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“If we go to war with them, they will try to turn them on,” — Government official to Wall Street Journal.

New evidence has just been uncovered that cyberspies, likely from China and Russia, have penetrated the U.S. power grid and left behind spyware software that can be activated to disrupt America’s water, sewer and electricity infrastructure, FOX News confirmed today.

The “intrusions,” first reported by The Wall Street Journal, did not occur yesterday, but happened over the period of time when George W. Bush was in charge, a high-ranking government official from the Obama Regime stated. The breaches are “something that the Bush Administration failed to catch,” the official reminded FOX News. Barack Obama himself was asked by the American media if Americans should be concerned that the spyware that Mr. Obama inherited from George W. Bush could be activated during Obama’s reign to disrupt critical systems and make his administration appear inept.

“White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said in a written statement that President Obama takes the issue of cyber security ‘very seriously,’ but that the administration is not aware of any such ‘disruptions’ to the power grid. Cyber attacks are made all the time, however, industry continuously looks for and mitigates against such attacks and we are not aware of any disruptions to the power grid caused by deliberate cyber activity here in the United States.”

While the motivation for the breaches is not well understood, the electronic trail appears to lead to China and Russia. However, both of those nations deny involvement in state-sponsored cyperspying. Officials at both Washington embassies of China and Russia emphatically deny that any of their spies in the United States are certified as cyperspies.

The good news, according to The Wall Street Journal, is that the cyperspying espionage appeared pervasive across the country and did not target any particular ethnic group nor sexual persuasion. Indeed, government officials explained to the Journal, the cyberspying intrusions were detected by those same U.S. intelligence agencies, CIA, DIA, NSA, etcetera, that had been asleep at the wheel during the Bush administration, when “man-made disaster” pilots were flying American-made airplanes into American-made buildings.

“‘If we go to war with them, they will try to turn them on,’ one official told the Journal.” That is why the Obama Administration has already sent a message to both China and Russia, promising that the Obama Nation will NEVER wage war against either of their nations. China, Russia, the rest of the world, and the American people need to be reassured that President Barack Obama will never be a President George W. Bush.

For the first time in hundreds of years, if ever, sea pirates have hijacked an American-flagged ship with American crew members aboard. Again, the Obama administration reminds us that this is just another of the many disasters that Barack Obama inherited from that war-mongering George W. Bush. The vessel was flying the American flag only because it had been contracted by the Bush Department of Defense to ship war supplies.

Satire is probably closer to the truth than any real news you can read in America.

Inauguration Week 2009: America Descends into Self-destructive Insanity
How else can one describe a nation that is planning to close down an off-shore island prison housing dangerous terrorists, and bring them all into the United States where they will have the same rights and protections as any American citizen, and the same access to the courts as any red-blooded American burglar? While, at the same time, the government of the United States of America wants to hand over the former administrators of its nation, Bush, Cheney, CIA operatives and anyone else involved in the War on Terror, to a World Court, to be prosecuted as War Criminals, outside of the United States.

“If terrorists suddenly get the same rights as citizens, then we’ve turned the world upside down,” said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, as he attempts to introduce a bill that would outlaw the release of known terrorists into the United States when President Obama closes Guantanamo.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Plan to Prosecute Bush Administration Officials for War Crimes, January 18, 2009.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is receptive to the idea of prosecuting some Bush administration officials, while letting others who are accused of misdeeds leave office without prosecution, she told Chris Wallace in an interview on “FOX News Sunday.”

“I think you look at each item and see what is a violation of the law and do we even have a right to ignore it,” the California Democrat said. “And other things that are maybe time that is spent better looking to the future rather than to the past.”

Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced Friday he wants to set up a commission to look into whether the Bush administration broke the law by taking the nation to war against Iraq and instituting aggressive anti-terror initiatives. The Michigan Democrat called for an “independent criminal probe into whether any laws were broken in connection with these activities.”

President-elect Barack Obama has not closed off the possibility of prosecutions …

MSNBC News Call for Prosecution of Bush Administration as War Criminals (Rachel Maddow and Jonathan Turley, 19 January 2009)

“Are we literally looking at a possibility,” Maddow asked, “where administration officials from this [previous] administration cannot travel abroad to the other 145 countries that have signed the torture treaty because they might get arrested?”

