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By Sparta

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
Washington Times: Byrd upheld law – when it helped Democrats

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

There was an omission in the listing of noteworthy votes by the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia Democrat, in the article “Sen. Robert Byrd, longest-serving member of Congress, dies at 92″ (Web, News, Monday). I refer, of course, to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton.

On Aug. 6, 1974, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette quoted Mr. Clinton as saying of President Nixon: “No question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI … is an impeachable offense. … If a president of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign.”

Twenty-four years later, on Dec. 19, 1998, Mr. Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming only the second president in U.S. history to be impeached and the only man popularly elected as president to have been so indicted.

Mr. Byrd made the following statements regarding Mr. Clinton’s impeachment, Published in the Congressional Record for Feb. 12 1999: “The president plainly lied to the American people. Of course, that is not impeachable, but he also lied under oath in judicial proceedings” and, “The president lied to the American people, and, while a great majority of the people believe, as I do, that the president made false and misleading statements under oath, still, some two-thirds of the American people do not want the president removed from office.”

Much is made of Mr. Byrd being the “soul” of the Senate, the one to hold his colleagues to the letter of the Constitution. It seems, however, that was only the case when Mr. Byrd deemed doing so to be convenient or politically expedient. Having admitted that Mr. Clinton’s perjury charges reached the prerequisite for removal from office, he wrote, “I called for these proceedings to be dismissed, out of genuine concern for the divisive effect that an ultimately futile trial would have on the Senate and on the nation.” Failing to get the proceedings dismissed, he voted against conviction.

In other words, out of concern for the nation (i.e., the Democratic Party) Mr. Byrd chose to not follow the letter and intent of the Constitution.

STELLA L. JATRAS

Camp Hill, Pa.

Originally published at 2.0: The Blogmocracy as Ignoring the Cesspool in Bosnia and Kosovo At Our Peril

By 1389AD

Under the radar

While we are all worrying about Kagan confirmation hearings, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the near-worldwide economic collapse, the Iranian and North Korean nuclear threats, and the Gulf oil leak, the cesspool of jihadism in the Balkans goes nearly unnoticed. It stays off the radar screen, not only in the socialist mainstream media, but also in outlets such as Fox News and most of the conservative blogosphere. And when it is mentioned, likelier than not, Serbs are blamed for violence committed by their jihadi enemies.

Why is this important?

It’s important because, for over a decade, the US and its NATO allies have devoted tremendous effort to helping the Bosnian and Kosovar Muslims to set up jihadi strongholds in the Balkans. The Balkans jihadis are quite simply the local branches of al Qaeda in Europe. At the same time, we claim to be fighting al Qaeda and its affiliates in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If you try to fight on both sides of the same war, only one things is certain: you will surely lose. And so we will. This foreign policy is not merely evil, it is completely insane. But don’t expect the media to tell you this, considering that the media played such a key role in getting the US into this untenable position to begin with. Were the mainstream media, or for that matter, anybody in the US or NATO military or governments, to admit the truth about what has been going on in the Balkans, widespread shock and disbelief would ensue. It’s anybody’s guess what would happen next.

The Muslim-controlled parts of the Balkans form a stronghold from which jihadis can easily smuggle drugs, weapons, money, propaganda, and people into the rest of Europe, and from there to the US and just about anywhere else.

See for yourself:

• Five Employees of Islamic Charity Arrested in Kosovo on Terrorism Charges
  

  Kosovo police arrested five members of an Islamic humanitarian organization suspected of “criminal activities.”

  The five suspects were associated with a humanitarian organisation called Iskrenost (Sincerity).

  The arrests took place late on Friday in the southwest city of Prizren in an operation in which 120 police officers were deployed. Berisa said police confiscated a large quantity of weapons during the operation, including automatic rifles, pistols, ammunition and uniforms.

  Since the Bosnian war, Jihadists have often operated under the guise of humanitarian organizations from Islamic countries and several such charities have been banned in Bosnia. …

• Bosnia: Jihadists bomb police station; analysts state the obvious and warn of more to come
  

  As is so often the case with the Balkans, analysts are quick to attribute the problem of jihadist activity to the influence of “Wahhabism,” though without accounting for why the Wahhabists’ teachings resonate so readily with what we were told were peaceful, secularized, tolerant Muslims. To suppose otherwise, of course, raises the specter of there being something about Islam, even among our modern, moderate “friends and allies” that is not of the Wahhabists’ invention, but nonetheless generates acts like the one described below.

• Albanian’s January Killing Spree in Finland Originally Reported in England as done by “Kosovo Serb”
  

  … However, I am going to post about the January killing spree in Finland, because I remembered that the source who sent it to me wrote the following: “I noticed one of the British channels first announced that the killer was a ‘SERB KOSOVAN’ when the news just started to unfold.” …

• British News: the “Serb Kosovans” Ibrahim and Islam Shkupolli
  

  … In a post last week about an Albanian mass killer at a Finnish shopping mall, I mentioned that a British news channel (whose identity I’m trying to ascertain) referred to the perpetrator as a “Serb Kosovan.” Thanks to my source on this, “Serbstvo,” we have the actual video of the reporter saying this. Not the anchorwoman, but the male reporter in the field (whose name I could only discern as Roger Thomas) made the “mistake” even though the shooter’s name is clearly Ibrahim Shkupolli. Thomas isn’t even tipped off by the very next frame of his package after his mis-identification, which goes to a Shkupolli cousin in Kosovo, whose first name is “Islam.” …

