FIrst Amendment Update

Iran holding two young women in prison because they're Christians
Threats to the Islamic Republic

"And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality." -- Barack Obama, Cairo, June 4, 2009.
Here's another demonstration.

"Maryam and Marzieh – In danger of being forgotten in Iran," from Voice of the Martyrs, July 9 (thanks to Pamela):

The two Iranian Christian women, Maryam Rustampoor (27) and Marzieh Amirizadeh (30) continue to be held in Evin prison in Iran because of their Christian faith, unfairly labeled as ‘anti-government activists’, because of the hostility of the government towards practising Christians.
In the aftermath of the political turmoil in Iran, they are now in danger of being forgotten. One church leader from Iran said, “With so many hundreds of protestors now in the prison system, Maryam and Marzieh are likely to be forgotten.”

Arrested on March 5 , 2009, the two young women have now been in prison for four months. After being in solitary confinement for three weeks in May and early June, they were then put one small cell together for about two weeks. Then, following the arrests of thousands of protestors after the disputed presidential elections, Marzieh and Maryam were moved to a larger cell to make room for new prisoners. About 600 women were brought Evin prison during the days of the protests. There is still no clarity regarding their case. In one court session in June a judge told them that he would make sure they were both executed as ‘apostates’. Maryam and Marzieh have responded with courage, however, telling the judge to “expedite his sentence.”
“Maryam and Marzieh have demonstrated great courage and trust in God. They believe the promise of Jesus that they will be given the words to speak when they are taken before judges,” says Sam Yeghnazar, founder of Elam Ministries.
Please continue to pray for Maryam and Marzieh as they suffer in prison in Iran. Pray they will continue to experience the strengthening presence of God and that they will be a witness of the love and grace of Christ in Evin prison. We invite you to post a prayer on our Persecuted Church Prayer Wall.

Please also consider Maryam and Marzieh in prison at:

Evin PrisonSaadat AbadTehranIslamic Republic of Iran
Yes, you can write in English but if you wish to compose a letter in Farsi, our US sister mission has an online tool that can help you. Click here.

Please noteWhen writing a letter, never mention the name of the source of your information or the name of any organization such as Voice of the Martyrs or Prisoner Alert. It is not dangerous for a prisoner to receive letters from individuals, but if an organization is mentioned they may be accused of links with ‘foreign organizations’ and receive harsher sentences. Also, please do not state anything negative about their government.

Virtual Paralegal Jobs

Virtual Paralegal Jobs: This One Pays Up to $100k

I must be in the wrong business. Today, I spotted an ad for a "Partial Telecommute Paralegal" who can work from home. The paralegal must be experienced in litigation, contracts, tort and workers compensation. The salary? $35,000 - $100,000 per year for a full-time position.
Let me get this straight. I can wake up in the morning, watch a little Good Morning America, put the coffee on, check my e-mail, browse the morning paper, walk Ruffy, and decide whether I want to take my laptop out on the deck in my jammies or stay in the family room while the kids play and be at work all at the same time. Holy, moly.

No parking hassles, no high gasoline prices, travel time, 3 x 6 foot modular, felt-covered walls called an "office".....no Screaming Mimi's looking over my shoulder, no punching a clock, no lunches with co-workers I don't particularly like, and most of all, no fire drills that force me to run down 22 flights of stairs in an effort to make my fire warden look good. And no one cares if I'm wearing the latest fashion, have gained a few unslightly pounds, am over 50 or even 60, or have that don't-say-anything-but-she-has-an-unremovable-mole-on-the-end-of-her-nose. Yeah, I'll take that.
And, I can make $100,000 a year for my trouble. Did I say I would take that?
It seems that Legal Solutions Group, a company that provides e-billing, case and litigation management software is in need of a paralegal/legal assistant. They service the general insurance, third party claims, loss adjustment of the financial services industry and corporate legal departments. The website states that the CEO of the company is located in New York; the V.P. is in the U.K., the other V.P. of Account Management is in Philadelphia and the account manager is somewhere in Australia. Now, that's my kind of company. Weekly meetings must be a gas.

For those of you who belong to the part of the workforce that first said the fax machine would never catch on, cell phones were just a fad and Facebook was for teens - take a look at what's happening around the globe. Just as we interview paralegals around the world for KNOW, The Magazine for Paralegals in our efforts to bring the global community together, it is apparent that legal services vendors are now providing virtual services from cities around the world. The virtual world is rapidly approaching the paralegal field. The question is, is the paralegal world ready to handle these kind of changes?

Anyone out there looking for a total work/lifestyle change? It sure sounds appealing.
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Paralegal Buys Elder Law Practive for 20 Bucks

Paralegal Buys Law Practice from Elderly Lawyer for $20.00

This goes right up there in the "Hall of Shame" red file. According to the ABA Journal (quoting from the Orange County Register in Orange County, CA), a paralegal "bought" a law practice valued at $750,000 from an elderly, 84-year-old lawyer for $20.00.

The lawyer, suffering from dementia, sold his practice to 42 year-old Mario David Abernathy of Garden Grove, CA.

Abernathy was sentenced to two years in state prison for felony grand theft from an elderly person. He was also ordered to pay $15,300 in restitution to the victim. In addition, the grant deed and documents transferring the victim's law practice, estate and finances to the defendant and his family were ordered to be declared null and void.

The Orange County Public Guardian obtained temporary conservatorship to protect the financial holdings of the attorney, whose wife of more than 50 years had recently died in July 2008, according to a statement released Friday by the Orange County District Attorney's Office.

Abernathy, who is informally trained as a paralegal, met the attorney in August, 2008 and befriended the victim. Abernathy then started to take advantage of the victim's deteriorating medical condition, according to District Attorney spokeswoman Farrah Emami.

The Orange County Public Guardian noticed an unauthorized withdrawal from the victim's bank account and alerted Anaheim Police after they were unable to locate the attorney.

Anaheim police arrested Abernathy on Sept. 26, 2008, when they found him with the victim in a fast-food parking lot. Prosecutors did not make public the name of the victim because of his medical condition and out of concern for his privacy.

New Elder Law Needed

National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Urges New Legislation

When Congress returns, the health care reform battle will begin in earnest. The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) is urging the public to keep up the pressure and intensify efforts so that the nursing home legislation will be passed. The NAELA hopes that people will call their U.S. Senators and Representative in early July to voice their support for action on comprehensive health reform, and to urge the inclusion of supports and services for individuals in need of long-term care in any health care bill. Nursing home legislation is imperative to ensuring the health of our elder community. To read more about the nursing home legislation, please click the link.

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Criminal Law Update

A Chilling Look at Central American Gangs and Why They Are a Threat
By Douglas Farah

For those interested in exploring one of the greatest internal and transnational threats to the United States, there is a new book out today by Samuel Logan, This is For the Mara Salvatrucha: Inside the MS-13, America's Most Violent Gang.

The book traces the history of Brenda Paz, a young Honduran who joins MS-13 and eventually becomes the most effective police witness against the organization, before she was killed. But besides the individual story, the book shows just how powerful and ruthless the MS-13 has become. Given that it now has chapters in thousands of cities across the United States, and maintains its transnational structure through the clan structure in Central America, the gang (or mara in Spanish) presents a significant challenge.

But it is not just a local law enforcement issue. It is truly a transnational threat that can destroy countries. Yesterday I heard Carlos Castresana Fernandez, head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (Comision Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala-CICIG) discuss the serious problems of the organized criminal networks operating out of Guatemala.

He noted how the already-disturbing situation in Guatemala had gotten dramatically worse in the past three years and Mexican and Colombian cartel operatives, particularly Los Zetas, moved in and took control of local criminal operations.

The cartels were aided and abetted in their takeover efforts by the local gangs, primarily MS-13. On Guatemala's northern border with Mexico, Castresana Fernandez said, the organized criminal groups and gangs are the only authority, in the face of the complete absence of the state. "Maras plus organized crime has proven deadly," he said.

That is the reality on the ground in much of Central America. The gangs are increasingly moving from local criminal operations, coordinated with their partner gangs in the United States, to move illicit products like stolen cars, methamphetamine and weapons, into the muscle for the drug cartels.

Hate Speech - from the Holy Muslims? NAH!!!

IPT Uncovers Hate Speech, Hezbollah Defense at ISNA Conference
By The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)

A top aide to President Barack Obama provided a keynote address at last weekend's 46th Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) national convention, a gathering that attracted thousands of people and also featured anti-Semitic, homophobic rhetoric and defense of the terrorist group Hezbollah.
In her remarks, Senior Advisor for Public Engagement and International Affairs Valerie Jarrett noted she was the first White House official to address ISNA. She spoke in general terms about interfaith dialogue and cooperation. She praised her hosts for "the diversity of American organizations, and ideas that are represented and will be debated" at the convention.
And she openly invited ISNA President Ingrid Mattson to work on the White House Council on Women and Girls that Jarrett leads.

Chicago Elder Abuse and Nursing Homes

Chicago Nursing Home Fails Sprinkler Test

The Grove at Lincoln Park may have a five star rating, but it also has seven fire-related violations including sprinklers that were not maintained in working order. The Arbour Health Care Center also received a five-star rating, despite an inspection last year that turned up four fire deficiencies. These Chicago nursing homes are rated as the top homes in Chicago, yet have serious safety issues. Medicare officials say that they have received many complaints about the rating systems, especially the failure to include data on satisfaction. In fact, the formula for ranking nursing homes does not include so-called “life safety code” violations, including fire code violations. Fires can easily start in crowded areas after nursing home negligence. To read more about the fire violations, please click the link.

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Identify Theft and The Elderly

Nursing home employee steals resident's identity
Posted on July 7, 2009 by Ray Mullman


WLKY.com had an article about the Louisville Metro Police's investigation of a nursing home employee who stole the identity of a patient, then turned around and took out nearly $100,000 in loans. Danielle McClain faces at least a dozen counts of aggravated identity theft. McClain was an occupational therapist at the Hurstbourne Care Center at Stony Brook. She stole 85-year-old Jean Wright's personal information. Wright spent six weeks at the facility after bypass surgery on her leg.

The investigation determined McClain had stolen Wright's information off her driver's license and from conversations the two had in the facility. Records show McClain listed Wright as her grandmother on loan applications. If convicted, McClain could face at least 20 years behind bars.
Records show McClain was convicted of forgery, theft, and criminal possession of a forged instrument in September 2000 and sentenced to 6 years in prison. Those records show she was released from prison in October 2007. There is no explanation how she got hired at the nursing home. It is doubtful the facility did any criminal background check. If the facility had done an appropriate and required background check, this incident never would have happened.

Nursing Home Abuse Abounds

Grandson Alleges Poor Nursing Care Results In Bed Sores "You Could Stick Your Fist" In


Harriman Care and Rehabilitation Center is under investigation after the grandson of a resident claims the facility provided such extraordinarily poor care that his grandfather developed advanced bed sores so big, 'you could stick your fist in'. The grandson, William Brummitt claims the care Harriman provided to residents was so poor that it resulted in harm to both his grandfather, William Williams and his grandfather's roommate, Larry Waldo.
Brummitt claims the facility mistreated Waldo so severely that he 'had laid in bed for seven days without a sheet being changed.' 'Flies were swarming around his left leg stump, where the femur was exposed," Brummitt added referring to Waldo's amputated legs.
Waldo died on June 25th, from "years of neglect to his health" according to a memo from the Roane County District Attorney. Nonetheless, the complaints from Brummitt prompted an autopsy to be performed on Waldo to help determine if the gangrene and subsequent leg amputations were necessitated by poor nursing care or an inevitable medical necessity.
Interestingly, Mr. Brummitt's mother, Bonnie Brummitt, is the power of attorney for William Williams and has attempted to block her son's contact with the nursing home. Are William Brummitt's allegations accurate or are they nothing more than an unfair portrayal of care at this Tennessee nursing home?

