If your words don’t penetrate their thick skulls and echo within their empty cranial cavities, feel free to crack those skulls open.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Jack Webb Schools Barack Obama
Jack Webb, we need you. We need you, Ronald Reagan, and the founding fathers. We need you to explain to the idiots that have been elected to our government, and to the idiots that elected them, what America is really all about. We need you to get through their thick skulls that America is NOT a socialist nation, and will not tolerate the tyrannical destruction of our constitution and way of life.
If your words don’t penetrate their thick skulls and echo within their empty cranial cavities, feel free to crack those skulls open.
If your words don’t penetrate their thick skulls and echo within their empty cranial cavities, feel free to crack those skulls open.
Barack Obama Comes UNGLUED!
Barack is looking a little ashen, sallow, pale, and just plain unhealthy in this clip. I guess he didn't get enough sun on his taxpayer funded trip to Hawaii. Get some sun, Barack.
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Obama’s State of the Union, January 2010: Unpresidential and Uninspiring
An open letter to Barack Obama in response to his State of the Union speech:
First of all, let me make one overall recommendation to you, Mr. Obama.
You said that you understand the “burden of working harder for less,” and “I know the anxieties out there now.” Really? Sir, most of your life has been one of privilege financed by others. Now you are at the pinnacle of that life living in the lap of luxury, throwing lavish parties, traveling all over the world, flaunting power all at the expense of the American taxpayer. If you really understood, you wouldn’t be throwing your weekly parties for your cronies, and you wouldn’t be spending millions of taxpayer dollars flying all over the country and world on Air Force One just to get photo ops for your never ending campaign. You would be staying in Washington, D.C. working on REAL, bipartisan solutions.
You stated that you had cut taxes for millions of us in the middle class. Really? Being solidly in the middle class, I think I would know if you had. Allowing us to keep more money up front and then taxing it away from us on April 15th is not a tax cut. Mailing me a check for a SMALL PORTION of the tax money that was mine to begin with is a REBATE, not a tax cut. When you mail those same checks to the 50% of Americans who don’t pay income taxes anyway, that’s just a handout. When you’re charitable with your own money, that’s generosity. When you’re charitable with OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY, that’s called THEFT or REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH when it’s done by the government.
You talk of creating government/public service jobs to help the economy. Since you were supposedly a “professor,” I would expect you to be educated enough to understand that public-sector, government jobs by definition CAN NOT CREATE WEALTH, which is what will stimulate our economy. A government job by definition takes money away from the economy to pay for itself.
Mr. Obama, you said you wanted a “jobs bill” on your desk immediately. Sir, here’s the jobs bill guaranteed to create jobs, and stimulate economic growth. I’ve delivered it to you before congress could, and kept it so brief that any child could understand it. Here it is. Are you ready?
You also mentioned that you were going to “double exports” to reduce our trade deficit. That sounds good, but how do you plan to achieve that, and what do you plan to export? The liberal policies of taxing businesses and creating a business climate that forces them to move their businesses overseas has left us with very little to export. When you make a corporate environment that ATTRACTS businesses, we will once again produce what the rest of the world wants, and exports will be a natural byproduct of that.
When it comes to health care reform, you have been wrong, and continue to be wrong. You have been dishonest in your dealings with the American people, and have outright lied about the “transparency” that was supposed to be the hallmark of these negotiations and of your administration. CSPAN? How’s that working for you? I guess I just missed all of those broadcasts, because I haven’t seen any of them. You said “if anybody has a better idea (about health care) let me know.” Oh, dear Lord in Heaven (I can introduce you to Him), please keep my head from exploding. You and the rest of your “progressive” (read communist) buddies have SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDED REPUBLICANS from the entire process, and refused to listen to, include or consider ANY of their ideas while crafting your government takeover of the health care system. Sir, the ideas are there but you are unwilling to listen to any ideas that do not fit your agenda. Tort reform, tax cuts, competition across state lines, and several other ideas have been put forth that are proven successful strategies for making health care better and more affordable. Yet you won’t allow them to be put on the table because they don’t pay your union buddies, or contribute to the takeover of health care. I pause to conjure the spirit of Rep. Joe Wilson.
