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  Thursday Night Links

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  141 days ago in Pal2pal · Authority: 33

  Whew! Where did this day go? I spent most of the day trying to reorganize my office area and ended up pulling a muscle while protecting my back and stupidly moved a heavy chair and table. Dumb. I know better. Anyway, I have a couple of links for you that I didn’t get to today and won’t have time for tomorrow since everyone is off work and it is BBQ party time and then off to watch the fireworks. I’ve had this one around for a couple of days and it really deserves its own post. Another Richard Fernandez goodie. Plan C Amir Taheri describe’s al-Qaeda’s “Plan C” in an article in the New York Post. Plan A, based on Osama Bin Laden’s assessment of the President Clinton’s reaction to the Blackhawk Down incident was that one short and sharp rap would send America tumbling down. But that didn’t work so well and so Plan B, advanced by Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for seizing power in various Islamic countries, such as Iraq. But since that didn’t turn out very successfully either, al Qaeda’s chief theoretician, Sheik Abu-Bakar Naji, has come up with a new and surefire scheme. The next two links are related in subject matter. Domestic terrorists and their support and friendship with Obama. For someone who lived those times and hated what was happening to the country, I pray that the electorate of today will wake up to what it would mean to elect someone who surrounds himself with these Marxists, Maoists, and America haters. Obama’s Boys of Summer A Who’s Who of 1968 radicals supports the candidate. Backing a major-party candidate for president would have been anathema to Michael Klonsky 40 summers ago, when the organization he led, Students for a Democratic Society, urged young people to spurn elections. “By ’68, our line was ‘Vote in the Streets,’” Klonsky told me last spring. “We thought we had to fight with Eugene McCarthy and those people.” In August 1968, protesters clashed with police outside the Democratic Party’s national convention in Chicago—but far from being political innocents who took to the streets to protest Vietnam War hawks’ capture of the Democratic presidential nomination, many of them never supported antiwar candidates McCarthy and Robert Kennedy. “Those of us who have been in the streets for the past five days didn’t give a flying fuck whether McCarthy would win or lose,” SDS declared in posters around Chicago, “and now that he’s lost, still don’t.” On the eve of the general election of that year—in which less than 1 percentage point would separate the popular-vote totals of Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey—Klonsky’s SDS bluntly proclaimed: “The elections don’t mean shit.” ... Michael Klonsky is hardly the only ’68 radical supporting Obama this year. ... Obama’’s Chicago Political Machine, Obama’s Domestic Terrorist Friends 1968 McCain Was P.O.W. When Obama Buddy Bombed Pentagon John McCain has many, many, many faults -chief among them that he is at best a lukewarm conservative- but whatever his shortcomings the Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war is not in the habit of clinking champagne glasses over brie with living, breathing, remorseless terrorist traitors who continue to seethe with hatred for the United States. Barack Obama, on the other hand, doesn’t have a problem with such people until he gets nailed on it. In fact, Obama has a close personal relationship with a man who did everything in his power to hurt John McCain and other U.S. personnel serving in Vietnam. Aaah, a story that puts the bull in glow-bull warming. NYT: Maybe Greenland Isn’t Melting After All For years, climate alarmists in the media have loved showing video footage of Greenland glaciers slipping into the ocean in order to evoke feelings of global warming gloom and doom in the citizenry. On Friday, the journal Science is publishing a seventeen year study of Greenland’s ice sheet that flatly contradicts all such hysterical reports and claims. In fact, the paper concludes that such melting is a normal summertime event, and that when looked at over a longer period of time, there has been little change in the ice sheets in this region, and even possibly a slowing in glacial movement. Imagine that. The title of the post should just about tell you all you need to know about what’s coming: Obama’s Latest Position On Iraq So Muddled He Has To Explain It To Reporters Twice And the companion tanscript: Transcript Of Obama’s Speech In Fargo Today in which Rob says, “Meh. Who can believe anything Obama says on the campaign trail these days?” Oh lovely, just hunky dorey. NOT. White House: Gitmo Terror Detainees Could Walk Free in U.S. The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of last month’s Supreme Court ruling about detainees’ legal rights. Well now that that’s settled, what’s next? You going to be telling me that Sharia law should prevail in the courts? Oh wait, it is already happening: Sharia law SHOULD be used in Britain, says UK’s top judge The most senior judge in England yesterday gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims. Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance. He declared: ‘Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.’
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  Good News: Gitmo Detainees Could Walk Free in US

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  141 days ago in Report on Arrakis · Authority: 29

  The recent supreme court ruling which gave detainees the right to petition ederal judges for immediate release could have dangerous terrorists walking free. Let's hope it never comes to that. Fox News WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of last month's Supreme Court ruling about detainees' legal rights. Federal appeals courts, however, have indicated they have no intention of letting that happen. The high court ruling, which gave all detainees the right to petition federal judges for immediate release, has intensified discussions within the Bush administration about what to do with the roughly 270 detainees held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "I'm sure that none of us want Khalid Sheikh Mohammed walking around our neighborhoods," White House press secretary Dana Perino said about Al Qaeda's former third in command..... The legal ramifications of the Supreme Court decision remain fuzzy, but it's unlikely that a federal appeals court would order a detainee released into the United States even if a judge finds that the government was holding the detainee improperly. A court might tell the Bush administration to let a prisoner go, but it presumably would be up to the executive branch to figure out where. Attorney General Michael Mukasey had predicted that the Supreme Court's decision would unleash a torrent of court filings from detainees seeking their freedom. Judges, however, have been particularly wary of telling the executive branch what to do with the detainees. Late last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the military had improperly labeled Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Muslim, as an enemy combatant. The court said Parhat deserved a new hearing or should be released. But the court deftly avoided saying where he should be released — an indication that the courts expect the executive branch to wrestle with that decision. Glenn Sulmasy, a national security fellow at Harvard University, said if the matter remains in the hands of civilian courts, there is an element of truth to the White House warning that detainees could be released in the United States. But he said that while it's possible, it's not probable.
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  White House: Guantanamo Terror Detainees Could Walk Free in U.S.

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  The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of last month’s Supreme Court ruling about detainees’ legal rights. Federal appeals courts, however, have indicated they have no intention of letting that happen. Read more here:Fox News

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