Read more about the allegations made against Harriman Nursing Home here.
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Signature HealthCARE is a Florida-based health care company, operating 21 skilled nursing facilities in Tennessee. Harriman Nursing Home is a 180-bed facility in eastern Tennessee, that concentrates in both rehabilitation and long-term care.
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HIdden Elder Abuse

Financial Exploitation: The Hidden Elder Abuse
July 8, 2009
Posted In: California Financial Elder Abuse

By Steven Peck on July 8, 2009 7:55 AM Permalink

The injuries suffered by an older person from physical abuse or neglect are tragic, but there's a much less sensational and publicized form of elder abuse - financial exploitation - that can be equally devastating. When a relative or "friend" exploits an older person and manages to drain away savings and assets that have taken years to accumulate, from that point on, the elder's life style is severely diminished. Despite its devastating impact, financial exploitation seems to be the least understood of all forms of elder abuse. A review of the literature on elder abuse and neglect reveals that most books and articles spend little or no time on financial exploitation. In addition, most protective service agencies, which are charged with investigating financial abuse cases, do not adequately train their caseworkers to handle the problem. Usually, adult protective services (APS) caseworkers either are trained as social workers or come from other public service agencies that emphasize the caregiving or social services aspect of elder care. While this kind of background equips APS workers to deal with abuse or neglect cases, it does not provide them with expertise in investigating financial cases involving the transfer of monies and properties from incapacitated or vulnerable adults.

Finally, there is an overall reluctance to report financial exploitation. Elderly victims may fail to report either because of their own incapacity or because of the stigma they feel would be attached to their being identified as a victim. An older person may also be reluctant to inform on a relative or caregiver who is exploiting because of emotional or psychological attachment to the person. Professional service providers, such as bank personnel, attorneys and health care workers often fail to report such cases either because they don't know which agency to call or because they adhere to a policy of strict confidentiality with respect to their client's affairs.
How Do You Recognize Financial Exploitation?
While the definition of financial exploitation varies among the states, the one most commonly cited is illegal or improper use of an elder's or incapacitated adult's resources for profit or gain. (This definition comes from A Comprehensive Analysis State Policy Related to Elder Abuse, published by the American Public Welfare Association/National Association of State Units on Aging in July 1986.) Service professionals should check their local laws to determine the precise definition used in their county or state.

Although each case presents its own particular facts, exploitation tends to fall into predictable patterns. The common denominator is the existence of a relative, friend, or caregiver in whom the elder has placed confidence or trust. The delegation of financial authority to the exploiter may be done openly or come about more subtly. Below are three categories of elders who are especially vulnerable to financial abuse and the most typical exploitation scenarios:
* An elder who is physically dependent on a caregiver who isolates him or her from social and family contacts. Because of the isolation and physical dependence on the caregiver, the elder loses his or her free will and becomes powerless to say no. As long as this relationship continues in isolation, the victim (who otherwise may appear rational and lucid) may even ratify the exploitative transaction after it has occurred.
* An elder who is "slipping." These cases involve elders who once may have been perfectly capable of handling their own financial affairs, but dementia or other ailments cause them to lose interest and ability in such matters. These elderly people typically turn to the exploiter, who again is someone they trust, to handle their financial affairs. Often the delegation of responsibility is not overt, but is simply assumed by the exploiter, with little or no understanding by the elder of what is occurring.

* The bereaved widow[er]. These cases typically involve persons who have had long marriages and whose spouses conducted the financial business of the family. The spouse dies, leaving the survivor to cope with the emotional devastation of being left alone, compounded with the anxiety and confusion of having to deal with financial matters in which he or she has little experience. For such people, dealing with banks, creditors, and professionals is a nightmare that only serves to remind them of how much they miss their spouses. The entrance of the exploiter is a welcome relief that opens the door to the blissful state of allowing someone else to handle the money.
Once the exploiter obtains access to the senior's financial assets, the actual methods of exploitation are likewise predictable. One of the most commonly used means of transferring property is the general, durable power of attorney. This instrument, which is typically quite useful in dealing with an incapacitated elderly person's affairs, is a powerful tool in the hands of an unscrupulous person. Such an instrument allows the appointed attorney-in-fact full legal authority to transfer an elder's property - including houses, stocks, bonds, and bank
accounts.Contact Steven Peck's Premier Legal toll free at 1-866-999-9085 to talk to an experienced elder abuse and neglect attorney.

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Glorify Hitler but Hate Savage?

We glorify Iran's Hitler and hate Michael Savage?
Posted: June 20, 20091:00 am Eastern© 2009

I think if it were possible during World War II, that CNN foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour would have interviewed Hitler in the Fuhrer Bunker just to have his side of the story.
~ Dr. Michael Savage (June 17)
The banality of evil.
~ Hannah Arendt (1963)

For the rational person who still holds out any hope for an independent press dedicated to reporting the truth, one has only to consider the 24/7 servile press of the presidential elections in Iran. The coverage by the government-controlled media here in America of Iranian politics demonstrates to me that liberals really do have a love affair for fascist dictators.
Yet radio host Michael Savage, an authentic American patriot and conservative intellectual with a Ph.D. in the hard sciences from the University of California at Berkeley, is ignored; a modern-day Prometheus, who alone has been waging a protracted war with England since May 5 to clear his name, is vilified when unjustly blacklisted by America's closet ally.

We glorify the Hitler of Iran, yet we hate Michael Savage?
While millions of Iranians daily risk death by rioting in the streets of Tehran over the election farce that elevated Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a second term as president, the government-controlled media here in America, even Fox News, are sycophantic in their obsequious coverage of the Iranian election despite glaring examples of voter disenfranchisement and now a bloody, mounting death toll.

But for some tepid, perfunctory remarks by President Obama, his press secretary and State Department officials being "deeply troubled by the level of violence," the Obama administration's apparent complicity with the government-controlled media exhibits a smug and disturbing sense of self-satisfaction regarding the cataclysmic events in Iran.
The doctor is in and the diagnosis is clear. Don't miss Michael Savage's "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder"

Whether discussing a nation of millions like Iran or a singular man battling alone in the gladiatorial arena of ideas as Savage has done for over 15 years, there are some irresistible dichotomies between these two entities I wish to explore:
Iran is a fanatical Muslim nation under the iron fist control of the mullahs. These religious fascists believe that women are second-class citizens, that Israel is "little Satan," that America is the "great Satan" and that in order to usher the arrival of the 12th Imam, Iran must ignite Armageddon by "wiping Israel off the map" just as soon as they equip their rockets with nuclear warheads.

Savage is a champion of the nation of Israel. He both admirers and is very knowledgeable of the Judeo-Christian traditions of intellectual thought that brought Israel to her Golden Age under Kings David and Solomon; transcendent ideas that once made America a great republic.
Since the ayatollah's coup d'état drove the shah of Iran from power 30 years ago, Iran has been the world's greatest exporter of Islamic terrorism. Their litany of crimes against humanity is well-documented – from the 52 American hostages held for 444 days in 1979, to the 241 American soldiers in killed by an Iranian truck bomb in Lebanon in 1983, to Iran's involvement with the 19 Muslim terrorists that killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11.
Iran is currently giving safe haven to wanted terrorist leaders. Iran is the insidious hand behind Syria, which wields de facto control of Lebanon under Hezbollah, and Gaza under Hamas, making these nations Iran's proxies These are anti-Semitic rogue nations that for decades have committed thousands of terrorist attacks against the nation of Israel.

Savage has never killed anyone. Savage has never called for the death or overthrow of any democratically elected government. In contrast, Savage is America's modern-day Samuel Adams, a true patriot. I called him Prometheus, yet to this day Savage is treated like the Hitler of Iran while the real Hitler of Iran is enjoying universal celebrity and slavish media obeisance.
Don't let the "protests" in Iran deceive you. The autocratic Iranian government can stop those political demonstrations as easy as China did in 1989 when the communist government brutally crushed the student protests for democracy in Tiananmen Square. In both cases America and the world displayed weakness as evil grew.

We glorify the Hitler of Iran, yet we hate Michael Savage?

I believe most neo-Marxists like Obama truly admires the omnipotent power of totalitarian regimes like Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and Iran and that he and his fascist legions covet such power here in America for themselves. Obama is the de facto dictator of America right now. Newsweek's Evan Thomas last week deified him as "sort of God."

In the early 1960s, during the trial of the notorious Nazi Adolph Eichmann, Jewish intellectual and writer Hannah Arendt, reporting for the New Yorker, first coined the aphorism, "the banality of evil." She postulated whether evil is essential to radicalism or merely a function of banality – the propensity of ordinary people to follow commands and conform to mass opinion without critical thought of the moral consequences.

Likewise, are Obama and his government-controlled media accomplices really outraged over the Iranian mullah's stealing the election? I think not, because they are both part of the same Liberal-Muslim Axis. Michael Savage, together with Joseph Farah's WorldNetDaily, have been shouting from the roof tops that here in America just seven short months ago we elected an unremarkable, untested senator who to this day has not revealed to Congress or the American people his college grades, his LSAT scores for law school, what country he was born in, or even if he is a "natural born citizen" according to Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
On this last point there are currently only five House members out of 535 members of Congress who have signed on to support proposed legislation mandating that all future presidential nominees prove U.S. citizenship … after Obama. This political cowardice is both deficient and outrageous!

In the end, what is the difference between the mullahs stealing the election in Iran versus President Obama and the Democratic Party stealing the election here in America?
… which is why we glorify the Hitler of Iran and hate Michael Savage.

Freedom of Religion Update

Uganda: Threats, expulsions for Christian couple

"Aleti Samusa ... converted to Christianity; her family immediately kicked her out of their home." Yes, one of those (all too common) stories. "Uganda: Threats, expulsions for Christian couple," from Compass Direct News, June 26:

Hostilities evident in Muslim area where missionaries were slain.
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 26 (Compass Direct News) – When a young Muslim woman in northern Uganda heard about Jesus in February 2005 and began having dreams about the cross of Christ, it marked the beginning of a nightmare. Between the dreams and otherwise sleepless nights, Aleti Samusa of Yumbe district soon converted to Christianity; her family immediately kicked her out of their home. Economically devastated and deprived of that which is most valued in the communal culture, Samusa sought refuge in a local church in Lotongo village. There she found the man she would marry later that year, David Edema, who was raised a Christian but who began sharing in the sufferings of a convert from Islam by becoming one flesh with one.

His bride’s family did not attend the couple’s wedding, Edema told Compass, and it wasn’t long before her relatives threatened to break up their marriage. With Samusa’s family threatening to forcibly take her from Edema, the couple fled Lotongo village to Yumbe town. Their troubles had just begun. “The Muslims started sending people, saying that I am not wanted in Yumbe town and that I should leave the town,” Edema said.

Gay Rights Update - Lebanon

Adam Lichtenheld - www.glimpse.org

7.4.2009

The door of the RGB Club pulsated with the blasts of house techno. As I pulled it open, I glanced down at my dusty knockoff Crocs and torn jeans and realized that I was far too underdressed.

“Stay close to me,” Amir said.

A self-proclaimed “bitch from hell,” Amir’s hairline receded back into a short, wavy mop of grey. An artist by trade, he had a penchant for telling long stories. His ramblings made me want to fly solo on this breezy October night, but it was my virgin run through a gay club, and I needed a companion.

RGB was a legend of sorts—the kind of place we local journalists hear about through vague anecdotes and quiet gossip. As a symbol of the flourishing gay scene in Amman—an intriguing contradiction to Jordan’s theocratic, conservative society—the club sparked my curiosity. Now, two hours after a friend had introduced me to Amir with the promise that he would escort me through “the underground,” I found myself surrounded by dapper divas and flamboyant drag queens, following a man I barely knew.