• Bosnians Always Impugn Themselves
  

  In February there was a major police action in the notorious radical stronghold of Gornja Maoca. Located at the juncture of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, and near a major roadway, this town briefly became a focus for investigators immediately after 9/11, and has come up repeatedly as a problem since. (Including as the nexus of the planned rocket attack on world leaders at Pope John Paul II’s 2005 funeral, which naturally went virtually unreported.) Here is what happened in February:

  Bosnia: Police raids target radical Islamist stronghold …

• U.S. Tries to Restore Serbian Sovereignty ofer U.S.-supported “Independent” Kosovo
  

  Did anyone else catch this gem last week from North Carolina’s WRAL news site:

  Report: Judge denies extradition of Triangle terror suspect

  Raleigh, N.C. — A European judge has ruled that a man arrested in Kosovo last week will not be extradited to the U.S. to face charges that he aided a suspected terrorism ring in the Triangle.

  Bajram Asllani, 29, an ethnic Albanian and native of Mitrovic[a], Kosovo, was convicted of terrorism in Serbia and was under surveillance in his home country when he was arrested Thursday following an extradition request from the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. He faces charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure persons.

  Judge Agnieszka Kolowiecka-Milar of the European Union Rule of Law Mission denied the extradition request, ruling that Kosovo doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the U.S., according to Bulgaria-based FAN TV. Prosecutors were relying on a 2001 agreement between the U.S. and Serbia, but Kosovo has since declared its independence and isn’t bound by that agreement, the judge ruled.

  …

Quite the contrary.

The UK, Germany, and other G-20 countries are cleaning house while the US, under George Soros and the Obama regime, is trying to drag the rest of the world, along with itself, down into the abyss.

See for yourself:

• Soros wants to collapse German economy with debt
  

  Transnational Totalitarian Progressive George is well known to be Barack Hussein Obama’s puppet master. He is a supporter of Islamic-Imperialist groups like Hizballah and Hamas. Soros despises American allies like Colombia and Israel and through his funding of International Leftist NGO’s. In short Soros is the perfect Bond villain, an evil sinister man who had no qualms taking the property of fellow Jews during the Holocaust.

  Barack Hussein Obama recently lectured the G20 nations to not balance their budgets. Instead he wants them to keep spending and borrowing. The reason for this is very simple, he is doing his master’s bidding. George Soros and his buddies collapsed the US economy in Sept. of 2008 so the Progressives can seize power. That was not enough however, now they want to bankrupt the whole world starting with Germany. Soros had the audacity to try to lecture the German government into spending more money… Read the rest.

• Defying opposition from within the Coalition, Tories to shut the open door for migrants
  

  Theresa May will unveil the country’s first ever cap on migrant workers on Monday – finally ending Labour’s open door immigration policy.

  Despite opposition within the coalition Cabinet, the Home Secretary will impose a strict limit on the number of non-EU work permits that can be handed out.

  Eventually, it is expected to lead to a sharp reduction in the more than 100,000 migrants and their family members who are told they can work here each year… Read the rest.

  In other words, the UK is working to roll back all forms of immigration, legal and otherwise, especially from Third World countries. The US should be doing the same.

• The Hill: US Isolated on Spending at G-20
  

  …Germany, France and Great Britain have all launched austerity campaigns designed to reduce public debt. They’re motivated in part by the Greek debt crisis, which continues to scare countries across Europe.

  “In the run-up to the summit, a clear plurality of G-20 countries has come up on the side of fiscal consolidation and not stimulus spending,” said Dan Price, a senior partner at Sidley Austin and former President George W. Bush’s “sherpa” for G-20 summits.

  Japan has also introduced a strategy to reduce its budget deficit, while Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is hosting the summit in Toronto, has challenged G-20 members to cut their deficits in half… Read the rest.

What does this mean?

Why can other countries begin to turn around, while the US seemingly cannot?

One problem is that the system of checks and balances in the US Constitution is broken. When we are foolish enough to elect a truly horrible legislature and President, we have no effective means of rolling back, or even of reining in, the abuse and the usurpation of power, until irreparable damage has been done. The Clinton Administration taught us that the threat of impeachment is toothless. The Supreme Court has too much power, and all too often, it uses that power to reaffirm unworthy laws and regulations as being Constitutional.

What now?

Since 1865, the States have feared to assert their right to annul any federal law or regulation that clearly flouts the Constitution. But that is beginning to change. We can only hope that enough citizens in enough States will realize that the federal government is not our protector, but a socialist tyranny that neither has nor deserves the consent of the governed.

By 1389

It’s time to stir the pot some more

My last post on the brouhaha at Grouchy Conservative Pundits (GCP) was harshly worded indeed, but nonetheless it was not harshly worded enough. I haven’t rattled enough cages yet. Until I start getting some hate mail, enraged comments in all kinds of languages, and maybe even some juicy death threats, I never know if I’m getting my message out, rather than just preaching to the choir.

Lots of people talk about respect…

Talk is cheap. If you’re going to play that game with me, you’ll have to ante up. I believe in giving respect ONLY where respect is due. People who want my respect have to earn it, and they cannot earn it by spewing flagrant and undeserved disrespect toward me and others, as did “Mike C.” and “Rayra” on GCP.

Intellect alone is not deserving of respect; it depends on what people do with it. I have known many people far more intelligent than those two, and who behave far better.

