Evidentally, the Centers For Disease Control, like many other federal bureaucracies, looks upon our hard earned tax money as nothing other than theirs to squander without a second thought.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides an example of a big-budget federal agency getting its priorities wrong, according to an oversight report released by a Republican senator.

Among the report’s findings — a $106 million visitor center decorated with waterfalls and Japanese gardens and a $200,000 fitness center with saunas and zero-gravity chairs.

Read on…

Given all the attention Canadians have been giving the stealth agenda of the SPP/NAU (Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America/North American Union), it’s about time we heard something about it from the U.S. media.

Shamefully, President Bush is a part of this plan that will, as I have reported in numerous previous posts, if allowed to reach fruition as expected in the fast approaching year 2010, diminish our nation’s sovereignty, undermine the Constitution in the face of a continental version and replace SCOTUS with a continental supreme court. In the meantime, Mr. Bush is doing his part in the agenda, pushing Congress to flood the United States with legalized criminal aliens on a “come one, come all” basis. With the witting and unwitting help of the Democrats, amnesty for illegals would include multiculturalism rather than assimilation, saturating our country with people whose sheer numbers would erode the American traditions our own liberals have already weakened considerably, playing right into the hands of the principals (POTUS, his counterparts in Mexico and Canada and some megabucks corporate interests) behind these plans whose details haven’t been presented to our three respective governing bodies, of the NAU agenda.

The videos and the article featured in the above-linked post are well worth reading and viewing to any Americans interested in doing whatever they can to help our nation, as we know it, to survive.

Major tip of the hat and many thanks to Always On Watch.

…rather involved pro bono work over the last few days that demanded more time than I’d bargained for, I hope no more of that occurs for some time. Now I can hopefully get back to the business of posting.

On reading Monday’s Jewish World Review, I ran into a few columns that really highlighted the idiocy epidemic that has apparently descended on America and the world.

On the domestic front, Jeff Jacoby definitely rang the bell on the topic of frivolous lawsuits and the consequences of same, citing that most famous of ongoing cases in point, Pearson versus the dry cleaners.

As everyone this side of Mazar-e-Sharif must know by now, Pearson is the administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., who in 2005 sued his dry cleaners for $65 million over a missing pair of pants. He later reduced his claim to $54 million, and the case was tried in D.C. Superior Court last week.

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But Pearson’s ludicrous lawsuit, and the legal system’s willingness to indulge it, is no joke to Jin and Soo Chung, the owners of Custom Dry Cleaning. The legal bills they have incurred in fighting this lawsuit have wiped out their family’s savings. Three times they have offered Pearson a settlement, most recently for $12,000. Three times Pearson has refused.

This Pearson critter is a real piece of work.

Lawsuits cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Legal fear — the fear of being sued, and the lengths to which US businesses, institutions, and municipalities go to avoid legal risk — makes life more expensive, more frustrating, and less free for all of us. “I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters,” John Keats wrote. But that was in 1819. Imagine what he would have said if he had met Roy Pearson.

A number of years ago, I was a member of a casino security department. About half of our job had to do with the sort of stuff one might expect a security department in a casino to take care of. The other half was protecting the business from fraudulent, frivolous and overstated lawsuits. As one of the several investigators found on each shift, while I handled the usual suspects like embezzlement, pilferage, theft from customers and such, the majority of my work dealt with investigating any incident that might, no matter how slim the odds, lead to a lawsuit.

Unfortunately, too few businesses do this. Someone has a mishap and sues them, and the defendant has no documentation or properly processed physical evidence to bring to court to refute whatever tale the plaintiff has to tell.

When someone sued us, it was another story entirely. There were often weeks when I logged as many as 40 hours in overtime just writing reports. They contained pages of mounted, labeled photos I’d taken, chain-of-custody-of-evidence documents, witness statements, diagrams, refusal of care and release of liability forms, numerous pages of my own written observations, adendums directing our attorneys to videotapes, etc, etc. Between three shifts, there were about a dozen of us doing the same thing. Whew!

As a security shift supervisor, I had to attend management seminars on PC techniques for conducting job interviews, which included acting them out. It was fun “interviewing” the senior casino shift manager, we had some great laughs. We learned that on an application, the best way to protect yourself against discrimination lawsuits is to avoid asking any questions about age, gender or personal limitations or impairments (the best they could offer was “is there any reason you don’t feel you can fulfill the job requirements as they have been explained to you?”)

“Impaired” is a word with many applications.