“Most certainly,” Turley replied. “The status of George Bush is not that different from Augusto Pinochet. They’ve both been accused of running a torture program. And outside this country, there’s not this ambiguity about what to do with a war crime. … Most people abroad are going to view you not as former President George Bush, they’re going to view you as a current war criminal.”

“And they’re going to view us as an outlaw regime for not arresting him on our own soil,” Maddow remarked.

“I think so, unfortunately,” Turley agreed. “A lot’s at stake.”

9/11 Families Outraged by Obama Call to Suspend Guantanamo War Crimes Trials

Families of victims of terrorist attacks say they are outraged by President Obama’s call to halt the trials of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Family members of people killed on September 11, 2001, and in other terror attacks say they are outraged by President Obama’s draft order calling for the suspension of war crimes trials of prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay.

Murtha Says He Welcomes Guantanamo Prisoners in His Pennsylvania District

Rep. Jack Murtha volunteers to house prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in his Pennsylvania district, as President Obama prepares to order the shut-down of the facility.

Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., says he’d be willing to house prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in his congressional district if President Obama makes good on a plan to close the U.S. prison there.

As one of his first acts in office, the president circulated a draft Wednesday that would shut down Guantanamo Bay within a year.

Murtha only has a minimum security prison in his district. But he says he’d have no reservations about holding detainees there in a maximum security prison.

“Sure, I’d take ‘em,” said Murtha, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war. “They’re no more dangerous in my district than in Guantanamo.”

Murtha added that there was “no reason not to put ‘em in prisons in the United States and handle them the way they would handle any other prisoners.”

Liberals think it is funny - Guantanamo Baywatch

The John Murtha Jihadist Correctional Facility by Michelle Malkin

No Terrorist Attacks In the United States! Why?

• On October 12, 2002, in Bali, Indonesia, Al-Qaeda’s Jemaah Islamiyah terrorists targeted packed nightspots, killing 202 people, including more than 160 foreigners. There are even more nightclubs in the United States, why didn’t al-Qaeda target us here?
• On March 11, 2004 in Madrid, Spain, 191 people were killed and more than 1,800 injured in a series of explosions on four trains. al-Qaeda took responsibility for that accomplishment to avenge the presence of Spanish troops in Iraq. But why didn’t the terrorists bomb American trains on American soil? We had even more troops in Iraq than did the Spanish.
• On the morning of Wednesday September 1, 2004, in Beslan, Russia Muslim terrorists and Arab mercenaries wearing explosive belts stormed a school taking 1,200 parents, students, children, and infants hostage. They wired the room with explosives and threatened to blow up the school during a three-day standoff. The children were refused food and water and were held in stifling heat in a gymnasium while the world waited. As Russian forces were collecting corpses from the initial raid outside the school, the militants in the school triggered the explosives inside the school. As the surviving hostages attempted to flee, the terrorists shot them and their rescuers in their backs. At least 326 people — 156 of them children — were murdered at that school and more than 700 wounded. Although 26 of the terrorists were killed, several escaped. Why did not these terrorists take over an American school on American soil? We have lots of schools here.
• On July 11, 2006, in Mumbai, India, seven high-powered blasts on suburban trains killed more than 200 commuters and injured at least 800. America has commuter trains too, why did not al-Qaeda target American trains with bombs?
• On November 26 of this year, again in Mumbai, India, Islamist gunmen launched attacks against luxury hotels. Gunmen from al-Qaeda’s Deccan Mujahedeen group claimed responsibility for the attacks, which killed more than 100. A rabbi, Gavriel Hertzberg, and his pregnant wife were sought out and murdered as were other Jews and Americans. America has many luxury hotels, many Jews and many, many more Americans. Why did al-Qaeda spare American hotels and tourist on American soil?

Could these “Seven Years of Calm in America” have had anything to do with the leadership of America’s Commander in Chief, George W. Bush, his administration and the fighting men and women of his military?

We won. The Iraq War is over. We hereby declare 22 November 2008 to be “Victory in Iraq Day,” or “VI Day.”

By every measure, The United States and coalition forces have conclusively defeated all enemies in Iraq, pacified the country, deposed the previous regime, successfully helped to establish a new functioning democratic government, and suppressed any lingering insurgencies. The war has come to an end. And we won.

