80 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Ezra Levant, Canada’s version of Henry Armstrong, has taken off his shirt, loosened up his joints and has climbed between the ropes to face a surprised Warren Kinsella.
    He notes that in the last few weeks there have been five “baseless threats of defamation” directed at Canadian bloggers by Kinsella.
    “They’re not legitimate legal actions to remedy a real tort committed by bloggers. These threats are intimidations tactics — bullying — dressed up in legal robes.”
    Ezra’s taken Blazing Catfur’s case pro bono, and has contacted Kinsella to advise that he is now the legal counsel for said blogger.
    Read about Kinsella’s reaction, and about the nascent but incredibly worthwhile Union of Bloggers, at
    http://ezralevant.com/2008/02/announcing-the-union-of-blogge.html
    “That’s Kinsella: all talk, no action. Lots of bullying when it comes to non-lawyers. Lots of self-contratulatory spin. But the first time a blogger…lawyers up, Kinsella falls apart.”
    “He’s not used to a level playing field.”

  2. Safe injection site okay by Dion(from G&M)
    The Lib.party has no intention of advocating the legalization of cannabis but stephane Dion made it clear(that’s something new for him!)Friday that under a Liberal gov’t,other Canadian cities could see safe injection sites like the one in Vancouver.
    Dion was safely ensconsed at Loony Central (UBC)taking questions,like this dandy from a student:”if you get into power,how are you going to handle the way Canada kind of lies down when they want us to do something but when we want them to do something they kind of slough us off,right?
    “For us Canadians,the United States is a friend,”Mr.Dion said.
    “it is an ally,but it is not a model” he said to loud applause.’this difference between a friend and a model is not well understood by PMSH and it will be by me’ He also told students,Canada must have it’s economic sovereignty protected.But as a trading nation with the US,he said Canada’s ‘balance of trade is very advantageous for Canada’
    “Our trade with the US must be effective but it must be open as well because we are making a lot of money trading with them”
    Way to go Steffi…bet that really wound up the crowd!

  5. “Alberta’s energy riches belong to all Canadians” — so would this same general principle apply to all provinces? Like shouldn’t Quebec be sharing revenues from it’s hydro sales to New York with Newfoundland — just as an example? Chretien wouldn’t dare give such an inflammatory speech in Quebec. If the Liberals get in again and I lived in Alberta, I would certainly be thinking about separation.

  8. “Alberta’s energy riches belong to all Canadians”
    …who have bought shares in energy companies.

  9. Chug-Al-Lug Muslims? Didn’t Al-Mo ban Al-K-Hol?
    “as well as large quantities of alcohol..”
    …-
    Iraqi National Police destroy the headquarters of the Islamic State of Iraq
    Excerpt:
    “seized large quantities of arms, ammunition and explosive materials, and a number of vehicles which were in possession of the armed men, as well as large quantities of alcohol..”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967595/posts

  10. The Archliberal of Ditherbury
    Lorne Gunter, National Post
    “Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, had better hope shariah law never takes hold in Britain, otherwise, as the leader of an infidel faith, he’ll be among the first to be flayed alive in Ayatollah Khomeini Public Assemblage Area (formerly Trafalgar Square).”
    http://tinyurl.com/36bjnd (NP)
    Titian
    The Flaying of Marsyas*
    http://tinyurl.com/34u6xw (artchive)

  12. The answer to an above question is, Dion and the liberals will be held responsible, in the eyes of many canadians, for any deaths from increased taliban activity, during an election. Layton wil also hold some blame. Tell your enemy that if they just wait, we will leave and allow you to slaughter women in stadiums, behead anyone who helped us, and what do you think they will do.
    To make sure we turn tail, they will increase attacks. If our troops come home, all aid to agencies should be stopped and all aid workers also brought home.
    Dion and Laytons request to the taliban, please don’t hurt us will fall on deaf ears.

