A young bright star was extinguished on March 19, 2011.  Army Spc. Rudy Acosta a 19 year old from Santa Clarita was killed by a foreign national paid to guard our troops in battle.

Mr. Holt sites a letter from our Congressman Buck McKeon which was sent to the Signal and to Leon Panetta, our Secretary of Defense.  In it apparently Congressman McKeon expresses his “disappointment” about how long it took to get the report, and he “identified several areas and procedures that could be improved to prevent future insurgent attacks of this nature.”

Are you kidding me?  This is absurd and patronizing first to the Acosta family and secondly to us, whom the Congressman is suppose to represent!

First, let’s fix the immediate issue.  Don’t let citizens of nations that we’re at war with guard our troops.  Rather have either our troops guard themselves or at least US private contractors … Duh!  This is simply common sense.  Would you have criminal street gangs guard our police and sheriff stations?  Would you have child molesters guard our schools?

This is not a complex issue requiring committee meetings and reports.  When our troops are eating meals, sleeping, or enjoying some much needed down time, they should not have to worry that the person guarding them might kill them.

Second, the bigger issue … massive governmental incompetence from our local Congressman to the Secretary of Defense.

Congressman McKeon is the “Chairman of the Committee of Armed Services” for goodness sake!  Assuming he’s being truthful (which I doubt) this means that our government is completely inept.  If the Chairman of the Committee of Armed Services can’t get a simple report from the military than who can?

Moreover, according to the story the report was actually completed on April 14.  That means that Congressman McKeon sat on his hands for 8 months!  He should have demanded that as soon as the report was completed it is to be delivered to his desk.  Or at minimum McKeon should have been checking regularly on the status of the report, clearly he was not.

So what then was the catalyst causing the Chairman of the Committee of Armed Services to check on such an important report?  Well, he received on Friday, December 16, the day after the Signal reported a story on this issue, and three days after McKeon’s Chief of Staff was confronted by Mr. Acosta (Rudy’s dad) at a local GOP event.

Apparently it takes public disclosure of their incompetence for the McKeon machine to do their job.  Congressman McKeon has a duty to provide oversight to our military.  He is our voice to protect our young men and women serving in the military.  Congressman McKeon has a duty to provide answers to a grieving family in his district.  He has failed on both accounts.

It’s time to vote out Congressman McKeon and replace him with someone who will do their job!

Moreover, these states also suffer the greatest casualties from gangs, drug trafficking and human trafficking.  If it’s this easy for thugs to illegally cross the border undetected how much more is it for terrorists who plan for years their strategies?

We must deal swiftly and resolutely with the border issue for our security and economic survival.  However we also need to figure out what to do with those illegal immigrants who have come here just to work and have been here for many years.  Many of them have raised families, which adds to the economic burden but must be acknowledged.

The crime of illegally immigrating to the United States must be punished, and it can be done in a humane way using common sense and justice.  Here’s my simple idea:

1. If you’ve been here for less than 10 years with no criminal history you get deported with an option to return legally.

2. If you have been convicted of any felony you get deported and refused re-entry permanently.

3. If you’ve been here for longer than 10 years with no criminal history you are given temporary transitional visas under the following guidelines:

• You must acquire legal residency within 5 years
• You’re wages are garnished for back taxes of $4,000 per year, split evenly between the state and federal government (that would be equivalent to what they would have paid in federal taxes if they earned about $27,000 annually)
• Any felony conviction results in immediate deportation with permanently refused re-entry

I’m sure this plan is not perfect, but let’s bring some sanity to this problem and solve it!
 

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then the Occupy contingent would be more closely aligned with Al-Qaeda.

Al-Qaeda has for years targeted Wall Street as the source of capitalism, greed and materialism.  Occupy … ditto.

Al-Qaeda implemented plans to disturb or destroy Wall Street.  Occupy … ditto.

Al-Qaeda has engendered support from the national mainstream media and the left (same thing).  Occupy … ditto.

Clearly Al-Qaeda and Occupy have differing motivations however their target and goals seem identical.  The problem is that if they achieve their goal then our economic and political system will be vulnerable to the agendas of both the Occupy misfits and the Al-Qaeda terrorists.

