Comments on: House Judiciary Panel Hearings on ‘Imperial Presidency’

By: richard vajs

richard vajs — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:51:30 +0000

A G Philbin,
I said that I wouldn’t bother researching this Palestinians dancing on 9-11, but you annoyed me so with your hostility, that I invested some time. Actually there were several films of Palestinians dancing on 9-11. The later films were from outfits like Reuters, etc that had established credible documentation. After the World digested that the attacks were co-ordinated terrorism, reaction from around the World was aired – some Palestinians rejoiced, some like Arafat expressed sorrow (it is even claimed that he wanted to donate blood). Iranians were said to show sympathy; Israelis like Netanyahou were happy because they had America hating the Arabs.
If you look on the internet, you find many sites that debunk the “fraudulent film” story, but they are curveballs – what they address is theories that try to say that ALL films of Palestinians dancing on 9-11 were faked. What they don’t address is the early film that CNN released within several hours showing Palestinian children celebrating America’s downfall. I maintain that one was a fake – filmed out of context
strictly from an agenda to promote rage and hatred against the Palestinians. But don’t take my word for it. Matt Taibbi, contributing reporter for “Real Time with Bill Mahr” wrote an article describing this junk video “Gone in 30 Seconds” (www.marxists.de/middleast/current/cnn.htm). The “marxists” bit comes from his reporting career in Russia and Central Asia. If you read it, you will note that CNN refused to comment upon the whole incident when questioned.
I further remember NPR airing the truth about the film and the Israeli chap who was so clever. Hopefully I can get transcripts from ATC or Morning Edition for the week after 9-11. However, after the takeover of NPR by the Bush operatives, that may be difficult.
Anyway, the point is that American media is slanted towards Israel. And they have no professional ethics against lying, covering up, or distorting the truth to attack Israel’s enemies

By: richard vajs

richard vajs — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:17:10 +0000

A G Philbin,
What are my sources? – simply my own memory and an ingrained habit of telling the truth as I see it. Your hectoring and artificial timeline doesn’t make me doubt myself. What you are demanding is ridiculous. On 9-11, it was hours after the crashes before anyone in America even knew what was going on let alone some Palestinians who mostly likely had no access to TV let alone American national news programming. So, if you think that right after 10AM EST, some Palestinian kids without access to breaking news managed to digest the events, interpret them as good for Palestine and then convince someone to tape them dancing and then get an international feed into New York and convince some news executive that it was worth interrupting the biggest news event since Pearl Harbor, to show a homemade video of Palestinian kids celebrating “the Great Satan’s downfall; well I guess you probably buy the whole 9-11 schmeer. Including a passport of one of the hijackers floating down through the inferno to land safely in some FBI agent’s hands.
Sorry, I am not going to spend the time tracking this down to give you names, etc. I have presented my memories and my reasoning. If I thought that you were truly open to the truth, it might be worth it, but people like you are not really interested in the truth, you are just trying to bully your way around. “Clever kikes” – do you use that kind of talk at home?

By: R. Nelson

R. Nelson — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:22:43 +0000

Where’s Kenneth been?

By: 1984

1984 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:23:09 +0000

P-N-A-C

By: John Lowell

John Lowell — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:03:30 +0000

Ah, yes, Lawrence. How about these little cuties, Lawrence:

Thomists Bar Barr In 2008

Barr Launches Check Writers Anonymous

Admittedly, these have more of the feel of headlines or captions than slogans, but I won’t kvetch if you start turning out tee shirts with this text on front or back. Catchy, eh?

And as for phillbin, leave ‘em alone, he’s happy.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:48:31 +0000

Tim R:
I see you’re at it again. You can always be depended upon to show up with your neo-con talking points. “Sure he oversteps a litte…” Yeah, like killing up to 1.2 million Iraqis is a mere overstep and the killing of tens of thousands of uninvolved innocent Afghanis is likewise merely an overstep. The collectivism of the Bush supporters is no better than the collectivism of the most extreme terrorist, and the fact is that U.S.-sponsored terrorists-in-uniform have precipitated all of this by starting (yes starting) the conflict and by inflicting even more “collateral damage” on the people in Islamic countries than they have ever accomplished by means of their collectivist retaliations. Tim R seems to want us to “assume” that the U.S. government has been minding its own business for the past 50 years instead of fomenting death, destruction, and upheaval around the globe since the end of WW2. I sure hope that nobody in my neighborhood ever commits a crime that results in the death of someone Tim R knows and loves. If that happens, he will authorize the bombing of my entire city to show us who is boss and to restore all that is right. Tim is a collectivist to his bones and cannot see the tree for the forest.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:39:03 +0000