  14. Yes, I’d like to see Chretien telling Quebec that it should share its massive revenues from Quebec hydro with Labrador-Newfoundland.
    I commend Ezra Levant’s setting up the Union of Bloggers – and his stance against Warren Kinsella.
    Kinsella’s fixation on stamping out any use of Nazi symbols as somehow akin to stamping out utter depravity is – well, it’s weird. Does he think that someone’s flippant use of the swastika also means that they are full-fledged guards at a concentration camp? He posts anecdotal letters on his blog from people who say they were taunted as children for being Jews. So what? Is that justification for barring the use of the symbol as a metaphor?
    Is Warren going to bat for those who were taunted for being black, or Asian or wearing glasses, or speaking with a lisp or being Irish or..?
    Warren, you can’t legislate emotions.
    As for the use of the symbol of the swastika or the imagery of the Third Reich, it was Warren who brought up the use of such analogies in his attempt to discredit the many criticisms of the HRAct and Section 13.1. He informed us that a neo-Nazi organization also criticized this section. Ergo, according to Warren, that meant that all people who criticized Section 13-1 are also Neo-Nazis.
    Here’s the logic in a syllogism:
    We are against HRAct Section 13.1
    Neo-Nazis are against HRAct Section 13.1
    Therefore, We are Neo-Nazis.
    The fallacy, Warren, is called the ‘Undistributed Middle’. It simply means that although you can find something basically common between two things, it doesn’t mean that the two things have anything else in common.
    Here’s another example.
    Dogs are animals.
    Cats are animals.
    Therefore, dogs are cats.
    All that the various blogs are doing, Warren, is spoofing your logical fallacy.
    Is mocking someone’s illogic now an action of defamation?

  15. Hey, if you’re a l/Liberal, anyone who says anything they find offensive is fair game for bullying and deriding. That’s the L/liberal way: what wusses.

  16. I see in today’s TO Sun,that the polygamous welfare scam is causing some uproar.Wonder how those ‘liberal’ Torontonians will react,and if it will be investigated fully and shut down?

  17. Liberal Citoyen Dion is a drug pusher.
    He’s a believer, he says: Free cocaine/heroin.
    …-
    “Safe-injection clinics are okay, legal cannabis is not, Dion says”
    “”It’s not something we will campaign on in the next election,””
    “Without being asked about it, he told the crowd of about 150 students that Canada’s only safe-injection site – known as Insite and situated in the Downtown Eastside – “is something in which we believe.”
    http://tinyurl.com/yoahxn (G-M)

  18. The ever cool WK,has link to Facebook site..”I give a sh*t Mr.Harper’ over NOTHING!I see this whole fiasco is creating bit of rift between WK and Cherniyuck,against of all people Ms.Kitten O’Malley.The Site has all of 71 members(flocking in droves kinda like the other Facebook ‘save Krista Erickson’that Jason started) Last I checked on that one it had under 100 members,and can’t be bothered to check it again.These fools are becoming more irrelevant by the day.

  19. I see Dion is now being criticized for his ditthering. We need a new name – Mr. Dithers is already taken by Martin. Mr. Dithers, Jr. or Dion-Dithers?

  21. You’re not making any sense, lberia. You are saying that
    IF the Taliban increase attacks in Afghanistan.
    THEN, the Liberals/NDP will ‘cut-and-run’.
    You are claiming that Harper will be responsible for these increased attacks.
    No. Dion and Layton will be responsible. That’s because the Taliban KNOW that IF they increase the attacks, then Dion and Layton will scream: ‘Let’s run away!’.
    Try again, lberia.

  22. This just in: The mayor of Toledo, Ohio, won’t let the Marines do military exercises in his town because according to his spokesman: “they (Marines) frighten people.”

  23. Maz2 said,
    When did Quebec ban “smoking outside prisons”?
    …-
    Que. reverses ban on smoking outside prisons
    http://tinyurl.com/ynq5xk (ctv)
    When I mentioned the ban a couple days ago here on SDA I had my doubts …
    And after only 4 days Liberals show us they are girly wimps as ever!
    All prisoners have to do is throw a hissy fit and they get all they want.
    Wimpy girly stupid idiot Liberals.