Some bonehead gets falling down drunk while out drinking and gambling by himself and goes flying down an escalator, a crash & burn, perhaps a 7 on a scale of 10. He’s not drunk, he’s impaired.

In court, you take the stand. You can’t say he was intoxicated, drunk or even, believe it or not, shitfaced. If you even hint that you believe he had somehow succumbed to the effects of an alcoholic beverage or ten, his lawyer will immediately demand to inspect the medical credentials that qualify you to render such an opinion. This will provide him with license to diddle with the rest of your testimony.

You have to say what you had to write in your report: The subject’s words were slurry and there was an odor that smelled like alcohol on his breath.

It can all be pretty tedious, and we have six digits’ worth of parasites with Law degrees to thank for that.

Sexual harrassment was another issue. Any charges of same had to be dealt with by whichever security supervisor had the watch when the report arrived.

Luckily, I was a member of the in-house old boy network, which spanned all departments and always got all the scuttlebutt in a timely fashion. I headed off a lot of problems like that before they became official, and as such knew when a BS case came in. Those got,

“On 9 Nov 94 at approximately 1940 hours, such-&-such restaurant waitress so-and-so came to the security office and filed a sexual harrassment complaint against food runner so-and-so… Statements by Ms X and Mr Y are attached.” And that’s what I sent upstairs.

“Seth, where’s the rest of your investigation?”

“That’s it. Maria’s pregnant and claims it’s Hector’s. Hector says it isn’t. Maria has a highly active and diverse night life. Hector refuses to shack up and take responsibility for the baby. That’s gospel, but I’m not putting it in writing. Maria’s trying to punish Hector. Deal with it.”

We once had a woman in the security dept who got “injured” her first day on the job and “held the casino hostage” for nearly a year with one litigious issue after another. She got two pit bosses, both of whom were good friends of mine, in major trouble via BS. We finally found out that she was a doper and found a legal way to dump her.

To cut to the chase, we saved the casino several million dollars a year in greed motivated lawsuits.

Yes, we do have a problem in this country that revolves around parasitic trial lawyers. They cost companies precautionary funds that might otherwise create employment, impose budgets that detract from spending on company business.

Luckily for trial lawyers in general, I’m not ruling America. If I were, those cockroaches would all be taken out and slowly drowned.

…one blonde joke,

Blonde in the Everglades

A young blonde woman was driving through the Florida Everglades,while on vacation. She wanted to take home a pair of genuine Alligator shoes, in the worst way, but was very reluctant to pay the high prices that the local vendors were asking.

After becoming very frustrated with the attitude of one of the shopkeepers, the young blonde declared, “Well, then, maybe I’ll Just go out and catch my own alligator and get a pair of shoes
for free!”

The shopkeeper replied with a sly smile, “Well, little lady, why Don’t you go on and give it a try?”

The blonde headed off to the swamp, determined to catch an alligator.

Later in the day, as the shopkeeper was driving home, he spotted the same young woman standing waist deep in the murky water, shotgun in hand. As he brought his car to a stop, he saw a huge 9-foot gator swimming rapidly toward her.

With lightning reflexes, the blonde took aim, shot the creature and hauled it up onto the slippery bank. Nearby were 7 more dead gators, all lying belly up.

The shopkeeper stood on the bank, watching in silent amazement as the blonde struggled mightily and barely managed to flip the gator onto its back. Then, rolling her eyes heavenward, she screamed in frustration,

“CRAP! THIS ONE’S BAREFOOT, TOO!”

H/T Brenda

…I voted for Arnold.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Latino immigrants who want to learn English more quickly should avoid Spanish-language media.

“You’ve got to turn off the Spanish television set,” Schwarzenegger said at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention in San Jose on Wednesday.

“It’s that simple. You’ve got to learn English. I know this sounds odd and this is the politically incorrect thing to say and I’m going to get myself in trouble. But I know that when I came to this country, I very rarely spoke German to anyone.”

Well, I suppose one runs into a lot more German speakers than Austrian speakers here in America, but the Governator’s point is well taken.

Too many immigrants, especially among Latinos and to some extent Chinese, unfortunately, are too lazy (a real shame on Latinos as learning English from Spanish is a lot easier than learning English from most other foreign languages) or aren’t interested enough in assimilating into the U.S. population as Americans to put any serious work into learning English, and instead they bury themselves in like-minded communities. These people are definitely not worthy of U.S. citizenship, in my book. My maternal grandparents, who arrived in America from eastern Europe nearly 80 years ago and met at night school in New York learning English, subsequently permitting only English to be spoken in their home, would agree with me whole-heartedly.