As we entered RGB, a group of men flashed by in tight jeans and tank tops, giving me the once-over. Amir started grooving next to me.

“I may be big, but I’m made of rubber!” he shouted.

He entered the dance floor, and I crept up to the bar and pointed to a half-empty bottle of Johnnie Walker. The butch female bartender, sporting a lip ring, flat haircut, and baggy T-shirt, poured a generous glass and shot me a look of silent disapproval. I didn’t fit in here, and she knew it. Before I could make an awkward comment, Amir pulled me out to the club’s patio, where flexing patrons chain-smoked and whispered incessantly between glances in my direction.

We sat down and Amir began speaking in muttered tones, all the while checking out new arrivals.

“You’re young, fresh meat.” he said, still scanning the patio. “Everyone wants a piece of you.”

Before I could reply, a sloshed drag queen approached and held out a limp hand.

I shook it cautiously. “I’m Adam,” I said, in Arabic.

“I’m bisexual,” she declared, in perfect English.

“Or bipolar,” Amir giggled. “Her name is Tita Viagra, but it’s ‘Tita Valium’ if she doesn’t put on a good show.”

I took their friendly banter as a cue to return inside. Back in the club’s melodious drumfire, I saw a man with carefully sculpted hair and eyeliner twirling a red-and-white checkered Bedouin kaffiyeh around his head. Behind him, a group of men danced and belted out lyrics to traditional Arabic tunes—the same songs adored by Muslim sheikhs who would never condone their behavior. I felt like I had discovered another world; one that is so fundamentally at odds with its mainstream counterpart that both would prefer to simply ignore each other.

In the West, we are led to believe that homosexuals in the Middle East are the untouchables of Islamic society. We hear about fatwas calling for gay slaughters in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s outlandish claim that his country is queer-free.

But in Amman, a growing community of gay solidarity is visible.

“In other parts of the Middle East, religious groups and even governments are hunting down and executing gay citizens. But Amman is very open,” explained Ahmed, the vivacious owner of RGB.

Homosexuality is not illegal in Jordan, but it’s not exactly legal, either. Gay citizens are protected by no specific rights. While King Abdullah II, the country’s cherished monarchic leader, is credited for fostering one of the Middle East’s most tolerant societies, vigilante honor killings are not uncommon. Under the country’s lenient penal code, perpetrators of these "honor killings" often receive reduced sentences, as the Jordanian parliament has rejected proposals to enact stiffer penalties as being “un-Islamic.”

But legality is usually the least of gay Jordanians’ concerns. In a culture that is heavily informed by tradition and religious conservatism, family honor trumps individual freedom, and the threat of being ostracized from one’s bloodline can be a far greater peril than political oppression. Consequently, it is society that determines the legitimacy of a person’s sexual orientation—not the law.

Of course, perceptions of homosexuality, and approval of it, are largely intertwined with social class. “The upper class in Amman tends to be open and accepting of the gay community. The lower class, being more isolated and traditional, is more intolerant,” Ahmed explained.

So for the rich, being openly gay is possible. But if you’re born into a poor family from the ghettos of East Amman?

“You’re dead,” he said.

The next day, my ears still ringing from the deafening disco din, I trudged up to the roof of Books@Cafe, a gay-friendly lounge filled with plush leather seats and bright wall hangings. The intoxicating aroma of shisha smoke crept in from tables filled with chatty, well-groomed Jordanians. I thought about how close geographically, yet how far culturally, this rooftop was to the tiny, rank dive where I usually spent my evenings puffing on a water pipe.

I met up with Khalid, a thin-faced 19-year old wearing a black fedora tipped to one side. A friend of Amir, he was a student of interior design and editor of My.Kali, an online LGBT forum that succeeded Jordan’s first-ever gay magazine, MK. MK had abandoned its first print issue after local newspapers published quotes from “professionals” decrying homosexuality as a “treatable disease” and plastered MK’s cover, which featured Khalid’s lean, shirtless body, on their front pages.

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US will not use force to inspect NKorean ship

By KWANG-TAE KIM, Associated Press Writer

Friday, June 26, 2009

The United States will not use force to inspect a North Korean ship suspected of carrying banned goods, an American official was quoted as saying Frida

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An American destroyer has been shadowing the North Korean freighter sailing off China's coast, possibly on its way to Myanmar.

Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy met with South Korean officials in Seoul on Friday as the U.S. sought international support for aggressively enforcing a U.N. sanctions resolution aimed at punishing Pyongyang for its second nuclear test last month. The North Korean-flagged ship, Kang Nam 1, is the first to be tracked under the U.N. resolution.

North Korea has in response escalated threats of war, with a slew of harsh rhetoric including warnings that it would unleash a "fire shower of nuclear retaliation" and "wipe out the (U.S.) aggressors" in the event of a conflict.

On Thursday, the communist regime organized a massive anti-American rally in Pyongyang where some 100,000 participants vowed to "crush" the U.S. One senior speaker told the crowd that the North will respond to any sanctions or U.S. provocations with "an annihilating blow."

That was seen as a pointed threat in response to the American destroyer.

Flournoy said Friday that Washington has ruled the use military force to inspect the North Korean freighter.

"The U.N. resolution lays out a regime that has a very clear set of steps," Flournoy said, according to the Yonhap news agency. "I want to be very clear ... This is not a resolution that sponsors, that authorizes use of force for interdiction."

Flournoy said the U.S. still has "incentives and disincentives that will get North Korea to change course."

"Everything remains on the table, but we're focused on implementing the resolution fully, responsibly and with our international partners," she said.

Flournoy's trip came as the U.S. sought international support for aggressively enforcing the U.N. sanctions.

It is not clear what was on board the North Korean freighter, but officials have mentioned artillery and other conventional weaponry. One intelligence expert suspected missiles.

The U.S. and its allies have made no decision on whether to request inspection of the ship, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Wednesday in Washington, but North Korea has said it would consider any interception an act of war.

If permission for inspection is refused, the ship must dock at a port of its choosing, so local authorities can check its cargo. Vessels suspected of carrying banned goods must not be offered bunkering services at port, such as fuel, the resolution says.

A senior U.S. defense official said the ship had cleared the Taiwan Strait. He said he didn't know whether or when the Kang Nam may need to stop in some port to refuel, but that the ship has in the past stopped in Hong Kong's port.

Another U.S. defense official said he tended to doubt reports that the Kang Nam was carrying nuclear-related equipment, saying information seems to indicate the cargo is banned conventional munitions. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity in order to talk about intelligence.

North Korea is suspected to have transported banned goods to Myanmar before on the Kang Nam, said Bertil Lintner, a Bangkok-based North Korea expert who has written a book about leader Kim Jong Il.

South Korea, meanwhile, plans to use high-tech surveillance and weapons systems to counter North Korea's missile and nuclear programs, Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee said in a Friday briefing.

South Korea plans to employ unmanned reconnaissance planes and add "bunker-buster" bombs to its arsenal in case of signs that the North planned to launch an attack toward the South, Lee said.

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Associated Press writers Jae-soon Chang in Seoul, and Pauline Jelinek in Washington, contributed to this report.

Mohammed Speaks

Ahmadinejad in fresh attack on Obama shuts door on multilateral nuclear diplomacy

June 27, 2009, 5:00 PM (GMT+02:00)

Ahmadinejad swings back at US president

The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck back Saturday, June 27, barely 24 hours after US president Barack Obama poured scorn on him and warned that "direct dialogue or diplomacy with Iran" would be "affected by the events of the last several weeks."

Clearly the Iranian president will not let Obama have the last word in their slanging match. This time he included Europe in his verbal offensive.

The Iranian president repeated his allegation that Obama and leaders of European countries had "insulted the Iranian nations with interference in internal matters" and went on to threaten: From now on we will push to a court of justice in every international meeting. This time the reply by the Iranian nation will be decisive and harsh and make you regret and be ashamed."

This is taken by DEBKAfile's sources as a hostile rejoinder to Obama's statement Friday, June 26, alongside German chancellor Angela Merkel, that direct dialogue would be delayed, but the talks "compered by the P5-plus-1 group on Iran's nuclear program would likely continue." The world, said the US president, needs to recognize that the prospect of Iran with nuclear weapons was a "big problem."

Tehran appears to be preparing to downgrade its ties - not only with the UK - but with other European states such as France and Germany for criticizing the June 12 election - which reelected Ahmadinejad by a wide margin - after both Obama and Merkel condemned the regime's crackdown on the protest movement as "outrageous."

Both the Guardian Council and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini have rejected allegation of voter fraud. A senior Iranian cleric Ahmad Khatami, at a Friday sermon in Tehran, accused Iranian demonstrators of waging war against God, a crime punishable by death.

The official death toll from post-election violence is 17, but witnesses say it is much higher.

Iran's crackdown has included heavy restrictions on reporting and the arrest of university professors, journalists and ordinary citizens. The street rallies against the regime subsided towards the end of the week.

Chicago Would be proud

But the Iranians can still learn a few tricks from Daley and the gang:

Iran's Guardian Council praises "cleanest" election ever

Oh, really now. Sure, they're lying, but either way one takes the statement, it speaks volumes about the nexus of corruption and the Orwellian alternative reality that Islamic Republic upholds with deadly force.

"Guardian Council praises 'cleanest' vote," from Agence France-Presse, June 26:

AFP - Iran's electoral watchdog insisted on Friday that this month's disputed presidential vote was the cleanest ever, rejecting opposition allegations of fraud that have brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets.

"After 10 days of examination, we did not see any major irregularities," Guardians Council spokesman Abbasali Kadkhodai told the official IRNA news agency.

"We have had no fraud in any presidential election and this one was the cleanest election we have had. I can say with certainty that there was no fraud in this election."

Never mind Iran's admission that in 50 Iranian cities, there were more votes than voters.

The council is expected to give its final ruling on Monday after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave it an additional five days to investigate complaints filed by the defeated candidates.

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But how many DEAD PROPLE VOTED ?!?!?

Sharia Law Update

Pakistan: Christian woman beaten and detained for "blasphemy"

"The Muslim women allegedly became angry and began to beat her. Some men then locked her in a room. Muslims announced from mosque loudspeakers a plan to punish Bibi by blackening her face and parading her through the village on a donkey." Her great crime? She reportedly declared that "Our Christ is the true prophet of God and yours is not true."

"Pakistan Christians Detained For 'Blasphemy', 'Robbery,'” from BosNewsLife, June 25:

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Two Pakistani Christians remained detained Thursday, June 25, on false charges of "blasphemy" and "robbery", advocacy groups said.

Asia Bibi, 37, was reportedly detained by police on allegations of blasphemy in the village of Ittanwali in Punjab province on June 19, following heated discussions about Islam with Muslim women who work with her on a farm.

"Bibi told them that Christ died on the cross for their sins and asked them what Mohammed had done for them," said Voice Of the Martyrs Canada (VOMC), which monitored the case. "Our Christ is the true prophet of God and yours is not true," Bibi reportedly said.

The Muslim women allegedly became angry and began to beat her. "Some men then locked her in a room. Muslims announced from mosque loudspeakers a plan to punish Bibi by blackening her face and parading her through the village on a donkey. Local Christians informed police, who took Bibi into custody before Muslims could carry out their plan," VOMC said.

STILL HELD

She was believed to held Thursday, June 25, at a police station in Nankana city and local Christians were urging the police not to file blasphemy charges.

However, police officials reportedly said they must go forward due to pressure from local Muslim leaders. It came as elsewhere another 37-year-old Christian in Punjab province, Arshad Masih, was reportedly languishing in a Sialkot jail because his father was preaching Christ...

Posted by Raymond at June 26, 2009 1:42

MIchael Jackson Nonsense

hysteria and hoopla surrouding the dope fiend's death, no one will cover his long standing involvement with the Gulf Emirate Sheiks.

