Peas, Nazis, Pees And Museums
November 21, 2006
Prison Problems
November 21, 2006
There are real problems in British jails with large Muslim populations. It is clear that prisoners are a pawn to be exploited by certain agendized ideologues:
Rival groups of Muslim inmates have created a potentially explosive situation over the interpretation of the Koran in Britain’s biggest jail, prison watchdogs said yesterday.
Deep divisions among Muslims in Wandsworth jail developed after the appointment of an imam with particular views of the Koran’s teachings.
Some Muslim inmates at the jail in southwest London are also pressurising fellow Muslim prisoners to adopt more militant beliefs and lifestyle.
The disclosures will fuel fears that attempts are being made to radicalise young Muslims held in jails in England and Wales.
A “potentially explosive” stand-off between two rival groups of Muslims has developed in Britain’s largest jail, independent watchdogs warned today.
The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at Wandsworth jail in south London said there was a “schism” among Muslim prisoners over the prison’s newly-appointed imam.
…”There is a difference of views between the Asian Muslims and the North African and Afro-Caribbean Muslims.”
The document also reflected recent Press reports that attendance at religious services had increased because inmates were using them as venues for drug dealing and trading in illegal mobile phones.
The last thing the Brits, or for that matter, anyone else needs, are for prisons to become breeding grounds for more crime, masquerading as religion inspired violence. The Muslim community has enough to deal with as it is.
Olbermann’s Got It Wrong: The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Vietnam Was John Kerry
November 21, 2006
Courtesy of Larwyn, come this beauy at News Busters: Olbermann Attacks Bush Lies On Iraq, Claims Vietnam Prosperous Because US Left.
In what is Glenn Greenwald type behavior and detachment from reality, Olbermann proves his lack of bona fides when discussing anything relevant.
The origins of whatever success Vietnam has achieved- and that nation is still one of the most oppressive countries in the world- can directly be traced to John Kerry.
A classic case of ‘follow the money,’ starts with New York Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Sydney Schanberg. In a November 1993 column he wrote that
“Highly credible information has been surfacing in recent days which indicates that the headlines you have been reading about a ‘breakthrough’ in Hanoi’s cooperation on the POW/MIA issue are part of a carefully scripted performance. The apparent purpose is to move toward normalization of relations with Hanoi.
“Sen. John F. Kerry, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, is one of the key figures pushing for normalization. Kerry is currently on a visit to Vietnam where he has been doing two things:
(1) praising the Vietnamese effusively for granting access to their war archives and
(2) telling the press that there’s no believable evidence to back up the stories of live POWs still being held.
“Ironically, that very kind of live-POW evidence has been brought to Kerry’s own committee on a regular basis over the past year, and he has repeatedly sought to impeach its value.
Moreover, Kerry and his allies on the committee – such as Sens. John McCain, Nancy Kassebaum and Tom Daschle – have worked to block much of this evidence from being made public.”
In fact, John Kerry was pushing for ‘normalization’ with Vietnam for a reason that was soon to be become evident- big money. Follow along.
As the credible evidence of Vietnam MIA’s mounted, Kerry fought tooth and nail against any kind of investigation and accounting. In fact, he began a well publicized investigation of of POW/MIA families. Kerry publicly humiliated them and referred to them as “professional malcontents, conspiracy mongers, con artists, and dime-store Rambos” who were only involved in the POW/MIA issue for money (talk about projection!).
The Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs published Final Report in 1993 that stated with certainty that American servicemen were left behind alive and in captivity in Vietnam.
So as to achieve the goal of shutting down the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, Kerry’s staff noted that “We acknowledge that there is no proof that U.S. POWs survived.” Kerry’s “no proof” assertions, were in direct contradiction to the findings of the Senate Select Committee.
(For a real eyepopper look at the corruption in DC, see this.)
As Kerry frantically maintained there was “no proof U.S. POWs survived,” they were unable to produced evidence or witnesses proving the POW’s and MIA’s were dead. Nor did Kerry make any effort made to determine who was responsible for their deaths or where their remains were located. He wanted the committee shut down- and for good reason. Kerry’s pro-Hanoi efforts to make the POW/MIA matter go away was an effort to open and secure preferential trade deals with Vietnam.
After Kerry managed to successfully lobby that the Senate Select Committee be shut down, the first commercial real estate deal worth nearly a billion dollars, went to Colliers Jardine, a subsidiary of Colliers International (that company was to become the exclusive real estate developer for the nation of Vietnam). The CEO of Colliers International was C. Stewart Forbes, John Kerry’s cousin. John Kerry’s own Senatorial Disclosure Statements reveal that Mr Kerry’s ‘blind trust’ has long had substantial assets in companies with subsidiaries in Vietnam.
John Kerry has a long and documented history of aligning himself with dubious characters or anyone else for that matter, when it comes to money.
In fact, Heinz was one of the first companies to set up shop in Vietnam. Apparently, the 60 cent a week wages were only a secondary consideration. Their primary concern was that the ketchup (an unknown condiment in Vietnam) they manufactured in that nation needed to be ‘fresh.’
The best thing that ever happened to Vietnam was John Kerry- and the POW’s and MIA’s are dead proof. It also goes without saying that John Kerry never demanded or supported the idea that the Red Cross investigate the issue of those Vietnam POW’s and MIA’s. That idea was worthy of support when it came to the inmates at Guantanamo Bay.
Nice.
