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Enough of the racist chants already…

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at 6:51 am  
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Georgian Representative Hank Johnson has said that his fellow Georgian Representative Joe Wilson had demonstrated a touch of racism when he heckled President Obama. He even went as far as to say that Representative Wilson action could lead to the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan!

To me, this is why the Democrats are so pathetic at politics. They were so silent when the Republicans made lie after lie about their claims. From death panels, pulling the plug out of grandma to rationing health-care, they just shut the freak up. But when a person told the President, “You lie!”, they get all angry and take action.

Secondly, even if there was a veil of racism in the outburst of Joe Wilson, it is because he was playing politics more than if he was a racist. People would have been able to tell it a long time ago if he was a racist person.

But that is not the case, he is “racist” as in the terms of politics he chooses to support. He is a huge fan of the Confederate flag and was famous for fighting to ensure that it remained flying on South Carolina State House calling it very honorable. It may be very offensive to Black people, but the sad truth is that there are many people who agree with Representative Wilson.

Democracy is the best system of government in the world. But that does not mean that it does not have a bad side. One of it is that every kind of people would be represented, even those that you do not agree with. There are the open and “concealed” racists in South Carolina, and Representative Joe Wilson has got a right to go after their votes. If this base disappears, do you think he would still sound racist? He would be forced to change or be gone.

I think that the duration of this is being lengthened deliberately by the Democrats. The Democrats want to be perceived as the victims of Republican ranting. I think that it stinks, but then again, that is politics. I do not think Representative Johnson really think it is about racism. I think he also want to take some of the spotlight.

In the end of the day, it is all about politics. There are Blacks that would support a person like Jeremiah Wright or parties like the Black Panthers. As long as there are Blacks with that kind of belief there would be people that cater to their political thought. It is the same thing for Whites.

I also think that the biggest winner of this is Representative Joe Wilson. He is the one that has gained national attention overnight with these two words. He would never be a President, but he has all but sealed his credentials as a Representative for life. Now all racist whites would support him. He is also helped by constant attention put on him by the Democrats.

The biggest lesson I would like the readers to take home is to take the “games” of these politicians with a pinch of salt. It is the same for television personalities like Keith Olbermann and Glenn Beck who incite a lot of hatred. They are all doing it for the money and power. You guys should really use your brains to decipher what is right and what is wrong.

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Obama screws up defense shield despite being right!

Sunday, September 20th, 2009 at 9:18 am  
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Yes, you read it right. I am saying that President Obama screwed up his defense shield withdrawal despite him being a 100% right. If there was a poll, I guarantee that there would be less than a third of Americans that support it, because the President sold it wrongly.

I really think that America is getting it all wrong. Firstly, the missiles were, at least officially, there to stop the threat from Iran. The primary threat from Iran is not to Western Europe, but to Israel. Where is the media reporting on this first fact?

If you are going to defend Israel from missiles coming from the East in Iran approaching the target,Israel, why do you put it so far North-West off Israel? It really did not make sense for me to put weapons there. Shouldn’t you rather place your missiles in the Middle East that is much closer to taking down the threat from Iran?

But the world knows the truth. It was never about Iran for the (President) Bush administration. It was always about Russia. President Bush had this idea of surrounding Russia to neutralize the threat that he thought was coming from there. When that happens, Russia would obviously feel the threat. If Russia was building missile shields in Canada, and Mexico, wouldn’t we feel threatened? It just heightened tensions.

I also feel that if the Poles and Czechs feel that they need to be protected from Russia, let them do it themselves. Or they can pay us to do it! Why are we defending Eastern Europe with our money? And there are some that dare say that we betrayed Poland because we are not spending our money and defend them .

Additionally, President Bush was essentially living in the past. Even when terrorists hit us, he still felt that Russia is still the Soviet Union and that Iraq needed to be finished. He could not see the potential of having Russia as a partner.

So the sense of not having the missiles in Eastern Europe is good policy. But the manner it was done was in such terrible taste, that I think that President Obama deserve his condemnation. For one, he did this on the 70th anniversary of Poland being attacked by USSR. There is a sentiment could have easily been exploited.