Current or former military service (assuming these people are who they say they are, and I have my doubts) in and of itself is not enough to earn my respect either; there are just as many despicable people among the military and former military as there are everywhere else. I had a recent ex-boss of that description; he was, and is, a crook who treated me like dirt and then got rid of me by transferring me to another position where I would not be paid as much as my contract specified, simply because I didn’t play along with his chicanery in manipulating department budgets. That ex-boss was one more example of the fact that the most consistently untrustworthy people out there are the ones who always talk the loudest about “having someone else’s back.” Yeah, right…with a knife between the ribs.

As far as military personnel are concerned, don’t even get me started on those US military who willingly took part in the bombing of the Serbs during the Kosovo War, or who failed (and still fail) to protect the lives, property, and freedom of the Serbs in occupied Kosovo. Every officer involved should have resigned their commissions. Those who failed to resign have genocide on their consciences, though I doubt that any of them will ever admit it.

Is he or isn’t he? Only his gardener knows for sure

As I said, I cannot determine for sure whether or not “Rayra” is a plant. It’s just as likely that “Rayra” is merely a deeply angry, confused, frightened, and mentally and emotionally unstable individual who is too impulsive to think anything through, can never admit being wrong about anything, sees no reason to learn to control his temper, has no respect for women or anybody he considers to be weaker than himself, has no interest in where anybody else is coming from, and lashes out blindly at anybody or anything that he sees as a threat to his ego or to his self-centered world view. Or he could simply be an outright psychopath; I’ve had the misfortune to be acquainted with a few of those too.

For obvious reasons, I would never WANT somebody like “Rayra” even to claim to be on my side. He is more a danger to his friends, such as they are, than to his enemies.

But whether “Rayra” is actually a plant isn’t the most important concern here. The point is that, whether “Rayra” intends it or not, his intemperate and misguided remarks further the interests of expanding the corrupt and tyrannical use of federal government power.

Why do so many people hate Russia?

As I mentioned in my earlier post, a truly irrational hatred of Russia is rife on GCP, and anybody who says a word in favor of Russia becomes a target. I have reason to believe that Russia is not only far less of a “despotism” than the US, but also it runs the country in the interest of its own citizens, its economy is growing instead of collapsing, it respects Christianity, and its leaders are loyal to their own country. Russia is nothing like its portrayal in the mainstream media.

We are acquainted with an American expat who has lived near Moscow for many years, and we get some information about what is going on in Russia from the inside. Also, one of our friends is an amateur astronomer who travels all over the world whenever there is an eclipse. He’s a rock-solid conservative Republican and has been so for many decades. He went to Russia the last time there was an eclipse there, and he liked it so much that he seriously considered blowing off the eclipse-viewing to spend more time traveling in Russia and meeting Russians.

No, I don’t agree with everything that the Russian government does, just as I will never agree with everything that any government does. We live in a fallen world and all governments are fallible. But I can well understand why, at this stage, Russia is a rival of the US and not an ally. Yes, Russia COULD have been an ally, but Americans blew the opportunity through our own selfishness and ambition. The carpetbaggers that came over to Russia from Harvard and the liberal think-tanks after the Berlin Wall came down inflicted incredible damage; they are the ones to blame for letting the oligarchs and gangsters take hold for as long as they did. Since that time, Putin and Medvedev have made considerable inroads against the oligarchs and gangsters. They’ve also instituted a flat tax that is not excessively high, they collect it even-handedly, and unlike the US, they don’t double-tax Russian citizens earning money overseas. If they’ve had to play rough against the Chechen jihadis and the media whores and NGOs that support the jihadis, then good for them.

I understand that many people continue to harbor suspicion and hatred against Russia as a result of the heritage of the Cold War. I myself was as ardent a supporter of the US during the Cold War as anybody could be. However, in the present day, such hatred against Russia is counterproductive and it sinks to the level of irrational bigotry. I haven’t observed the same degree of opprobrium leveled at China, our other Cold War enemy, even though China is much less free than Russia, China is not primarily a Christian country, China is more of a rival to us than Russia is, and the remnants of communism persist much more strongly there.

Pot, meet kettle

I would no more condemn Putin for having been in the KGB in the distant past, than I would condemn George H. W. Bush for having headed the CIA, which has done little to protect us, and much to get us into needless trouble. At least Putin is a Christian who has repented of whatever wrongdoing he has committed in that regard. Can you imagine an American president ever repenting of anything? I sure can’t. I doubt that we’ve had a real Christian president since Ronald Reagan, despite numerous photo-ops intended to prove the contrary.

Anybody can see that we have an even bigger mess in the US. What inroads has our federal government made against the Latin-American drug gangs, the SEIU, George Soros and his circle of oligarchs, the traitors at the New York Times and CNN, the traitors in the State Department, the commies in our universities, the crooks who run Detroit and Chicago, and last but not least, the jihadis that infest every corner of the US?

Shooting the messenger

Of course, it sent many people on GCP into fits of outrage to hear me say that Russia, despite its current rivalry with the US, has been cleaning up its internal messes, while the US has been sinking into an abyss. Their response was to shoot the messenger.

And why do so many people hate the Serbs?

There is plenty of evidence that they hate the Serbs over at GCP. This is ironic, considering that GCP was founded by people banned from Little Green Footballs, and considering that I was banned from Little Green Footballs for supporting the Serbs. Their antipathy toward the Serbs also serves to explain some of their hatred toward Russia, simply because the Russians have made some efforts to help the Serbs.

The US government, along with NATO and the EU, is still doing everything it can to destroy the economy and livelihood and what little remains of the sovereignty and culture of the Serbs, in order to help the jihadis to create a stronghold in the Balkans. And that includes the US military. I don’t even want to think about how many people on GCP might have been personally involved in one way or another. That’s between them and their Maker.