There are often times when reality can seem infinitely less real and much more amusing than comic fiction.

This video supplies a prime example.

…continue to inflict their Islam on one another.

Hundreds of Hamas fighters firing rockets and mortar shells captured the headquarters of the Fatah-allied security forces in northern Gaza on Tuesday, scoring a key victory in the bloody battle for control of the seaside strip.

Both sides said Gaza had descended into civil war, as the death toll from two days of Palestinian fighting reached 37.

Tuesday’s battles marked a turning point, with Hamas moving systematically to seize Fatah positions in what some in the Islamic militant group said would be a decisive phase in the yearlong power struggle. The confrontations became increasingly brutal in recent days, with some killed execution-style in the streets, others in hospital shootouts or thrown off rooftops.

And liberals believe that these evil murderous creatures are capable of maintaining a civilized sovereign state?

Battles raged across the Gaza Strip during the day. The staccato of gunfire echoed across Gaza City, plumes of smoke rose into the air from far-flung neighborhoods and one firefight sent a dozen preschoolers scrambling for cover.

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Many Gazans, pinned down in their homes, were furious with the combatants. “Both Fatah and Hamas are leading us to death and destruction,” said Ayya Khalil, 29, whose husband serves as an intelligence officer. “They don’t care about us.”

They are such a stupid people. They supported Arafat and Fatah for decades and, knowing full well that Hamas is a terrorist organization, voted them into political leadership, and now that their chickens are coming home to roost, they are whining. Whine, terrorist supporters, whine! They’ve proven repeatedly, for over half a century, that they are incapable of learning from their mistakes, so by all means let them fall back to their default position (whining).

There was concern the fighting might spread to the West Bank, where Fatah has the upper hand, as Hamas notched victories in Gaza. Late Tuesday, Fatah gunmen wounded four Hamas activists in the West Bank city of Nablus, Fatah said in a statement.

Good, let’s leave them alone, and let them kill each other off wherever and whenever they can.

In the fairly recent past, I posted that Canadians were beginning to become aware of evidence pointing to the North American Union (NAU) agenda that has been concealed behind the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

As it turns out, awareness of the agenda has been increasing in Canada for some time, apparently more so than the same has happened here in the United States.

Even when our Republican President fights to make criminal aliens legal, most Americans see nothing more than an attempt to help fellow Texas businessmen with cheap labor. We observe (at least the more aware among us) that Mr. Bush says nothing to dispel that image while pounding away at his amnesty (err, excuse me, “immigration reform”) agenda.

After all, why should he?

From his point of view, it’s better if folks believe that than consider how much more smoothly the adoption of the NAU would go in some three years if amnesty was already a done deal and there had been sufficient time for We, The People to have adjusted to it.

This just goes to show how out-of-touch people who have spent too much time in politics or at the pinnacle of the corporate world are with the American people – we’re not likely to “adjust” to such a compromise of our nation’s sovereignty without making trouble of one kind and another.

Or perhaps that’s the true purpose of the administration’s having brought all of our various federal security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies under the umbrella of one central authority – the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Under the conditions of the NAU, I entertain no illusions that DHS will fulfill any other role than that of federal security, intelligence and law enforcement command for the entire continent, and that the parameters of their responsibilities and authorized procedures will expand a little more than we’d like.

There are a few obvious comparisons I could make here, such as referencing a past similar blanket agency whose control was consummated from a Dzerzhinsky Square address, but I will not presume to make such predictions as they would be rejected out of hand by approximately 99.9999% of all Americans, including myself (hopefully).

But all digression aside, let’s return to the Canadian end of things which is, after all, the purpose of this post.

Vancouver author and journalist Murray Dobbin comes across with a spot-on perspective, based on a lengthy list of evidence, that should serve as a strong warning to his fellow Canadians, and to us here in the United States, as to what we can expect in the all too near future if we allow it to happen.

Mr. Dobbin’s article is here.

Here are 10 developments in the plan to disappear Canada.

1) Pesticides ‘harmonized.’ The most thoroughly reported story (though even this did not go much beyond the CanWest chain) was the revelation that Canada was about to “harmonize” its regulations, setting limits for pesticide residue on fruits and vegetables. In 40 per cent of the cases, the U.S. allows for higher levels. Richard Aucoin, chief registrar of the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, which sets Canada’s pesticide levels, said that Canada’s higher levels were a “trade irritant.”

