Government language police: “Jihadist” is out

Muslims might be offended by ‘Islamo-fascism”

The Bush administration has launched a new front in the war on terrorism, this time targeting language. Among the guidelines included in the memo:

“Never use the terms ‘jihadist’ or ‘mujahedeen’ in conversation to describe the terrorists. … Calling our enemies ‘jihadis’ and their movement a global ‘jihad’ unintentionally legitimizes their actions.”

“Use the terms ‘violent extremist’ or ‘terrorist.’ Both are widely understood terms that define our enemies appropriately and simultaneously deny them any level of legitimacy.”

On the other hand, avoid ill-defined and offensive terminology: “We are communicating with, not confronting, our audiences. Don’t insult or confuse them with pejorative terms such as ‘Islamo-fascism,’ which are considered offensive by many Muslims.”

“Regarding ‘jihad,’ even if it is accurate to reference the term, it may not be strategic because it glamorizes terrorism, imbues terrorists with religious authority they do not have and damages relations with Muslims around the world,” the report says.

Jihad Watch covers the revised lexicon.

Virtual fence is a virtual flop

Open borders advocate Bush has no commitment to enforcement

The virtual fence was to be a technological advancement that would provide an alternative to “divisive” walls and federal agents policing the Arizona-Mexico border.

Initially, we were told there were delays in getting the high-tech virtual border fence operational. Then there were additional postponements and a few rescheduling glitches, but not to worry, it would be completed and operational “soon.”

When “soon” arrived last December, we found the fence was flawed. So flawed, in fact, that the towers, computer software, radar, satellite links and cameras were malfunctioning and didn’t meet Boeing’s contract requirements for detecting border intrusions. Some of its $20 million dollar technology would have to be replaced by this summer.

Now the entire high dollar project is being scrapped due to the clumsy incompetence of the Bush administration’s Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff, the contractors and the failed system itself.

Meanwhile, the flood of illegal aliens, both Mexican and others, using that country as a launch pad to gain access to the U.S., continues the invasion unabated.

In a previous post, Seeing Red AZ posed the elephant-in-the-room question, asking who impoverished Mexicans will aid in invading our borders if the price is right? The United States remains vulnerable to the threat of international terrorist organizations with the ability to exploit the poverty, lawlessness, economic instability and governmental corruption south of our border.

As long ago as 2004, TIME magazine reported border agents have encountered not only a wide variety of invaders from Latin America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela) but also intruders from Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Russia, Korea, China as well as Egypt, Iran and Iraq

And while American citizens sit and wait for the next shoe to drop, we foot the bill for self-placating misadventures as George W. Bush makes concessions to forward his dream of a North American Union and a borderless continent.

Watch this CNN video with Lou Dobbs for an idea of what lies ahead.

 

 

Mexican drug cartels recruiting soldiers as hired guns

U.S. vulnerable to exploitable mercenaries

 ”Join the ranks of the Gulf Cartel,” reads a recruitment banner. “We offer benefits, life insurance, a house for your family and children. Stop living in the slums and riding the bus. A new car or truck, your choice.”

Such banners and signs are appearing in various Mexican states urging members of Mexico’s national military to join the Zetas, the hit squad of the Gulf Cartel.

Last week, federal agents detained the Reynosa police commissioner Juan José Muñiz, for questioning because of evidence he was protecting the Zetas, the Mexican Justice Department said.

Read the daily’s complete article here.

In the border town of Juárez, information about who is fighting whom on the streets is hard to come by. The International Herald Tribune has reported that the local police chief professes that he knows nothing about the conflict, despite having been an officer there for 30 years. He acknowledges that the 1,600-member police force is riddled with corrupt officers, a consequence, he says, of low pay and the lack of a career path that leads them to seek other sources of money.

The elephant-in-the-room question becomes who else will impoverished Mexicans aid if the price is right? The United States remains vulnerable to the threat of international terrorist organizations. Their ability to exploit the poverty, lawlessness, economic instability and governmental corruption south of our border places us in an untenable situation.

As long ago as 2004, TIME magazine reported border agents have encountered not only a wide variety of invaders from Latin Americans (Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela) but also intruders from Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Russia and China as well as Egypt, Iran and Iraq

The presidential candidates must stop side-stepping this critical issue. Empty promises and inaction cannot continue as America stares squarely in the face of impending peril.