This foreign policy is not merely stupid, it sinks to the level of treason. The whole purpose of throwing the Serbs under the bus is to curry favor with the Saudis and other Muslim oil-producing nations. A lot of good that has done us! We would have done better just to colonize them and take over and de-Islamize the Middle East just as we once de-Nazified western Europe. As anybody could have predicted, like every other bunch of totalitarians, the jihadis are inherently evil and they will always bite the hands that feed them, which is what led to 9-11.

Does that statement surprise you? In case you don’t know, Osama bin Laden travels on a Bosnian Muslim passport granted to him by the late Alija Izetbegovic, who was literally a Nazi. It is not appropriate to invoke Godwin’s Law here, because we’re talking about an actual Nazi of the Third Reich. Notice that I do not call Izetbegovic an ex-Nazi, in that he was a lifelong unrepentant Nazi who recruited for Hitler as a young man. And the US government sided with Izetbegovic in the Bosnian War.

This collaboration with the jihadis in the Balkans has been going on ever since Reagan left office. I have grave doubts about the moral worth of the American people for consistently electing governments that support our enemies in this way. How am I supposed to be loyal to a government that is collaborating with our enemies? If I had been in Norway during the Second World War, should I have been loyal to Vidkun Quisling?

I harbor a faint hope that enough people in some state, somewhere in the US, will see the light in time to secede from a Quisling federal government that is deliberately laying us open to our enemies, so that at least some part of the US will be salvaged. If the turnaround doesn’t happen very soon, long before the 2012 election, it will be too late, and the America that we thought we knew will exist in name only.

Some will insist on remaining under the US federal government no matter what, so that their livelihood (and maybe their lives) will be bled away to support a socialist/jihadi federal tyranny that has chosen to represent not “American exceptionalism” or the “city on a hill” but the worst of all possible worlds. That’s their choice, but let them not claim their willful blindness as moral superiority.

Each bullet point below is a separate link:

• The Balkan Problem, Part 1
  

  Several times on Blogmocracy, the actions of the Serbs in the FYRs (former Yugoslav Republics) have come up for discussion. What is lacking in these discussions is the background, history, and ethnic tension that underlies the actions. This post will attempt to clarify how a culture of Serbian Orthodox Christians can end up as war criminals. What drives civilized men to massacre? This is part one in a series. Next, Did the US and NATO pick the wrong side in the Yugoslavian Wars?

  Read more at the above link.

• The Balkan Problem, Part 2a: Did the US and NATO pick the wrong side in the Yugoslavian Wars?
• The Balkan Problem, Part 2b: Who Are the KLA?
• The Balkan Problem, Part 3: Revisiting Srebrenica

Blog admin 1389 received the following article from Stella Jatras.

Justice seems as far away now as it was then.

“Since Mitrovica is in the news, I’m sending this out again for those who might not have read it. – Stella”

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jatras4.html

Other Side of an Ugly Story

by Stella L. Jatras
Special to Antiwar.com
9/6/00

I have followed with great interest the events in Kosovo this past year and I was particularly intrigued by both accounts written by Officer Vincent duCellier that were published in the Washington Times. Officer duCellier, a former Maryland police officer, has selflessly volunteered his time and separation from his family to command the prison in Mitrovica, Kosovo. The first article appeared as a touching letter written to his wife titled, “Lessons of a lifetime,” dated as a 3 August editorial. The second article published in The Metropolitan Section of the Times is dated 21 August and titled, “‘We are the police’ in war-torn Kosovo, Maryland cop learns the value of America from volunteer mission,” and was almost identical to the first article, which aroused my curiosity as to why the Washington Times would give second coverage to identical reports in so short a time. This is in response to Officer duCellier’s observations as a police officer commanding the Mitrovica prison in Kosovo.

Officer duCellier alluded many times in both letters to the “hatred that is clearly evident between Serbians and Albanians.” However, what appears to have made the greatest impression on him, and perhaps exposes his pro-Albanian sentiments, was the tragic fate of a young 16-year old Albanian boy who was totally paralyzed on the right side as the result of a beating by the Serbian police a year earlier, which left him with only limited use of his left side. Officer duCellier writes, “He is Albanian. This was his crime, and so the Serbian police under [Slobodan] Milosevic broke his neck.” I certainly do not defend this act of cruelty, but Officer duCellier neglected to relate even one of the incidents where Serbs were the victims.

A FEW EXAMPLES OF THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY

Unfortunately, there are many tragic stories such as the one told by Officer duCellier. As an example, the tragic death of the Bulgarian staffer working for the U.N. civilian mission in Kosovo who was shot and killed after his first day on the job. (AP, U.N. Official killed in Kosovo). The AP writes: “According to Inspector Gilles Moreau of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, now serving with the UN in Pristina, a group of ethnic Albanian youths followed him and asked him what the time was. When Krumov replied in Serbian, the youths began to kick and punch him. A large crowed gathered, separating Krumov from his colleagues. “‘All of a sudden, a shot was heard, the crowd dispersed and the body of Mr. Krumov was on the ground, lifeless,’ said Inspector Moreau. Krumov had been shot in the head.”

And what was this young man’s crime, I would like to ask Officer duCellier? The Guardian of 13 October 1999 writes that “Mr. Krumov, a Bulgarian, was killed because he spoke a simple phrase in Serbian.” I repeat: “He spoke a simple phrase in Serbian.”