The downgrading of health protection had been a NAFTA initiative, but is being “fast-tracked” as part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Some 300 regulatory regimes are currently going through the same process.

2) Tory tirade. The next story that broke through the wall of media silence reported on the paranoid reaction of the Harper Conservatives to any criticism of the SPP. The occasion was hearings of the Commons International Trade Committee into the SPP, forced by the NDP.

Gordon Laxer, head of Alberta’s Parkland Institute, was testifying on the energy implications of the SPP, warning that eastern Canada could end up “freezing in the dark.” He had barely started when the chair of the committee, Conservative MP Leon Benoit, demanded that Laxer halt his “irrelevant” testimony. The Committee members overruled Benoit — who promptly (and illegally) adjourned the meeting and stomped out. The NDP and Liberal members nonetheless continued without him.

3) Council of corporate power. The SPP initiative began in earnest back in 2002 with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (formerly the BCNI), the most powerful corporate body in the country. It continues it leadership role, but does not promote the scheme just in its own name. It instead has helped create several supportive bodies that now help drive the agenda. Included in these are the North American Competitive Council (NACC), which includes CEOs of the largest North American corporations, and which institutionalizes the exclusively corporate nature of the agreement. The NACC is the only advisory group to the three NAFTA/SPP governments.

4) Secretive summit. The NACC at least is public. But much of what happens in building the elite consensus for deep integration is done in absolute secrecy or very privately, away from the prying eyes of the media. The most secretive of these was held last year from Sept. 12 to 14, in Banff Springs. As The Tyee reported, the gathering was sponsored by something called the North American Forum* and it was attended by some of the most powerful members of the North American ruling elite.

Attendees, according to a leaked list that could not be confirmed, included Donald Rumsfeld, George Schultz (former U.S. Secretary of State), General Rick Hillier, Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor and Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day. The media was not informed of the meeting and it was first revealed by the weekly Banff Crag & Canyon.

Stockwell Day refused to even confirm he was there, but said that even if he was, it was a “private” meeting that he would not comment on. There is no better indication that these meetings, and the SPP itself, constitute a parallel governing structure — unaccountable to any democratic institution or the public.

5) ‘No fly’ coordination. Canada will have its own “no-fly” list just like our U.S. “partner.”

As the Council of Canadians pointed out: “The no-fly list is very much a Security and Prosperity Partnership initiative. ‘The SPP Report to Leaders, August 2006′ outlines 105 SPP initiatives. Initiative #93 states, ‘Develop, test, evaluate and implement a plan to establish comparable aviation passenger screening, and the screening of baggage and air cargo (for North America).’”

Canada’s privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has raised a number of concerns about the plan including the fact that the list will be shared with the U.S., that “false positives” are a virtual certainty, and that there is no evidence put forward by the government that the list will improve airline security.

6) Bye, bye Canadian dollar? David Dodge, the head of the Bank of Canada, told a Chicago audience that a single currency for North America “is possible.” That would see a big chunk of Canadian Sovereignty and the ability to guide the economy through monetary policy go out the window. It’s not the first time Dodge has mused about abandoning the Canadian dollar - or deep integration.

7) Water and oil giveaways. The deep integrationists clearly see Canadian water as a North American resource, not a Canadian resource. At yet another very private meeting, held in Calgary on April 27th under the auspices of yet another forum, it was made clear that water is on the table for negotiation.

Discussion of bulk “water transfers” and diversions took place at a Calgary meeting of the North American Future 2025 Project (partly funded by the U.S. government). The meeting based its deliberations on the false notion that Canada has 20 per cent of the world’s fresh water. Actual available supply amounts to only around six per cent — about the same as has the U.S.

The water (and environment) meeting was preceded by another on April 26th talking about “North American” energy. The beneficiary of these discussions is pretty clear when you realize Canada has no national energy policy. We are the only energy exporting country in the world without a one.

Gordon Laxer told the Parliamentary committee: “The National Energy Board wrote me on April 12: ‘Unfortunately, the NEB has not undertaken any studies on security of supply.’” He was also told by the NEB that Canada does not maintain a 90 day energy reserve as other developed nations do. As Laxer points out, “Canada may be a net exporter, but it still imports 40 per cent of its oil — 850,000 barrels per day — to meet 90 per cent of Atlantic Canada’s and Quebec’s needs, and 40 per cent of Ontario’s.”

Canada exports 63 per cent of its oil production and 56 per cent of its natural gas, percentages that can never decrease under NAFTA.