What more indication do you need? An announcement from the outgoing Bush administration? It’s not gonna happen. An announcement from the incoming Obama administration? That’s really not gonna happen. A declaration of victory by the media? Please. Don’t make me laugh. A concession of surrender by what few remaining insurgents remain in hiding? Forget about it.

The moment has come to acknowledge the obvious. To overtly declare a fact that has already been true for quite some time now. Let us repeat: THE WAR IS OVER - WE WON!

“Ingratitude is monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude.” ~~William Shakespeare (1564–1616), 3rd Citizen, in Coriolanus, act 2, sc. 3, l. 9-11. He was arguing that the people should be grateful to Caius Marcius for defeating the Volsces.

The image, Victory in Iraq, is subject to copyright by barneykin. It is posted here with permission via the Flickr API by barneykin.

‘’I don’t regret setting bombs,‘’ Bill Ayers said. ‘’I feel we didn’t do enough.” ~~The New York Times

Before the Obama Nation officially begins we have Hero Number One, family friend of President Elect Barack Obama, William “Billy” Ayers, being celebrated on Good Morning America. Old America considered William Ayers of the Weatherman Underground as a terrorist, but today, in the soon to be Obama Nation, the word “terrorist” has a new meaning. In the updated afterword to his 2001 memoir, “Fugitive Days,” it was the celebrated Weatherman terrorist turned college professor himself who described the Barack Obamas as “family friends,” according to The Boston Herald newspaper.

The Video of America’s New Hero

Terrorists are now those American soldiers sent off to war to fight communism during the Viet Nam War era. They were terrorists because they actually targeted communists with their bombs. Billy Ayers and the other good guys of the Weatherman Underground were Saints as they were trying to bomb the real terrorists, the American government and American soldiers who were trying to stop communists. William Ayers and his group were not trying to kill anyone, just bomb them. The fact that people actually died from Billy Ayers’ Weathermen bombs, including American policemen, was unintentional, hence Barack Obama’s family friend, Bill Ayers, is not a terrorist.

“Terrorists terrorize, they kill innocent civilians, while we organized and agitated. Terrorists destroy randomly, while our actions bore, we hoped, the precise stamp of a cut diamond. Terrorists intimidate, while we aimed only to educate.” ~~Bill Ayers in his book “Fugitive Days,” according to Allahpundit at Hot Air

Billy Ayers is not a terrorist because he has been entrusted with the teaching and indoctrination of the children of America. Advice to young people from Ayers: “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.” Bill Ayers is not a terrorist as he is a celebrated hero of America’s mainstream media. Bill Ayers is not a terrorist because he is a friend of Barack Obama, and anyone connected to Obama is next to God.

Obama Nation Morality - When you disagree with a group in America, bomb the hell out of them, just don’t target any civilians. You will be rewarded with a college professorship, people will buy your books as you taut your righteousness, and America will celebrate your dedication and service to your cause.

Fact Checker to Obama Nation - What about bombing Abortion Clinics? Is that now a good thing? After all, those bombers were not targeting any civilians. They were in fact trying to save the lives of innocents from being aborted. Are Abortion Clinic bombers now heroes in the new Obama Nation? Will the Obama Nation’s logic in redefining “TERRORISM” and “TERRORIST” apply also to America’s other terrorists?

Bill Ayers and Weather Underground Achievement of 1981 - Murdered New York Policemen (Barack Obama could have known nothing of this Ayers’ accomplishment as Obama was only 20 years old at the time, as he reminds us.)

Sergeant Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly Brown were shot and killed by heavily armed members of a domestic terrorist group, the Weather Underground, who had just robbed a bank and were attempting to escape. The suspects had just murdered an armored car guard and wounded two other guards before loading themselves into the back of a rental truck to be driven away by accomplices. The truck was stopped at a roadblock manned by several Nyack officers.

Sergeant O’Grady was a Vietnam War veteran. He was survived by his wife and three children.

The Weather Underground was also connected to the Black Liberation Army, which was responsible for the murders of at least one dozen other police officers throughout the country. The Weather Underground is believed responsible for the unsolved bombing murder of San Francisco, California, Police Department Sergeant Brian McDonnell on February 16, 1970.

The Black Liberation Army was a violent, radical group that attempted to fight for independence from the United States government in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The BLA was responsible for the murders of more than 10 police officers around the country. They were also responsible for violent attacks around the country that left many police officers wounded.