Another example of injustice was done to a Serbian man and his two sons who spent over a year in prison [was it in Officer duCellier's prison?] after having been accused of killing an ethnic Albanian. The Washington Times reported on 9 August that a “Serbian man, two sons acquitted, slaying case seen as test of Kosovo justice for minorities.” [LOL. "Kosovo justice for minorities?"]. An Associated Press article on 21 July writes, “the murder trial of a Serb man and his two sons, accused of killing an ethnic Albanian in a shootout in Kosovo, took a dramatic turn Friday when the trial judge said American troops confirmed they killed two people at the scene that day. Judge Patrice De Charette said the admission was contained in a 103-page report submitted by U.S. authorities Friday to the court trying Mirolub ‘Mirko’ Momcilovic, 60 and his sons Jugoslav, 32, and Boban, 25.” Is this what Officer duCellier considers to be justice by keeping innocent Serbian men in prison for over a year before being released?

Staff Sgt. Frank Ronghi, the U.S. soldier who received a life sentence without parole for killing an 11-year-old ethnic Albanian girl while on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo, bragged to his fellow soldiers that he was going to pin this one on the Serbs. If the Sergeant had not taken along one of his buddies while in the process of dumping his young victim’s body in a field, innocent Serbs would be rotting in jail for the rest of their lives at this very moment and Sgt. Ronghi would be walking around scot free to perhaps rape and murder another young girl and blaming it on Serbs, and why not? After all, the name of the game is, “blame it on the Serbs!” when considering the Serbs have been accused of other atrocities for which they were not guilty.

Sgt. Ronghi was not dragged before the dock at the International Criminal Court (ICC) as is done to Serbs who, unknowingly have been secretly declared as war criminals and kidnaped under some of the most bizarre circumstances such as kicking down the door of a Kosovo Serbian medical center and yanking the patient from his hospital bed at 2:45 a.m. A military spokesman said that the man had been wounded by a British KFOR soldier during rioting in the Serbian enclave of Gracanica, just south of the provincial capital, after a grenade attack on a Serb market there. Father Sava of Decani Monastery, emphasized that he did not wish to address whether the patient should have been arrested or not but he condemned the manner in which this was done, calling it “unprecedented and unacceptable” and added, “We cannot tolerate this anymore! This kind of behavior on the part of British KFOR show us that the international forces are an occupying force, not peacekeeping forces acting in accordance with the UN Resolution.”

Another assault by ethnic Albanians on Serbs was reported by Associated Press on 5 December 1999 when an American Professor from Berkeley was murdered. AP reported, “NATO peacekeepers and U.N. police only realized later what had happened: A crowd of ethnic Albanians had pulled [Professor] Basic, his 51-year old wife and her 74-year-old mother from the car, flipped it over and set it on fire. The mob kicked, punched and pummeled them. Basic was shot. Firecrackers were jammed in the mouths of the terrified women. Basic died en route to the hospital. The two women suffered critical injuries and remain hospitalized in the Serbian city of Nis.” The Associated Press also reported that “His [Professor Basic] face looked as if it had been dragged across gravel. The medic who was present began mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but couldn’t hear Basic’s breathing over the crowed’s shouting. He ripped open the man’s shirt. That’s when he saw the bullet’s entry wound.”

But why am I not surprised at the Gestapo method of apprehending those bearing the Scarlet Letter “S” for Serb? Didn’t this sort of Nazi-type thuggery happen in the wee hours of the morning when storm troopers broke into the home where young Elian Gonzales was being protected by his Cuban Miami family from being returned to “Papa Castro?” Were Bosnia and Kosovo merely rehearsals for what occurred on that early morning raid in Florida?

I would like to ask Officer duCellier, are the KLA/Albanian thugs who committed these atrocities in his prison, or in any other prison for that matter? When incidents of this sort occur, most ethnic Albanians are questioned and then released without spending any time behind bars, unlike Serbs who are detained in prisons even after they have been proven innocent. The question should then be raised, where was the outrage from Professor Basic’s congressman and senators over his violent death and the brutality displayed against his family? Did that act of Albanian barbarity not warrant some condemnation?

R. Jeffrey Smith of the Washington Post Foreign Service reported on 12 June, 2000, “The killer stood ankle-deep in the mud of a stream bed on Sunday night two weeks ago and poked his AK-47 through a metal fence covered with camouflaging vegetation. He was close enough to get a clear view of 4-year-old Milos Petrovic and four Serbian men milling in front of the tiny grocery in this Kosovo village. Milos had come for an ice cream cone with his uncle, but his presence was no deterrent to the gunman who fired 21 shots at the group and then fled along the stream. Milos’ head was nearly gone, and two of the men also died quickly. U.S. troops flew the others by helicopter to a base camp for surgery.” The report continues:

“The dead were among the more than 500 people who have been slain in Kosovo since NATO peacekeeping troops and U.N. officials arrived here one year ago to begin reconstructing this war-ravaged, ethnically riven Serbian province. In the last five weeks alone, more than 55 other serious, ethnically motivated crimes have been committed against Kosovo’s minority Serbian population.” Very recently, two hand grenades were thrown at a group of people in the Serb area of Kosovo, wounding ten Serbian children ranging from the ages of five to 15. Are any of the Albanian terrorists who committed these atrocities languishing in Officer duCellier’s prison?