  25. Dion would be for safe injection sites, never mind the stuff they’re injecting is illegal and kills them eventually. That’s the part the Leftoid mind can’t process. They’re supplying the tools to do illegal drugs.
    I watched a bit of Dr.(if you please), Carolyn Bennett, MP for St. Pauls debating on the subject.
    What a painful experience it is to watch her stammering, jerking of head and hand gesturing while trying to make her points. She was pathetic. One would think a doctor would have more to offer.
    It’s along the same line of Leftoid thought process that’s holding up the crime bill in the senate. Fatty Carstairs says raising the age of sexual consent to 16 would put all the 14 year olds underground and out of sight.

  26. No ET, what I’m saying is that Cons/right wingers have been shutting down debate on Afghanistan by claiming that unless there is unreserved support for this war, we are undermining the troops by inviting increased attacks.
    Using that same logic, the Cons have now set up situation where our supposedly internet-savvy cave dwelling opponents can possibly influence the outcome of an election by increasing casualties of Canadian troops. Harper set this scenario up; he made Afghanistan a possible electiion issue…will he take responsibility if casualties are increased?

  27. What really happened at the Gates of Vienna from the book Wildfire by Nelson DeMille
    “Polish king John had everything to lose and nothing to gain by coming to
    the aid of his Christian brothers at Vienna. Because King John knew that if
    he didn’t stop the Turks at Vienna, then all of Europe would fall to Islam.
    And remember, no one else in Europe came to the aid of the beleaguered
    city – all of Europe chose to bury its head in the sand and pray they would
    not be next.”
    Plus sa change, plus sais la meme chose

  28. lberia, you are the one who isn’t making sense. If all political parties were united in support for our continuing effort to eliminate the Taliban, their attacks would simply embolden us against them.
    I’m not saying opposition supports the Taliban, but positions like leave immediately, or Dion’s nonsensical notion that announcing to the Taliban we will cease offensive combat operations, provide these killers with propaganda points that will encourage to go for a big casualty count.
    I agree with ET, your analysis is backwards, not all cats are dogs. Consider the Spanish election where the socialist parties demanded withdrawal from Afghanistan, then there was a terrorist attack, and lo and behold, the socialists got elected and took their troops out.

  29. Question for ET.
    From what I’ve read of your contributions to this blog you are an intelligent person.
    Why, oh why, do you rise to the bait of a known troll? You know damned well he’s a troll but for some reason you can’t seem to resist the bait. Why?

  30. All that the various blogs are doing, Warren, is spoofing your logical fallacy.
    Is mocking someone’s illogic now an action of defamation?
    Posted by: ET at February 9, 2008 10:24 AM
    Excellent post as usual ET. But I must report my latest epiphany from my current read The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer.
    Excellent but, alas, pointless! I finally got this! Mass movements are not founded on logic and can’t be defeated by it. Or as someone put it, “you can’t reason someone out of a position that he didn’t reason himself into”.
    Definitely read this book ET. It’ll save you a lot of time and lead to shorter posts. 🙂
    (which is not at all to suggest that I don’t greatly appreciate your posts).

