I've started, I don't know how many, posts on the Cartoon Wars and/or the Global War today only to get interrupted and sidetracked with this and that then come back to the computer and delete the posts.
But then, I happened to hear a sound-bite from one of our Sedition News Stations and stopped to listen a minute. Honestly! The guys on that show were doing a very 'intellectual' analysis of the silliness that people are upset over the Muslim rioting. They were saying things like of course the Muslims are upset and we just need to let them get it out of their systems.
They were saying it was our fault for printing the cartoons, we should have known it would upset them. They were saying that MOST Americans are strongly against this war and don't believe we should be fighting this (oh really??).
They were also saying that if we lived in the kind of poverty most Muslims live in, we'd be rioting too.
I wondered how on earth these 'intellectuals' could be so out of touch with reality. But then, that's a question I find myself asking myself fairly often.
Why are these 'intellectuals' on the Seditious Public Television Station so out of touch ... let's review just a few things that have happened today.
So today, we have three people from Ohio indicted for treason [my word for the charges]. Another source.
The charges outlined in the five-count indictment include: conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim, or injure people outside of the United States; conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, distributing information regarding explosives and making threats against the president of the United States. The most serious count that carries a maximum penalty of life in prison if prosecutors prove intent to kill.
In 2004 and 2005, the suspects recruited others to train for a violent holy war against the United States and its allies in Iraq, the indictment said. The group traveled together to a shooting range to practice shooting guns and studied how to make explosives, the indictment said. Around Jan. 27, 2005, Amawi communicated by computer with individuals in the Middle East, who told him some of the "brothers" were preparing to enter Iraq, according to the charges.
The men named in the indictment are: Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 26, who was a citizen of Jordan and the United States who lived in Toledo until August 2005; Marwan Othman El-Hindi, a 42-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen born in Amman, Jordan who lives in Toledo; and Wassim Mazloum, a 24-year-old legal U.S. resident who operated a car business with his brother in Toledo after entering the United States from Lebanon.
Another email claims to be from the terrorist group Al Qaeda. It reads, “You only have 5 days and your company will disappear. I promise!” The email is signed, Saalem Al Qahtani, Al Qaeda. One of the more disturbing messages simply says, “In two days we kill your family."
Another says, “I am sending this e-mail and I hope that you understand that what you are doing is offending more than a billion people in the world. I hope that your sales with other stuff be billions but not for this one offending product.”
Terrified children screamed while several women wailed: "Our children have died" and "the terrorists, may God punish them."
So here's one of the Muhammad Cartoons. Just so you'll know what all the fuss is about and you surely want to be able to recognize the Prophet of Peace.
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