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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Chris Charles: The Once Great
Britain
“All
the stories have been told, of kings and days of old, but there’s no England now”.
It’s true that Muslim fanatics hate the United States
but we’re not the only ones they hate. In the United Kingdom, Muslim immigrants have been welcomed with open arms but
the tolerance of the British has not been reciprocated. Many Muslim immigrants to the UK have been anything but tolerant of
their British hosts.
There are over two million Islamic immigrants living within the United Kingdom. While the Brits go out of their way not
to offend the hypersensitive Muslim newcomers, there are a certain percentage of Muslims in the UK that continue to advocate
holy jihad, worse yet, there are others living in the UK that insist on waging holy jihad.
Incredibly the Muslims are the ones outraged and protesting
in the streets. What are they so upset over? Nobodies trying to kill or convert them! Not that they NEED a reason but they’re
mad because the Brits are helping the United States kill their radical Muslim brethren in Afghanistan.
When British soldiers return home from Afghanistan they
are sometimes greeted by angry mobs of Islamic extremists wielding signs that that call brave British troops ‘baby killers’,
‘murderers’, ‘butchers’, and ‘cowards’. All of this is perfectly legal according to the
ninnies in charge of not so Great Britain these days. Nice way to welcome home young men and women fighting to liberate thousands
of Afghan Muslims. Baby killers? Really? Jane Fonda wouldn’t even go that far.
As bad as that is, other ‘protests’ by hordes of
riotous members of the ‘religion of peace’ go even further. These ‘protesters’ carry signs that read
‘Butcher those that mock Islam’, ‘Europe, you will pay, your extermination is on the way’, ‘Freedom
go to hell’, and that’s just a sampling.
I am a little unclear why there are so many Muslims immigrating to the UK that hate the people,
policies, and practices of the UK? I know I won’t be moving to Yemen or Saudi Arabia any time soon. If Western countries
that welcome them with open arms are so bad, why not stay in the Middle East? There are plenty of countries in the Muslim
world that subscribe to their 7th century fundamentalist view of Islam. They would be a lot happier there rather
than the ‘backward’ countries of the west, where religious freedoms exist and where woman are treated as equals.
If they want Sharia, why not move to Iran?
Amazingly, British authorities are taking the Neville Chamberlain approach to dealing with those who pose a threat to their
very existence. Though, authorities are less understanding with those who are not as ‘accepting’ of the recently
arrived Islamic fanatics.
Muslims are allowed to call for the beheading of ‘those who insult Islam’
in the streets of London, yet when a group of Englishmen burn a Koran in their backyard to protest Islamic extremism, they
are carted off to jail. Burning a Koran in Britain is considered a ‘hate crime’ by the British Police but threatening
to unleash ‘another 9/11’ on the people of Britain is not?
Is openly threatening to behead people
what passes for freedom of speech in Britain these days? But a couple of overzealous white boys burn a single Koran and they
are rounded up faster than an Al Qaeda sleeper cell.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Chris Charles: For Whom The
Bell Tolls
We all know many (if not most) politicians
are crooked but this is ridiculous. The people working for the City of Bell in Southern California make Congressmen look like
choir boys.
It is
nice to know that corrupt government officials can’t get away with everything. In most bureaucracies wasteful spending
and exorbitant government contracts are the default position. Nobody should be surprised to find out government workers making
more money than they should. But at least there is a line that if crossed will land crooked politicians behind bars, as eight
current and former City of Bell officials recently found out.
Unless you live there, you have probably never even heard of Bell before the media
reports surfaced about city officials making salaries more befitting a Wall Street CEO. Bell is a tiny little city just south
of Los Angeles; its area covers only about two and a half square miles but what Bell lacks in size, it more than makes up
for in dirtball politicians. There are celebrities in LA with homes bigger than the City of Bell, yet these sleaze balls were
making six figure salaries.
City Manager Robert Rizzo was making nearly $800,000 in salary alone; he made $1.5
million a year if you include all of the excessive benefits he gave himself. Meanwhile, the average Bell resident makes around
$25,000 a year.
What
were they doing to ‘earn’ those salaries other than fleecing the people of Bell and the people of California out
of millions of hard earned tax dollars? These are low level local municipality employees we’re talking about here, not
the third baseman for the New York Yankees!
Bell Police Chief Randy Adams was makes $500,000 a year to manage a police department with 47 employees;
LA Police Chief Charlie Beck runs a department with 13,000 employees and makes considerably less. The aforementioned Robert
Rizzo was making more than double what President Obama is making to be the leader of the free world.