  31. “Muslim Student Threatens Former Terrorist’s Life at Air Force Academy Event”
    from Mass Media Distribution Newswire (thanks to Hot Air):
    Former terrorists Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zak Anani addressed cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, during their annual political forum. They shared their experiences as terrorists and helped cadets understand the Islamic fundamentalist mind set.
    During the event a Jordanian college student, identified as Omar Khalifa of Metro International, approached Kamal Saleem and spoke to him in Arabic, “you are an enemy of Islam and you must die.” The incident was reported to Military Police, who investigated Khalifa’s threat.
    “The men receive threats of this nature all of time and we take each one very seriously,” said Keith Davies, Executive Director of the Shoebat Foundation. “That is why each of the men live in seclusion.”
    Numerous media outlets (New York Times, the Associated Press, The Colorado Springs Gazette, the Rocky Mountain News) did not report on the former terrorists’ message, but instead focused on the [inaccurate] media statements distributed by CAIR (Council for American Islamic Relations), in an all-out campaign to discredit the speakers credentials and background.
    “We have all been told that Islam has been hijacked by extremists,” said Walid Shoebat. “Yet CAIR, who professes to be ‘Moderate Muslims’ are the Three Ex Terrorists biggest critics, and pull out all stops to try and keep out voices from being heard. I beg to ask the question; if CAIR is indeed moderate as they claim, then WHY are they not supporting our campaign against ‘extremists? If they are sincerely against the Fundamentalist Muslim agenda why do they appose us?”
    According to the Air Force Academy’s public affairs office CAIR spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, contacted them numerous times criticizing the scheduling of the three men, and requesting an opportunity to have a CAIR representative share with cadets information about the Islamic faith. The Academy informed Hooper that the event was not about religion, but about terrorism, and he denied CAIR’s request.
    Score one for the Air Force Academy.
    (good points about the hissing snakes at CAIR. When will this Islamofascist organisation be shut down?)

  32. Agreed, me no dhimmi, on the mentality of the mob.
    I also apologize for my long posts. I type very fast (actually, in grade 10, when we girls were streamed out of taking math and science, I took ‘secretarial’. Actually became quite useful)…and, I’m used to writing.
    But Warren Kinsella isn’t a mob; he’s just one individual. Now, why is HE making such basic, grade one logical errors? Same with those Muslim law students – how could they write that Toronto Star article, filled as it is with illogical, erroneous statements? Heck, if I was still teaching, I’d clip it and use it in one of my Critical Thinking classes because it’s so chock full of examples of No-Think.
    BCer – lberia isn’t a troll; he’s just a leftist. Leftists usually ‘argue’ in emotive ways; that is, in fallacious ways. Take a look at his most recent comment.
    He’s making unsubstantiated claims, such as the Conservatives have ‘shut down debate’; not true. Remember, genuine debate isn’t partisan assertions such as made by Dion and Layton.
    What IS true is that certainly, if there is dissent in the House about support for the war, the Taliban will try to increase casualties to strengthen the ‘No’ side. That only makes sense, lberia.
    According to your premises, lberia, there shouldn’t ever be any support for any war, because support will only increase the zeal of the opponents. So, the best thing, in your world, lberia, is to do nothing. Allow the Other Side, in this case, the Taliban, to win.
    The problem with that, lberia, is that if the Taliban win, then the Afghan people are returned to slavery. I’m sure you remember what life was like under that short-lived regime.
    And if all countries follow your ideology, lberia, and refuse to support any war because that will encourage the Other Side to fight, this means that Al Qaeda wins in the world. Is that your choice, lberia?

  33. *
    “iberia splutters… will Stephen Harper take the credit for the casualties?”
    see iberia… free democratic speech is necessary… even for a
    treasonous cur like you.
    *

  34. I believe now is the time to resist the urge to call people down with labels (I’m not referring to their arguments, but they as people). The Canadian people are thirsty for information on Afghanistan situation and are becoming engaged in the debate, which is fantastic, and a win win for free societies.
    Pleae resist the urge to criticize the person, go after their argument. If you cannot do that please don’t comment then, lest you give them justification to turn to emotional arguments.