Secondly, he did the right thing for nothing. This missile shield is something that Russia so badly wanted America to give up. We could have gotten more out of the Russians. We could have gotten cooperation for dealing with the Iranians and the North Koreans.

But no, we just gave up what we want to the Russians for free. We got nothing for giving up the missile defense shield that they did not want. All we got was a statement from President Medvedev is that the recent statement from President Ahmadinejad’s statement was unwarranted. Duh! That is like saying Hitler was wrong to kill Jews and do nothing about it.

This is an epic failure on the part of President Obama. Lets hope it does not happen to

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Terror Alert : ST Proven right!

Friday, September 18th, 2009 at 8:06 pm  
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What a stunner! Wasn’t it days ago that we mentioned the ridiculousness of having a gun on board trains? Just hours ago, an Afghan national is being suspected of plotting to bomb trains in Colorado and New York. But it was what we said about fighting terror that the Feds have repeated the alarm for.

Najibullah Zazi is being accused of plotting to bomb train stations in New York. According to the Feds, he had diagrams that show how to make bombs were found on the computer and he visited New York recently. They claim that this is the real deal.

I really do not think that the FBI would be so stupid to arrest Zazi based on this alone. E.g. if we go to the NRA website and visited New York, does that mean we are planning to commit mass murder? There must be something that they have yet to tell the media, or else they would be looking very stupid before the cameras. And I still trust the FBI.

Zazi’s lawyer too made a very good point. If Mr Zazi was the gentleman that is really being under investigation, wouldn’t he be locked up and not released? Why is he out free instead of being arrested? This just reiterates the point I made before that there is something that the FBI knows that we do not or else this would make them look really stupid.

But what is important was what we mentioned in our articles a days ago. The way to stop terror on trains is the following 3 steps :

1)Good intelligence: Should the FBI be right here, this entire plot would have been averted with good intelligence work. Should they be right, and I believe that they are, the FBIs would be the real heroes here.

2)Screening: Weapons, ammunitions and ordinance should not be tolerated in trains. I really doubt that there would be any way of stopping Zazi today should he have not been caught by the FBI and had the desire to bomb Amtrak. We need screening in train stations. We need them fast, or lives can be lost.

3)Training. I have said before that President Obama’s administration was right in trying to dumping what I called the “train squad.” This is because, I really doubt Close Quarters Battle or Urban Ops is the way to prevent someone from bombing trains. What is needed is that every rail employee be trained to be vigilant to detect give away signs of terrorism.

Should this be the real deal, I hope Americans do not start to fear again. I hope that they have faith in the Feds instead. Because if we let ourselves be scared because of this kind of threats the terrorists would have already won. Remember they are terror-ists, they want you to be scared.

That being said, I do not think that we as Americans should be complacent either. We should know that the moment we let our guard down, the terrorists would be coming for us. We should not complain either when there is checking of our bags and backpacks. I would not mind longer lines rather than people dying.

Lastly, we here at ST would like to thank the FBI, regardless of this threat being real, for helping keep out country safe. They are the real unsung heroes in America. Thank you guys, we appreciate it!

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Guns on trains : Disgrace!

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 4:37 am  
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President Obama’s administration has caved in to the Republicans on guns yet again without giving a fight. This time, it is the administration caving in on gun’s owners right to carry firearms on Amtrak.

Carrying firearms was one of the measures the Bush administration took to prevent future terrorist attacks in America or as they would put it “keep America safe.” You have to wonder what made it okay today when it was a not 8 years ago.

Granted, this is as not bad as the law that allows guns on domestic flights. Passengers carrying guns on flights is absolutely no go for me. The reason is that to kill every one on the plane, a terrorist or a deranged person would only one shot that can cause an explosive decompression. Therefore, I think that it is a no-brainer not to have guns on planes.

Forget about a “Counter Strike” like fight with terrorists on a plane. That is the mentality that I find very dangerous. These people think that the only way to prevent terrorists from killing people is that if they themselves have guns so that they can fight back with them.