You said you were going to “freeze spending for three years.” You speak of how that won’t start until 2011 because “that’s how budgeting works.” How convenient that it works out that you are putting it off until AFTER the midterm elections so that any possible pain associated with your policies won’t be felt until after Americans cast their votes. Your “spending freeze” sounds good to the uninitiated and uneducated that you hoped were the majority of your audience last night. But the reality is that you have already allowed HUGE spending increases in nearly every government agency that they wouldn’t have seen in the next 5-7 years COMBINED. Then you exempt the largest portion of government spending from any freeze. That would be the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING upon which you and the liberals depend for your political lives, and to which NO ONE IS ACTUALLY ENTITLED. If you were serious about eliminating the deficit, and paying down the debt, then you would get serious about ELIMINATING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. Go to a flat tax (which is a FAIR tax) with no exemptions and eliminate the IRS. That would save about $11 Billion per year. The Department of Energy was established to “end our dependence on foreign oil.” How would you say that’s working? The DoE is about as useful as mammary glands on a boar hog. Scrap it and save the billions of dollars per year that it sucks up from the tax payers. You could legitimately close the doors of 75% of the Federal government with no negative impact on America. You would in fact allow America to prosper by simply getting government out of the way, and saving us all of that money.
You speak of dismantling our nuclear arms and “agreements” with the Russians. You obviously are not a student of history. When we weaken ourselves, our enemies do not follow suit. Whether it be the Soviets/Russians, the Iranians, or the North Koreans, they have proven themselves to be liars. They will say whatever you want them to say to gain short-term political favor. They will not disarm themselves. Disarming unilaterally and dealing from a position of weakness will only open us up to aggression and attack from the likes of Russia, China, and Iran, not to mention the many terrorist groups who want nothing more than to see Americans die. We need to be the biggest, strongest kid on the block to ensure peace for us, and for the rest of the world.
The one thing from your speech on which we agree is the building of nuclear power plants, and removal of restrictions on offshore drilling. Everyone agrees that we need to try to develop clean, self-sustaining forms and sources of energy. But letting private innovation lead the way and develop products that Americans ACTUALLY WANT is the only way to make “green” energy a success. By forcing it down our throats while demonizing and destroying our other inexpensive, reliable forms of energy will only destroy those jobs before new ones emerge, skyrocket the cost of energy (which you promised us under YOUR plan), and destroy an economy that depends on energy at an affordable price. I’m beginning to think this may actually be your intent.
Finally, you displayed your true, anti-American, communist, thug, street organizer colors when you quietly announced your “enemies list” during your speech. You and your band of thugs like Rahm Emanuel bully and intimidate people to get your way. You did so with Fox News and the other news outlets when you declared that Fox News was not a legitimate news organization, would not be treated as such, and that the other “news” outlets would be “wise” not to treat them that way either. Attempt to destroy one to make an example of them, and use fear to control the others, a strategy from your idol, Saul Alinsky. In a total breach of decorum and decency, you publicly flog the Supreme Court, who can’t defend themselves, and lie about their decision that actually reaffirms the 1st Amendment freedom of speech. You hand down the list of people whom you will combat and try to destroy if they stand in your way, a list which includes bankers, capitalist “fat-cats,” the Supreme Court, and anyone in the media or with a microphone, megaphone, or pulpit from which to deliver a message that exposes the fallacies of your agenda. You are blatantly trying to stifle free speech. Woodrow Wilson and FDR were two of the “progressives” who employed similar tactics. No more, Mr. Obama. We will not tolerate your attempts to silence us.
Mr. Obama, you simply don’t care about Americans or America. The people of Massachusetts, a solidly liberal state, sent you a loud and clear message. But you won’t listen. Congress didn’t give you what you wanted, so rather than reevaluate whether what YOU want is what Americans want or need, you boldly declare that you will simply sign executive orders to bypass the congress, and any other entity that stands in your way. You attack and besmirch the Supreme Court because you don’t control them. You lied when you said you “never said you could end divisiveness and start a post-partisan, post-racial era.” BULL CHIPS! You campaigned on EXACTLY THAT PROMISE!