No one will cover his BROTHER'S CONVERSION TO PISLAM.

No one will SAY A WORD - stay tuned for more.

Nursing Homes fined for PATIENT DEATHS

Two Separate Nursing Homes Fined for Patient Deaths

State officials have fined two nursing homes for providing care that was so inadequate that two patients wrongfully died. One case involved a woman who died from dehydration. The nursing home failed to give the 82-year-old woman sufficient fluids, which caused her to suffer dehydration and acute kidney failure. Another involved a staff member who failed to provide CPR to a man suffering a heart attack. The nursing home staff wrongfully believed that he was under orders not to be resuscitated. In reality, the man had an option specifically marked, “I do want CPR.” The nursing homes were fined for their elderly negligence violations. Elderly negligence can occur anywhere, including Chicago, Illinois.

To read more about the nursing home negligence, please click the link.

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Let's be honest folks -

THE ABUSERS ARE KILLING US!!!

Fine Key Medicare Information in Illinois for 2009

http://www.elderlawanswers.com/resources/article.asp?id=3631&Section=7&state=IL

Older American at Risk

http://www.elderlawanswers.com/PodCast/PodCast.asp

Learn how to protect your loved ones from the sharpies that are all over.

Freedom of Religion Update

Pakistan: Christian Man raped and murdered for refusing Islam

"The autopsy revealed that Litto had been sodomized, flogged, clubbed, and stabbed five times in the stomach and genitals. He died from the stab wounds. It is almost certain that during ! the four days Litto was kidnapped, he was offered land, wealth, and his girlfriend if he were to convert to Islam. It was his refusal to become a Muslim that spelled his death sentence in the eyes of these radical Muslims."

"Christian Man Raped and Murdered for Refusing Islam," from AINA, June 8:
WASHINGTON -- International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a young Christian man from Pakistan was caught in a compromising situation with the daughter of a radical Muslim family but refused to convert to Islam despite her insistence and the threats of her three brothers. On May 15, the young man's father found his dead body near a canal in a rural Punjab village, after he had been missing for three days.

The young Christian, Litto, was studying for a Masters Degree in English when he met and fell in love with a Muslim girl from his village. During their courtship, she repeatedly attempted to entice him into becoming a Muslim.

Litto's father, Amjad Masih Ghauri, told ICC, "On May 10th, while my son and that Muslim girl, Shazia Cheema, were making love in a lonely part of the fields, her two elder Muslim brothers found them in an objectionable posture and this enraged them." Litto managed to escape the scene and ran home, telling his father everything.
The next day Shazia's three brothers arrived at Litto's house, where they demanded that Litto convert to Islam and marry their sister. Litto said he would marry her, but that he would not convert to Islam. This infuriated the brothers, who kidnapped him at gunpoint and threw him into their car.

Ghauri immediately reported to the police what had happened. In response, the officer on duty said, "How dare you Choohra (derogatory term for Christian) cast malicious eyes on a Muslim girl."
Denied help by the police, Ghauri gathered some of his relatives and searched the countryside for his son for three days until finding his body on May 15. The autopsy revealed that Litto had been sodomized, flogged, clubbed, and stabbed five times in the stomach and genitals. He died from the stab wounds. It is almost certain that during ! the four days Litto was kidnapped, he was offered land, wealth, and his girlfriend if he were to convert to Islam. It was his refusal to become a Muslim that spelled his death sentence in the eyes of these radical Muslims.
Police have filed a court case against the three brothers, but have taken no action. The three young men are roaming freely in the village and telling everyone that they have "taught a good lesson to the Choohras (derogatory term for Christians)."

It is likely that Shazia was operating at the command of her brothers to catch Litto in a compromising situation. It is common in Pakistan for Muslims to use their sisters or daughters to entice Christians to convert to Islam.
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But what is the significance or RAPING (i.e. Sodmoizing) a Man?

That's easy - half of ALL MUSLIM MALES ARE ACTIVE HOMOSEXUALS and a full 100% are BI_Sexual. Yes, those facts are accurate.

Join the Queer Jihad today!!!

Ford's in His flivver - all's well with the world

China Installs New Censoring Software

By ANDREW JACOBS
Published: June 8, 2009

BEIJING — China has issued a sweeping directive requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include sophisticated software that can filter out pornography and other “unhealthy information” from the Internet.
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The software, which manufacturers must install on all new PCs starting July 1, would allow the government to regularly update computers with an ever-changing list of banned Web sites.
The rules, issued last month, ratchet up Internet restrictions that are already among the most stringent in the world. China regularly blocks Web sites that discuss the Dalai Lama, the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, and the Falun Gong, the banned spiritual movement.
But free-speech advocates say they fear the new software could make it even more difficult for China’s 300 million Internet users to obtain uncensored news and information.
“This is a very bad thing,” said Charles Mok, chairman of the Hong Kong chapter of the Internet Society, an international advisory group on Internet standards. “It’s like downloading spyware onto your computer, but the government is the spy.”

Called Green Dam — a reference to slogans that describe a smut-free Internet as “green” — the software is designed to filter out sexually explicit images and words, according to the company that designed it. Computer experts, however, warn that once installed, the software could be directed to block all manner of content or allow the government to monitor Internet use and collect personal information.
Details of the new regulations, which were posted Monday on a government Web site, were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

PC makers that serve the Chinese market, among them Dell, Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard, said they were studying the new rules and declined to comment. But privately, industry executives in the United States said they were unnerved by the new rules, which were issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology with no consultation and no advance warning.
Beyond the nettlesome issue of abetting government censorship, they said six weeks was not enough time to shift production on such a large scale. “Many of us are going to take it in the neck with this mandate,” said one executive. “It has put people into five-alarm mode.”
This is not the first time that foreign companies have been enlisted in government efforts to police the Internet. Google already removes politically forbidden results yielded by its popular search engine, Microsoft allows censors to block content on its blog service, and Yahoo was widely criticized for turning over information that was used to jail a journalist.
“I would advise dissidents to buy computers before July 1,” said Clothilde Le Coz, the head of the Internet freedom desk of Reporters Without Borders.
More than 40 million personal computers were sold last year in China, one of the fastest growing markets. Despite the slowing economy, industry analysts expect that figure to rise by 3 percent this year.

A group of industry representatives met with American officials Monday to express their displeasure with the new rules, said Susan N. Stevenson, a spokeswoman for the United States Embassy in Beijing. “We view any attempt to restrict the free flow of information with great concern,” she said.
Zhang Chenming, general manager of Jinhui Computer System Engineering, a company that helped create Green Dam, said worries that the software could be used to censor a broad range of content or monitor Internet use were overblown. He insisted that the software, which neutralizes programs designed to override China’s so-called Great Firewall, could simply be deleted or temporarily turned off by the user. “A parent can still use this computer to go to porn,” he said.

Although the directive is somewhat imprecise and suggests that manufacturers can provide the software as a compact disc, it also says that it must be installed on computer hard drives as a backup file. The five-point circular uses the word “preinstall” repeatedly and the first clause unequivocally states: “Imported computers shall preinstall the latest available version of the ‘Green Dam’ software before they are sold in China.”
Manufacturers complain that they have had been given little guidance by Chinese authorities. “The wording may be intentionally vague, but the message is clear: we have no choice in the matter,” said one computer executive who spoke on condition of anonymity because some companies are hoping they can persuade the government to ease the requirements.
Industry experts and civil libertarians say they are worried the software may simply be a Trojan horse for greater Internet control. The software developers have ties to China’s military and public security agencies, they point out, and Green Dam’s backers say the effort is supported by Li Changchun, the country’s chief propaganda official and a member of the decision-making body of the Communist Party, the Politburo Standing Committee.

The software will be provided free, paid for by the government, and according to the official Green Dam Web site, it has already been downloaded 3.2 million times. That figure includes thousands of schools that were required to install the software by the end of May. The site claims that Chinese manufacturers, including Lenovo, Inspur and Hedy, have already agreed to install 52 million copies of the software on new computers.
In recent months China has tightened its Internet restrictions, including an “antivulgarity” campaign that has closed down thousands of pornographic sites but also nonsexual sites, including some of the most popular bulletin boards and blog hosts. China already employs more than 30,000 censors and thousands who “guide public opinion” by flooding bulletin boards with comments favorable to the Communist Party.

Last week, as the 20th anniversary of the military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests approached, the government blocked a host of Internet services, including Twitter, Microsoft’s live.com and Flickr, a photo-sharing site, though by Monday evening, these sites had become available again. YouTube has been inaccessible in China outside Hong Kong since March.
Even beyond ethical concerns, those who have tested the new software describe it as technically flawed. An American software engineer said it led machines to crash frequently. Others worry that it could leave tens of millions of computers vulnerable to hackers. So far, at least, there is no version for the Linux operating system and for Apple’s Macintosh system.
The directive makes no mention of the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao, but one industry association executive said companies had been told that these areas are exempt from the new rules.

On Monday, Green Dam’s own Web site offered a hint of discontent over the filtering software. On the bulletin board section of the site, one writer described it as a “Web devil” and several users complained that pornographic images slipped through or that their computers had become painfully slow. “It seems pretty lousy so far,” one posting said. “It’s not very powerful; I can’t surf the Internet normally and it’s affecting the operation of other software.”
By Monday night, however, most of the comments had been deleted.
Zhang Jing and Xiyun Yang contributed research.

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Haven't read Orwell's 1984 yet? What are you waiting for?!?!?

