Domestic Eco-Terrorist: Third Domestic Terrorist On FBI List, Not First–UPDATED
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009CORRECTION: Turns out that there are now two FBI most wanted lists one for regular baddies and one for terrorists. The lists got split. So technically, this is the first domestic terrorist. Strangely, Osama Bin Laden makes both lists. Why?
The point about this leftist crazy on the list is a diversion, stands.
Facts are such a distraction to this administration. And pesky. Just to set the record straight, folks. The doofus who bombed buildings in San Francisco for doing scientific testing on animals is NOT the first domestic guy to ever make the FBI terrorist watch list. He’s at least the third.
Confederate Yankee says:
I have to ask—by what standard is San Diego the first domestic terrorist added to the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list?
Ted Kaczynski was a high-profile left-wing domestic terrorist that went on a 17-year bombing spree that put him on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list as the Unabomber.
Eric Robert Rudolph was on the “Most Wanted” list as a right wing domestic terrorist when he was captured in 2003.
Those are just the first two domestic terrorists that were on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list that immediately come to my mind; I strongly suspect there were others.
If I didn’t know better, I might suspect that the addition of an obscure left-wing terrorist who planted two bombs that caused no injuries and only minor property damage to “Most Wanted” list was a political calculation, perhaps made specifically to help take the heat off a DHS Secretary under fire for supporting the release of a controversial report that labeled mainstream conservative values as those belonging to extremists, and who more or less stated military veterans were too stupid to keep from being duped into joining extremist groups.
No way! I was thinking the same silly thought! Imagine–the government trying to deflect attention from their bias’ and real focus. They would never, ever, ever do that. Not. Ever.
Cross-posted at Right Wing News
Margaret Thatcher’s Modern Message
Monday, April 13th, 2009I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand”I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!” or”I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!” “I am homeless, the Government must house me!” and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and[fo 1] there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations, because there is no such thing as an entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation and it is, I think, one of the tragedies in which many of the benefits we give, which were meant to reassure people that if they were sick or ill there was a safety net and there was help, that many of the benefits which were meant to help people who were unfortunate—” It is all right. We joined together and we have these insurance schemes to look after it” . That was the objective, but somehow there are some people who have been manipulating the system and so some of those help and benefits that were meant to say to people:”All right, if you cannot get a job, you shall have a basic standard of living!” but when people come and say:”But what is the point of working? I can get as much on the dole!” You say:”Look” It is not from the dole. It is your neighbour who is supplying it and if you can earn your own living then really you have a duty to do it and you will feel very much better!”
There is also something else I should say to them:”If that does not give you a basic standard, you know, there are ways in which we top up the standard. You can get your housing benefit.”
But it went too far. If children have a problem, it is society that is at fault. There is no such thing as society.[fo 2] There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate. And the worst things we have in life, in my view, are where children who are a great privilege and a trust—they are the fundamental great trust, but they do not ask to come into the world, we bring them into the world, they are a miracle, there is nothing like the miracle of life—we have these little innocents and the worst crime in life is when those children, who would naturally have the right to look to their parents for help, for comfort, not only just for the food and shelter but for the time, for the understanding, turn round and not only is that help not forthcoming, but they get either neglect or worse than that, cruelty.
Meanwhile, the collectivist bent seems to be gathering steam.
Americans have traded bootstraps for bailouts.
Tea Parties And Liberal Angst
Monday, April 13th, 2009On the same day I had a Twitter conversation with Jane Hamsher, who is absolutely convinced that a nefarious plot by shadowy right-leaning organizations backs the Tea Party movement, I received this email from the actual people doing the Houston organization:
Anyone having any meetings the next two days? Would like to stop by and maybe help coordinate. I don’t know everything, but can try to make it where I can.
Merchandise, We’re needing a status on the shirts, please tell Felicia if anyone knows.
Also, if any of you can donate, we’re really hurting for cash at this point.
Click here to Donate Or use Pay Pal to donate to the info@houstontps.org account.
-Josh
Okay, so this is a young conservative guy that I’ve met once at a local conservative meet-up. For the leftists out there….Do you understand what he’s saying? He’s saying to the other INDEPENDENT organizers over the parts and pieces of the Tea Party protest that he’d like to help and how’s it going. Pretty decentralized, I’d say.
Little Miss Attila noted the conversations and has this to say:
Unless the argument here is that every center-right organization or individual is somehow one large lump of protoplasm that cannot quite make up its mind about marijuana, gay marriage or what constitutes separation of church and state, but knows that it wants lower taxes. In that case, the reason that Tea Parties are so much better-attended than ANWF events is that . . . the right commands more robots than the Soros-funded left does! (This leads us to the conclusion that we threw the last Presidential election, in a further attempt to confuse the left.)