NAFTA Superhighway. State governments in the U.S. are becoming increasingly alarmed at the prospects of deep integration. Earlier this year, Idaho became the first state to pass a legislative resolution directing the U.S. Congress to drop out of the SPP, which is referred to as the North American Union amongst U.S. opponents. Thirteen states in addition to Idaho are calling on Congress to abandon the SPP: Georgia, Arizona, Missouri, Illinois, Oregon, Montana, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington and Virginia.

Part of the opposition is focused on plans for a so-called NAFTA Superhighway: actually a corridor several hundred metres wide including rail lines, freeways and pipelines from Mexico to the Canadian border. There is a growing grass roots movement against the SPP in the U.S., but led by the right over the issue of compromising American sovereignty.

9) Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA). While U.S. states, concerned about state rights under an unaccountable “North American Union,” are organizing against the scheme, Canadian provinces are either blithely unaware or knowingly complicit in the deal. More Canadians may be aware of TILMA — the investors’ rights agreement between B.C. and Albert — than they are about the SPP, but in reality they are one and the same.

TILMA is major piece of the deep integration, deregulation imperative and fits hand in glove with the SPP. There is a similar, though more informal, process evolving in the Atlantic provinces, called “Atlantica.” And B.C. is now pushing the so-called Gateway Initiative, a kind of regional superhighway project that will see huge and environmentally disastrous expansion of ports, highways and pipelines to further supply the U.S.’s insatiable demand for resources and cheap Asian goods.

10) The next SPP summit. The third leaders summit on the SPP will take place this August 21-22nd in Montebello, Quebec, not far from Ottawa. By the time it does many more Canadian will be aware of it.

Part of the reason that news of the SPP/deep integration issue is finally seeing the light of day is that opposition is growing and groups fighting the SPP are having an impact. The Council of Canadians, the CLC and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives held an SPP teach-in in Ottawa last month and many civil society groups are now taking deep integration to their members. Demonstrations are planned for the summit. The NDP continues to press the government on SPP secrecy and the Green Party’s Elizabeth May has said deep integration will be a focus of the party’s election platform.

Mexican perspective here would be graphically moot: Of the three countries involved, they would be the least significant (by far) on the contribution end of the deal (except in the export of two legged parasites), yet they would receive a full share of the “spoils” and a full partnership in continental government.

Bummer.

Mega H/T to Cubed.

As I’ve said herein a few times before, the roll of protector (a job that includes or consists solely of security responsibilities) is more akin to a sacred duty than simply a paycheck generator.

Others are placing, whether they know or even know of their protectors or not, their lives, property and general well-being in the hands those who have agreed to safeguard these precious commodities. By taking any security job, high end to low, one is in effect vowing to assume a great trust.

Unfortunately, too many security functions are relegated to people who possess neither the mindset nor the single-minded dedication required to effectively protect others.

One of my pet peeves, as has undoubtedly become pretty obvious, is the security, or lack thereof, that we can expect to find at various and sundry airports that demonstrates the low priority placed upon our lives by bean counters and outright stupid individuals at the upper management levels of airlines and airports and, arguably, the TSA and those who hold its purse strings. (At this point, the image of an English teacher of yore appears in my mind’s eye, saying something or other about run-on sentences).

So, yes, here is yet another among the many disconcerting stories of security in air travel.

After an investigation uncovered what appeared to be major lapses in security, a prominent U.S. lawmaker is calling for transatlantic flights from the main airport in Britain’s second-largest city to be suspended.

In a six-month undercover investigation, Britain’s ITV News videotaped security staff at the Birmingham International Airport apparently sleeping on the job, not bothering to examine luggage being x-rayed, and leaving planes unguarded.

Lovely. What say you, Osama?

Among the incidents recorded was a conversation between two ICTS UK supervisors, cursing Continental Airlines and expressing the wish that one of its planes would blow up.

“You know what? F— Continental,” one said. “I’m f—ing sick of Continental.”

In another recorded conversation, two baggage checkers teased each other about not watching their screens as baggage was being x-rayed and laughing about how their brains were “miles away” from the task at hand.

Okay, sure. I understand that the interviewers, personnel screeners and other folks involved in the process of hiring these jamokes have busy jobs, and probably don’t have much in the way of hands-on security embedded in their career histories, but that’s not — or should not — be responsible for placing the lives of an unsuspecting public at risk.