NATO TERRORISM RESULTS IN AMPUTATIONS FOR INNOCENT CIVILIANS

Acts of brutality by NATO’s use of stun guns against the Serbian population resulted in the amputation of limbs. As reported in the Associated Press of 16 March, 2000, “Seizing control of a key bridge in a first step to reunite this ethnically divided city, NATO peacekeepers clashed Wednesday with angry Serbs in a confrontation during which two people lost limbs to stun grenades.” It continues: “At least 15 Serbs and an undetermined number of peacekeepers and journalists were injured. Nine of the injured were hospitalized, said Dr. Radomir Jankovic, a chief surgeon at the Serb-controlled hospital. A mother of three and a diabetic man each had one foot amputated because of injuries suffered when stun grenades fired by French peacekeepers exploded near them, Jankovic said.” Have charges been brought against the French peacekeepers for inflicting such pain and suffering on their Serbian victims? Agence France Presse reported that “a 70-year-old Serbian woman was dragged out of her house after being savagely beaten by unidentified assailants, the UN’s refugee agency in Kosovo said on Friday. The agency seized on the attack as an example of the ‘horrific lack of community initiative’ demonstrated by the overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian community in the southern Kosovo town of Prizren when it came to dealing with hate crimes. The woman was attacked in her Prizen home before her assailants dragged her outside and left her in the street.” AFP reported from Pristina on 27 August that “a Kosovo Serbian child was killed and three others seriously injured when a car hit them Sunday, UN police spokesman Richard Graham told AFB. A car leaving the scene was stopped by KFOR peacekeeping troops and two Kosovo Albanian men were arrested by UN police in relation to the incident,” and in another case, Fr. Sava reported that on the same day the Serbian child was killed, a 75-year-old Serb from Crkvena vodica was also killed by a machine gun fire from an unindentified car which immediately disappeared in direction of Albanian dominated Obilic.

As Patrick J. Buchanan says, “What is goin’ on here?”

Again, I would like to ask Officer duCellier, have any of these Albanian thugs been jailed and brought to justice? What was the Serbian child run down by a car, or the machine-gun death of the 75-year-old Serb guilty of other than being Serbs?

Jerry Seper of the Washington Times wrote on 4 May 1999, “KLA rebels train in terrorists camps, Bin Laden offers financing, too.” During the first two months of KFOR’s occupation, more churches were destroyed by America’s buddies, the KLA mafia, than under 500 years of the Ottoman Empire, and the destruction of Serbian holy sites continues while Congress remains silent unlike their passionate display of condemnation on the floor of the House of atrocities allegedly committed by Serbs. It seems our good Congressmen couldn’t get on the floor fast enough to denounce alleged Serb atrocities. While all traces of Serbian churches and monasteries are being eradicated, the United Arab Emirates’ defense minister has offered to build 50 mosques in Kosovo at his own expense. (Reuters, 20 August).

I cannot stress frequently enough and strongly enough that the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has somehow been magically morphed into the peaceful Kosovo Protection Force, was armed and trained in Osama bin Laden’s camps and are engaged in sex slavery, (“Sex slave trade thrives among Kosovo troops,” London Times, 5 February 2000), prostitution, (“Kosovo’s Flesh Trade, the San Francisco Chronicle, July 24, 2000), kidnaping, murder and drugs (“Albanian drug dealers and trafficers are flourishing in post-war Kosovo,” by Imer Mushkola in Pristina, 23 May, 00). This is the nature of the KLA beast, and now that they have almost succeeded in ridding themselves of the Serbs, Roma, Jews and non-Albanians, they have already begun to kill their own. And after they have rid themselves of unwanted ethnic Albanians, who’s left to target? You guessed it – American GIs. Isn’t it comforting to know that our politicians and media have made a pact with these thugs on behalf of the American people? Christopher Lane and Benjamin Schwartz of the Washington Post say, “We were Suckers for the KLA,” but were we? I think not. We have known all along exactly what our agenda was – to rid the world of those pesky Serbs and to take over their assets.

In an incredible report, the Washington Times of August 22, World Section headlines, “Violence against minorities no longer stuns Kosovo.” It goes on to say, “Violence against minority groups is so common place it appears to be regarded as normal, often met with a resigned shrug of the shoulders from U.N. police officers and members of the NATO-led Kosovo Force (Kfor) peacekeeping.” The “civilized” community was more than willing to accept some retribution, some form of revenge by ethnic Albanians against the minorities who were left in Kosovo, as though two wrongs DO make a right, but the question should be asked over and over again, revenge for what? Retribution for what? And for how long? More and more reports are finally beginning to surface that there were no mass graves in Kosovo, nor was there a genocide and that rumors of atrocities committed by Serbs had been greatly exaggerated. The BBC World Service reported on 17 June, 2000 of the huge arms find in Kosovo and writes that K-For British-led peacekeepers in Kosovo have uncovered the largest store of illegal arms found since fighting ended in the province a year ago. Six tons of arms have so far been removed from the bunkers. “You’ve got enough here to start a small war,” said British Major Simon Marr. AP further substantiated ownership of the cache of weapons when it wrote, “NATO said Friday that a huge cache of weapons including mortars, mines and machine guns found last week belonged to the Kosovo liberation Army.” Are these arms violators serving time? Not in Officer duCellier’s prison, I would venture to guess.