Bell City
council members were only paid $100,000 a year but that’s not bad when you consider that it is part time work. The Bell
City Council only meets twice a month, so that means Council members were paid $100,000 to attend only 24 meetings, good work,
if you can get it.
Amazingly,
$100,000 for part time work is not against the law, nor is making $800,000 to be a small town city manager. LA District Attorney
Steve Cooley said that these ‘beyond exorbitant’ salaries are NOT ILLEGAL. The Bell Officials were arrested for
OTHER dubious deeds done with working in city government. Most of the charges surround illegal loans Bell
officials were giving themselves out of City funds. The Bell Assistant City Manager was charged with accepting ‘loans’
totaling $1.5 million dollars. Ripping the tax payers off with their ridiculous salaries wasn’t enough for this lot.
Greedy doesn’t even begin to describe the Bell Bureaucrats. Who do these guys think they are? Vito Corleone?
And oh by the way, while
the political positions in Bell are considered ‘non-partisan’ these scumbags are all either registered or suspected
Democrats.
If it
were not for a couple intrepid reporters at the Los Angeles Times those ‘civil servants’ would still be making
their high six figure salaries. And the LA Times isn’t exactly known for going after big government fraud and deception.
The LA Times is like the Pravda of the West, so if they are exposing big government corruption you know these Bell officials
must have really crossed the line.
How is it that no one knew of this malfeasance until the LA Times stumbled upon the story? Nobody noticed
these Bell officials pulling in to the City Hall parking lot driving high end luxury cars? Your average Bell resident drives
a fifth-hand 1993 Honda Accord if they can afford a car at all. Nobody noticed that most of the public office holders in Bell
did not live in Bell? Robert Rizzo was arrested not in Bell but at his palatial sea side estate in Orange County! It's
no wonder the government is broke.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Chris Charles: You Can’t
Handle The ‘Truthers’
It has been nine years since 19 Islamic radicals’
hijacked airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC, killing nearly
3,000 people. It was not the first, nor was it the last act of terror committed by hard-line extremist followers of a supposedly
peaceful religion.
With
the scars of that September morning still visible in lower Manhattan, members of that same religion are planning to build
a 13-story Mosque and Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center site, against the wishes of many victims’
families.
One of the ‘moderate Muslims’ behind the proposed ground zero Mosque and ‘Islamic center’,
Faiz Khan, is calling the September 11th attacks an ‘inside job’. In a play right out of the Rosie
O’Donnell playbook, he says that Muslims have been made scapegoats for the 9/11 attacks. Yes, it is much more likely that George Bush and Dick Cheney were
actually the masterminds behind the attacks. How silly it was for us to believe that radical Muslims were behind the attacks.
Islam is after all a peaceful religion; we should have known those friendly Islamic jihadists would never attack us in such
a brutal and cowardly fashion.
If Muslims have been made scapegoats in this case, were they also scapegoated after the first World Trade Center bombing
in 1993? Was ‘W’ to blame for the London Underground bombing in 2005 and the Madrid train bombing in 2004 as well?
Who was responsible for the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen? Was it Halliburton that bombed US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania?
Was the 1983 bombing of military barracks in Beirut also an ‘inside job’? Was it the Evil American CIA that cut
off the head of American journalist Daniel Pearl all the while chanting ‘Allah Akbar’?
Radical Islamic jihadists prove time and time
again that they seek to kill as many American infidels as is humanly possible. And we are supposed to believe they would never
have committed such a detestable crime as 9/11? According to leftist ‘truthers’ and so-called moderate Muslims
like Faiz Khan, the only group capable of such villainous treachery is the Republican Party.
As credible and trustworthy as 9/11 ‘truthers’ are,
their conspiracy theories have some pretty significant holes. For one, Osama Bin Laden has admitted responsibility and taken credit for the 9/11 attacks on New York and
Washington and last I checked OBL was an Islamic radical not a Republican.
If you listened to the ‘truthers’ they would tell you the
WTC buildings were brought down by some sort of ‘controlled demolition’ but I seem to remember two fully fueled
Boeing 767’s being hijacked not by George Bush and Dick Cheney but by homicidal Islamic terrorists and flown directly
into the sides of the twin towers.
‘Truthers’ will also point out that the 7 World Trade Center building collapsed on 9/11 despite
not being hit by any hijacked passenger jets flown by Muslim terrorists. Seems pretty suspicious, right? A smoking gun that
proves 9/11 was an inside job, unless you consider that 7 World Trade Center was located directly beneath 1 World Trade Center
which was, as you’ll recall, hit by a hijacked passenger jet flown by Muslim terrorists.