Ford

By ANDREW JACOBS
Published: June 8, 2009
BEIJING — China has issued a sweeping directive requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include sophisticated software that can filter out pornography and other “unhealthy information” from the Internet.
Readers' Comments
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Read All Comments (138) »
if (acm.rc) acm.rc.write();
The software, which manufacturers must install on all new PCs starting July 1, would allow the government to regularly update computers with an ever-changing list of banned Web sites.
The rules, issued last month, ratchet up Internet restrictions that are already among the most stringent in the world. China regularly blocks Web sites that discuss the Dalai Lama, the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, and the Falun Gong, the banned spiritual movement.
But free-speech advocates say they fear the new software could make it even more difficult for China’s 300 million Internet users to obtain uncensored news and information.
“This is a very bad thing,” said Charles Mok, chairman of the Hong Kong chapter of the Internet Society, an international advisory group on Internet standards. “It’s like downloading spyware onto your computer, but the government is the spy.”
Called Green Dam — a reference to slogans that describe a smut-free Internet as “green” — the software is designed to filter out sexually explicit images and words, according to the company that designed it. Computer experts, however, warn that once installed, the software could be directed to block all manner of content or allow the government to monitor Internet use and collect personal information.
Details of the new regulations, which were posted Monday on a government Web site, were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
PC makers that serve the Chinese market, among them Dell, Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard, said they were studying the new rules and declined to comment. But privately, industry executives in the United States said they were unnerved by the new rules, which were issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology with no consultation and no advance warning.
Beyond the nettlesome issue of abetting government censorship, they said six weeks was not enough time to shift production on such a large scale. “Many of us are going to take it in the neck with this mandate,” said one executive. “It has put people into five-alarm mode.”
This is not the first time that foreign companies have been enlisted in government efforts to police the Internet. Google already removes politically forbidden results yielded by its popular search engine, Microsoft allows censors to block content on its blog service, and Yahoo was widely criticized for turning over information that was used to jail a journalist.
“I would advise dissidents to buy computers before July 1,” said Clothilde Le Coz, the head of the Internet freedom desk of Reporters Without Borders.
More than 40 million personal computers were sold last year in China, one of the fastest growing markets. Despite the slowing economy, industry analysts expect that figure to rise by 3 percent this year.
A group of industry representatives met with American officials Monday to express their displeasure with the new rules, said Susan N. Stevenson, a spokeswoman for the United States Embassy in Beijing. “We view any attempt to restrict the free flow of information with great concern,” she said.
Zhang Chenming, general manager of Jinhui Computer System Engineering, a company that helped create Green Dam, said worries that the software could be used to censor a broad range of content or monitor Internet use were overblown. He insisted that the software, which neutralizes programs designed to override China’s so-called Great Firewall, could simply be deleted or temporarily turned off by the user. “A parent can still use this computer to go to porn,” he said.
Although the directive is somewhat imprecise and suggests that manufacturers can provide the software as a compact disc, it also says that it must be installed on computer hard drives as a backup file. The five-point circular uses the word “preinstall” repeatedly and the first clause unequivocally states: “Imported computers shall preinstall the latest available version of the ‘Green Dam’ software before they are sold in China.”
Manufacturers complain that they have had been given little guidance by Chinese authorities. “The wording may be intentionally vague, but the message is clear: we have no choice in the matter,” said one computer executive who spoke on condition of anonymity because some companies are hoping they can persuade the government to ease the requirements.
Industry experts and civil libertarians say they are worried the software may simply be a Trojan horse for greater Internet control. The software developers have ties to China’s military and public security agencies, they point out, and Green Dam’s backers say the effort is supported by Li Changchun, the country’s chief propaganda official and a member of the decision-making body of the Communist Party, the Politburo Standing Committee.
The software will be provided free, paid for by the government, and according to the official Green Dam Web site, it has already been downloaded 3.2 million times. That figure includes thousands of schools that were required to install the software by the end of May. The site claims that Chinese manufacturers, including Lenovo, Inspur and Hedy, have already agreed to install 52 million copies of the software on new computers.
In recent months China has tightened its Internet restrictions, including an “antivulgarity” campaign that has closed down thousands of pornographic sites but also nonsexual sites, including some of the most popular bulletin boards and blog hosts. China already employs more than 30,000 censors and thousands who “guide public opinion” by flooding bulletin boards with comments favorable to the Communist Party.
Last week, as the 20th anniversary of the military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests approached, the government blocked a host of Internet services, including Twitter, Microsoft’s live.com and Flickr, a photo-sharing site, though by Monday evening, these sites had become available again. YouTube has been inaccessible in China outside Hong Kong since March.
Even beyond ethical concerns, those who have tested the new software describe it as technically flawed. An American software engineer said it led machines to crash frequently. Others worry that it could leave tens of millions of computers vulnerable to hackers. So far, at least, there is no version for the Linux operating system and for Apple’s Macintosh system.
The directive makes no mention of the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao, but one industry association executive said companies had been told that these areas are exempt from the new rules.
On Monday, Green Dam’s own Web site offered a hint of discontent over the filtering software. On the bulletin board section of the site, one writer described it as a “Web devil” and several users complained that pornographic images slipped through or that their computers had become painfully slow. “It seems pretty lousy so far,” one posting said. “It’s not very powerful; I can’t surf the Internet normally and it’s affecting the operation of other software.”
By Monday night, however, most of the comments had been deleted.
Zhang Jing and Xiyun Yang contributed research.

Burden of Proof Diffficult in Elder Abuser Cases

When Bruises Can't Speak For Themselves: The Difficulty Proving Abuse Of Disabled Nursing Home Residents


The News & Observer, had an article about the difficulty proving physical abuse in disabled nursing home residents who are unable to communicate any information about the act. The article focuses on an 88-year-old disabled woman who sustained bruises to her face(consistent with abuse) while a resident at Sunnybrook Healthcare and Rehabilitation in Raleigh, N.C. The woman suffered from advanced dementia and was unable to walk or roll over-- therefore bruising due to a fall could immediately be ruled out. Read the full article about the abuse of disabled nursing home residents here.

Elder abuse in North Carolina
Complaints of elder abuse in North Carolina increased 20% between 2007 and 2008. According to Sharon Wilder, a state ombudsman for long-term care, reports of abuse, neglect and exploitation will continue to increase both as a function of the rise in the numbers of the elderly population and as a result of caregivers demand to get answers following an incident.
"We now have baby boomers emerging as the sandwich generation and as caregivers for their elders," Wilder added. "Their nature is to ask more questions and to want more answers. There are more willing to contact whoever they need to get answers."
According to North Carolina nursing home surveys, just 15% of the reports of elder abuse occurred in a long-term care setting, with the remainder of alleged abuse occurring in private homes and reported by relatives, neighbors or health care professionals.

Abuse of the elderly in long-term care settings
Despite a seemingly endless supply of news headlines, directing attention to this despicable act, most cases of elder abuse go unreported. Remember, you know your loved one better than anyone else. If you suspect mistreatment or abuse, immediately report the situation to local police and/or ombudsmen. A timely investigation can go a long way towards identifying the individuals responsible for the abuse and hold them accountable.
The following conditions warrant investigation:

Unexplained bruises, cuts, burns, sprains, or fractures
Frozen joints
Unexplained venereal disease or genital infections, vaginal or anal bleeding
Bloody clothing
Sudden changes in behavior
Staff refusing to allow visitors to see resident or delays in allowing visitors to see resident
Resident being kept in an over-medicated state
Sudden loss of an appetite

Over the course of the the past 30 years, lawyers at Strellis & Field, have helped families coping with the fallout from elder abuse. In many cases, we have successfully recovered damages from the facilities where the abuse occurred. If you have a question related to abuse in a long-term care setting, we would honor the opportunity to speak with you. (888) 424-5757
Web Resources:

The National Center On Elder Abuse
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
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As an older American who has been and is still being ABUSED, I can attest to the veracity of this piece. The ELDER ABUSERS know how difficult proof is so they use every tool they can to continue their crimes.

And frequently, YOUR TAX DOLLARS are PAYING THEIR SALARIES!

For some stunning examples, Visit the Mercy Lakefront Blog.

Justice? For Whom?

Statement of Attorney General Eric Holder on Department of Justice’s Outreach and Enforcement Efforts to Protect American Muslims
Thursday, June 4, 2009

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement relating to President Obama’s historic speech today in Cairo, Egypt:

"The President's pledge for a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim community takes root here in the Justice Department where we are committed to using criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim Americans. A top priority of this Justice Department is a return to robust civil rights enforcement and outreach in defending religious freedoms and other fundamental rights of all of our fellow citizens in the workplace, in the housing market, in our schools and in the voting booth.

"There are those who will continue to want to divide by fear - to pit our national security against our civil liberties - but that is a false choice. We have a solemn responsibility to protect our people while we also protect our principles."
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The "Holy" Koran:

8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.

8:67. It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great slaughter (among his enemies) in the land. You desire the good of this world (i.e. the money of ransom for freeing the captives), but Allah desires (for you) the Hereafter. And Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.

9:29. Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

9:33. It is He {Allah} Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it superior over all religions even though the Mushrikun (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) hate (it).

Criminals working in Elder Care can COST YOU

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Jonathan Rosenfeld
Failure To Conduct Adequate Pre-Employment Criminal Background Search Costs Assisted Living Facilty $750,000

A jury awarded $750,000 to a disabled man who was a resident at Cote De Neige Home for Adults after he was sexually assaulted by a worker at the facility. The lawsuit was brought against the assisted living facility for their failure to conduct an adequate pre-hiring background search before hiring a certified nursing assistant.
Junious Boyd Batten, the CNA who was allegedly involved in the sexual assault, currently faces five counts of forcible sodomy, three counts of carnal knowledge and one count of abuse and neglect for incidents that occurred between 2006 and mid-2007 while he was employed by Cote De Neige.
According to claims made in the lawsuit against Cote De Neige, Batten was a known criminal--both before and during his employment at Cote De Neige. The lawsuit claims Batten was charged with 13 criminal offenses-- including four criminal convictions (public intoxication, two assault and battery charges and one contempt of court charge) during the course of his employment as a CNA.

Too often, in situations such as this, facilities are let off the hook because they claim they lack knowledge about an employees violent tendencies. While this case may be extreme-- in terms of the extensive list of criminal charges Batten faced before and during the course of his employment-- this verdict should serve as a reminder to all facilities that they must do an pre-employment job screening and continually supervise all employees.
Incidentally, this verdict includes $500,000 in compensatory damages and $250,000 in punitive damages. Consequently, even if this facility files for bankruptcy the owner of the facility will remain responsible for payment of the punitive aspect of this case.
Read more about this case involving a judgment against an assisted living facility for failing to conduct an adequate pre-employment screening of an employee here.
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MURDER ON VIDEO!!!

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Jonathan Rosenfeld

Videotape Confirms Resident Murdered By Peer At North Carolina Facilty

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Daniel East, a resident at David's House, an assisted living facility has been charged with the murder of Jeremiah Daniel Love-- his co-resident. The surveillance video shows East striking his fellow resident in the head with a metal cane. Love died shortly after the incident at Wake Forest University from closed head injuries.
East was arrested on unrelated charges-- for threatening to beat a David's House employee with a cane-- on the day that Love died. East has a criminal history including: time served for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, assault on a female and driving while impaired without a license.

East is in custody on $2 million bond.
This story is further evidence of the need to keep violent offenders separated from the general population in nursing homes, hospitals and assisted living facilities. Too often there is an assumption that because an offender may look like a grandfather--he is harmless. This story is a reminder that individuals with violent tendencies rarely 'out grow' such behavior.
Our sincere condolences go out to the family of Jeremiah David Love.

Read more about this violence in North Carolina here.
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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse abounds

Maggots Infest Nursing Home Resident

A nursing home was fined $16,000 by state regulators after a patient was found injured on the floor with maggots crawling out of his leg cast. The home was cited for nursing home negligence in that it failed to have a comprehensive care plan for the resident that included caring for his broken leg. The 120-bed facility failed to provide the necessary care and services to a resident with the cast and wound of lower leg which resulted in an infestation of maggots.

The elder negligence report said the patient’s leg wound and cast was to be cared for every three days, but the nursing home could only provide documentation that it was cared for once a week. The same home was but on a “watch list” by state regulators because of its poor performance on recent inspections. One of these deficiencies included having poor polices to prevent elder abuse. Maggots can oftentimes be the result of nursing home negligence. To read more about the maggot infested cast, please click the link.

Terrorism coming to a Courthouse near you

The American people have overwhelmingly stated that they DO NOT WANT THIS:

Guantanamo/Detainees
Guantanamo Detainee Flown to US for Bombing Trial

Posted 6 hours, 54 minutes ago By Debra Cassens Weiss

The first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in civilian federal court arrived on U.S. soil today.
Ahmed Ghailani will appear in a New York federal court later today on charges he helped build bombs detonated in U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, the Associated Press and Reuters report. The bombings claimed the lives of 224 people.
Attorney General Eric Holder announced the development in a press release. "The Justice Department has a long history of securely detaining and successfully prosecuting terror suspects through the criminal
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So why is the Government IGNORING THE Wishes of the PEOPLE!?!?!?

Don't we have ENOUGH CRIMINALS IN THIS COUNTRY?!?!?

Crazy Chicago Libs at it again - with the wrong dude!

Prosecutors

Chicago US Attorney Says Book Partly Blames Him for Sept. 11
Posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago By Debra Cassens Weiss

The corruption-fighting U.S. attorney in Chicago is threatening to sue a publisher over an upcoming book that, in his view, partly blames him for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago sent a letter to HarperCollins warning that he will sue if the book Triple Cross defames him or casts him in a false light, according to the Associated Press and the Chicago Sun-Times. Fitzgerald said the book is “a deliberate lie masquerading as the truth."
The book covers intelligence failures before Sept. 11 and includes information on Fitzgerald’s New York terrorism prosecutions in the 1990s. The book claims Fitzgerald filed a false court affidavit and says he and other officials discredited al-Qaida evidence, according to a press release summarized by the Sun-Times.