Am I to assume that as a “volunteer,” Officer duCellier is not being financially rewarded other than having the satisfaction of helping to keep order in a prison in Kosovo? Is it compassion alone that he feels the need to extend his services in Kosovo until September of 2001? If so, he is certainly to be commended for his humanitarian desire to bring law and order to a lawless nation, one created by NATO and our politicians. Or is it possible that there is a $$$$ factor which enters the picture? Officer duCellier states that there are “36 International Police Officers on my staff and 65 detainees in the jail. The detainees are mostly Serbians [a little over half, he states] accused of various war crimes such as mass murder, [apparently, charges of killing just ONE ethnic Albanian is considered to be "mass murder," such as in the case of the Serbian father and sons], genocide and arson top the list. They each profess to be innocent. The Roma here face similar charges, while the Albanians are charged with minor theft, weapons possession and attempted murder.” “Minor theft? Weapons possession and attempted murder?” It appears that KLA/ethnic Albanians who commit atrocities such as raping a Serbian nun while Kosovar rebels looted her monastery after NATO troops refused a mother superior’s plea for protection, or “Grannies” who have been targeted for special horrors, such as decapitation, drowning in bathtubs, stabbing or raped, [their crime of being Serbs], are considered to be lesser crimes than those allegedly committed by Serbs accused of “mass murder,” [mass graves that have been proven to be non-existent?] Or “genocide,” yet the Wall Street Journal reported, “War in Kosovo was Cruel, Bitter, Savage; Genocide It Wasn’t,” (31 December 1999). Could it be that Serbs in Officer duCellier’s prison are accused of war crimes that do not exist?

Bob Djurdjevic’s Truth in Media (TiM) reported on 14 August that “Hashim Thaci, the Kosovo Albanian terrorist-in chief and (thus) Madeleine Albright’s good pal, attended a gala luncheon on Monday (Aug. 14) at the Democratic Party convention in Los Angeles. A TiM source who was also there said that when Albright and Bill Clinton showed up, “before they spoke, Thaci went up to Albright, had a brief talk, and then kissed twice on the cheeks.” It was during her last visit to Kosovo that Madeleine Albright was greeted with kisses from Thaci, after he had just executed six of his officers. It appears that Senator Lieberman shares views of Madam Albright, for it was he who said, “The United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles…Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values.” (Washington Post, April 28, 1999).

By now, we have all heard the joke of how the war in the Balkans began. During a meeting of Madeleine Albright with the all-male NATO ministers, she asked the question, “Well gentleman, do we make love or do we make war?” Of course, the answer was unanimously for war.

And what a lovely war it is, Officer duCellier. Money and all.

As a career military officer’s wife, Stella Jatras has traveled widely and has lived in many foreign countries where she not only learned about other cultures but became very knowledgeable regarding world affairs and world politics. Stella Jatras lived in Moscow for two years where her husband, George, was the Senior Air Attaché), and while there, worked in the Political Section of the US Embassy. Stella has also lived in Germany, Greece and Saudi Arabia. Her travels took her to over twenty countries. She is the author of the “Open Letter to General Michael Short,” which antiwar.com carried on 11/3/99, “From Camp Swampy to Camp Bondsteel!” on 4/6/00, and “Srebrenica – Code Word to Silence Critics of US Policy in the Balkans” on 7/31/00.

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As I have mentioned elsewhere, we unfortunately no longer have the time, energy, or resources to devote to blogging that we once had in the past. Political blogging takes a heavy, and often a truly staggering, personal and professional toll on anybody who does it. Moreover, I have had some severe health issues and have had to cut back on certain activities, so it is a matter of priorities. Thus, in recent months, we have been blogging on a very infrequent basis.

When the 2008 US presidential election came down to Hillary, McCain, and Obama, followed by the worldwide economic collapse, it became clear to us that there was not much more that we could contribute by blogging at the same rate as we had previously been doing. Fortunately, we had reached the point where all of the points that we have been trying to make are also being made by many other bloggers, and even by a few conservative journalists and other public figures. We do not aspire to be acknowledged as the leaders of any particular movement.

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OK, some of you still don’t get it! We had an Islamic attack on US military base, and the clueless US news media are treating it like an ordinary crime. The reports/commentators are trying to figure out why this Muslim soldier (who happens to wear a US Army uniform) on a suicide mission opened fire on American troops. It was a fairly obvious suicide mission. Just like the suicide bombers in the Middle East and the 911 attack, Muslims have infiltrated the US military and will be doing their best to give comfort and aid to radical Islam, which has declared war on these United States. (For those of you who speak, “Ya’ll,” I do mean all 50 of those States.)

The American media, once again, is proving that it is nothing more then the propaganda arm of the tyrannical dictatorship in Washington, D.C. True, you do get an election to choose the dictatorship’s figurehead for the next four years, and to pick the 535 power-mad flunkies who have let the real governance of the United States fall into the hands of thousands of unelected federal bureaucrats who are accountable to nobody.

Let’s examine the facts. Nidal Malik Hasan, the shooter, is a radical Muslim. He has been an outspoken supporter of radical Islamic causes. He has been in the US Army for a long period of time and knows the system well. He used that knowledge to kill a number of US troops and wound others. To wear a US uniform and support an enemy cause is a clear act of espionage. Of course, in the heavily controlled US press, no one would dare to point out this obvious fact.

Radical Islam is has been openly at war with the US since 1979, if not before. Yes, it has been thirty years since radical Muslims invaded US soil, namely the US Embassy in Iran, and took over 400 Americans hostage. President Jimmy Carter, one of the most clueless men ever to hold that office in US history, pussy-footed around, so that many of those Americans were not released until Ronald Reagan took office.

Reagan, with his hands firmly on the nuclear trigger, kept radical Islam at bay, but in radical Islamic circles, the hatred of America never ended. Reagan focused on “winning the Cold War.” He did so, but instead of using direct conflict, he pressured and cajoled the Soviets into slowly giving up Communism, thus freeing Eastern Europe from the clutches of left-wing tyranny. (On behalf of all non-Communist Slavic people, Mr. Reagan, please accept a “thank you” from this Czech-American.)

