Shoe Bomber Sentenced

Matter of JudgmentRemember the terrorist who got onto a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to give himself a hotfoot? With all the other distractions from oil to illegals, I’ll bet you didn’t know that his trial is over and he has been stiffly sentenced … the government media have a convenient way of missing things that no longer fit their agenda.

Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the defendant if he had anything to say.  His response … after admitting his guilt to the court for the record, the unrepentant terrorist also admitted his “allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah” defiantly stating, “I think I will not apologize for my actions” and told the court, “I am at war with your country.”

Judge William Young, of the U.S. District Court then delivered the following statement, which needs to be heard by every American, especially those who still may not believe we are at war with radical Islam or who may somehow question American exceptionalism:

“Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the Court imposes upon you.

On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutively. (That’s 80 years.)

On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years again, to be served consecutively to the 80 years just imposed. The Court imposes upon you for each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000 that’s an aggregate fine of $2 million. The Court accepts the government’s recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $298.17 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines.

The Court imposes upon you an $800 special assessment. The Court imposes upon you five years supervised release simply because the law requires it. But the life sentences are real life sentences so I need go no further.

This is the sentence that is provided for by our statutes. It is a fair and just sentence. It is a righteous sentence.

Now, let me explain this to you. We are not afraid of you or any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before. There is too much war talk here and I say that to everyone with the utmost respect. Here in this court, we deal with individuals as individuals and care for individuals as individuals. As human beings, we reach out for justice.

You are not an enemy combatant. You are a terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier, gives you far too much stature. Whether the officers of government do it or your attorney does it, or if you think you are a soldier, you are not … you are a terrorist. And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not meet with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice.

So war talk is way out of line in this court. You are a big fellow but you are not that big. You’re no warrior. I’ve known warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal that is guilty of multiple attempted murders. In a very real sense, State Trooper Santiago had it right when you first were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and the TV crews were and he said, “You’re no big deal.”

You are no big deal.

What your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have as honestly as I know how tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today?

I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty and admit you are guilty of doing? And, I have an answer for you. It may not satisfy you, but as I search this entire record, it comes as close to understanding as I know.

It seems to me you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom … our individual freedom; our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose. Here, in this society, the very wind carries freedom. It carries it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom, so that everyone can see, truly see, that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely. It is for freedom’s sake that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf, have filed appeals, will go on in their representation of you before other judges.

We Americans are all about freedom. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties. Make no mistake though. It is yet true that we will bear any burden; pay any price, to preserve our freedoms. Look around this courtroom. Mark it well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. The day after tomorrow, it will be forgotten, but this, however, will long endure.

Here in this courtroom and courtrooms all across America, the American people will gather to see that justice, individual justice, justice, not war, individual justice is in fact being done. The very President of the United States through his officers will have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged and juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically, to mold and shape and refine our sense of justice.

See that flag, Mr. Reid? That’s the flag of the United States of America. That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag stands for freedom. And it always will.

Mr. Custody Officer. Stand him down!”

Wow … do we need more magistrates like Judge William Young! I figured you probably hadn’t seen this on T.V. or read it in any paper, so I’m just proud you were able to read it here.

R.S.F.


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Flag Day

betsy-ross-flagToday is June 14th, Flag Day in the United States … although you’d hardly know it from reading or hearing the usual news sources or watching one of the The Nutty Professor’s rare news conferences, which completely lack any evidence of America’s national symbol. The flag stands for all that we hold dear: individual freedom, democracy, government of the people, by the people and for the people, justice and opportunity, just for openers.

In years gone by, brave men have chosen to carry her into battle instead of a gun and have died trying to keep her from so much as touching the ground. Yet, in their infinite buffoonery, our own Supreme Court has ruled that it is okay to burn this great symbol in protest, as a form of expression. What happened to the expression of saying The Pledge of Allegiance every morning in school or at public meetings? Oh that’s right, someone might be offended…especially since it mentions God. Remember?

I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands,
One Nation under God, indivisible,
With liberty and justice for all.

Just in case you graduated after 1960-something and were no longer taught such things in school, did you know that Betsy Ross told her grandson, William J. Canby, that she sewed the first American flag in 1776? Because there is no formal documentation of the creation of the first flag, many historians doubt that her story is true. It’s a Betsy Ross flag replica that flies in the corner of this article. I believe her.

The Flag Act of 1818 stipulated that each state be represented by a star and that any new stars be added on Independence Day and the U.S. Flag Code of 1923 established proper etiquette for the care and respect of  ’Old Glory’. Since the Flag Act of 1777, there have been 27 different national flags. The current flag was adopted on July 4, 1960 when the 50th star was added to represent, of all cruel ironies, Hawaii.

One of my favorite emails that has been making its way around the Internet says,

It’s the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.
It’s the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech.
It’s the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.
It’s the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.

WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!

It just seems to me that we’re advancing to the rear in this country simply because a few radical ideologues don’t like the concept of American exceptionalism. If they don’t like it here, instead of destroying it for the rest of us with their collectivist crap, would they please allow me to buy them a one way ticket to anywhere else they’d like to go? They’re costing me money anyway and we all might as well get some benefit from their use of it!

Let us honor our flag today and everyday … for, despite the onslaught of evil forces from both inside and out, she is still the stirring symbol of the greatest nation on the face of the earth!

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R.S.F.


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Decline and Fall

roman-empireIf the primary job of our government is to protect the people of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic, what happens when the government itself becomes the adversary? When the president swears to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution then proceeds to trample it, what course of action can be taken to keep the ship of state from running aground?

Other generations have endured hard times and bad leadership but we are the first to witness an effective, well-orchestrated attack upon our freedom, destruction of our economy and fundamental transformation of the greatest nation on Earth into just another failed, third-rate Socialist state. The Roman Empire lasted more than five hundred years … is America, as we know it, meeting its demise after only a few short centuries? If so, we will be relegated by future history books to a mere sentence rather than so much as a chapter … and George Bush’s legacy will cast him as the last president of the free Republic of America, as George Washington was the first. Come to think of it, those re-writing history probably wouldn’t consign enough space for that much detail, if mention of this nation is permitted at all!

This Memorial Day weekend rather than visiting Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, Barack Hussein Obama will attend a party in Chicago to honor that great American hero Paul McCartney. You remember McCartney … how he risked his life for American freedom on the Pop music charts of the sixties and seventies? With more soldiers killed during his 17 months as Commander and Chief than in the entire previous 8 years, this Manchurian President chooses to honor a Beatle at a barbecue instead.

It’s the kind of choice a petty despot-in-waiting would make, ignoring our country’s proud heritage and turning his back on its heroes. Do you suppose we’ll be installing an actual president into the White House any time soon … or will our pride continue to be insulted and our greatness extinguished until it fades away?

R.S.F.


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D-I-V-O-R-C-E

I received this in an e-mail and immediately knew I had to share it with you. It is written by a student and cuts cleanly to the heart of the matter:

Dear American Liberals, Leftists, Progressives, Socialists, Marxists, Obama supporters, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950’s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of the latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.

Our two ideological sides of America cannot, and will not, ever agree on what is right for us all, so let’s just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own ways.

Here is a model separation agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.

We don’t like re-distributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. We’ll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar and bio diesel. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them).

We’ll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies and illegal aliens. We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO’s and rednecks. We’ll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.

You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we’ll help provide them security.

We’ll keep our Judeo-Christian values … you are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill.

We’ll keep the SUV’s, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.

You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We’ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We’ll keep ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ and ‘The National Anthem.’ I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute ‘Imagine’, ‘I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing’, ‘Cum By Ya’ and ‘We Are the World.’

We’ll practice trickledown economics and you can continue to give trickleup poverty your best shot.

Since it often so offends you, we’ll keep our history, our name and our flag.

Would you agree to this? If so, please see that it is read by other like minded Liberal and Conservative patriots. In the spirit of friendly parting, I’ll bet you can answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,

John J. Wall

Law Student and American

P. S.  Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, & Jane Fonda with you.

P. P. S.  You won’t have to press 1 for English when you call our country.

The fact that this is the clear minded perspective of a young person gives me hope for the future of our nation, our liberty and our children’s children.

R.S.F.

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The April Fools

earthday-symbol-kirmitHey sports fans, it’s April 22nd … Earth Day! It’s time to commemorate all the sorry sots that actually buy into the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind. Be a good steward? Of course … but the rest of that over-the-top radical nonsense has, of course, been fully documented by those intercepted e-mails as phony.

Since some people seem determined to defend the indefensible [a lot of that going around these days] and worship at the altar of this wholly political religion, I thought I’d hold my own ceremony back home in my own backyard.

While the drinkers of that very expensive Kool-Aid are stumbling around in the dark, I thought I’d turn over a few shovelfulls of earth and plant some Pansies out there … brightly illuminated by several 1,000 watt lamps installed across the rear of the house for just such nocturnal excursions.

I wonder if they’ll be able to spot my wash of artificial daylight from the space station.

R.S.F.

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Slip of the Wifely Lip

How did the press and nearly all other government media miss this one? How, indeed! Notice, when announcing her husband’s true birthplace, how Mish never misses a beat, falters, flinches or corrects herself. Her words flow as naturally as a “good morning” wish over the backyard fence.


The really perplexing issue is, when even the Supreme Court can no longer deny our mistake and the country lies in shambles, where do we even begin to reverse the ruin inflicted by this ideologue who should never have been in a position to wield the sword of destruction in the first place?