Are you grateful that you can worship or not as you want? – Thank a Vet

Are you glad that you speak English instead of German or Japanese? – Thank a Vet

Are you excited to publicly express being gay? – Thank a Vet

Are you empowered because you can vote? – Thank a Vet

Are you thankful that you can sit in front of a government building for weeks demanding to be given benefits paid for by the very people you complain about, while other men and women are sitting thousands of miles away from their homes risking their lives in some stinking desert? – Thank a Vet!

My dear young friend, It’s not a “bubble” it’s a value system.  If someone is Republican they might be either liberal or conservative.

If you are liberal you believe that the federal government has the primary responsibility to protect you and provide for your needs.  They believe we are protected by government regulations, and we are provided for by taking money out of your paycheck and giving some of the money you’ve earned to other people.

If you are conservative you believe that the federal government’s responsibilities are outlined and limited to what is in the Constitution and the subsequent Amendments.  Specifically:

• Protecting citizens God-given rights (on-going)
• National Defense (on-going)
  
• Establishing Federal Courts (done)
  
• Copyright Protection (on-going)
  
• Establishing a national set of weights and measures (done)
  
• Establishing Post Office (on-going)
  

Everything else should be taken care of by the individual citizen or the state government.

The problem with getting outside a “bubble” is that requires destroying the bubble … and that bubble can never be restored.

If you think that you should make the decision about who to help with your money and how much you should give them, then you my young friend are not liberal, you are conservative.

Currently there is a man, a husband, a father of two, sitting in prison waiting for his execution.  His crime?  He’s a Christian in a Muslim country.

Youcef Nadarkhani an Iranian citizen has been tried and convicted in the Iranian judicial system for being a Christian.  He was given three chances to deny his faith in Jesus to spare his life … He did not recant.

Congress has launched a major bipartisan effort to empower Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton to apply political pressure to Iran for this crime against humanity.  To date 39 Congressmen have signed it.  However, my Congressman, the “Conservative” Howard P. Buck McKeon (R CA-25) has not!

Buck I can’t understand why you would be silent on this important issue.

As my representative in Washington I demand that you make my voice heard and sign this letter!  If you refuse I will do all I can to replace you with someone who will represent me … Mr. Congressman you represent me, not your interests.  You work for me and I will fire you and replace you if you don’t do your job!
 

When will Liberals wake up and realize that some people and some systems of thought (in this case a religion) are evil and cannot be tolerated in a civilized society.

Liberals not only refuse to acknowledge Islam’s violation of the rights of women and intolerance of other religions, but actually fight to allow Muslims the right to practice Sharia law here in the United States!

It is foolish to be tolerant of the intolerant.  If someone wants to murder your family it’s stupid to provide him with the weapon!  Here’s the reality … Radical Muslims want to kill you because you don’t believe their stupid vile religion.  The weapon we are giving them to do that is blind tolerance.

Read the Washington Post article here

No I’m not referring to America under the cruel and oppressive thumb of a Christian culture in the 1890‘s (deep sticky sarcasm) … No, I’m just reading the headlines from today’s Wall Street Journal about the state of women living under the beautiful theocracy of Islam (just to be clear … again, sarcastic).

It seems that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia just can’t convince clerics of the peaceful and respectful religion of Islam to see things his way.  Apparently the progressive King thinks that it might be a swell idea to allow women to vote in 2015 (yes, 2015!).

But don’t worry he’s not too radical, he does made the following concessions:
“Saudi women remain veiled and segregated and are forbidden to drive or to obtain their own identity cards.  Women need written permission from a male relative in order to travel abroad.” WSJ

(Huge sigh of relief …) I thought those silly Muslims might be getting a little liberal these days!

Allow me to ask the obvious, yet unanswered question:  Where is the public outrage from the Progressives, the Liberals, those who claim to stand for women’s rights?  You’re silence is deafening and reveals that your true intentions are not as you claim.  Your hypocrisy is blinding!  You don’t care about women; you care about your lust for power and profit!

Progressives your silence against Islam is support of their anti-women laws and culture.