Religion of Peace update

 

Dutch Parliament member Geert Wilders’ sobering film, “Fitna” is causing worldwide uproar. Be aware this abbreviated version contains graphic material, but the appalling truth about the teachings contained in the Quran needs to be seen. The video is English subtitled.

Religion by the numbers

According to the Vatican, Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world. Figures recently compiled in the Vatican’s newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world’s population and Catholics 17.4 percent.

No word on whether or not the “Religion of Peace” was counting the 72 virgins each martyr of the faith receives for blowing up innocent people at weddings, schools, restaurants, on public buses and in shopping malls. Those inclusions could jack up the numbers considerably.

Which presidential candidate said this?

Referring to the struggle to repress radical Islamic terrorists, the United States’ goal should be “to win the hearts and minds of the vast majority of moderate Muslims who do not want their future controlled by a minority of violent extremists.”

“In this struggle, scholarships will be far more important than smart bombs.”

Mark Steyn, writing for National Review’s The Corner, gives us his short, but brilliant assessment of this skewed logic.

The border fence hoax

Chertoff is not asleep at the switch—he’s out to lunch, dining on tacos

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is once again inflating its numbers of the amount of border fence that has been built. They claim over 300 miles. Reality check:less than 10 miles of double-layer fencing has been built since the Secure Fence Act was passed 18 months ago.

It’s basically another border fence hoax. Read the full report provided by Grassfire.org, detailing how DHS exaggerates its numbers to claim over 300 miles of fencing.

If we were unable to have this vital national security measure implemented with an administration that cunningly won the hearts and votes of conservatives, what chance will there be with either of the Democrat candidates or Señor John McCain, who just gave a speech in which he extols the virtues of  ”The Americas.”

Does this term sound familiar?  Seeing Red AZ ran this post last October.  Scroll down to see a short video clip of former Mexican President Vicente Fox being interviewed by Larry King. You’ll see where McCain is getting his ideas.

The ICE man cometh

A less than cordial welcome

In an editorial titled, How long will this one stay?, the daily Fish-wrapper takes a backhanded swipe at Arizona’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office. Bidding farewell to outgoing director Alonzo Pena, whom they call “much admired,“ the newspaper dismissively refers to the incoming director, Mathew Allen, as “the new guy.“

Although crediting Allen for his 23-year career in law enforcement with a solid background, specializing in smuggling investigations, the clear implication is “the new guy” won’t last.

The editorial mentions the succession of top personnel in the department, deriding the situation as a “bureaucratic game of musical chairs” and a “revolving door.”

A more complete and factual explanation is likely contained in this Washington Times article. The frustration level among agents trying to do their jobs, amid personnel cutbacks, too few resources and numerous restrictions, remains high.

America’s porous border represents significant risks to homeland security. Would-be terrorists access the same routes and utilize the same methods employed by illegals and their paid coyote transporters. In fact, ABC News reports it is far more lucrative to transport wealthier Middle Easterners desiring access to this country. The “virtual” fence touted by Homeland Insecurity Chieftain, Michael Chertoff, has been exposed as being virtually useless. Nationally syndicated columnist, Michelle Malkin has accurately referred to it as “gesture politics.”

“Despite the costs, the country’s interior enforcement program historically has been neglected and understaffed,” Michael W. Cutler, a retired U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services senior agent and criminal investigator, was quoted in the Times . “We have only been given the illusion of making a serious effort to enforce our immigration law.”

Include the disgraceful convictions and sentences of Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, which continue to demoralize those in service to our nation’s security and a different picture emerges.

When has the daily newspaper editorialized about this miscarriage of justice or the additional invasion of OTM‘s (other than Mexicans) imperiling our nation?

More of Obama’s Pastor’s comments on 9/11

National Review Online writes: Rev. Jeremiah Wright has offered controversial analysis of 9/11 more than once. The links provided in the brief commentary are worth checking.

An interesting opener: “In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the Western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just “disappeared” as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns.”

Then watch this damming video –if you can take it.

Repeated Mexican military incursions into U.S.

Confirmed by FBI, but not on Chertoff’s radar screen

Scarborough Country reports on shocking incidents—including shooting at U.S. border patrol agents, as Mexican military units provide cover for drug cartels and human transporters.