R.S.F.

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A Matter of Perspective

wreckonciliation-cantorWoe is me! I climbed into bed with thugs, used deception and crooked deals to cram expensive, illegal legislation down America’s throat … now, somebody really got torqued-off!  Oh-h-h, woe is me! Does the phrase, ‘duck’ suddenly take on meaning for you?

The alleged threats and violence against Socialist lawmakers being trumpeted in the media are a travesty! Of course, they’re a travesty, because they’re happening at all … even though spineless sellouts like Bart Stupak earned more than a little venom with their greedy, backroom deals. But the real travesty is that these threats are being painted as coming from the Right. Even Republican leaders and Conservative pundits are thoughtlessly buying off on this lopsided point of view.

In fact, while lawmakers went too far for the majority of American people, they didn’t go far enough for many of the extreme radicals that dwell even further to the Left than the likes of Obama, Reid and Pelosi. You know, the folks that believe in blowing things up and pushing people around like Ayers, Jones and Stern? You know, revolution instead of evolution! They’re no happier about the healthcare fiasco than the rest of us. This is only the start of a government takeover; hard-liners wanted it all and wanted it now … single payer, the whole nine yards. That’s what they were promised but the Dems didn’t deliver.

Show me even one violent Tea Party  or Town Hall meeting, unless you point to the SEIU guys shoving little old ladies and cripples against walls or into the street! That’s just not the way Conservatives and Republicans conduct themselves. However, IT IS the way Socialists, Stalinists, Maoists and Chicago thugs conduct business. If there is violence, it will come from Left, I can assure you. It will come from their own disgruntled team!

In fact, those on the Right need to be extra careful not to resemble those protesters of the sixties and seventies too closely. All those anti-American, dope-smoking hippies may have ‘lost’ back then … but they’re the ones running our country right now!  They would like nothing better than to turn the tables of perception on the concerned, freedom-loving citizens that comprise the core of America and recast them in their former image.

Their insidious trap is re-baited daily in an effort to ensnare those who only now are beginning to understand the coup d’état that is taking place in our nation’s capitol, as appointed and elected radicals alike disembowel our great nation from within.

R.S.F.

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Suffer The Fooles

obamacare-screwedFreedom suffered a damaging blow last night as Amerika was pushed, punched and finally kicked into Socialism by a third-world president and a Communistic Congress, which turned a deaf ear to nearly 75 percent of the American people in favor of their own self-interests. The government now wields the power of life and death over the rest of us. Their so-called healthkare bill was passed in a Soviet style session of Madam Pelosi’s House [if the shoe fits ...] by a vote of 219 to 212.

Democrat members prostituted themselves for everything from airplane rides to judgeships for relatives. Bart Stupak from Michigan, who may have held as many as a dozen votes in his vest pocket, was chiefly responsible for putting the legislation over the top when he sold his soul to ‘South Side Barry’ for the promise of a meaningless executive order, just to ease his conscience about voting for the fatally flawed measure.  Wait a minute. When did these public servants stop working for us? Don’t employees usually leave after they quit? Maybe they all need to be fired!

First of all, make no mistake about the fact that this economy-busting boondoggle was never about health or care. It is, was and always has been about power and control. Again, in case you missed it … power and control, not health or care! Statements by Socialist Party members about what they’ve “done for the American people” demonstrate a view as opposed to reality as the votes they’ve squandered. It is a matter of what they’ve done TO the American people. Do you figure there’s a reason socialized medicine has been rejected for nearly a hundred years in this country? Huh? Do ya’?

Virtually overnight, we have been transformed from a nation with superior health care but some people without insurance, to one with more coverage, now facing diminished, degraded and even rationed care. I have yet to hear anyone, particularly on the Left, talk about ‘treatment’. What good is insurance without the ability to receive ‘treatment’? England isn’t afraid to talk about it … they’ve just stopped the treatment of coronary problems for people over age 59 because it’s too expensive. Don’t we wanna’ grow up to be just like them? America has been herded one giant step backwards and we’ll pay handsomely for the privilege with more than just trillions of dollars … as will our children and their children after them.

Government healthkare now takes its rightful place beside Social Security, Medicare, Medicade, the post office and other failed, bankrupt government programs. I’m guessing that our Founders are not only turning over in their graves but trying to claw their way out! And while the Stalinists are taking curtain calls for the rights they’ve granted us, let us take just a moment to end their obvious confusion between ‘rights’ and ‘goods’. It’s really pretty simple … you pay for goods, rights are free and come only from God! None of these guys fit the description.

Only 34 courageous Democrats discovered something stronger than Jell-O Pudding to support their spine.  As for the rest? Nikita Khrushchev would have been proud of you … Na Zdorovie!

R.S.F.

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