  35. ET: YOU, “streamed out” of math and science! LOL.
    But as I said, no need for apologies at all.
    You type fast … and very well (surely you use a spell checker?).
    A most interesting observation about secretarial skills. My oldest daughter (Queens, King’s College, London) took secretarial in high school, was very good, is a demon on the keyboard, and in fact entered the BBC (after her MA in Philosophy) as, in effect, a “secretary”, and shortly after moved into creative. I’ve never forgotten this life lesson.
    Quibble: WK is a former mass-movement sub-leader! As is Warman: anti-racism = modern fascism. Da Canadian Values TM. Anti-racism is a facade. Power has it’s very own logic and is not subject to syllogism.
    Shamrock: makes a good point. I don’t always succeed but I do try to avoid labels as they truly are counter-productive. Leftards, etc.
    And Iberia is NOT a troll, but a potential convert. 🙂

  36. ET, looking over your antagonist*s post near the top of this thread, something mentioned yesterday or previously is eating at him.
    Clearly, if troops are withdrawn, there will be a genocide and the Liberals will suffer a severe backlash for the sheer inhumanity of Taliban vengeance on the people of Afghanistan.
    There is no way to swing blame over to the Harper team.
    As an agent of the opposition, he makes the effort anyway. = TG

  37. Slimes at the Canadian MSM: voyeurs; peeping/listening at the keyhole.
    “discreet encounter” “in a Quebec City hotel room” “Friday night”.
    It’s “Jean Charest” and “Harper”.
    “But many observes[sic] say” “the real objective was to warm”.
    MSM: slimes.
    …-
    “Jean Charest is spending today 250 kilometres away in his home riding of Sherbrooke after agreeing to Harper’s request for a discreet encounter in a Quebec City hotel room Friday night.” http://tinyurl.com/2y89e9 (CP)

  38. Diary of a Mad Al Qaeda Sector Leader
    […]
    This is My Will:
    I am Abu-Tariq, Emir of Al-Layin and al-Mashadah Sector.
    There were almost 600 fighters in our Sector before the Tribes changed course 360 degrees under the influence of the so-called Islamic Army (Deserter of Jihad) and other known believer groups. Many of our fighters quit and some of them joined the deserters, and later on I will mention the names of Fighters who stood by us (faithful fighters), but things started getting worse ever since, and as a result of that the number of fighters dropped down to 20 or less which led us to move some of our vehicles to another location (Al-Muthanna Establishment Area) for security reasons where our brother [REDACTED] is stationed at (I will also mention the type vehicles at the end.)
    There are many details known by brothers [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] regarding the spoils, buying and selling vehicles such as:
    1-Lorry (6-wheeled) in Mosul sold later and we received some of the money for it.
    2-[REDACTED] still owes us [$10,000] …-
    http://tinyurl.com/ys8cxq (cannoneer)

  39. Shamrock:
    The Spanish scenario is what Harper is setting up by making this making Canada’s participation an election issue a non-confidence vote.
    ET:
    “He’s making unsubstantiated claims, such as the Conservatives have ‘shut down debate’; not true.”
    Come on…what about all the “if you don’t support the war, you don’t support the troops, therefore you support Islamofascism” rhetoric from the Right?
    “What IS true is that certainly, if there is dissent in the House about support for the war, the Taliban will try to increase casualties to strengthen the ‘No’ side. That only makes sense, lberia.”
    That means we agree. Harpeer is highlighting this issue by making it a non-confidence vote.
    And as for my ideology, you are speculating. I only posed a question, I didn’t make a statement, However, if you must know I have no problem with supporting a war a long there is a goal and a proper effort made to achieve that goal as expediently as possible. It increasingly looks like this is not happening in Afghanistan. All we have now is a hobby war where the government can use scare tactics to justify taking our rights away, and where there are some unfortunate casualties, but not so horrific that it prevents a good photo op for leaders like Harper.