Fitzgerald told AP and the Sun-Times that the book goes beyond normal criticism that goes with the territory for public officials.
“The book lied about the facts and alleged that I deliberately misled the courts and the public in ways that in part caused the deaths in the 1998 embassy bombing attacks and in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001," he said.
The book’s author, Peter Lance, told AP that Fitzgerald is trying to kill the book with baseless allegations. "Patrick Fitzgerald accuses me of making charges in the book that I never made," Lance said. "At the same time, he continually fails to respond to the substantive allegations documented in 604 pages, 1,425 end notes and 32 pages of documentary appendices."

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Dr. Savage has it right:

LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISEASE!

The Mercy in Mercy Housing

This is what the Law has to say about Retaliatory Eviction in Illinois:

8850 Ill.2d 351, - jack spring v little - habitability issue

‘In trying to effect the will of Congress and as a court of equity we have the responsibility to consider the social context in which our decisions will have operational effect. In light of the appalling condition and shortage of housing in Washington, the expense of moving, the inequality of bargaining power between tenant and landlord, and the social and economic importance of assuring at least minimum standards in housing conditions, we do not hesitate to declare that retaliatory eviction cannot be tolerated. There can be no doubt that the slum dweller, even though his home be marred by housing code violations, will pause long before he complains of them if he fears eviction as a consequence. Hence an eviction under the circumstances of this case would not only punish appellant for making a complaint which she had a constitutional right to make, a result which we would not impute to the will of Congress simply on the basis of an essentially procedural enactment, but also would stand as a warning to others that they dare not be so bold, a result which, from the authorization of the housing code, we think Congress affirmatively sought to avoid.

‘The notion that the effectiveness of remedial legislation will be inhibited if those reporting violations of it can legally be intimidated is so fundamental that a presumption against the legality of such intimidation can be inferred as inherent in the legislation even if it is not expressed in the statute itself.'

In addition it was said in Edwards v. Habib, supra, pp. 699, 700, 701:

‘* * * while the landlord may evict for any legal reason or for no reason at all, he is not, we hold, free to evict in retaliation for his tenant's report of housing code violations to the authorities. As a matter of statutory construction and for reasons of public policy, such an eviction cannot be permitted.

‘* * * the codes obviously depend in part on private initiative in the reporting of violations. * * * To permit retaliatory evictions, then, would clearly frustrate the effectiveness of the housing code as a means of upgrading the quality of housing * * *.'
Dickhut v. Norton,45 Wis.2d 389, 173 N.W.2d 297, 40 A.L.R.3d 740 (Wis. 1970)


Of course the Victim if 58 year old and has been unemployed for four years, thus the following applies:

105/3.05. Aged or senior citizen

§ 3.05. “Aged” or “Senior citizen” means a person of 55 years of age or older, or a person nearing the age of 55 for whom opportunities for employment and participation in community life are unavailable or severely limited and who, as a result thereof, has difficulty in maintaining self-sufficiency and contributing to the life of the community.

Dear Cardinal George

George M Weinert V
Mercy Lakefront SRO

June 4, 2009

Your Emminence,

I am a Roman Catholic of 58 years, from a German family or Catholic going back four generations. I attended Catholic Grammar School (St. Philomena), High School (De Paul and St. Michael's) and even college (De Paul University, BM, 1976). I had two great aunts thar were nuns, Sr. Adonalle Raupp (SSF) and Sister Clodicenda Raupp (Poor Handmaind of Mary). I attended daily Mass from 2001-2006 at St. Clements in Lincoln Pack, St. Thomas of Canterbuey and earliar at St. Philomena Parish on Chicago's Northwest side.

I pray three rosaries a day and have always tried to promote the faith. In 1999, I lost the only home I had ever known in a Retaliatory Lending Scheme, and spent two and half years homeoess. Thanks to Franciscian Outreach, and Lincoln Park Community Shelter, I was able to move into what was then Lakefront SRO and mevrged with Mercy Housing in 2005 - become Mercy Lakefront SRO. My strong Catholic roots and excellent Education (I hold a Masters from Roosevelt U in Music, a Bachelors from De Paul and half a Masters in Computer Science from IIT) caused great jealously amonst the managers of this Mercy Lakefrount unit (Harold washington Apartments) but things went well and with the continuing help of Franciscan Outreach I even manged to work as a Substitute Teacher for the Chicago Public Schools for two years.

In 2004, Lakefront SRO began their FIRST RETALIATORY EVICTION ACTION against this Devout Catholic - it lasted 11 months and was Finally decided on Nov 16, 2005 when a Jury found AGAINST the Harold Washingto Cotp. and For George Weinert, ending the ordeal. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DID NOTTHING TO HELP ME - I was represetned by Cabrini Legal Aid Clinic.

After two years, Mercy Lakefront SRO began yet ANOTHER RETALIATORY EVICTION ACTION in Jan of 2008 - not content with trying to cast me into the street, I was LOCKED UP IN REED MENTAL HEALTH CENTER FOR EIGHT DAYS ON THE LIES OF MERCY LAKEFRONT MANAGERS = while I LOST THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AND MY ONLY LAST CHANCE AT ACADEMIC SUCCESS WAS RUINED!.

The latest Evcition attempt has dragged on for 18 months and NOW MY ONLY HELP CABRINI LEGAL AID HAS WITHDRAWN -

I am now ALONE AGAINST THE ELDER ABSUERS THAT MANAGE MERCY LAKEFRONT SRO HOUSING.

IS THIS HOW A LIFE LONG CATHOIC OF 58 years of AGE IS TO BE TREATED?

My own Church has abdndoned me and SO HAS THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY - I stand along against the forces of Satan.

IS THIS ALL YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR SHEEP? I await your reply;

-- Praise the Lord, George M Weinert V

Religion of Peace Update

Iran's supreme leader:

Muslims "hate America from the bottom of their heart"
And Obama's "beautiful speeches" won't change that.

"Khamenei: Muslims hate U.S.," from UPI, June 4:

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, said Thursday "beautiful speeches" cannot overcome Muslims' hatred of the United States.

Khamenei spoke at a ceremony in Tehran marking the 20th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei's death, The Washington Post reported. He delivered his speech, heard on television and by several thousand people at the ceremony, shortly before U.S. President Barack Obama spoke in Cairo on the U.S. relationship with Muslims.

"People of the Middle East, the Muslim region and North Africa -- people of these regions -- hate America from the bottom of their heart," Khamenei said. "For a long time, these people have witnessed aggressive actions by America, and that's why they hate them."

Obama said the United States and Muslim world need a "new beginning" but Khamenei said any change would take more than "beautiful speeches."...

Obama - Muslim on the inside?

PRUDEN: 'Inner Muslim' at work in Cairo
By Wesley Pruden (Contact) Friday, June 5, 2009

OPINION/ANALYSIS:

Now it's on to Normandy, to apologize to the Germans. It's the least an American president can do after the way the Allied armies left so much of Europe in rubble. There's a lot of groveling to do for what America accomplished in the Pacific, too.
This prospect should appeal to Barack Obama, who relishes the role of Apologizer-in-Chief. Apologizing for manifold sins against civilization is not always easy, but it's simple enough: "Blame America First." You just open a vein and let it flow. In Cairo, Mr. Obama opened an artery.

America, unlike the president, is guilty of hubris, arrogance and cant. All that must change. "Change" is what the smooth-talking Chicago messiah says he is all about. "Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail," he told the Muslim elites Thursday at Cairo U. "So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it." It's not "a world order" that elevates America, but events. No other country is as generous, as forgiving, as willing to sacrifice blood and bone when the world calls for help. If not America, who? Hasn't the president heard?

Big talkers don't know when to stop when they're on a rhetorical roll because they can't remember which facts are actually facts and which "facts" they're making up. Mr. Obama even attributed the Golden Rule, from the teachings of Christ, to "every religion." In an interview before the Cairo speech, he called the United States one of "the largest Muslim countries," based on its Muslim population, and he later put the number of Muslims in America at 7 million, more than even most Islamic advocacy groups claim. The most reliable estimate, by the nonpartisan Pew research organization, is 1.8 million. That would make the United States the 48th "largest" Muslim nation, just behind Montenegro. Mr. Obama often has trouble with numbers, big and small; he once boasted of having campaigned in 57 states.

Mr. Obama described himself as "a Christian, but," and offered a hymn to the Muslim roots he insisted during the late presidential campaign he didn't have. He invoked his middle name, "Hussein," as evidence that he was one of "them." The Obama campaign insisted last year that anyone who uses the middle name was playing with racism.
He told the Cairo audience that "to move forward we must say openly the things we hold in our hearts," but he wasted the opportunity to forcefully instruct Muslims that respect and appreciation must be mutual. While conceding the mote in American eyes, he said almost nothing about the beam that blinds Muslim eyes. He enumerated the "sources of tension" between Islamic countries and the West and never mentioned terrorism. He chided the West for its harsh view of Islamic treatment of women - "I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal" - and suggested that denying education to women is the gravest Muslim sin against women. He could have denounced "honor killings," forced marriages and how women in Muslim countries are flogged on the pretext of minuscule violations of eighth-century Sharia law.

But it was more fun to fish for applause by berating America and throwing rocks at Israel. "Let there be no doubt: The situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable. America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity and a state of their own." Israel, he said, must "live up to its obligations," but he had hardly a word of rebuke for the long record of broken Palestinian promises. It was a remarkable insult to an absent ally, delivered to the applause of Israel's sworn enemies.

Mr. Obama's revelation of his "inner Muslim" in Cairo reveals much about who he is. He is our first president without an instinctive appreciation of the culture, history, tradition, common law and literature whence America sprang. The genetic imprint writ large in his 43 predecessors is missing from the Obama DNA. He no doubt meant no offense in returning that bust of Churchill ("Who he?") or imagining that a DVD of American movies was appropriate in an exchange of state gifts with Gordon Brown. Nor did he likely understand why it was an offense against history (and good manners) to agree to the exclusion of the Queen from Saturday's commemoration of the Anglo-American liberation of France. Kenya simply routed Kansas.
The great Cairo grovel accomplished nothing beyond the humiliation of the president and the embarrassment of his constituents, few of whom share his need to put America on its knees before its enemies. No president before him has ever shamed us so. We must never forget it.

• Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.

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Jihad attack at Ohio State?

Young woman stabbed by Muslim who fled to a mosque
Mentally ill?

This story assures us that Wael Kalash is mentally ill, but that would be more convincing if it weren't the constant refrain every time a Muslim engages in random violence in the U.S. Remember Omeed Popal? Ismail Yassin Mohamed? Naveed Haq? All Muslims, all violent against unbelievers, and all insane. And maybe they really were. Maybe Wael Kalash is also -- but his characteristically Muslim beard, his yelling "F*** YOU AMERICAN SL*T" at college girls, and his fleeing to a nearby mosque all suggest that perhaps his rage, and his violence, were particularly Islamic in character.

"Wrong place, wrong time for OSU stabbing victim," by Collin Binkley for The Lantern of Ohio State University, June 4 (thanks to Pamela):
A female Ohio State student was trying to catch a bus to class Tuesday afternoon when she became the victim of a random stabbing.
Police say the 20-year-old student was walking down Stinchcomb Drive near Buckeye Village at 12:55 p.m. when she was stabbed by 34-year-old Wael W. Kalash. Witnesses said Kalash had been walking up and down the street exhibiting "bizarre" behavior before the stabbing occurred.
"There's no connection between the victim and him other than she was at the wrong place at the wrong time, it was a completely random act," said Det. Jay Fulton of the Columbus Division of Police homicide unit.