AG:
Thank you for helping to pop the big swollen balloon of gas that is John Lowell. While he often makes good points, just as often he shoe-horns the abortion debate into every post. Often these are in the form of a slogan, which is type of truncated thought. Whenever there’s a complex question at hand, John can simplify it into a slogan and then dish out invective at anyone who does not pass his litmus test by falling into line. But be patient, AG. John has not yet shoe-horned into the conversation his misunderstandings of Aquinas, about whom he is just as much a slogan factory — missing the detail, but who cares (he says) since the only purpose of bringing it in is to intimidate with heavy hitters who may not recognize him.

By: A. G. Phillbin

A. G. Phillbin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:08:30 +0000

@ anti-neocon/anti-neolib and @ richard vajs:

What are your sources regarding this alleged faking of people dancing in the street in Palestine? And please, no more “I read somewhere that some clever kike did thus and such” unattributed nonsense: source, please. And while you’re at it, was it a video of an unrelated event as a-n/a-n says, or a video staged by a clever candy bearing Israeli, as RV asserts? Source those claims as well, please. RV, can you give us the exact time you saw the video of the dancing Palestinians in sunlight? Are you aware that 7 hours after “between 9am and 10am” New York time is the same as between 4pm and 5pm Jerusalem time (yes, I checked)? Even in Palestine, the sun does not go down in the afternoon in early September, so your speculation that it couldn’t have happened that very day is simply wrong. In fact, sundown in Cairo, Egypt on that very day was 7:05pm. Can we assume that it isn’t that different in Palestine? Right now, you’ve got the credibility of the 9-11 Troofers/Loose Changers in their quest for a pleasing scenario that blames only their already chosen enemies.

By: A. G. Phillbin

A. G. Phillbin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:30:34 +0000

John Lowell yammered:
Is it really going to be necessary for me to explain to you that that entire earlier post of mine was nothing if not a riot of mocking and sarcasm? And you weren’t able to grasp that? You really are rather dull and limited aren’t you? That established, I’d want you to understand that I have no interest in conducting a dialogue with you.

I say:
If you mean the post I had just answered, yeah, DUHHH, I knew it was “mocking and sarcasm.” That “mocking and sarcasm” seemed to me, and I’m sure to others here, as an expression of self-righteous frustration on your part, even if you were staging a “riot.” Of course, if by the “entire earlier post” you meant one of the one’s in which you expressed your views regarding Bob Barr and/or abortion, well then, I sincerely and abjectly apologize for not having the subtlety to see the “riot”ous humor. Apparently, neither did anyone else. I guess everyone here is just “too dull and limited” to dialog with such a master wordsmith as yourself, who makes his meaning and attitude so crystal clear. I found your incredible ability to logically explain that zygote = blastula = embryo = fetus = baby equation quite fascinating, even though I realize you haven’t even gotten around to attempting it. I’m sure when you’re finished “riot”ing, you will amaze us all with your debating and logic skills. In the meantime, please accept my sincere and humble apology for not cringing and fleeing under the “riot”ously devastating blows of “mocking and sarcasm” that you have directed at me, making me unfit to “dialog” with the brilliant you.

By: Eugene Costa

Eugene Costa — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:31:27 +0000

Myths die hard. A little more than a generation ago, the old Anglo-American Empire, including the Middle East, lived in a course at Harvard popularly called “boats” and in the person of a certain Robert Albion.

The scuttlebutt was the course was easy, “a gut”. It was-but only if one accepted the myth.

If one did not, things might go very hard indeed, no matter what scholarship was advanced.

At any rate, the Russians, the Chinese, and even the Iranians are well schooled in the subject indeed.

By: Eugene Costa

Eugene Costa — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:12:00 +0000

A little more might be a few signposts, if it is permitted to be starkly indicative.

Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power on History is a sloppy, ill-researched work historically but formed the myth behind the new “Anglo-American” Imperialism and world domination, and largely set the table for its strategy.

Mahan himself, if he actually did not coin, was the first to popularize the term “Middle East”, in specific reference to the Persian Gulf nicely enough.

What has that got to do with the War in the Philippines, the Boer War, and Zionism?

Look at a map.

The very penetrating will also notice Hongkong and Shanghai.

The very, very subtle will add Argentina.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:46:33 +0000

Lamar Smith’s opening remarks are so illogical, immoral, stupid, and partisan, that it is almost impossible to imagine that someone could have the total lack of character necessary to utter them.