  40. lberia: “The Spanish scenario is what Harper is setting up by making this making Canada’s participation an election issue a non-confidence vote.”
    Huh? If the issue was not of confidence, then surely opposition would defeat extension. Is that what you mean? Again, you’re telling us that we should let the Taliban dictate our foreign policy, that they will blow us up if we don’t withdraw? What specious logic. The Spanish “scenario” was, the government ran for re-election partly based on the idea that their troops should remain in Afganistan. AQ then carried out murderous attack, and the withdrawal party won the election and removed the troops. IOW, AQ dictated Spanish foreign policy, if one accepts premise that government lost because they were attacked, which I can’t say for sure is the case.
    Anyway, government’s job is to govern, to pass legislation. The Afghanistan issue is not the only one Tories have stated is confidence issue, in any event. I must admit I don’t understand what your argument is – that we shouldn’t have confidence issues in our house, that opposition parties have some sort of right to paralyze parliament, or that AQ might get mad and attack us.
    I guess everyone was wrong to go after the Mafia in Sicily or the cocaine drug lords in Columbia, because they started asassinating politicans and judges. In the end, they were defeated, despite the intimidation, and the same must happen here.
    To do otherwise, to not degrade, weaken and hopefully defeat the Taliban in the end – that’s what will invite attacks.
    Your idea that our government shouldn’t take a strong leadership position, opting instead for the muddled Dion position, for which BTW a significant number of his own party disagree, because there might be some negative consequence makes no sense whatsoever to me.

  41. me no dhimmi – No, I didn’t, on my own will, move out of math and science. In my ancient beginnings, girls were put automatically into languages, and boys got all the good stuff (math and science). I had to, later on, teach myself algebra (love it but am only ‘middle school level) and science (physics and biology).
    No, I don’t use a spell checker. I don’t think power has ‘its own logic’. It has nothing to do with logic; power is control over something. Logic is an Argument, in its many forms, it’s basically a debate that presents a basic premiss, a current situation, and, a conclusion.
    lberia – you are switching agency from Harper to the ‘rhetoric of the Right’. Harper didn’t say the above and didn’t shut down debate. You are deviating from your original accusation!
    No, we don’t agree, lberia. Because we both say that IF we withdraw troops, THEN, the Taliban will reduce casualties (an oxymoron; no troops to kill), doesn’t mean that we agree with such a decision. I don’t. I pointed out why your argument for troop withdrawal was antithetical to the needs of the Afghan people.
    Please explain why you consider the Afghan War a ‘hobby war’. Frankly, I’ve never heard of the term! To my understanding, it has a clear goal and agenda: to ensure that the Afghan people control their own country rather than have it fall to tribal terrorist groups who want to insert a fundamentalist regime. Could you explain why you think it doesn’t have a goal and agenda and why it is a ‘hobby war’?
    What rights are being taken away? Are you referring to the Human Rights Act – which was created many years ago, and which rejects freedom of speech?
    I think your statement that Harper would want ‘horrific casualties’ for a ‘good photo-op’ is disgusting and malicious. Could you provide some proof, or is this just the way you think about the world and people?

  42. “He [Canterbury] passes round what he believes to be the benign libation of tolerance. It is laced with arsenic.”
    …-
    Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: What he wishes on us is an abomination
    ‘Sharia is nothing but a human concoction of medieval religious opinion
    What Rowan Williams wishes upon us is an abomination and I write here as a modern Muslim woman. He lectures the nation on the benefits of sharia law – made by bearded men, for men – and wants the alternative legal system to be accommodated within our democracy in the spirit of inclusion and cohesion.
    Pray tell me sir, how do separate and impenetrable courts and schools and extreme female segregation promote commonalities and deep bonds between citizens of these small isles?
    What he did on Thursday was to convince other Britons, white, black and brown, that Muslims want not equality but exceptionalism and their own domains. Enlightened British Muslims quail. Friends like this churchman do us more harm than our many enemies. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/3xq6go (independentUK)

  43. “is this just the way you think about the world and people?”
    Remember, ET, lberia is taken from Lavrenty Beria, Stalin’s most bloodthirsty assistant.

