Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Obama Says U.S. Could Be Seen as a Muslim Country, Too - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com


Obama Says U.S. Could Be Seen as a Muslim Country, Too - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Posted by Frank Smith at 3.6.09

5 comments:

The Thorn said...

I'm sure that many of the 13 Democrats on the council would find these words offensive, but the Declaration of Independence states that our forefathers were "endowed by their creator." I don't believe that Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin were referring to Allah, do you?

This next statement is what Congress seems to have forgotten: "governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

It is the very next statement that I believe the 13 member Democratic majority on our city council will find extremely offensive:

"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

I believe that, like Congress, our city government has become the very type of government that Jefferson, Franklin, Quincy and the others were so terrified of, and that is why I believe the out of control majority on our city council would be offended by the founding principles of this country which state that government derives its power from the consent of the governed, and not the other way around as it would seem today.

The full unedited text follows:
(maybe this passage should be read into the record at the next meeting of the city council as a reminder)

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

June 3, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Anonymous said...

I just looked at the new $20 bills, and it says "In Allah We Trust"

June 3, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Anonymous said...

CONWAY Ark. — The father of a Army soldier slain outside a recruiting center sought a quiet life for his family in rural Arkansas after years of military service, but the battlefield came home to find them.

Daris Long’s son, Army Pvt. William Andrew Long, was shot in suburban Little Rock while he stood and smoked a cigarette, far from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Long, 23, died in an attack that also wounded Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18. The alleged gunman, Abdulhakim Muhammad, also 23, told investigators he wanted to kill as many Army personnel as he could “because of what they had done to Muslims in the past,” police said.

But Army Pvt. Ezeagwula and Long had never seen battle. Both only completed basic training recently and had volunteered to help attract others into military service. Long was heading to South Korea, not even the Middle East, for his service.

“He was a hero. The other young lad that’s in the hospital, he’s a hero,” Daris Long told Little Rock television station KATV. “They weren’t on the battlefield, but apparently, the battlefield’s here in the United States.”

Private Long’s father doesn’t trust the media — a very appropriate and healthy attitude to have: Daris Long spoke about his son reluctantly. Long said he mistrusted reporters, stemming from his time in Somalia during the American intervention there in the 1990s.

The suspect in Long’s killing, Abdulhakim Muhammad, may have been planning a larger jihad rampage before he decided to shoot two soldiers outside that Little Rock recruiting office: Questions remain about what route Muhammad, a Muslim convert, took before the shooting. Material seized from Muhammad’s truck and apartment — including guns, ammunition and Molotov cocktails — led federal agents to caution that copycat attacks could not be ruled out.

An FBI-Homeland Security intelligence assessment document obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday suggested Muhammad, of Little Rock, may have considered targeting other locations, including Jewish and Christian sites.

The FBI said Muhammad “conducted Internet searches related to different locations in several U.S. cities” including Atlanta, Little Rock, Louisville, Ky., Memphis, Tenn., New York and Philadelphia and notified authorities in those locations.

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said investigators found Google Earth images of various places, including Times Square. In Atlanta, FBI Agent Stephen Emmett said Muhammad had information regarding a “Jewish entity within our jurisdiction.”

June 4, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Anonymous said...

The two soldiers weren’t on the battlefield, but apparently, the battlefield is now here again in the U.S.A.

June 4, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Anonymous said...

These two young soldier are as much a war casualty as those who fall in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the very least Privates Long and Ezeagwula should both receive Purple Hearts.

June 4, 2009 at 3:40 PM

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