Sir, you are an arrogant, dishonest narcissist who is a danger to America. You attempted to include yourself in the greatness of America when you said that “our ideals built America.”
Mr. Obama, it was OUR ideals that build America, NOT YOURS.
Out of patience,
///SIGNED///
State of the Union, January 2010
Mr. Obama, here are my reactions to and impressions of your State of the Union speech last night.First of all, let me make one overall recommendation to you, Mr. Obama.
Grow up and take responsibility.
You say “I’m not interested in re-litigating the past.” Yet you continue to blame George W. Bush for EVERYTHING under the sun. You point fingers and blame everyone else on the planet for your problems, and for things you don’t like while dodging any and all personal responsibility for events taking place in America now. It makes you look immature and petty. The minute you signed onto the stimulus and began taking over companies and banks, you owned this economy, and your senatorial votes during the Bush administration played a significant part in the economy’s demise.You said that you understand the “burden of working harder for less,” and “I know the anxieties out there now.” Really? Sir, most of your life has been one of privilege financed by others. Now you are at the pinnacle of that life living in the lap of luxury, throwing lavish parties, traveling all over the world, flaunting power all at the expense of the American taxpayer. If you really understood, you wouldn’t be throwing your weekly parties for your cronies, and you wouldn’t be spending millions of taxpayer dollars flying all over the country and world on Air Force One just to get photo ops for your never ending campaign. You would be staying in Washington, D.C. working on REAL, bipartisan solutions.
You stated that you had cut taxes for millions of us in the middle class. Really? Being solidly in the middle class, I think I would know if you had. Allowing us to keep more money up front and then taxing it away from us on April 15th is not a tax cut. Mailing me a check for a SMALL PORTION of the tax money that was mine to begin with is a REBATE, not a tax cut. When you mail those same checks to the 50% of Americans who don’t pay income taxes anyway, that’s just a handout. When you’re charitable with your own money, that’s generosity. When you’re charitable with OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY, that’s called THEFT or REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH when it’s done by the government.
You talk of creating government/public service jobs to help the economy. Since you were supposedly a “professor,” I would expect you to be educated enough to understand that public-sector, government jobs by definition CAN NOT CREATE WEALTH, which is what will stimulate our economy. A government job by definition takes money away from the economy to pay for itself.
Mr. Obama, you said you wanted a “jobs bill” on your desk immediately. Sir, here’s the jobs bill guaranteed to create jobs, and stimulate economic growth. I’ve delivered it to you before congress could, and kept it so brief that any child could understand it. Here it is. Are you ready?
CUT TAXES!
Cut personal income taxes, cut corporate taxes, and eliminate the “death” and “marriage” taxes, and I GUARANTEE that the economy will take off like a rocket.You also mentioned that you were going to “double exports” to reduce our trade deficit. That sounds good, but how do you plan to achieve that, and what do you plan to export? The liberal policies of taxing businesses and creating a business climate that forces them to move their businesses overseas has left us with very little to export. When you make a corporate environment that ATTRACTS businesses, we will once again produce what the rest of the world wants, and exports will be a natural byproduct of that.
When it comes to health care reform, you have been wrong, and continue to be wrong. You have been dishonest in your dealings with the American people, and have outright lied about the “transparency” that was supposed to be the hallmark of these negotiations and of your administration. CSPAN? How’s that working for you? I guess I just missed all of those broadcasts, because I haven’t seen any of them. You said “if anybody has a better idea (about health care) let me know.” Oh, dear Lord in Heaven (I can introduce you to Him), please keep my head from exploding. You and the rest of your “progressive” (read communist) buddies have SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDED REPUBLICANS from the entire process, and refused to listen to, include or consider ANY of their ideas while crafting your government takeover of the health care system. Sir, the ideas are there but you are unwilling to listen to any ideas that do not fit your agenda. Tort reform, tax cuts, competition across state lines, and several other ideas have been put forth that are proven successful strategies for making health care better and more affordable. Yet you won’t allow them to be put on the table because they don’t pay your union buddies, or contribute to the takeover of health care. I pause to conjure the spirit of Rep. Joe Wilson.
