Peter King’s Falsehoods – The Video

Bin Laden’s Lonely Crusade | Politics | Vanity Fair. Is al-Qaeda simply going to wither away? Yes, with a little help, though not in the short term. History shows that small, violent groups can sustain their bloody work for years on end with virtually no public support. However, embedded in the DNA of groups such as al-Qaeda are the seeds of their own destruction.  To begin with, al-Qaeda and allied groups have launched terrorist campaigns from Iraq to Indonesia that have killed thousands of Muslim civilians. For groups that claim to be defending Muslims, this is not an impressive achievement.…

and then arrests the people they supported. This piece in the WaPo offers some insight as to what happened with case of the Miami Moors (also the Seas of David). I know this hasn’t gone to trial, so I can’t say whether it was entrapment or not. These guys were apparently up to no good, but a bunch of hoodlums don’t make a terrorist cell. It’s just following a pattern of behavior from this administration that seems to take the threat of terrorism as a tool to increase control over the population. It makes us less as people (like our…

Eugene Robinson – Stoking irrational fears about Islam. For more than a century, the most remorseless and violent terrorist organization in the nation was the Ku Klux Klan. Watchdogs such as the Southern Poverty Law Center would be happy to share with King voluminous information about heavily armed militia groups out in the backwoods, training for some imagined Armageddon.