Witnesses said that Kalash, a resident of Stinchcomb Drive, walked up to the student and stabbed her once in the abdomen with a knife. The student described the weapon as a kitchen-type knife bigger than a steak knife but smaller than a bread knife.
While an ambulance took the student to Riverside Hospital to undergo surgery, officers saturated the area looking for the assailant. They soon found Kalash inside a nearby mosque at 535 Riverview Dr., where witnesses positively identified him as the assaulter. Kalash was arrested for felonious assault and is being held at Franklin County Jail on $750,000 bond.
Neighbors of Kalash said he has a history of "strange behavior," and Fulton said he may be mentally ill.

"He didn't make a lot of sense when we tried to talk to him," Fulton said. "He exhibited a lot of signs of some mental instability or some mental issues."...
However, Pamela points out that a comment at The Lantern site gives a very different impression of this man's "mental illness":

Actually I am a resident that lives in University Village next to his building that he lived in. He was always at the UV bus stop and riding the UV bus. Whenever I would drive by him while he was sitting out on the bus stop he would stand in front of my car making me slow down and stop and yell "F*** YOU AMERICAN SL*T". I am not being "anti-foreigner", but I am telling the truth. I spoke with several other girls and they said the same type of thing happened to them. Actually I do not think this is "WRONG PLACE AT WRONG TIME" but rather a case of "eventually going to happen". The night of the stabbing I called into the Lantern to tell them of this incident clearly stating it occured [sic] at the University Village apartments, and that I myself had been verbally assulted [sic] several times by the man, Great work Lantern.
Is it really remotely "anti-foreigner" to point out that a man guilty of stabbing a young woman he didn't know used to yell "F*** YOU AMERICAN SL*T" at other college girls?

SAVAGE - GENERAL OF FREEDOM!!!

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.British politician who targeted talker Michael Savage RESIGNS(KRMG, Tulsa) Conservative shock jock Michael Savage is "stunned" that the British Home Secretary who banned him from the UK will now step down -- but insists he'll now ...

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Senora Sottoe eees no so sueno amigo - Quidada!

Property Rights Case a Sleeper for Sotomayor?

Two D.C. lawyers said at Georgetown University Law Center today that a controversial ruling on property rights could come back to hurt Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
The case, Didden v. Village of Port Chester, has already drawn some attention on conservative blogs and in a Forbes piece by Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School. It involves condemnation within a village "redevelopment area," and Sotomayor was part of a panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit that upheld a taking.
Roy Englert Jr., on a panel at Georgetown, called Didden "the sleeper case" for Sotomayor's nomination. "It's a disturbing case, and you don't have to believe Kelo was wrongly decided to find this case disturbing," said Englert, a partner at Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Unterreiner & Sauber.

"This is a case that could have enormous political legs," agreed Richard Lazarus, co-director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown, who was also on the panel. The panel included academics, appellate practitioners, and journalists who are covering Sotomayor's nomination.
Republicans have been sorting through Sotomayor's long record on the 2nd Circuit and on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. So far, the criticism hasn't focused on any one case, and Sotomayor found some support Tuesday for a ruling she joined on the Second Amendment. Click here for more.

Patricia Millett, another panelist today, called the criticism of Sotomayor for the Second Amendment ruling "among the most ridiculous issues" raised against the nominee. "Everyone knows that the incorporation issue is not something that the Supreme Court has revisited since Heller," said Millett, co-chair of the Supreme Court practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. In D.C. v. Heller, the Court ruled a year ago that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms, though it left open whether the right prevents state restrictions via the "incorporation" principle.

Englert described Sotomayor's opinions as "thorough, long, and unimaginative" because of her tendency to walk through every step of her reasoning. He said her writing shows a "slavish attention" to precedent and to statutory interpretation.
It's a style that Susan Bloch, a Georgetown law professor who was on the panel, said might be attributed to Sotomayor's status as a pioneering Hispanic woman in the judiciary. "I think it comes from being a first and having people ready to trip you up," Bloch said.

Posted by David Ingram on June 03, 2009 at 05:45 PM in

Justice you say?

In the Retaliatory Eviction case I have been reporting on literally ALL THE ELDER ABUSERS set to testify against me are NEGRO - while this 58-year-old scholar is WHITE!

In the 2005 Retaliatory Eviction case brought by Lakefront SRO (that is now Mercy Lakefront SRO) ALL THE ABUSERS WERE BLACK WHILE THE INTENDED VICTION IS WHITE!

But we could NEVER HAVE RACISM BY THE COLORED FOLK COULD WE?

Read on -

No "Racial Justice" for Whites
By: David Keene

FrontPageMagazine.com Wednesday, June 03, 2009


The Bush administration was constantly criticized for allegedly “politicizing” various Cabinet departments by overriding the actions and decisions of “career” employees for what Bush’s critics saw as purely “political” reasons.Bush’s most egregious outrages supposedly occurred at the Justice Department, where — Democratic critics charged — the president’s political appointees ran roughshod over the professional career lawyers toiling there, fired or isolated anyone who dared disagree with his perverted view of justice, and thus undermined both the morale and the credibility of American justice.Attorney General John Ashcroft was characterized as a know-nothing with little regard for the Constitution, and his successor was dismissed as an ignorant sycophant incapable of independent thought. The men and women who joined them at Justice were almost universally derided as dangerous ideologues out to destroy the integrity of the department.But the times, they do change. Eric Holder’s appointment as attorney general was welcomed by a fawning media and Senate willing to forgive and forget the fact that as a Clinton functionary, his fingerprints were on the most egregious outrages of the last Democratic administration.It was expected that Holder would be in sync with the career bureaucracy, if only because he thinks of and looks at the world in much the same way as most Justice Department apparatchiks.

After all, FEC records revealed even before the election that Justice employees were heavier contributors to the Obama campaign than those working anywhere else in the federal government.But now it seems that Holder and company are doing just what liberals accused Bush’s minions of doing. Last week The Washington Times revealed that political appointees at the Department overruled career lawyers to end an investigation and civil complaint against three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense, who on Election Day last November took it upon themselves to make certain voters in one Philadelphia precinct “did the right thing.”These three thugs, dressed in paramilitary garb, were caught on camera wielding nightsticks to intimidate white voters who they suspected might not be prepared to vote for their candidate. The film, as happens these days, quickly ended up on YouTube, shocked those who saw it and resulted in a Justice Department investigation of charges that the three had violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act.The Voting Rights Act was passed in large measure to prevent intimidation of minority voters in the South, but not even ’60s Klan members had the audacity to don sheets and show up at polling places with weapons to hurl threats and racial epithets at voters. These guys, in other words, made the Klansmen of an earlier age look sophisticated — and that is quite an accomplishment.Indeed, the Times quoted a ’60s civil rights activist who actually witnessed what went on in Philadelphia as saying that what he saw these guys do represented “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” he had ever seen. Anyone who saw the YouTube footage would have to agree.

During the DoJ investigation, it was discovered that at least one of these characters got into the polling place because he had credentials as a Democratic poll watcher. He didn’t steal the credentials. They were his, as he was and is an elected member of Philadelphia’s 14th Ward Democratic Committee. What’s more, although the three simply refused to appear in court, one bragged that what they did was part of a nationwide effort to deploy likeminded types at select polling places around the country.It should be remembered that in previous elections, Democrats have charged that the mere request for identification at polling places is intimidating to minority voters and that Republican lawyers dispatched to polling places as poll watchers were simply — by their presence — so intimidating as to be beyond the pale. That sort of “intimidation” in the age in which we live is seen as deplorable; but a bunch of filthy-mouthed, club-wielding goons are dismissed as perhaps just a bit overenthusiastic.To their credit, career Justice officials were prepared to enforce the law against these three, until President Obama’s political appointees ordered them to stop.

Democrats in the Senate during the Bush years were constantly calling Justice Department officials to Capitol Hill to explain their actions. It’s time to see if Attorney General Holder will be questioned by the Democratic Senate and House to explain why he and those working for him convinced themselves it is acceptable to let racist thugs who intimidate voters walk.

David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, is a managing associate with the Carmen Group, a D.C.-based governmental affairs firm.

Barrack Hussein - Muslim Manchurian Candidate

I hate to day I TOLD YOU SO FOLKS - but

Obama "falsely portrayed...Shariah Islam as 'not be in competition' with 'America.' Actually, Shariah is, by its very nature, a program that obliges its adherents to demand submission of all others"
Frank Gaffney weighs in on Obama's terrible Cairo speech: "Deciphering Obama in Cairo" at the Center for Security Policy, June 5:

[...] More often than not, the President portrayed Muslims as the Brotherhood always does: as victims of crimes perpetrated by the West against them - from colonialism to manipulation by Cold War superpowers to the menace of "modernity and globalization that led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam." Again, no mention of the hostility towards the infidel West ingrained in "the traditions of Islam." This fits with the meme of the Shariah-adherent, but not the facts.

Here's the irony: Even as President Obama professed his determination to "speak the truth," he perpetrated a fraud. He falsely portrayed what amounts to authoritative Islam, namely Shariah Islam, as something that is "not exclusive," that "overlaps" and "need not be in competition" with "America." Actually, Shariah is, by its very nature, a program that obliges its adherents to demand submission of all others, Muslims (especially secular and apostate ones) and non-Muslims, alike.

This exclusiveness (read, Islamic supremacism) applies most especially with respect to democratic nations like America, nations founded in the alternative and highly competitive belief that men, not God, should make laws. Ditto nations that stand in the way of the establishment of the Caliphate, the global theocracy that Shariah dictates must impose its medieval agenda worldwide. In practice, Shariah is the very antithesis of Mr. Obama's stated goal of "progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings." Its "justice" can only be considered by civilized societies to be a kind of codified barbarism.

At least as troubling are what amount to instances of presidential dawa, the Arabic term for Islamic proselytization. For example, Mr. Obama referred four times in his speech to "the Holy Koran." It seems unimaginable that he ever would ever use the adjective to describe the Bible or the Book of Mormon.

Then, the man now happy to call himself Barack Hussein Obama (in contrast to his attitude during the campaign) boasts of having "known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed." An interesting choice of words that, "first revealed." Not "established," "founded" or "invented." The President is, after all, a careful writer, so he must have deliberately eschewed verbs that reflect man's role, in favor of the theological version of events promoted by Islam. Thus, Mr. Obama has gone beyond the kind of "respectful language" he has pledged to use towards Islam. He is employing what amounts to code - bespeaking the kind of submissive attitude Islam demands of all, believers and non-believers alike....

Be sure to read it all.

I TOLD YOU SO!!!

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The "Holy" Koran

47:4: “Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve, then it is smiting of the necks until, when ye have routed them, then making fast of bonds”

9:29: “Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.”

4:76: “Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of the Shaitan. Fight therefore against the friends of the Shaitan; surely the strategy of the Shaitan is weak.”

8:12: “When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.”

8:38-39: “Say to the Unbelievers, if (now) they desist (from Unbelief), their past would be forgiven them; but if they persist, the punishment of those before them is already (a matter of warning for them). And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah altogether and everywhere; but if they cease, verily Allah doth see all that they do.”

9:39: “If you do not go forth, He will chastise you with a painful chastisement and bring in your place a people other than you, and you will do Him no harm; and Allah has power over all things.”

4:74: “Therefore let those fight in the way of Allah, who sell this world's life for the hereafter; and whoever fights in the way of Allah, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a mighty reward.”

9:111: “Surely Allah has bought of the believers their persons and their property for this, that they shall have the garden; they fight in Allah's way, so they slay and are slain; a promise which is binding on Him in the Taurat and the Injeel and the Quran; and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? Rejoice therefore in the pledge which you have made; and that is the mighty achievement.”

Sedona on Patent Litigation

2009, SEDONA HILTON RESORT & SPA, SEDONA, AZ

Howdy! Applications are now being accepted for the Tenth Annual Sedona Conference® on Patent Litigation, to be held on Thursday-Friday, October 22-23, 2009 at the Sedona Hilton, Sedona, AZ.