  44. Me No Dimmi said,
    Plus sa change, plus sais la meme chose
    Here is the correct spelling,
    Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
    although most would say,
    Plus ça change, plus c’est pareil
    Please don’t take this the wrong way !
    I learned French before I learned English and I can not help correcting people…
    bad habit I know …

  45. Oops,
    I forgot the H in Dhimmi…
    that’ll teach me not to correct other people’s spelling!…

  46. Fiend 🙂 of the USA: Yeah, I copied that passage from a friend’s e-mail and it didn’t look quite right but I thought it’d slip by unnoticed. I really need to nail this phrase ‘cos not being able to summon it on demand I miss quite a few opportunities to appear semi-sophisticated.
    You have to admit though that my version had a certain Je ne sais quoi!

  47. Great debate going on at jihadwatch.org or frontpagemag.com:
    As the David Horowitz Freedom Center unveils its Declaration Against Genocide in Washington on February 9, we are inviting campus groups of all types to join us in condemning the genocidal impulse within Islamo-Fascism.
    This Symposium discussion of the term “Islamo-Fascism” takes on a new urgency in light of that Declaration and of the upcoming second Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which will hit campuses nationwide the week of April 7.
    The usefulness and accuracy of this term, and the general necessity of naming the enemy properly as a prerequisite for defeating it, became a subject of national debate during the first Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, and that debate is certain to continue this April. This Symposium is dedicated to many of the issues involved.
    Our guests are:
    Christopher Hitchens, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, the author of the new book god Is Not Great. How Religion Poisons Everything and the editor of the new anthology, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever.
    Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the author of My Year Inside Radical Islam , which documents his time working for the extremist Al Haramain Islamic Foundation.
    Bruce Tefft, the Director of CRA’s Threat Assessment Center. He retired from the CIA as a case officer in 1995 after 21 years, 17 working in Stations abroad. He was a founding member of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center in 1985 and has been involved with terrorism issues since then. After his retirement, he continued studying Islamic terrorist techniques and training more than 16,000 first responders, law enforcement, military and intelligence officials in terrorism awareness and prevention. For a two year period following 9/11, he was the Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence advisor to the New York Police Department.
    Khalim Massoud, president of Muslims Against Sharia, an Islamic reform movement.
    Robert Spencer, a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of seven books, eight monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including the New York Times Bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Religion of Peace?.
    Donna Hughes, Professor and Carlson Endowed Chairperson of the University of Rhode Island Women’s Studies Program.
    and
    Thomas Haidon, the Chief Legal and Policy Advisor of the Free Muslim Coalition and a member of its Board of Advisors. A commentator on legal issues surrounding counter-terrorism measures and Islamic affairs, he currently serves as an advisor to the New Zealand government and has provided guidance to parliamentary committees on counter-terrorism issues. His works have been published in legal periodicals, newspapers and other media.
    – Make sure you check out the comments.

  48. By “power has it’s own logic” I didn’t mean it’s logical!!! Key word “own” not ET’s.
    But seriously: the assumption in many of your posts is that your target wishes the same thing as you and me and that the obstacle is merely a lack of better information and a firmer command of formal logic; and that when you deliver it, you’ll get a “ah ha! now I get it.” One example: The assumption that “global warming” is about the environment [and that when you deliver the valid scientific data you’ll get a “ah ha, mea culpa”.]
    I had two 3-year e-mail correspondences with two old friends who have been converted into ex-friends. My shocking epiphany was that their views were “fact proof”. I kept thinking, well this batch of facts will make a difference. Never.
    Like you — only you’re a lot more skilled — I’m a sucker for believing that my ideological adversaries can be persuaded by facts and good logic. I have since learned that it’s a gigantic waste of time.
    Look at the HRC — which is about to collapse. Not from strong freedom of speech arguments but out of exposure of their Liberal-fascist methodology.

  50. What’s Citoyen Dion’s policy today?
    Cut’n’Run; Surrender.
    But, Citoyen has set a priority saying it was easy to set: “”Our priority is to see this parliament work,”.
    “Dion backs from election brink”
    (canwest)
    Meanwhile: the snidelys at CalHerald want to know:
    “What’s Harper really up to?”
    Answer: the squashing of the Librano$.

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