From then on, our position with radical Islam went downhill. The supposed “Third Reagan Term” was a dismal failure. Bush 41, sided with Islamic forces, and chose to help “break up the former Yugoslavia.” What that really meant was that after considerable Islamic violence, which he quietly but wholeheartedly supported, many Christians are now living under Islamic tyranny in the Balkans. Of course, the clueless American media, the abysmally corrupt US State Department, and many gullible Americans still believe that the Christian people of Serbian heritage did some horrible things to these “poor defenseless Muslims.” Nearly two decades of State Department and mainstream media efforts to dig up dirt against the Serbs have unearthed no credible evidence. On the contrary, there is overwhelming evidence that radical Islam and other outside influences not only set up this conflict in the Balkans, but also kept it going until they gained a jihadist stronghold in Europe. Thus, while the Roosevelt Administration helped liberate Europe from the Nazis, and the Reagan Administration helped liberate Eastern Europe from the Communists, the first Bush Administration helped the Muslim terrorists get a foothold in re-conquering the Balkans.

The Clinton Administration continued to coddle radical Islam, going so far as to use the US Air Force to aid and abet the radical Muslim terrorists in Bosnia, Albania and Kosovo. In addition, the Clinton Administration suckered and arm-twisted other nations to contribute their own air forces to aid in the terror-bombing of those who opposed the spread of radical Islam in the Balkans. While the controversy raged about the Clinton Administration’s eagerness to populate the US military with out-of-the-closet homosexuals, the public eye was distracted from the fact that radical Muslims were infiltrating the US armed forces. Of course, during the entire eight years of the Clinton Administration, reports of Islamic attacks on the US, and reports of attempted attacks, continued to trickle into the news.

It is likely that the most successful Islamic attack during the Clinton regime was the bombing of the Oklahoma Federal Building. On the day of the bombing, the US media at first focused the blame on Islamic terrorists. But then, the memo must have gone out to the closely government-controlled US media, so that the blame immediately shifted to US patriots who abide by the original intentions of the Framers of the United States Constitution and support their independent state militia. (No, the Framers were NOT referring to the state police or the National Guard.)

So, what was the payoff for twelve years of coddling radical Islam? What was the real legacy of both Bush 41 and Bill Clinton? The 911 attack, of course! By then, the Muslims had another oilman ally back in the White House, but jihadists have a habit of biting the hands that feed them. Bush 43, being both a former governor of the oil-rich state of Texas, and a close friend of the Saudi royal family and even of the bin Laden family, was not about to admit that we were at war with radical Islam. Instead, he declared war on “terrorism.” At the time, one commentator suggested that this would have been as silly as FDR asking Congress for a declaration of war against aircraft carriers on December 8, 1941. Terrorism is a weapon of war, not an enemy that one can declare war against. Radical Islam has declared war on the US several times during the last 30 years. A fatwa, after all, is an open declaration of war that is also an immediate and ongoing mobilization order. If the Muslim jihadists thought they could fight and win a conventional war against the US, they would do just that. Because they cannot, they use terrorism as their weapon instead.

The current Administration is an abomination. (Perhaps that should be spelled O-b-a-m-a-N-a-t-i-o-n.) A foreign-born immigrant from Africa serves as the United States President, illegally. He is allowed to hide behind his dark skin because all his critics are automatically accused of “racism.” So if you dare criticize his social agenda that is somewhere to the left of Karl Marx, or if you question his coddling of radical Islam, or even if you could not in good conscience vote for him because of his position on abortion, you run the risk of being labeled “racist.” (Note that the author of this article has been much harsher on Obama’s three white processors in this piece, but nevertheless, liberal propagandists with their “bigot” label will be complaining about this article).

Of course, all four of these administrations have used these Islamic attacks as just another pretext to restrict the freedoms of US citizens. Recently, I took my first airline flight since the 911 attack. The way I was treated was totally unbecoming a citizen of the US. Being disabled and unable to walk through metal detectors, I was made to balance precariously while being publicly patted down like a common criminal. The search was so invasive that the lady travelers in my party were aghast.

So, expect more Muslims in the US military to “go postal.” After all, this Nidal Malik Hasan is being passed off as a crazy man who lost control because he was being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Expect the US media to continue to pass off these Islamic attacks on US soil as “random acts of violence.” Expect the US military forces to fight in Islamic countries, supporting one group of Muslims over another. Expect the US media and US government to continue side with Muslim terrorists in Eastern Europe, as they have in both Russia and the Balkans. And, of course, if you are a US citizen, expect to lose more of your rights and freedoms.

The US people should be demanding the following actions:

1. That the United State Congress declare war on radical Islam;
2. That a Constitutional Amendment be ratified declaring that Islam is not a religion, but an enemy ideology, and that it is not to enjoy the protection of the First Amendment or of any other law guaranteeing unabated religious freedom;
3. That no Muslim immigration into the US be allowed until the war against radical Islam has been won;
4. That all Muslims in the US military should be investigated intensively and be required to state publicly that their belief in Islam shall never be used to disobey any order or to commit any act against the US, and that they be required to renounce all individuals, by name, such as Osama bin Laden, who oppose the non-Islamic world and all organizations, such as al-Qaeda and Hamas, who support violence against non-Islamic countries (anyone refusing to do so is obviously a danger to the US military);
5. That dangerous radical Muslims be interned, similar to the detainment of radical Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans who openly declared their loyalty to the Emperor of Japan over that of the US during World War II;
6. That the rights and freedoms of non-Muslim US citizens be restored;
7. That their respective States each declare its sovereignty; or declare independence from the US federal government.