You said you were going to “freeze spending for three years.” You speak of how that won’t start until 2011 because “that’s how budgeting works.” How convenient that it works out that you are putting it off until AFTER the midterm elections so that any possible pain associated with your policies won’t be felt until after Americans cast their votes. Your “spending freeze” sounds good to the uninitiated and uneducated that you hoped were the majority of your audience last night. But the reality is that you have already allowed HUGE spending increases in nearly every government agency that they wouldn’t have seen in the next 5-7 years COMBINED. Then you exempt the largest portion of government spending from any freeze. That would be the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING upon which you and the liberals depend for your political lives, and to which NO ONE IS ACTUALLY ENTITLED. If you were serious about eliminating the deficit, and paying down the debt, then you would get serious about ELIMINATING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. Go to a flat tax (which is a FAIR tax) with no exemptions and eliminate the IRS. That would save about $11 Billion per year. The Department of Energy was established to “end our dependence on foreign oil.” How would you say that’s working? The DoE is about as useful as mammary glands on a boar hog. Scrap it and save the billions of dollars per year that it sucks up from the tax payers. You could legitimately close the doors of 75% of the Federal government with no negative impact on America. You would in fact allow America to prosper by simply getting government out of the way, and saving us all of that money.
You speak of dismantling our nuclear arms and “agreements” with the Russians. You obviously are not a student of history. When we weaken ourselves, our enemies do not follow suit. Whether it be the Soviets/Russians, the Iranians, or the North Koreans, they have proven themselves to be liars. They will say whatever you want them to say to gain short-term political favor. They will not disarm themselves. Disarming unilaterally and dealing from a position of weakness will only open us up to aggression and attack from the likes of Russia, China, and Iran, not to mention the many terrorist groups who want nothing more than to see Americans die. We need to be the biggest, strongest kid on the block to ensure peace for us, and for the rest of the world.
The one thing from your speech on which we agree is the building of nuclear power plants, and removal of restrictions on offshore drilling. Everyone agrees that we need to try to develop clean, self-sustaining forms and sources of energy. But letting private innovation lead the way and develop products that Americans ACTUALLY WANT is the only way to make “green” energy a success. By forcing it down our throats while demonizing and destroying our other inexpensive, reliable forms of energy will only destroy those jobs before new ones emerge, skyrocket the cost of energy (which you promised us under YOUR plan), and destroy an economy that depends on energy at an affordable price. I’m beginning to think this may actually be your intent.
Finally, you displayed your true, anti-American, communist, thug, street organizer colors when you quietly announced your “enemies list” during your speech. You and your band of thugs like Rahm Emanuel bully and intimidate people to get your way. You did so with Fox News and the other news outlets when you declared that Fox News was not a legitimate news organization, would not be treated as such, and that the other “news” outlets would be “wise” not to treat them that way either. Attempt to destroy one to make an example of them, and use fear to control the others, a strategy from your idol, Saul Alinsky. In a total breach of decorum and decency, you publicly flog the Supreme Court, who can’t defend themselves, and lie about their decision that actually reaffirms the 1st Amendment freedom of speech. You hand down the list of people whom you will combat and try to destroy if they stand in your way, a list which includes bankers, capitalist “fat-cats,” the Supreme Court, and anyone in the media or with a microphone, megaphone, or pulpit from which to deliver a message that exposes the fallacies of your agenda. You are blatantly trying to stifle free speech. Woodrow Wilson and FDR were two of the “progressives” who employed similar tactics. No more, Mr. Obama. We will not tolerate your attempts to silence us.