Terrorizing the Terrorist

Is This Poetic Justice for Billy “The Weatherman” Ayers?

The friend and Chicago neighbor of President-elect Barack Obama, William “Billy” Ayers has to flee to Canada to tell his sob story of how the terrorists in America are out to get him: The Star.com.

While writing blatant lies in his Canadian Op-ed piece, how can Bill Ayers expect that anyone will believe anything else he says? If a person would plan to murder his fellow countrymen, why would anyone believe any words coming from his mouth? If a person would tell his followers to murder their parents in the 1960s, why should anyone believe he is now a warm fuzzy-wuzzy because he is a grandfather? Fortunate it be for him that HIS children did not follow the teachings he taught to other parents’ children: “Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.”

How rich is it to see this creepy man who was a member of a group that murdered policemen in the 1960s, now frantically call upon the Chicago police to protect him from a Fox News reporter? Did Bill Ayers think that “America is a great country”when he went to the very same polling place where both his friend Barack Obama, who wrote a blurb for Ayers’ 1997 book, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan voted, considering that he, Bill Ayers, tried to destroy America and deny other Americans the right to vote by planning and executing 25 bombings against them, and attempting to kill American military officers. “America is a great country,” says Ayers, while stamping on the American flag, when all charges against him were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.

“Our neighbors include Muhammad Ali, former mayor Eugene Sawyer, poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Elizabeth Alexander, and writer Barack Obama. Minister Louis Farrakhan lives a block from our home and adds, we think, a unique dimension to the idea of ’safe neighborhood watch’: the Fruit of Islam, his security force, has an eye on things twenty-four-hours a day.” ~~Bill Ayers from his 1997 book “A Kind and Gentle Parent.”

Bill Ayers repeats the vicious lie that Barack Obama told America in the Presidential Debates - that supporters at a McCain rally shouted “kill him.” That statement by Obama was a lie then and it is a double damnable lie now as it has been proven by all non-partisan attendees at the event, as NOT ONE HEARD IT! The only person who did hear it was the virulently partisan Washington Post “journalist” who made it up, and never corrected himself, Dana Milbank. And oh yes, Barack Obama, who was not there. (More Obama Lies)

American Terrorists and Obama friends, William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were members of the Weather Underground, a group that plotted to murder Americans who were pro-America. Bill Ayers taught his young followers to “Kill all the rich people. … Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.” When Bill Ayers escaped murder charges on a technicality, he gloated “Guilty as sin, free as a bird, America is a great country.” When the Attack on America happened in 2001, Bill Ayers applauded the success of Al Queda!

Hat Tip to Gates of Vienna

UPDATE: Now the Marxist Ayers is Capitalizing on Capitalism While There is Still Opportunity! Bill Ayers is a great American!

Happy Birthday United States Marine Corps. On November 10th, 1775, the Second Continental Congress resolved to raise two battalions of Continental Marines. The rest is history.

In March of 1785, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were in London to meet Ambassador Abd Al-Rahman of Tripoli and inquire of him why it was that Barbary states felt a right to impede American ships, pirating their cargo and enslaving their crews and passengers. America’s two most illustrious Founding Fathers were told by the “Mussulman” Ambassador: “it was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

Jefferson’s new nation found itself immediately at war with North Africa’s Islamic potentates who occupied the lands that are today Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. No longer under the protection of the British Royal Navy, the Founding Fathers had to decide how to secure free navigation of the seas for the new United States of America. In 1801, when Thomas Jefferson became president, he refused to accede to the Barbary pirates of Tripoli’s demands for an immediate payment of $225,000 and an annual payment of $25,000. This refusal brought about the first “war” the U.S. would fight as a country. The first line of the Marine hymn, “from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli,” references the 600-mile march across the Libyan Desert of a group of Navy men and others to capture the port city of Derna, Tripoli. It took a concerted effort by England, France, Spain, and the United States to end over 400 years of Muslim piracy on the Barbary Coast.

It seems that it was our beloved Democrat Thomas Jefferson who first decided to make war upon the Muslim Barbaries, instead of appeasing them. President George W. Bush has been struggling to follow in Jefferson’s mighty footsteps as the ancient battle continues. Give thanks for Jefferson’s foresight and courage and say a prayer for George W, who has a much tougher task than Jefferson. Commander-in-chief George W. Bush has had to fight against his own nation’s enemies, as well as many of his own countrymen, who wish America to fail.