110 stories of concrete, glass, and steel fell on 7 WTC and these
‘truther’ geniuses can’t figure out why it collapsed? UFO believers think the 9/11 truthers need to get
a better grip on reality. There are three sure things in this world: death, taxes, and Islamic radicals bent on killing innocent
Americans. Why can’t these ‘truthers’ handle the truth? Muslim extremists say they want to kill Americans,
they say they are going to kill Americans, they seek to kill Americans, they succeed in killing Americans and yet there are
still some claiming that it is all a big set up by the American infidel to make the innocent Muslims look bad.
9:52 am pdt
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Chris Charles: They Deprive Us Of Live; We Deprive Them Of Sleep
“In the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground, and half-measures keep you half exposed.”
–Dick Cheney
On September 11th, 2001 we were attacked, without warning, by a vicious
and brutal enemy. 3,000 Americans were killed because a certain group of people hate us. They hate us for many reasons, it
is not important to know the reasons they hate us, it is important to know that they do. It is important to realize that we
did nothing to deserve it. There is nothing we can do to make them not hate us, short of surrendering America and converting
to Islam, even then there are no promises.
Our only option is to fight. Fight for our collective lives because
that is what is at stake. Make no mistake; there can be no peace, no understanding, no common ground with Islamic fascists.
Just as Nazi Germany could not be appeased in the 1930’s, we cannot allow terrorists to remain unchecked.
Islamic extremists hate everybody who does not subscribe to their narrow world view. Muslim radicals are at war with, not
only us but most of the world. They seek to kill or convert any person that does practice their particular form of Islam.
Militant Islam started this, not only with 9/11 but with numerous attacks before and since. The USS Cole, various attacks
on US military barracks, the first World Trade Center attack, London subway, Madrid trains, and many, many more. Muslim
radicals attack innocent people; they hide like cowards amongst us. They use our own freedoms against us. Their goal is to
kill as many of us as possible.
We had an administration that sought to aggressively fight this battle after the
9/11 attacks. The Bush administration put in place new tactics to fight this new enemy that does not fight by the rules. Eight
years later we have an administration that is returning to the more passive tactics is decades past. The Obama administration
and the left in this country have a different approach to terrorism; they believe that it can be combated like we combat criminals
in this country. They want to fight terror groups with conventional war tactics. This does not work, the past has proven this.
We cannot afford to apply liberal politics to national security.
Muslim extremists do not play by
the rules of international law and the Geneva Convention. They do not wear uniforms, they attack civilians, they hide in mosques
and among innocent people. They seek to detonate nuclear weapons and behead American civilians.
Despite this,
some in this country say that we need to strictly follow the rules of the Geneva Convention and international laws. What about
them? I know we have to be the bigger civilization here but all we want to do is detain terrorists and interrogate them to
find out what city is to be blown up next.
Most liberals say that enhanced interrogation is torture. Real torture
is extreme pain and suffering not discomfort or embarrassment. So exactly what do liberals consider torture?
Water
boarding- pouring water on the face of a terrorist
Loud music- music played loudly in cells for long periods
Insects-
placing non-dangerous bugs in a detainees cell
Stress positions- forcing a prisoner to stand for long periods
We are really stretching it to call this torture. Whatever happened to the rack? Or pulling out finger nails? Real
torturers should be insulted by this. These more resemble fraternity hazing or alternative medicine, than torture. In fact,
I think we could do more to these animals. Contestants on ‘Survivor’ face more ‘torture’ than terrorists
at Gitmo do! I propose that we let CBS producers interrogate all terrorists from now on.
With all of this outrage
from the left in this country and around the world you might think that we ‘enhancely interrogate’ any Arab that
we can find. You might assume that hundreds, perhaps thousands were pulled off the streets and tortured by the evil President
Bush and his willing accomplices in the military. When the truth came out, only three terrorists had been water boarded and
all three possessed knowledge of future terror attacks.
President Obama released secret CIA documents that chronicled
the used of enhanced interrogation techniques implemented after the 9/11 attacks. They disclosed the methods and frequency
our intelligence officials used to gain information. They conveniently left parts of the memo classified, the parts that disclosed
what intel was gained from the interrogations. Don’t all the facts need to be reveled if the American public is to understand
the entirety of the situation? The absence of these facts allows The White House to claim that enhanced interrogation doesn’t
work, when most in the intelligence community and a former Vice-President of the United States says that it does.
If liberals were in charge of interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and a terrorist detainee knew the details of an impending
terror attack on the US, what would they do? Ask politely, say please, give them a plea deal? Do these people really think
that water on the face is out of the question in these circumstances? Come on this is real life! You can’t let
liberal ideals allow an American city to be wiped off the map! Most Americans will still be able to sleep at night knowing
that a few terrorists were made a little uncomfortable to prevent another 9/11 or worse.
