The Thomas Chronicles

In light of the recent terrorist attack in Glasgow and the attempted attack in central London, Cal Thomas made remarks some view as Islamophobic. The Council on American-Islamic Relations placed Thomas’ remarks under their action list.

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CAIR drew particular attention to Thomas’ remark that when he compared Islamofascists to a “slow spreading cancer”.

The problem is, Islamofascists are, well, evil and they do want to kill us Americans.

Either we’re at war or we’re not. C’mon folks.

Here are his statements in full. Is he a racist, or is this another instance of “I’ll beat you down in the name of Tolerance?” You decide.

(hat tip: Drudge Report)

After sifting through much of the news on the recent car bombing at Glasgow International Airport, I think there’s a critical question not being asked, and I don’t know if it’s deliberate or not. Just days before the Glasgow car bombing, two car bombs were found outside nightclubs in central London. It is clear that both of these attacks were linked and authorities are afraid that another attack is well under way.

We have been given information that the some of the suspects associated with these attacks are doctors.

The fast-moving investigation into failed car bombings in Glasgow and London has swept up at least five physicians and a medical student, officials said Tuesday, including a doctor seized at an Australian airport with a one-way ticket. Many of the men had roots outside Britain—with ties to Iraq, Jordan and India—and worked together at hospitals in Scotland or England, officials said.

None of the plotters arrested so far is named on U.S. terror watch lists that identify potential suspects, according to a senior American counterterror official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

When you think of doctors, you don’t think of explosive gas cylinders strapped to a car. At least I don’t. While infamous al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri was a doctor, I don’t remember him acting in concert with a four other doctors in a coordinated attack. Even Zawahiri displayed a methodical mind in his brutality.

But the question we are not asking is: Why are professionally trained doctors using crude such methods of attack?

Why would these people attack others by methods outside their competencies?

I am not shocked at the allure that this fascist ideology has over people, even physicians. Fanatic ideologies warp and twist the human mind into shapes we can hardly identify regardless of their levels of intellect. That is beyond doubt.

Maybe I’m giving these terrorists doctors too much credit, but it just seems that their method of attack was sloppy and… well, just plain stupid.

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***Update 7/3/07***

I think this is the first time I’ve seen Libby smile.

President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case Monday, stepping into a criminal case with heavy political overtones on grounds that the sentence was just too harsh.

Bush’s move came hours after a federal appeals panel ruled Libby could not delay his prison term in the CIA leak case. That meant Libby was likely to have to report to prison soon and put new pressure on the president, who had been sidestepping calls by Libby’s allies to pardon the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

“I respect the jury’s verdict,” Bush said in a statement. “But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison.”

Bush left intact a $250,000 fine and two years probation for Libby, and Bush said his action still “leaves in place a harsh punishment for Mr. Libby.”

Libby was convicted in March of lying to authorities and obstructing the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative’s identity. He was the highest-ranking White House official ordered to prison since the Iran-Contra affair.

The entire affair was a gross miscarriage of justice, which the Democrats clapped and cheered the whole way through. Note that Libby was not convicted of the original crimes he was charged with. He was charged with obstruction of justice and perjury. This means that they Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald couldn’t find any substantial evidence to hang President Bush, so he went after one of his surrogates and tried to hang him… and he succeeded.

The charge of perjury and obstruction of justice is just ludicrous since everyone and their grandma knew that Valerie Plame was not even a covert CIA agent. If she wasn’t a covert agent, there wasn’t a crime.

Let me say this again very slowly for all the Orwellian show-trial enthusiasts: Without a crime you can’t have a conviction.

To have this entire thing proceed to the point where a Presidential pardon is necessary makes a this whole kitten-caboodle a mockery of justice. It’s called Habeas Corpus. This is our foundation, the rock upon which all our criminal laws are built.

Without it, we will become a tyranny in short order.

For all the Democrats who’re crying bloody-murder over this, remember that President Clinton perjured himself 30-something times under oath over the course of ONE sitting with the Monica Lewinsky business. We know he lied. We knew it then when he said it.

Now, I didn’t think how President Clinton got his rocks off is a “high crime and misdemeanor”. I didn’t think so then; I still don’t think so now. I thought the Republicans were doing a wild fishing expedition then, and, personally, I really don’t want to know what Clinton was doing with his sex life. That’s between him, Hillary, Monica and God. Please— and I mean Please— keep the public out of it.

I thought it was right that Clinton didn’t get impeached and thrown out of office for perjuring himself. The country was too important for such frivolous nonsense. I think the same thing applies to Libby and the Bush Administration.

We might as well admit that this was a political hanging in the full market square. As mobs will do, the enemies of President Bush couldn’t reach him, so they went after the nearest thing to him they could reach. Unfortunately for Scooter Libby, that was him.