Mr. Obama, you simply don’t care about Americans or America. The people of Massachusetts, a solidly liberal state, sent you a loud and clear message. But you won’t listen. Congress didn’t give you what you wanted, so rather than reevaluate whether what YOU want is what Americans want or need, you boldly declare that you will simply sign executive orders to bypass the congress, and any other entity that stands in your way. You attack and besmirch the Supreme Court because you don’t control them. You lied when you said you “never said you could end divisiveness and start a post-partisan, post-racial era.” BULL CHIPS! You campaigned on EXACTLY THAT PROMISE!
Sir, you are an arrogant, dishonest narcissist who is a danger to America. You attempted to include yourself in the greatness of America when you said that “our ideals built America.”
Mr. Obama, it was OUR ideals that build America, NOT YOURS.
Out of patience,
///SIGNED///
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Obama and Co. Support Terrorists and Terrorism
O-Bow-ma runs around the world bowing to every muslim ruler and tinpot dictator he can find, he stands in front of a muslim audience in Turkey and says the U.S. is no longer a Christian nation, he says in his campaign he has visited “all 57 states” which corresponds to the 57 muslim states, he downplays the “crotch bomber” (Great balls of fire!) at Christmas and keeps playing golf, and OBTW most people claiming to be Christians (as he still does) are usually celebrating the birth of Christ on Christmas instead of playing golf.
Now the U.S. Treasury, at the direction of O-Bow-ma, has removed the hamas terrorists from the TERRORIST WATCH LIST so that they can get money with no restrictions.
http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=3326
A news item entitled ‘US Terror Blacklist Whitewashes Hamas, Enables Funding’ just arrived in my e-mail a few minutes ago. According to its authors, the US Treasury has removed all the Hamas members previously blacklisted as terrorists, with the exception of Musa Abu Marzouk, the deputy chairman of the Hamas political bureau, from the black list that banks almost everywhere are obliged to use in order to block known terrorists from exploiting the financial system to finance their operations.
In practical terms, the Treasury’s black list of names is a total waste of time: as it is a public document, everyone named in it knows that his name is there, and should he want to open a bank account somewhere, he will find a suitable way round the regulations, either by using a false passport or by using a third party to act on his behalf. And apart from that, the details of many entries in the black list document are simply not very accurate or practical: as a senior compliance executive of one of the biggest European banks told me a few years ago, “the black lists are lousy” as a way of preventing terror finance and money laundering.
Nevertheless, this news is absolutely alarming, not so much because of the symbolism of removing the names of known Hamas leaders and terrorists from the black lists, but because doing so will now allow the European Union to continue sending money to the Hamas-run regime of thugs in Gaza without needing to pretend that it is only financing humanitarian efforts, while boycotting the ’military’ side of the government there. There is a genuine problem of how to ensure that genuine humanitarian aid continues to flow without helping Hamas — most of whose victims are actually Palestinians living in Gaza, rather than the hated Israelis — but this discussion is for another occasion.
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http://lonestartimes.com/?p=1113
Israel National News reports:
Now the U.S. Treasury, at the direction of O-Bow-ma, has removed the hamas terrorists from the TERRORIST WATCH LIST so that they can get money with no restrictions.
Obama is a muslim, anti-American, terrorist sympathizing communist.
http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=3326
Hamas may have been whitewashed, but it is no cleaner than before
25 Jan 2010A news item entitled ‘US Terror Blacklist Whitewashes Hamas, Enables Funding’ just arrived in my e-mail a few minutes ago. According to its authors, the US Treasury has removed all the Hamas members previously blacklisted as terrorists, with the exception of Musa Abu Marzouk, the deputy chairman of the Hamas political bureau, from the black list that banks almost everywhere are obliged to use in order to block known terrorists from exploiting the financial system to finance their operations.
In practical terms, the Treasury’s black list of names is a total waste of time: as it is a public document, everyone named in it knows that his name is there, and should he want to open a bank account somewhere, he will find a suitable way round the regulations, either by using a false passport or by using a third party to act on his behalf. And apart from that, the details of many entries in the black list document are simply not very accurate or practical: as a senior compliance executive of one of the biggest European banks told me a few years ago, “the black lists are lousy” as a way of preventing terror finance and money laundering.