But they have a crusade.  They’re true believers and will stop at nothing to get their point across.

Yesterday they stormed the Port of Longview which “plays an important role in economic development by creating jobs in manufacturing and international trade. It develops infrastructure to support these jobs at its marine terminals and industrial property, creating a positive economic ripple that strengthens the local community.” (Port of Longview website)

They held six guards hostage for hours, vandalized thousands of dollars worth of property, and dumped needed and valuable grain.

Who were these terrorists?  Radical Muslims?  Eco-Terrorists?  Tea Party?  No … it was the International Longshore and Warehouse Union!

• Of course no arrests were made!
  
• No mention of this domestic terrorist incident in the national news! (here’s a local report)
  
• No condemnation by any politicians!
  

In fact it’s only aluminum foil-hat-wearing basement bloggers like me reporting on this.

If this act of terrorism was carried out by any other group it would be national headlines.  If it was the Tea Party demands for arrests and federal indictments would be immediate.  I would have to go into my bomb shelter and lock the bank vault security door behind me.  Other conservatives would be rounded up and sent to Guantanamo Bay (or did Obama shut that down like he said he would during his campaign … oh no, he didn’t.  Yet another lie, but I digress)

These domestic terrorist organizations we call Unions have free reign to do and say whatever they like because they give money to politicians in both parties … it’s as simple as that!

Perhaps our war on terrorism needs to shift focus from the middle east to DC.

The first simply drew my attention to President Obama’s latest Executive Order, authorizing the blocking of property for Terrorists.  The question from my friend was, “Should this raise red flags or is it normal and justified?”

My initial thought was this is simply another tool that can be used to slowly erode our liberties as the ruling class decides to whom this applies and to what extent does this allow them to rob Americans of the right to own property.

Then I receive the tweet from another friend telling me that William Yeomans wrote an article in the POLITICO announcing that those who align their values with the Tea Party “have now become full-blown terrorists.”

After looking into who this “Yeoman” is I quickly turned the lights off in my basement where I stare glassy-eyed at my blog, triple locked my soundproof door and recounted the boxes of ammunition for my guns.

As it turns out Mr. Yeomans “served as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s Chief Counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He has also been Legal Director of the Alliance for Justice and the first Director of Programs for the American Constitution Society, where he spearheaded the launch of its two publications: the Harvard Law and Policy Review and Advance. Prior to that, he spent 26 years at the Department of Justice where he litigated and supervised civil rights cases in the federal courts. He served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Chief of Staff, and acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.”

Let me connect the dots for you:

1. Monday July 25, 2011 President Obama gave himself the authority to interfere with the property rights of American citizens who he believes are terrorists.
2. Friday July 29, 2011 a well placed constitutional and human rights “expert” announces that conservatives are in fact Terrorists.
   

Call it paranoia, but this can’t be good.

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UPDATE

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Yesterday, August 1, 2011, again according to Politico our nations Vice President, Joe Biden in the context of the debate over raising the debt ceiling stated, "They ("Tea Party Republicans … whatever that is) have acted like terrorists."

Democrats, Liberals, and RHINO’s understand … To disagree with your beliefs and policies is not an act of terrorism, it is an act of Patroitism!

Soldiers for your daily lifestyle sacrifice …

Soldiers families for your sacrifice of time and nearness of loved ones …

Fallen Soldiers for your ultimate sacrifice …

Obama could have ignored evidence or gone in half-hearted and got our troops killed in a failed attempt. But he allowed Team 6 of the Navy Seals to do what they do best without liberal administrative interference.

Clearly it was not all Obama’s doing. Almost immediately parts of the story leaked out indicating that the evidence that lead to this moment really began before the 9/11 attacks.

Against his own word (aka "he lied") Obama did not close Guantanamo Bay and some of the mission  critical information concerning Osama’s location came from detained war criminals at that prison.

The Bush administration knew that we would have to follow bread crumbs to find Bin Laden so his administration began extensive research on anyone who interacted with Osama. This lead to intelligence on one of Osama’s messengers, which lead to his massive mansion in Pakistan.

Now, I will say that it’s odd to see liberals acting and talking like conservatives, but that’s for another post …