That is really laughable! What “la-la” land are they living in? Look at the last 8 years, with tighter gun controls on plane, not even a single terrorist high-jack took place. Let guns through, and you got a clown high-jacking a plane to tell the President of Mexico that an earthquake is coming! Prevention is always better than the cure. No guns means terrorists are prevented from taking the plane hostage.

The casualty would not be as large on trains as it would be on planes. But isn’t the solution to look into better measures of preventing guns on trains? Not according to the administration of President Obama. They rather allow guns to come on trains and let people die; so that they don’t have to face the monster haunting them, the Right wing.

Already there is the ridiculous inclusion of “guns in parks” amendment in the Credit Card bill of rights that was passed earlier this year. Now this? President Obama made the promise that he would deal with the guns issue in his political campaign. He said that there would not be M16s and AK47s in the street. What have you done so far on those fronts Mr President? Nothing!You just made the streets less safer.

I know there would be some people thinking that I am a liberal. I am not.. I am still an Independent. On some issues like abortion and especially guns, I am with the Left. On issues like the death penalty and tort reform, I am with the Right. Above all, I want things to be done smartly and ensures that bills get the job done.

This is not a smart bill at all. It was passed in the Senate with there being absolutely no chance of it getting vetoed by President Obama. Bad bills are bad bills. With the public option all but out, HR3200 is next to gun down on my agenda. I never supported it, but without the public option it is going to burn a huge hole in our pockets.

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When will Obama react?

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 at 7:40 pm  
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Freedom of speech is something that America gave the world. Without it, there would not be the greatest country on Earth today. However, I think that there has to be a line drawn at the level of threat. I do not think that anyone has a right to threaten the life of anybody, especially the President.

It is Okay to have signs that say “Down with Obama” or even to the extent of burning his picture with horse poop. But when you go out and make the threat that “next time, we will bring our guns” or similar ones, one going as far as saying “Kill Osama and Obama”.

I never believed any articles, like the LA times one, that said that the hatred was a matter of race. However, I strongly now believe that there is at least some truth in it. There were signs showing that President Obama is the President of Kenya becoming an illegal immigrant in America. There were at least 2 signs that went “n___ go back to Africa”There were so many White America signs that it was unbelievable. To be fair though, the “racist signs” only made up about 5% of all the signs out there.

I think that the alarm bells of the Secret Service should be ringing. While there were always the left wing crazies under President Bush, I did not see any one of them coming in AK47s and threatening action. I did not see anyone quoting domestic terrorist’s favorite Jefferson line “ The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Neither was there anyone demanding a coup-d’etat (Honduras did it, so should we). Neither was there any crazy pastor that went around saying that should President Obama be killed, it would not be murder.

This is getting way too serious. I think that the President and the public has to step in. Many of these people cannot make up their mind if President Obama is Islamic Fundamentalist, Marxist or Fascist. But he sure is the enemy of the state for them. You see signs with a bullet hole in the President Obama’s read and blood flowing down his face. This is going way too far. I think it is high time to arrest Pastor Anderson. I think that there should be a clampdown of some sort.

I do get the counter argument. Where is the line going to be drawn? Who can determine what can be said and what cannot be said. If I say today that we cannot say this and that, would someone come after me tomorrow for my regular mocking ex Governor Sarah Palin and Representative Barney Frank,

But the buck has got to stop. Else real blood would flow. All you need is the correct spark and there would be riots. I guarantee it. That is why it is essential to do clamp this down now. That being said, I think that it would be a political tight rope for the President to make. Be too soft, and the protesters would be emboldened. Do it too harshly and there would be a backlash amongst moderates.

I also think that there is a very strong tie back to Glenn Beck. There were no signs of FOX News, Sean Hannity, Michele Malkin or even Rush Limbaugh. But there were chants for Glenn Beck all the way. A lot of opinions of the audience were formed by listening to and watching Glenn Beck. There are rumors that this is all linked the the 9/12 project of Glenn Beck, but I do not think that even he would make any move as stupid as this.

I really hope that this is all hot air, but I really am not that foolish. The anger of just a few is there enough to explode this situation. I really hope for peace and calm, and do what we do. Debate. Slash with the tongue, never with your knives.

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