Nevertheless, this news is absolutely alarming, not so much because of the symbolism of removing the names of known Hamas leaders and terrorists from the black lists, but because doing so will now allow the European Union to continue sending money to the Hamas-run regime of thugs in Gaza without needing to pretend that it is only financing humanitarian efforts, while boycotting the ’military’ side of the government there. There is a genuine problem of how to ensure that genuine humanitarian aid continues to flow without helping Hamas — most of whose victims are actually Palestinians living in Gaza, rather than the hated Israelis — but this discussion is for another occasion.
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http://lonestartimes.com/?p=1113
Israel National News reports:
The United States Treasury has taken all but one member of Hamas off the international list of terrorists, thus enabling funds from the European Union to enter Hamas-controlled Gaza.
It is an open secret that large sums of money from the EU flow into Gaza in the guise of humanitarian aid and salaries for officials, but are actually funneled into the coffers of Hamas, which controls Gaza with an iron grip. This method of transferring funds into terrorists’ hands could have been blocked by an international lawsuit, but according to journalist Avi Tarango, the United States Treasury has made this impossible by removing all but one Hamas man – Deputy Chairman of the Political Bureau, Musa Abu Marzouk – from the list of international terrorists.and this:
However, according to Tarango, who went over the list, none of the tens of thousands of people who form Hamas is mentioned – other than Abu Marzuk, who resides in Damascus. The terrorist list is meant for distribution in the world banking system, where the transfer of funds to anyone on the list is prohibited.The Bush administration was adept and persistent in trying to destroy or, at least, make very difficult the transfer of funds into terrorist hands around the world after September 11, 2001. Many of these measures are slowly being dismantled.
“EU laws define Hamas as a terror organization and therefore the EU people need to verify on a name-by-name basis that none of the people receiving salaries and support is a terrorist,” Tarango said. “This is done by the EU’s cash transfer mechanism, PEGASE, which verifies that none of the recipients of salaries are members of Hamas’s police force or activists of the military wing of Hamas, by comparing the names as received from the PA treasury department with the list of international terror activists. However, since the newly-updated list contains no Hamas officials except for Marzouk, the European check will find nothing and the funds for Gaza salaries will be transferred in whole to the Gaza banks.”+
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Sharia Law: The Growing Cancer
(Sharia court): We find you, Nancy Pelosi, guilty of indecency and sentence you to stoning.It’s coming, America. France and most of western Europe are only a few years away at best from being totally muslim. Because of our open borders, idiotic immigration policies, and worst of all, our oppressive political correctness, we are accelerating to catch up with Europe and will likely only be a few years behind them. That is unless we wake up and start the chemo to stop the cancer that is islam.
(Nancy Pelosi): Indecent? Who decides what is indecent?
(Sharia court): We decide. You were in public without your husband and you were not wearing a burka.
(Nancy Pelosi): I walked down the same street yesterday, and your ‘morality police’ didn’t say anything.
(Sharia court): They didn’t feel like it.
(Nancy Pelosi): I want to talk to my lawyer.
(Sharia court): Where do you think you are? In America? Oh, yes. You are in America, but we own it now. With your help we took over. You have no rights under Sharia.
I’ve talked about the historic communist agenda of destroying religion and dumbing down society in order to control them. Well, the communists in this country have nearly succeeded and in doing so have opened the door to muslim aggression.
In France in the 1600’s, the king signed a decree that made freedom of religion against the law. It was ‘Catholic or else.’ Protestants either fled the country or were burned at the stake. Now 99% of the french will tell you they are Catholic, but don’t believe in God, and hate the Catholic church. They are an amoral society centered on self-gratification. They now only give birth to 1.6 children per couple, and those children have no moral compass.
By contrast, the muslims who have immigrated to France in large numbers know EXACTLY what they believe, and are acting on those beliefs. They are also copulating and multiplying like bunnies, sometimes in excess of 10 children per family. Within the decade the French citizens will be in the minority, and sharia will likely be the law of the land. The cancer will have eaten the patient.
