A Few of FR's Finest...Every Day...06-29-06...JohnHuang2's ~ My Two Cents

[dutchess]

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Treason Sinkhole swallows up Old Hag

by JohnHuang2

Sooooo, lemme get this straight: The New York Times defends the outing of a top secret program on the basis that the terrorists probably already knew about the program and the program was secret which is why they outed it and the public had a right to know about this secret program that the terrorists probably already knew about so it wasn't really a secret and somebody had to take a stand against DUMBYA'S REICH-WING FASCIST TYRANNY and nobody's been prosecuted for treason under Dumbya's Reich-wing fascist tyranny so WE at the Times have nothing to worry about and this White House is too secretive anyway and we're tired of the secrecy and you can't blame us for publishing the story since this White House is leaking like a sieve. It's immoral and outrageous to have leaked Valerie Plame's "secrets." Unless WE'RE doing the leaking.

Got that? Joe Blow Wilson "outs" his own desk-jockey CIA witch, so Karl Rove should go to jail.

Given how fast its circulation is falling, outing top secret programs could be part of the paper's drive to sign up new al-Qaeda subscribers to offset the loss.

The Bush administration for weeks begged the New York Times not to out the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP), a follow-the-money Treasury-CIA program, begun shortly after 9/11, which tracks suspicious international moments of moolah among terror cells with the goal of curtailing terror funding and curtailing things like terrorists flying planes into skyscrapers. Under TFTP, "transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda" can be traced by counterterrorism officials "reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperative" known as Swift, write the counter-counterterrorism duo of Eric Lichtblau and James Risen.

The program helped bag al-Qaeda honcho Riduan Isamuddin, whose peaceful Islamic activities included masterminding the 2002 Bali bombing, and Uzair Paracha, a Brooklyn man who helped an al-Qaeda operative in Pakistan launder $200,000 through a Karachi bank. The program had helped identify some of the biggest enemies of the U.S. on American soil. No, not the Democrats. Terrorists and terror cells. So, the New York Times outed the largest U.S. effort to track and cut off terrorist financing. And tipped off al-Qaeda to this Bu$Hitlerian invasion of their privacy.

But! The paper says it was done to protect our freedoms. Feel much safer now, don't you? Just 'watching' over the 'PNAC neoCon regime' for us. Listen, if you let Bush snoop on al-Qaeda's bank records, Bush wins. Libbies see it as a slippery slope. First they came for the Taliban, and I said nothing . . . then they came for Saddam's gold toilet seats, palaces and semi-kidney-shaped swimming pools, and I said nothing . . .

For all the talk about "privacy," once you're killed and pieces of you are scattered all over your bombed out train, chances are at that point you might consider "civil liberties" a tad overrated.

'Sides, the program is legal. SCOTUS has ruled that the Fourth Amendment doesn't protect financial records held by third parties. Financial transactions limited to within the U.S. are not in the Swift database. An independent auditing firm ensures only terrorists are targeted. Administrative subpoenas were used. Members of Congress were briefed. Members of al-Qaeda weren't briefed. That's the problem the Times has with the program. If al-Qaeda is sending you money, we DON'T want to know about it.

Liberals love central planning, socialist health care, national ID cards, street surveillance cameras, national gun registries, smoking bans, the IRS, and rummaging through Rush Limbaugh's luggage for possible possession of Preparation H, but thank goodness they draw the line at combing through Mullah Omar's bank records.

Liberals are so easy to please. Watch over terrorists for them, and they whine that Bush is being Big Brother. Then they whine that Bush isn't protecting them enough, pointing to "lax" port security -- each shipping container isn't being scanned for dangerous packages possibly containing Viagra.

Libbies whine that Bush didn't "connect the dots" and foil the 9/11 plot before 9/11 and scream "ENTRAPMENT'! for foiling the Sears Tower bomb plot. Yes, these seven little darlings were upstanding citizens until Bush entrapped them. The lesson here is that terrorists have become so discombobulated by Bush's 'failed' policies, they can't get much beyond the planning phase anymore.

The Losercrats whine that the war is taking too long. It's being "prolonged" by cowboy warmonger Bush to expand his hegemonic influence throughout the planet. Take it from this hegemonist in good standing, this war would probably be over a lot sooner if it weren't for pond scum liberals giving their fellow pond scum "insurgents" in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere the hope of defeating America. Mustn't 'abuse' al-Qaeda. Mustn't "wiretap" al-Qaeda. Mustn't spy on al-Qaeda. Mustn't detain al-Qaeda. Mustn't 'rendition' al-Qaeda. Mustn't infiltrate al-Qaeda. Mustn't "entrap" al-Qaeda. Mustn't comb its finances. Mustn't have Gitmo. Mustn't fight with both hands. Mustn't harm al-Qaeda's little eardrums with loud Christina Aguilera music. Or adorn their heads with panties. Near as I can tell, the Democrat plan to fight and win the War On Terror is to detain Rush Limbaugh for erectile dysfunction.