The fact is, the people at these events are mad as hell at Washington. Republican Senators, at least, seem to get this, as NONE but Jim DeMint is showing the intestinal fortitude to show up to one of these conspiratorial gatherings. They’re afraid they’ll be skewered. And if the response to my questions on Twitter as to what their involvement should be, they are partly right.
As an aside, though, I think Senators are making a political miscalculation by hiding in Washington or wherever and avoiding the gatherings. It would be good for them to wander among their constituents, handler-free, and just talk to them. This is the point of the protests: It seems like no one is listening to the average voter and it seems like a vote doesn’t matter anymore because politicians do what they damn well please. By not attending, the Congress people reinforce that notion.
Back to Leftist angst. I’m smelling more than a little jealousy, fear and loathing from my leftist brethren. Protests over the last eight years were nonsensical, anemic affairs with screaming meemees in pink T-shirts. Or they’re naked hot chicks for PETA. Or they’re naked bicyclers protesting war and Israel and the new world order. In short, the Leftists come across as unstable whack-jobs with no job and time to burn who had no purpose in life but their thinly veiled America-hate. Plus, they just don’t have many numbers.
Oh, the press likes to make these little mews of discontent seem like roars, but let’s be serious. Thinking people are embarrassed to see what passes for a protest these days. No one wants to hang with a bunch of smelly hippies still living the halcyon days of the early bell-bottomed 70s.
Plus, the Left’s protests ring hollow. For all the talk of supporting troops, actions like defacing recruiting stations or liberal Senators, including Barack Obama, making reference to our soldiers as killers, doesn’t sound so supportive. Not to mention the Truther movement believing 9/11 was an inside job.
In stark contrast, the Tea Party movement is being organized by regular old people. Thousands of citizens will come to these events. And people like me, are trying to figure out how to get to Washington, D.C. over July 4th because that’s the next step.
And the next step is laying out for our leaders what we want policy-wise.
And the next step after that is getting people elected who will embrace what made America great to begin with.
The Left hopes, hopes, hopes the Tea Party movement is a flash-in-the-pan, impotent action. Heck, some on the right do, too.
My sense is that they’re all very wrong.
People feel disenfranchised from the government generally. The Republican party once stood for small government, fiscal responsibility, and freedom. The Democrat party once stood for the common man, the worker. Both party members seem to stand for one thing: PERSONAL GAIN.
Being a politician, like Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the fetid lot, is very lucrative. These people, without irony, can vote themselves raises while unemployment heads toward 10%. These people, without shame, can make income tax “mistakes” and not be charged interest and penalties, while the common citizen would pay and probably be prosecuted criminally. These people, can cry out against regulations they passed and blame others for an economic collapse of their own making.
Anyone with a frontal lobe is sick of the lot of them.
So what is a citizen to do? We vote for candidates we think will follow principles and then they sell out. The Tea Party protests are a way to let the government know that it has got to stop.
Maddy Pamilia, a 17 year old citizen journalist reported from the Pasadena protest:
Basil said that we had a “tyrannical congressional majority.” He added that this tea party would “make Samuel Adams proud” and “we have something he didn’t have.”
John Ziegler started out laughing that it took a lot to get him to miss the Masters, but this tea party was a good cause. He got the crowd to cheer when he called Arnold Schwarzenegger Benedict Arnold Schwarzenegger and said he should be punished. He ended with, “Never stop fighting for truth and never stop fighting for America.”
Teresa Hernandez said the government right now is like “crazies running the insane asluym” and the government is “spending money like drunken sailors.”
Again, I say to the Left, what do you object to? This is what I heard about why it was important to elect Barack Obama–that he’d bring responsibility back. Really? Is that what’s happening, because the multiple trillion dollar deficits don’t seem responsible.
If the Left had any principles whatsoever, they’d be joining these protests and making their voices heard. Really, this sentiment isn’t Democrat or Republican. It’s about freedom. It’s about the individual. It’s American.
Cross-posted at RightWingNews
iPod And Other Obama Inanities
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009I’m trying to imagine how bad Barack Obama’s anniversary presents to Michelle must be. Last year, she got a signed Audacity of Hope. Lucky her! I’m joking, of course. I don’t know what gift exchanges go like in the Obama household, but if President Obama’s gifts to heads of state indicate anything, it’s not good stuff. No diamonds for Michelle.