It was for justice’s sake that the President released him his prison time.

Many of the Democrats, however, see the President’s actions as being another sign of President Bush’s corruption (funny how the liberals never show any proof to their accusations).

This is Senator Reid’s statement:

“Libby’s conviction was the one faint glimmer of accountability for White House efforts to manipulate intelligence and silence critics of the Iraq war.

“Now, even that small bit of justice has been undone,” he said in a statement.

“The Constitution gives President Bush the power to commute sentences, but history will judge him harshly for using that power to benefit his own Vice-President’s chief of staff who was convicted of such a serious violation of law.”

Here is presidential candidate Obama’s reaction:

“This decision to commute the sentence of a man who compromised our national security cements the legacy of an Administration characterized by a politics of cynicism and division, one that has consistently placed itself and its ideology above the law. This is exactly the kind of politics we must change so we can begin restoring the American people’s faith in a government that puts the country’s progress ahead of the bitter partisanship of recent years.”

(A minor aside: Boy howdy, that Obama is a smooth one. He reasserts the original charge against Libby [that he outed “covert” CIA agent Valerie Plame though she wasn’t covert at the time] by saying Libby “compromised our national security” even though he wasn’t convicted of it.

He then accused the President of being cynical and divisive even as he cynically heaps accusations and insinuations on the President, never giving him the benefit of the doubt. Specifically, he accuses the President of putting partisanship and conservative ideology above the law, which is irrespective of the fact that President Bush has been very pragmatic in achieving most of his goals. In contrast, Senator Obama has virtually every “-ism” to his name, and all of them weighs heavily to the Left.

This is called the compound lie.

Yep. Smooth operator, indeed.

Hillary can learn a thing or two.)

If we insist on hanging a man without habeas corpus, of a crime actually taking place, we are rolling out the welcome mat to the next little tyrant to come along… and he’ll hang us all. If for no other reason, the Democrats should be happy with the President’s decision to commute Libby sentence because they should have a lively awareness that this can also be used against them. Just because you don’t like someone and just because it’s not your bacon that’s being fried doesn’t mean that you should rejoice in the misfortune of others, especially when you rejoice in standards that could very well be applied to you.

Here’s a word people should know well: Karma.

Everyone’s bacon gets fried on the frying pan some point…

Update 7/3/07:

I am stunned at all the statements coming from the Democrats right now.

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Chicago) said:

”Since the president has intervened in this process, it is now the Congress’ obligation and responsibility to intervene in the executive process and begin an inquiry into these very serious crimes against the constitution of the United States…”

Jackson says this time the president went too far. After word that Bush commuted Libby’s sentence Jackson plans to call on House Democrats to start impeachment proceedings.

“I certainly hope Nancy Pelosi will withdraw her initial remarks that impeachment is completely off the table,” Jackson said.

Yes, folks, this is the man whose father, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, refused to disclosed his income to the public. No one has quite put together the incongruity between the good Reverend’s lifestyle and his for-the-common-black-man activist persona. (For that matter, being that he calls himself I Reverend, I have yet to discover his congregation.)

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s opulent lifestyle has prompted many of his critics here to ask the obvious question: Where does the 59-year-old activist get the money to pay for three homes, first-class travel and a $3,000 monthly child-support payment to a former mistress?

“It’s a question mark we’ve all had for years,” said Chris Dudley, former executive director of the Illinois Republican Party. “He’s got front-row seats at the Chicago Bulls games. He’s undoubtedly a wealthy man.”

Perhaps the good Congressman should stop throwing rocks through his glass house.

Joseph Wilson, Valarie Plame’s husband, who I think should be legally flogged in the public square for giving aid and comfort to the enemy (see also Sedition)said this:

“Congress ought to conduct an investigation of whether or not the president himself is a participant in the obstruction of justice.”

Senator Hillary Clinton said this:

“This commutation sends the clear signal that in this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice.”

Cronyism? This coming from a woman whose husband, the former President of the United States, handed out pardons like lollipops to Democrats the world over?

The list of these inane comments from the Democrats just go on and on. You can only shake your head at this. No doubt they are using President Bush’s pardon as a pretext to launch yet another visceral attack.

I think they are smelling blood. Many of Bush’s supporters are bailing on him because of the illegal immigration bill and there the President stands alone.

God help us.

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I found this picture waiting in my email inbox this morning.

How apropos…

Needless to say I think this image perfectly captures the opinion of the American people of their government at the moment. I believe it is safe to say that our Congress doesn’t act out of the best interest of the American people anymore.

