communications & civil rights specialist for CAIR, according to AP “Royer…admitted helping members of the conspiracy join the militant Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks. He pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting use of a firearm in a crime of violence and aiding and abetting the carrying of an explosive during commission of a felony. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.” When ICNA, CAIR, and Young Muslims congregate at Wekiwa Springs State Park, Apopka, FL, they will be doing so under the guise of moderate, mainstream Muslim organizations, when in fact they are nothing more than support networks for terrorists domestically and overseas.

The FLUAC plan on making their voice heard at this event. Please join the United American Committee in protesting ICNA, CAIR, and their ties to international terrorism.

WHEN: Saturday, December 29, 2007 12 Noon to 3:00 PM
WHERE: Entrance area in front of of Wekiwa Springs State Park,
1800 Wekiwa Circle Apopka, Florida 32712 Phone: (407) 884 2008
INTERVIEWS: Contact Alan Kornman (florida@unitedamericancommittee.org)

A Disarmed Public is a Target for Criminals

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From M.D. Harmon’s Portland Press Herald column:

Has anyone ever wondered why people with guns who have kissed sanity good-bye never take out their uncontrollable rage on the nearest police station?

Nor do they drive off to the nearest Army base, shooting range or hunting club to vent their murderous frustration.

It should only take a moment’s thought to understand why: Those places have people who have relatively easy access to weapons themselves.

It’s one thing to be homicidal and suicidal, but it’s quite another to consider that one’s murderous intent could be brought to an untimely halt through the immediate application of superior firepower.

However, there are places that draw these people like magnets, and they, too, are easy to locate: They are the places where the possession of firearms is forbidden, and that fact is widely advertised.

Some of these places even go so far as to publicly display their vulnerability to mass murder through the posting of signs that say “No Guns Permitted” or “Gun-Free Zone.”

Virginia Tech was proud of its “gun-free” status, and boasted about how safe a place it was once it posted signs forbidding firearms on campus.

Thirty-two people died there last April as the cost of that exercise in hubris and futility.

Other places where firearms are typically banned are stores, including shopping malls, government buildings, including schools, and places of worship.

We saw in the Columbine shootings how effective gun bans are for schools.

And in Omaha last week, eight people died in a shopping mall before the shooter, cornered by police, killed himself.

In Ogden, Utah, last February, a man killed five people in a mall before an armed off-duty police officer pinned him down until help could arrive.

And just this past weekend, a disturbed youth who had posted violent diatribes against Christians on an Internet site killed two students at a Colorado missionary center.

He later showed up at a church that had an association with the missionary group carrying multiple weapons and 1,000 rounds of ammunition.

But because of the earlier shootings, the church had activated its voluntary security force, composed of members who had licenses to carry concealed weapons and the training to use them.

The gunman killed two teenage girls in the church parking lot and wounded their father before he entered the church.

But once he got inside, he was confronted by one of the church’s volunteer guards, Jeanne Assam, a former police officer armed with a pistol.

As witnesses described it, she advanced on the shooter yelling “Surrender,” and when he raised his weapon, fired several shots, bringing him to the ground. Police reported that the badly wounded gunman then shot himself to death.

Assam, dubbed “Dirty Harriet” by one writer, was credited by the church’s pastor with having saved 50 to 100 lives.

It’s almost enough to make a fair-minded, thoughtful person conclude that armed, law-abiding citizens might have saved countless more lives at places like those listed above.

Read the whole thing, it’s food for thought.

h/t FreeSpeech.com