The worst part of the Queen’s lame gift is that President Obama hasn’t gotten around to staffing important posts. While not looking like an ass isn’t necessarily priority number one, it’s a nice start.
America is a blessed, wealthy country. Our gifts reflect thoughtfulness and a generosity (or lack thereof) of spirit. Hopefully, President Obama can get it together.
And a note on the press: You know that if this had happened with President Bush the hew and cry would be deafening.
Another note: I’ve taken so long to post about this because really, I don’t care all that much. Watching the country go down the socialist crapper is a bigger issue for me. That it looks like amateur hour overseas? Meh. That it is amateur hour when it comes to the economy… well, that bothers me.
Fox News
Friday, March 6th, 2009Barbara Boxer Seeks To Limit U.S. Parent’s Rights
An assault on all fronts. I swear.
Americans Returning To Puritanical Ways?
Friday, March 6th, 2009We can hope. Michelle Malkin notes the tightening of belts everywhere (except Congress and the White House):
Team Obama’s image experts, perhaps hung over from all the Camelot-recreating Wednesday cocktail parties that are now a signature of the new administration, have fallen down on the job. The man who scolded Americans for wasting energy and turning their thermostats too high still hasn’t lowered his own. “He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” senior adviser David Axelrod snickered to the New York Times in January. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
In flyover country, the mood could not be more different. Party time is over. I heard from a reader in northwest Arkansas, now upside down on her house with two college-age kids who is preparing to tighten the family belt.
Pierre LeGrand talks about the anger of those who did the right thing and now see their life savings going down the tubes:
There is a GREAT deal of anger out in the sticks. We DO see many of these groups as responsible for the horrible mess we find ourselves in and it is OUR savings and our very money that is being destroyed right this very minute by a bunch of thugs with Ivy League degrees. Always wondered why the peasants were so angry at the elite during the French Revolution that they chopped off heads without much distinction. Watching my investments being destroyed by the fecklessness of politicians paying off political debts to everyone with my money I now am beginning to understand where that sort of anger comes from.
When the crap hits the fan, there’s inevitable finger pointing. Blaming Bush is popular even though he counseled against Freddie and Fanny and begged for regulatory oversight. Blaming Congressional Democrats is more accurate when looking at the housing and banking messes. Blaming Congressional Republicans is accurate when you consider that they enabled and encouraged disgusting wasteful spending.
But really, our elected leaders and leadership class generally reflect Americans. Americans lived on cheap credit, bought home with inflated values, spent loads of money on stuff they didn’t need for reasons they don’t even remember, and basically still live, even in a financial crunch at a level that medieval kings can only dream about.
People could spend years using and re-using the junk they already have. They could spend years wearing and re-wearing clothes. When they do shop, they can find beautiful things at decent prices at Wal-Mart and Target or just wait for a sale on the nice stuff at Dillards.
The economic crunch will last for a while because people are still so flush. And if times get really bad, families will move into the big McMansion together and keep chickens in their suburban backyard grass patch.
So, are Americans returning to their Puritanical ways? Not to my way of thinking. They’re just coming down from a high that makes plenty seem like a low.
For those who lived a decent life, they’re angry. Many responsible Americans have lost their life-savings and that is a huge long-term loss that will take years to earn back if ever.
I say, turn that anger into something useful. Fight. Stephen Green (aka Vodkapundit) has an excellent piece about what to do:
Republicans spent the last eight years trying to do the “smart” thing, by buying out the Democratic agenda. It was “smart” to “take Medicare off the table” by expanding it in ways so vast even Democrats hadn’t gotten away with it in 40 years. It was considered “smart” to “take immigration off the table” by forging a grand alliance with Ted Kennedy. It was considered “smart” to “take education off the table” by federalizing it under No Child Left Behind.
Well, we’ve tried the smart thing and all it got us was a bigger, more meddlesome government. Now it’s time to do the right thing.
How very Puritanical for a vodka swilling swell. Puritans escaped religious persecution. They fought economic persecution (hello Tea Parties). Finally, they just fought. They went to war against an oppressive government that made the elites rich and the common man enslaved. Government is on that track again.
I generally distrust populist movements. Still statist movements can only be stopped by an angered populace. America started as a populist movement of common men defending self-evident truths. It’s time to return to our puritanical ways.
Cross-posted at Right Wing News
Financial Meltdown Timeline Reminder
Friday, March 6th, 2009As you see the Stock Market sliding, just a wee reminder of how this mess started:
My thoughts on Schumer, Franks and the rest here and here and here.