The idiot liberals in this country who coddle, cater to, appease the muslims have no idea what they are setting us up for. The fools like Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and others who have gone to the middle east and made muslim PR puppets out of themselves don’t understand that THEY won’t be spared if sharia is implemented and the muslims take over. The will wear burkas, they won’t drive cars, they won’t vote, they will not be allowed out of the house without their husbands, they will have no say in virtually any aspect of their lives and will not even control their own bodies. If they are raped, they will be stoned as whores. They will not be good enough to be considered second class citizens. The Taliban will own America.
Is that what you want, Nancy? If so, please let me buy you a one way ticket to anywhere in the middle east. I think you would like Afghanistan or Pakistan this time of year. If mud huts aren’t your style, I might be able to arrange a ticket to Saudi Arabia.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=122835 Sunday, January 24, 2010
THEIR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Shariah arrests ‘depend on policeman’s mood’
Woman talks of being charged for wearing ‘indecent’ trousersPosted: January 23, 2010; 12:25 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily
A female journalist convicted of indecency for wearing trousers in public says tens of thousands of similar arrests are made each year, and what happens is up to the “mood” of the police officer.
 A Quran |
Her recent appearance on Al-Mihwar TV now has been posted online by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Al-Hussein was among more than a dozen women arrested at the same time. While others were convicted and punished almost immediately – with flogging – her case was delayed.
When the case developed, Jonathan Racho, regional manager for Africa and the Middle East for International Christian Concern, condemned Sudanese authorities, saying flogging women “for wearing pants is both outrageous and against the dignity of the women.”
Hussein said in the interview that women frequently are arrested and punished “on the spot.”
Asked if a skirt also is considered “indecent,” she told the reporters it was up to the officer making the arrest.
“They said it was indecent. It depends on the policeman’s mood,” she said.
She also said, “In a single year, 43,000 women were arrested because of their clothing – not in all of Sudan, but in Khartoum alone, as declared by the police general commissioner.”
She also said when defendants are arrested, they have no opportunity for a defense.
“Physical violence is manifest in the punishment of lashing, which abases human dignity. Moral violence is manifest in the fact that this is called ‘indecent acts,’ and this is the reason that the tens of thousands of women before me did not have the courage to complain,” she said.
“The courts that try such cases are not regular courts. They are special courts … They are called ‘public order courts,’ but their names keep changing. In these courts, the defendant has no right to defend himself.”
She said in her case, the judge refused to allow defense witnesses to speak, and the decision was made in advance.
“Didn’t you ask [the court] what the definition of ‘indecent clothing’ is? … What is defined as ‘indecent clothing’?” asked an interviewer.
“It depends on the policeman’s mood,” she said. “The law is in the hands of the authorities.”
Hussein said while the law bans “clothing that offends public sentiment,” she was with 400 other people and, “I didn’t offend anybody.”
Hussein’s arrest was condemned by the Arab Network for Human Rights Information. The organization said it likely was revenge for Hussein publishing articles critical of the Sudanese government, MEMRI reported.
“Sudan’s public order laws are among the most discriminatory against Sudanese women. They violate several basic freedoms that should be the right of every citizen. These laws, directed against working women and female students, were enacted expressly to persecute them, humiliate them, and deprive them of freedom, and to distance them from public life. And now, the police have devised a way to use these laws against an oppositionist journalist,” the organization stated, according to MEMRI.
The ICC has said by subjecting the women and girls to inhumane and degrading treatment, the Sudanese officials violated international human right standards as well as the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 by the Islamic government of Sudan and the mainly Christian and animist southern Sudanese.
The ICC said the agreement said Islamic laws are “not applicable to non-Muslims.”
David Choat, the congregational affairs officer of the mission of the government of South Sudan to the U.S., told ICC, “The flogging is an imposition of Islamic values on Christians and it’s also a violation of religious freedom. This is telling us (the Sudanese people) that there are certain religions that are more important than the rest.”
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