Positions whose accents are on security should be filled entirely via processing by security personnel, not by human resources folks whose preponderant concerns involve staffing the production and marketing sectors of company affairs. This may involve spending more money, which holds more sway with many firms than the concept of people dying. Some idiotically and irresponsibly prefer to gamble that “nothing will happen”.

After viewing the footage, Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, said the U.S.-bound flights should be suspended until security is improved.

Ah, rare good sense from a Democrat in Congress! Make it happen, Bennie.

Chris Yates, a British aviation security expert, told Cybercast News Service on Thursday that the problem stems from a”culture of denial.”

The staff appeared to be poorly supervised and nobody in charge wanted to hear about any problems, he said.

“The whistleblower in the program, Colin Cross, said that he flagged issues up to his superiors and to the airport itself but nothing was done,” he noted.

Yates pointed out that ICTS subsidiaries are contracted to other American airlines in Europe, and said he worried that similar conduct might be taking place at other airports on the continent.

“If it’s happening at one, it’s happening at others,” he said.

Exactly.

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… –remember him, the first Islamic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, as of last November? — didn’t waste any time in buddying blatantly up with the PR firm most favored by Islamic terrorists — the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, and another advocate of Mohammedan mass murderers, the Muslim American Society of Minnesota.

What is strikingly wrong here is that there is no takiyya involved, Ellison is not attempting to conceal any of his affiliations with supporters of so-called “militant Islam”. Unless he was a total moron, which I don’t believe he is, he would know that because he is a Muslim there will always be concerned infidels watching his every move. You can’t blame them, given the combination of the office he holds and his faith within a religion that just happens to represent not only the worst enemy in the history of the United States, but of the free world as well.

The Muslim congressman from Minnesota who used a Quran for his swearing-in ceremony now is cavorting with the Muslim American Society, and either should distance himself from that group –or resign, say critics.

As WND has reported, Ellison also allowed his election supporters to shout, “Allahu Akbar!,” the same phrase allegedly used by the 9/11 suicide pilots, and he has confirmed to reporters that “in terms of political agenda items, my faith informs these things.”

As the linked article points out, there are many who consider Ellison, as an occupant of his government position and an associate of terrorist supporting Islamic organizations, to be a national security risk.

Founded in 1998, Americans Against Hate is a civil rights organization and terrorism watchdog group whose goal is “to be an active voice against those that spread bigotry and violence.”

The group said just days ago, Ellison gave the keynote address in front of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota at the group’s fourth annual convention
“While Ellison spoke, the group was actively spreading vitriolic hatred and violence aimed at Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims via its website,” Kaufman’s statement said.

He cited the following statements on that group’s Internet site:

“The Holy Prophet (and through him the Muslims) has been reassured that he should not mind the enmity, the evil designs and the machinations of the Jews…”

“In view of the degenerate moral condition of the Jews and the Christians, the Believers have been warned not to make them their friends and confidants.”

“If you gain victory over the men of Jews, kill them.”

“The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’”

“May Allah destroy the Jews, because they used the graves of their prophets as places of worship.”

“A Muslim must always worship Allah and wage jihad until death in order to reach his ultimate goal… Regularly make the intention to go on jihad with the ambition to die as a martyr.”

This guy could well prove an even greater threat to our national security than Nancy Pelosi or the New York Times, and a prized asset to al-Qaeda. He is now in the position to vote on security related issues, read classified documents and contribute Muslim biased positions.

“Following the election, Ellison continued to cavort with CAIR, addressing its November 2006 banquet, in addition to speaking at events sponsored by other groups connected to terrorism,” Kaufman said.

Kaufman said the MAS was founded in 1993 and, “today, it mostly acts as an activist organization, holding conferences and youth camps throughout the United States.”
But he said the Minnesota chapter provides information about “waging jihad” against non-Muslims.”

“One [discussion] reads, ‘A Muslim must always worship Allah and wage jihad until death in order to reach his ultimate goal, although the goal is invisible and it takes a long time to achieve,’” Kaufman said.

The website has one section devoted to “Stoning to Death of Jews and other Dhimmis,” Kaufman said.

“Additionally, MAS-Minnesota’s website contains laudatory declarations towards Hamas,” he added, where the organization is called a “steadfast, brave, aware Islamic resistance movement.”

You know, there is a difference in meaning between the terms permissive and tolerant. By allowing an enemy of the state to be a leader of our country, we are being (insanely) permissive, yet if we attempt to deny him such status, him being a Muslim and all, we will be called intolerant (along with racist, of course), by the usual suspects.

It would appear that Islamofascism has its first foot in the door of the United States Congress.