"My (redeployment) plan is not cut and run. Their plan is lie and die," John Kerry told Imus in the Morning shortly before his plan lied and died on the Senate floor, 86-13. The alternative Levin-Reed redeployment "plan" also lied and died shortly afterward, 60-39. Given their impressive string of defeats, I don't know why Democrats don't just redeploy to France. Or to Paradise Island -- Cuba.

This, straight from the horseface's mouth: "Our plan is very simple. It's redeploy to win the war on terror. Change to succeed. You have a better chance of success" through redeployment.

To that I have only one reploy.

I propose that we redeploy the New York Times to a maximum-security U.S. penitentiary. No, this ain't a "pull out," just a redeployment. Change to succeed. Change their location to the slammer until they give up their "source" or "sources." You have a better chance at success. And yes, let's have a strict timetable -- let's have the leaker or leakers face a redeployed firing squad by no later than two years ago.

Anyway, that's...

My two cents

03-28-06 ~ Hall of Fame #15

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 06-26-06 Military Monday 06-27-06 How Does Your Garden Grow 06-28-06 Warm Fuzzy Wednesday

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[Majie Purple]

Make that a cesspool.

[dutchess]

Hi message. Sorry I missed your post last night. I think this was one of John's best! He is the best in nailing the dems :o)

[dutchess]

Hi Aqua! Sorry I missed you last night. This was definately a fun one to illustate. John at his finest! ((((aqua)))))

[dutchess]

Atta-Boy, JH2 Atta-Girl, dutchess

Thanks dave. AND I loved the warm fuzzy picture of Christian and Logan you posted yesterday. Obviously the apple of grandpa's eye!!! (and rightly so!)

[dutchess]

Awe I missed your post last night! (had to post and run) Thanks for the compliment bro, but John makes illustrating so fun :o) (((((wolfie))))))

[dutchess]

Hi visualops. Thanks for the bump!!!!

[dutchess]

Ah...very nice devotional today Rus. Thanks!

[dutchess]

The NY Times is beyond out of control. Once they called me for subscription and I told them never to call again

Good for you geebee! I would LOVE to have them call so I could say the same thing!!!

[dutchess]

Hi Wart. John really hit this one out of the park didn't he! Have you recooperated from all your kids celebrations????

[dutchess]

I could read the NYT if I wanted to, but... Weinie

My mom would use the NYT for me to "doo doo" on!!!! Love - Gizmo

[dutchess]

Hi Lori. I keep meaning to "steal" that newspaper graphic from you...but...it's SO YOU so for the time being you're safe :o)!!!!

[dutchess]

Can't stop laughing! You two are just too much!

lol...I just knew this would be John's topic this week and found most of the pictures by Tuesday although pookie's daily site is a great backup and resourse.

Thanks pookie!!!

AND thanks John for another BRILLIANT essay!

[dutchess]

But the n y times can take a flying leap into a shallow press pool for all I care!

So tell me how you REALLY feel :o)

[dutchess]

Time to get some weeding in. BBL!!!!

[MEG33]

Thank you the great thread dutchess.
Happy John Huang Day To The Finest!

[stopem]

John, worth more than 2cents.
Good job! I agree with Mama Bear.....PRICELESS!!!!

Almost 4th of July folks I can't wait to see what you all have cooked up for that holiday.

[dutchess]

Oh my gosh meg. Just checked in for a sec. and realized I didn't post to YOU ...our FINEST resident honorary hostess!!! Thanks for the lovely flower picture AND I agree the 'NYT's toon is the best!!!! ((((meg)))))

P.S. Isn't dialup the pits???? I thought I would go nuts when we vacationed at my folks cottage!!!!! Are you back home now?

[dutchess]

Almost 4th of July folks I can't wait to see what you all have cooked up for that holiday.

Ah...dolly has that one this year so you know its going to be big, "glitzy" and full of life...just like our precious dolly!!!!! (Maybe dolly, link to some of the past ones too????)

Thanks for stopping in stopem!

[pookie18]

My pleasure, as always, Dutchess!

[ConorMacNessa]

We've just about recuperated, dutchess - now we have the Glorious Fourth coming up!

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