After the defeat of this illegal immigration bill last week, we’ve been berated by one condescending politician after another. It’s like they’re lining up, each taking their turn to express just how bad the American people are, that we’re really right-wing and bigoted and narrow-minded and uncaring and generally stupid.

Here is Senator Harry Reid’s statement:

“The defeat of immigration reform is a profound disappointment. This vote rejects tougher border security, and now our border patrol agents will continue to do their jobs shorthanded. Today’s vote does nothing to solve our problem of 12 million undocumented immigrants living in the shadows. And this vote also ignores the very real economic needs of farmers and small business owners. The current system is broken, but there were not enough Senators willing to roll up their sleeves and do the hard work to fix it.”

“When immigration reform came up for a vote two weeks ago, an overwhelming majority of Democrats supported President Bush’s bill – but only 7 Republicans joined us. I said then that the fate of the bill would rest on the willingness of Republicans to move forward with us to solve this pressing national problem. Today, unfortunately, we learned that there just wasn’t enough Republican support for the President’s approach.”

Here is Senator Lindsey Graham’s statement:

“There’s racism in this debate,” Mr. Graham said. “Nobody likes to talk about it, but a very small percentage of people involved in this debate really have racial and bigoted remarks. The tone that we create around these debates, whether it be rhetoric in a union hall or rhetoric on talk radio, it can take people who are on the fence and push them over emotionally.”

Rather than saying that angry American citizens crashed the entire Capitol Building phone switchboard, our good senators are chalking the defeat of this immigration bill to racism and the general ill-will of the American people. You kind of have the picture of Senator Reid and his cohorts giving the American people a lecture about tolerance and how we should give each person according to their need.

Such bootless lecturing just underlines the chasm between the governors and the governed.

It is a fact that our Congressmen and Senators enjoy a lower turnover rate than the Soviet Politburo. It is also apparent that they are so disconnected with the American people that when the American people thwart their wills, they see it fit to berate and lecture us on the necessity of doing what they say.

It’s really no mystery why our Congress no longer reflect the will of the American people. They are behaving like an American oligarchy and they are the aristocrats issuing decrees to us peasants. Party lines have little to do with it anymore; the flavor in how they rule may be different, but make no mistake, they intend to rule, not serve.

The most glaring sign of their new status as aristocrats is their allergic reaction to work.

Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas, said voters wonder why he spends so much time in Houston instead of Washington. “I’ve been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member,” Green said.

….

“What first caught my attention was seeing that the House was going to take the entire month of January off and then be here basically three days in February,” Congress watcher Norm Ornstein from the American Enterprise Institute said.

He added, “It’s stunning to see how much time off there is, how little time is being spent in Washington doing any of the people’s business.”

….

Even members from Hawaii jet home for long weekends, unthinkable not so long ago. Under both Democratic and Republican leadership, the work schedule has gradually decreased: In the ’60s and ’70s, Congress met on average 162 days a year; in the ’80s and ’90s, 139 days. This year the House is expected to meet 71 days.

Let me see here… When the Democrats took control of Congress, they said they are “prepared to govern!.” Since that time, what they’ve done is half-heartedly fund our troops in the line of fire, give themselves a raise, and demanded and got the military to fly them and their families around the country for free (at tax payers expense, of course).

But taxpayer watchdog groups and ethics advocates said they were surprised Pelosi would seek more perks for members.

“One of the things she was praised for when she came in was her sweeping reforms on gifts and travel,” said Craig Holman of Public Citizen. “It is very disheartening if she is, in fact, backsliding on this.”

Public Citizen filed a complaint with the IRS last year, saying that family members who receive free travel by accompanying lawmakers should pay taxes on the travel’s value. The complaint focused on privately sponsored travel, but Holman said it should apply to taxpayer-funded travel as well.

“I don’t see any difference,” Holman said.

Oh and by the way, they also revived the Fairness Doctrine proposal and they tried to shove the illegal immigration bill down our collective throats.

Okay, I’m leaving out a few things, but this is the gist of just how productive our Congress has been this past year.

I am almost tempted to wonder who is lining their pocketbooks, but we know the answer to that question, don’t we? All we have to ask is, why are our Congressmen, our Senators and our military generals suddenly billionaires after they leave office, and why are they on the board of all these overseas companies? Any cursory look at Colin Powell’s booming wealth after leaving the Bush Administration should answer a whole host of questions.

Globalism is wonderful if you get rich. So what if you sell out your country?

And THEY are going to lecture us on our morality and our work ethic?

Now that’s the OUTRAGE.

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Update:

For those unfamiliar with American history the title of my post refers to the Gadsden flag that was used in the American Revolution. Perhaps our Congress and our rulers should be reacquainted with American history. They seem to have forgotten whom they serve.