Verse of the Day

The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom

-Koran, Sura 5:33

Ellison Wastes Time

In his recent interview with Minnesota Monitor Congressman Keith Ellison, in regards to the US Attorney firings, stated:

"I don't think the attorney general is lying, but he's deliberately not trying to find out what's going on. This isn't a criminal investigation. It stinks, but to my knowledge, no statute has been violated -- so why not get to the bottom of it?"

Congressman Ellison is apparently pretty proud of his wasting of tax payer time and money on this non-criminal investigation because currently displayed on his Congressional web page is his round of questioning to the Attorney General.

Kersten on Protecting Vigilance

The Star Tribune's Katherin Kersten has another excellent piece:

Right to report suspicious activity needs safeguarding

In response, Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., introduced the "Protecting Americans Fighting Terrorism Act of 2007." The act would give legal immunity to citizens who report suspicious activity in good faith. Its provisions are retroactive to Nov. 20, in order to protect the "John Does" targeted by the flying imams.

Rep. John Kline of Minnesota's Second District, one of the bill's cosponsors, say its passage is an urgent matter. "The core of our Homeland Security system is reliance on everyday citizens to report suspicious activity," he told me.

People who fear a retaliatory lawsuit are far less likely to do so, he said.

The bill's sponsors submitted it as an amendment to another bill in March. It passed 304-121. Every House Republican and 105 Democrats voted for the it. Opponents included Minnesota's Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum and Jim Oberstar.

"This bill should have sailed through the House and the Senate and been on the president's desk in a week," says Kline. "It's amazing to me that some people still don't understand the nature of the threat we face."

One of those people being Congressman Ellison, who took quiet a bit of campaign money from Council on American Islamic Relations. Not only did CAIR give Keith money, but so did Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and on whose desk the bill is now languishing. Seems CAIR's cronyism is paying off.

Event Alert

Meeting with the Iraqi Resistance

Saturday 5/19 @ 3pm @ May Day Books, 301 Cedar Ave, Mpls.
Kosta Harlan, an anti-war activist from North Carolina, recently traveled to Italy to attend the international conference, "With the Resistance, for a Just Peace in the Middle East" (iraqiresistance.info). The conference marks the first time that leaders of the Iraqi national resistance have been able to speak in the West. Kosta will report back on who the resistance is and why they fight; the current conditions of the U.S. occupation of Iraq; the birth and development of the Iraqi resistance; and the tasks of the U.S. antiwar movement. Q&A to follow. Sponsored by the Anti-War Committee, May Day Books, & Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Endorsed by IPAC (the Iraq Peace Action Coalition). Note: The endorsers & sponsors do not necessarily endorse all the views of the presenter.

Truth & Taqiyya- Ellison Speaks

Congressman Ellison granted an interview on Saturday to the blog Minnesota Monitor, and the big topic was the flavor-of-the-month "scandal", the Attorney General firings:

In a wide-ranging interview Saturday, the freshman congressman from Minnesota's Fifth District said he believes Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has not been up front with Congress regarding the firings of replacement of several U.S. attorneys and has been "deliberately ignorant" on the details of the firings.

"I don't think the attorney general is lying, but he's deliberately not trying to find out what's going on. This isn't a criminal investigation. It stinks, but to my knowledge, no statute has been violated -- so why not get to the bottom of it?"

The real question, Congressman, is why are you wasting time and money investigating what is, by your own admission, a non-crime?