President Obama looks
at it a different way. He thinks that we are never justified to use enhanced interrogation. He equates enhanced interrogation
to the tactics used by the Islamic extremists. Let us compare the tactics of the US military with the tactics of the Muslim
terrorists.
They behead civilians; we put panties on the heads of terrorists.
They say ‘Allah
Akbar’! and blow up people; we say “you have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be held
against you in the court of law...” and arrest them.
They burned American servicemen alive and dragged them
thought the streets of Bagdad; we cleaned up the Streets of Bagdad and dragged Saddam out of that hole.
They live
in shacks and caves in the middle of a desert; we sent them to live on a beach in the Caribbean.
They give ‘prisoners’
a script to read and then decapitate them; we give prisoners an ACLU lawyer and civil rights.
They blow up Mosques
and schools; we help rebuild them.
They put women in rape rooms; we put bugs in their rooms.
They cut
off heads; we pour water over heads.
They explode bombs; we play loud music.They follow no laws; we follow every
law.
President Obama is bringing an olive branch to a gun fight. We cannot make friends with people that want to
kill us. We have to defeat this enemy and we cannot do so with such liberal rules and regulations around the necks of our
servicemen. The Geneva Convention protects prisoners of war from countries involved in a declared war, not terrorists that
claim no homeland, that follow no rules. Liberals with weak stomachs need to recues themselves from this argument before it
gets more people killed. Hopefully the CIA is still making these sub-humans “uncomfortable” in secret. Why do
we know every detail of how detainees are interrogated? Shouldn’t the CIA interrogations take place in secret, in a
dark damp room in an undisclosed location, out of the reach of the ACLU? Politicians like Nancy Pelosi and far left radical
groups like Code Pink should not be involved in the most sensitive aspects of our national security; if we want to win the
war on Islamic terrorists.
Originally Published 6/16/2009
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Chris Charles: Practicing Terror
While Michael Bloomberg and President Obama
argue there should be a Mosque built on sacred ground in Lower Manhattan, some of our Muslim friends are busy plotting more
terror attacks against us. Two Yemenis nationals were arrested on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Amsterdam suspected
of plotting a terrorist attack. Who would have thought that Islamic terrorists would think to hijack or blow up an airplane?
Luckily for the people
onboard they carried with them no REAL explosives, they only had mock bombs made of Pepto-Bismol bottles and cell phones taped
together. They also managed to slip by the ace security with box cutters and large knives. You can’t get on a flight
with tooth paste but Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi and Hezem al Murisi have no problem getting on a flight with a small Arsenal
of stabbing weapons?
I’m sorry but if you’re from Yemen and your name is Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi,
you should get a more thorough security screening than Betty Johnson from Boca Raton, Florida.
It was a good thing this was only a dry run, if it wasn’t
there would be a smoldering pile of twisted steel somewhere. These guys were testing our security and clearly our security
has once again failed. Yes the men were found and arrested but not before their flight landed in Amsterdam! Which would have
been too late had their bombs not been made out of Diarrhea Medicine!
This was a warning shot across our bow, the next time you can bet the bombs will
be real but some in the government are not so sure. According to the Associated Press and un-named US ‘official’
is saying that it is unlikely that the two suspects were plotting terror. Unlikely? What is unlikely is our survival with
people like this in charge. If they were not rehearsing Jihad, what were the faux bombs for then? A practical joke? After
all, what’s funnier than a couple Middle Eastern men with bombs on an airplane?
But the story doesn’t end there. Because the items the men
were carrying were not on the list of FAA banned items, neither the authorities in Holland nor the authorities here in the
States are planning to charge these guys with a crime. How is a mock bomb NOT on the FAA banned list? Try and bring a pair
of nail clippers on a flight and you might end up in a TSA screening room for hours, yet mock bombs and ‘large knives’
are perfectly okay?
Moreover
the two Yemenis are being released from custody and allowed to go back to plotting terror (allegedly). What are the so-called
‘authorities’ waiting for? Does there have to be fiery hole in the ground for the terrorists to be terrorists?
The would-be Jihadists
carried with them a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle, three cell phones taped together, several watches taped together,
a box cutter, three large knives, and $7,000 in cash and yet investigators say there is no evidence tying the two to a terror
plot. Not exactly Sherlock Holmes, these people. If we lived in a sane and rational world these two wouldn’t be arrested,
they would simply disappear into the bowls of an undisclosed, unmarked building somewhere. Taken by some covert, special ops,
black helicopter group and ‘interrogated’ until they divulged their true intentions.
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