This year's Conference features a stellar faculty including Chief Judge Paul R. Michel and Judge Randall R. Rader from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Judge Faith S. Hochberg from the District of New Jersey, in-house counsel from the technology, pharma and medical products industries, and nationally renowned practitioners from both sides of the v. The dialogue will focus on a number of extremely timely and important topics, including:
1. Re-exam and Litigation2. Obviousness3. Inequitable Conduct4. Injunctive Relief & Damages for Future Infringement5. Reasonable Royalties6. Process Forum: Local Rules Developments and Model CMO's7. Extraordinary Relief8. Patent Reform Legislation Update
As with all of our Regular Season Conferences, registration is strictly limited to 45 participants (in addition to our faculty) to ensure an intimate environment for meaningful dialogue leading to new ideas and collective wisdom.

Registration is by invitation only: we will be looking for diversity and experience in the participant base to contribute to the discussions leading to a valuable and insightful learning experience for all. We will notify applicants who have been accepted for registration shortly after the July 4th Holiday weekend.

If you would like TO APPLY FOR AN INVITATION, please visit the program page (http://www.thesedonaconference.org/conferences/20091022) for more information.

A complete agenda, faculty list, and faculty bios can also be found on the website. The registration fee for this Conference is $1195.
Take care, all best, richard braman, executive director, the sedona conference.
P.S. I will be out of the country with limited or no access to email from June 6-28.

God's Law?

THIS ROMAN CATHOLIC OF 58 years has been the VICTIM OF VICIOUS ELDER ABUSE AT THE HANDS OF MERCY HOUSING - and the SISTERS OF MERCY ALLOW IT TO CONTINUE!


IS THIS HOW MY CHURCH IS GOING TO TREAT THIS LIFE LONG ROMAN CATHOLIC?

Is there an atmosphere of corruption in Chicago? Paddy Bawler answered, "Chicago ain't ready for reform!" - this is how it is.

In the sad tale of Elder Abuse, Malicious Prosecution and Racism that this Paralegal has been the victim of for the last four years, it is obvious - why does the Law allows this to continue?

• Perhaps the Hald Million Dollar DONATION THAT THE SISTERS OF MERCY MADE TO THE FRIENDS OF BLAGOVITCH, which is just a mile away at Lawrence and Rideway two years ago have something to do with it?
• Perhaps the SOLID VOTING BLOCK that is ALWWAYS DELEVERED TO UPTOWN ALDERMAN HELEN SCHILLER has something to do with it?
• Perhas even the COPS are PAID off by the Mercy Lakefront Abusers?
  They get away with it since they can claim the PENUMBRA of MERCY HOUSING - while YOUR TAX DOLLARS PAY HALF THE BILL AND DONATIONS PAY THE OTHER HALF!!
  In the intermin, VICIOUS CRIMINALS are given aid and succor and GOVERMENT PAID JOBS! While Older Americans are kept in a CONSTANT STATE OF TERROR!!!
• Is THIS HOW THE LAW SHOULD OPERATE?

This is the WAY IT WORKS IN CHICAGO - AND YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT!!!

And the SISTERS OF MERCY ALLOW IT TO CONTINUE!!!

For the incedinle truth visit:

http://paralegalprofs.blogspot.com/

and for a Shcoking tale see:

http://mercylakefront.blogspot.com/
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Praise the Lord,

George M Weinert V
Mercy Lakefront SRO
Harold Washington Aprs,

Corruption in Chicago

Is there an atmosphere of corruption in Chicago? Paddy Bawler answered, "Chicago ain't ready for reform!" - this is how it is.

In the sad tale of Elder Abuse, Malicious Prosecution and Racism that this Paralegal has been the victim of for the last four years, it is obvious - why does the Law allows this to continue?

• Perhaps the Hald Million Dollar DONATION THAT THE SISTERS OF MERCY MADE TO THE FRIENDS OF BLAGOVITCH, which is just a mile away at Lawrence and Rideway two years ago have something to do with it?
• Perhaps the SOLID VOTING BLOCK that is ALWWAYS DELEVERED TO UPTOWN ALDERMAN HELEN SCHILLER has something to do with it?
• Perpahs even the COPS are PAID off by the Mercy Lakefront Abusers?

They get away with it since they can claim the PENUMBRA of MERCY HOUSING - while YOUR TAX DOLLARS PAY HALF THE BILL AND DONATIONS PAY THE OTHER HALF!!

In the intermin, VICIOUS CRIMINALS are given aid and succor and GOVERMENT PAID JOBS! While Older Americans are kept in a CONSTANT STATE OF TERROR!!!

Is THIS HOW THE LAW SHOULD OPERATE?

This is the WAY IT WORKS IN CHICAGO - AND YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT!!!

HELP OLDER AMERICANS

Clerk's Office Senior Citizen Advisory Committee, please contact Ms. Anne Smith at (312) 603-4719 or acsmith@cookcountycourt.com.

Dear sirs of Madams:

I am writing you pursuant to your notice at the Cook County Web Site, seeking volunteers. I am a 58 year old man who has spent the last two years getting A paralegal Certificate, which is almost done. One of the reasons I got into the law was because of ELDER ABSE - I have been the victim for five years and the abuse continues.

I am a 58-year=-old desperately poor man who is currently facing the SECOND RETALITATORY EVICTION by my Landlord, Mercy Lakefront SRO Housing - the case is not in its 18th month and will be settlted of tried soon. I faced a SIMLIAR RETALIATORY EVICTION CASE in 2005 which dragged on for a yea and finally decided in my favor on November 16, 2005. I had the good fortune have the Pro Bono Representation of Cabirni Legal Aid, and saw what can be done.

I am currently also applying for the Summer Positons with Doroty Brown's Office, and very interested in using my Legal Skilles to HELP PREVENT THE ELDER ABUSE that I have been su jected to. Additional details can be found at:

http://mercylakefront.blogspot.com/

I would LIKE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE and WANT TO HELP OLDER AMERICANS - so let me know what I can do.

Sincerely,

George M Weinert V

Paralegal

4946 N Sheridan Rd, #309

Chicago, IL 60640

(773) 598-4610

http://paralegalprofs.blogspot.com/

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Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition,
George M Weinert V

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You can HELP TOO - visit the Senoir Center at the Cook Councty Circit Court Web site and:

STOP ELDER ABUSE NOW!!!

Muslim hit Man pleads not Guilty

Arkansas jihad killer pleads not guilty, despite admitting to shooting

Yet "a prosecutor said Muhammad admitted shooting Long and another soldier 'because of what they had done to Muslims in the past.'"

Exclusive information about the shooter here.

"Suspect pleads not guilty in soldier's death," by Noah Trister for Associated Press, June 2:

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A Muslim convert accused of killing a soldier in a "political and religious" attack on a military recruiting center pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a capital murder charge and was ordered held without bail.

Abdulhakim Muhammad, 23, of Little Rock, was charged in Monday's death of Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway outside an Army-Navy Career Center in a west Little Rock shopping center.

A prosecutor said Muhammad admitted shooting Long and another soldier "because of what they had done to Muslims in the past."

An FBI-led joint terrorism task force based in the southern United States has been investigating Muhammad since he returned to the United States from Yemen, a law enforcement official said. The suspect had been arrested and jailed in Yemen at some point for using a Somali passport, the official said....

Police Chief Stuart Thomas said Muhammad, previously known as Carlos Bledsoe, was a convert to Islam and was not part of any broader scheme to attack the American military.

Deputy Prosecutor Scott Duncan said Muhammad told investigators that "he would have killed more soldiers had they been in the parking lot." Long and Ezeagwula were targeted as they stood outside the recruiting center smoking cigarettes....

"We believe that it's associated with his disagreement over the military operations," Thomas said....

Police arrested Muhammad along a highway moments after the shootings. Police said an assault rifle and other weapons were found in his vehicle.

In addition to the capital murder count, Muhammad is accused of committing 16 counts of a terroristic act. Thomas said most additional counts resulted from the gunfire occurring near other people....\--------

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While Chairman Hussein heads to Saudi Araba and Egypt to figurre out how TO KILL EVEN MORE AMERICAN INFIDELS!!!

Hussein Obame learned his Lessons well -

"Taqiyya" is the religiously-sanctioned doctrine, with its origins in Shi'a Islam but now practiced by non-Shi'a as well, of deliberate dissimulation about religious matters that may be undertaken to protect Islam, and the Believers. A related term, of broader application, is "kitman," which is defined as "mental reservation." An example of "Taqiyya" would be the insistence of a Muslim apologist that "of course" there is freedom of conscience in Islam, and then quoting that Qur'anic verse -- "There shall be no compulsion in religion." {2:256} But the impression given will be false, for there has been no mention of the Muslim doctrine of abrogation, or naskh, whereby such an early verse as that about "no compulsion in religion" has been cancelled out by later, far more intolerant and malevolent verses. In any case, history shows that within Islam there is, and always has been, "compulsion in religion" for Muslims, and for non-Muslims.

"Kitman" is close to "taqiyya," but rather than outright dissimulation, it consists in telling only a part of the truth, with "mental reservation" justifying the omission of the rest. One example may suffice. When a Muslim maintains that "jihad" really means "a spiritual struggle," and fails to add that this definition is a recent one in Islam (little more than a century old), he misleads by holding back, and is practicing "kitman." When he adduces, in support of this doubtful proposition, the hadith in which Muhammad, returning home from one of his many battles, is reported to have said (as known from a chain of transmitters, or isnad), that he had returned from "the Lesser Jihad to the Greater Jihad" and does not add what he also knows to be true, that this is a "weak" hadith, regarded by the most-respected muhaddithin as of doubtful authenticity, he is further practicing "kitman."

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Er4ic Holder is PROTECTING ABORTION KILLERS - with YOUR MONEY - will the FED ALSO PROTECT MILITARY RECRUIERS NOW?

Don't hold your breath!

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

Religion of Peace Update

June 2, 2009

Exclusive information on the Arkansas jihad killer: Business major turned jihadist

Jihad Watch broke the story that Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, who shot one soldier and wounded another at an Arkansas military recruiting station yesterday, studied jihad in Yemen. Here is more exclusive information from a well-placed source:

Carlos Leon "Corey" Bledsoe, who changed his name to Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad after he converted to Islam, is from Memphis, Tennessee. He was a student at Tennessee State University -- a business major. After becoming a Muslim in 2004 at the age of 19, he quit college and embarked upon a path that ultimately led him to Yemen, and Little Rock.

Meanwhile, note the lack of coverage of this shooting in the mainstream media. CNN just covered a candlelight vigil for the murdered abortionist George Tiller. Will there be a vigil for William Long, the soldier murdered by this jihadist in Little Rock? Why should William Long's family suffer alone?

Finally, it is not clear at this point that Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad had "sudden jihad syndrome," as some anti-jihad bloggers are calling this. Note that this ABC story says, "Officials say it is too early to know for certain if he indeed acted alone." And his sojourn in Yemen does make it entirely possible that this was not "sudden jihad," but carefully premeditated jihad.

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This is the "Holy" Koran:

9:5. Then when the Sacred Months (the 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikun {unbelievers} wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat {the Islamic ritual prayers}), and give Zakat {alms}, then leave their way free. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

Having been revealed later in Muhammad?s life than 50:45, 109, and 2:256, the Verse of the Sword abrogates their peaceful injunctions in accordance with 2:106. Sura 8, revealed shortly before Sura 9, reveals a similar theme:

8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.

8:67. It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great slaughter (among his enemies) in the land. You desire the good of this world (i.e. the money of ransom for freeing the captives), but Allah desires (for you) the Hereafter. And Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.

9:29. Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

9:33. It is He {Allah} Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it superior over all religions even though the Mushrikun (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) hate (it).

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How long will you ignore this America?