“TJ and the Barbaries” by Kerfuffles
“Jefferson’s War on Terror” by Edna Barney

Headwaters of War

This morning, I came upon a blog that proclaimed: “terrorism itself was not even thought about before September 11th.”

This blogger learned history from “Stewie and Family Guy,” whoever they are. Maybe “Stewie and Family Guy” never thought about “terrorism” before 2001, but others did - like the Irish and British, and the Basques and Spanish, and the Turks and Greeks, and the Communists and the Free World (which includes the U.S.). That is before we even get to tiny Israel and the Israelis who have lived with terrorism since time out of mind. Because terrorism had not been substantially inflicted against the homeland of the U.S. before September 11th, is to the credit of our government including our military who were able to keep us safe. However, many U.S. interests abroad were victims of cowardly terrorists, including the U.S. airmen asleep in the Khobar Towers, pictured here, in 1996.

When did this War on Terror begin? At the one year anniversary of September 11th, I wrote at The Spirit of September 11th, that I believe the War on Terror began almost 30 years ago in the days of Jimmy Carter, when American citizens were taken as hostages in Iran. Perhaps “Stewie and Family Guy” were not alive then, therefore are clueless.

Others believe this current war is but a new phase in an old war that began in the seventh century. The second phase of that war was fought with Sulieman and ended with the Siege of Vienna in 1683. I guess “Stewie and Family Guy” never learned about the Turks outside of the Gates of Vienna, when all of Europe was about to be overrun by the military forces of Mohammed. Europe was saved, for a few centuries, but that war never ended. Since “Stewie and Family Guy” and the blogger cited above obviously eschew the reading of history books, perhaps they could learn a bit from reading the blog “Gates of Vienna” which describes this current war as a continuation of an ancient conflict of cultures that began in the seventh century.

“When the Turks stood at the Gates of Vienna it seemed that all of Europe would be overrun by the legions of the Prophet. This war never ended. While many individual treaties were made between various states over the centuries, no truce was ever declared between Islam and the infidels, and no permanent peace was established.” (Gates of Vienna)

We are now in the third wave which began with either: 1) the establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna; or 2) the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979; or 3) September 11th, 2001 - take your pick.

July 2002 ~ They Are Trying To Kill Us! ~ The first anniversary of September 11th is upon us and there is talk of a loss of interest in our fight against the evildoers. Some are hoping to wish the bad things of terrorism away. We cannot do that - we are under mortal threat. Just this week four nicely dressed young men walked into a Christian school in Pakistan and began shooting to kill the small American, Australian and European students there. Failing, because the youngsters were hidden behind strongly fortified doors, the gunmen calmly walked into a nearby woods and found some of the school’s employees hiding in a tree and shot them dead. A teacher heard the murderers exclaim “God is good!”

These people are trying to kill us! They are trying to kill our children and grandchildren!

• 1983 - 2 suicide car bombings embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut: 300 killed
• 1993 - World Trade Center bombing: only 6 killed
• 1995 - Saudi Arabia: 7 killed
• 1996 - Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia: 19 killed
• 1997 - Pakistan: 5 U.S. oil-workers murdered
• 1998 - U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam: 263 killed, 5,000 injured
• 2000, USS Cole in Yemen: 17 killed
• 2001 - World Trade Center.

When will we get the message? They are trying to kill us!

I formerly was concerned that young Americans of today were learning current news and politics from late night comics on television. This new revelation that they are learning history from cartoon characters such as Stewie and Family Guy is indeed troubling. Is there no hope for the future?

It was the “Fear of Freedom” which begot the murder yesterday of a woman freedom fighter, Benazir Bhutto. She was a Muslim woman, a Muslim mother who, because she believed in freedom, was martyred in her own native Muslim land of Pakistan by her fellow Muslim brothers.

Where religions, creeds, nations and lands espouse “Fear of Freedom”, truth becomes an unknown commodity. All truth is from God; freedom is God’s gift to all of mankind. Those who teach “Fear of Freedom” to their people are enemies of the true God. Yesterday’s tragic murder of a woman for her belief in freedom is one more example of the “Fear of Freedom’s” tyranny of the human mind, its debasement of the human soul and its degradation of human life on earth.

Thank God for the man named Jesus who preached freedom. Jesus taught HIS followers to seek freedom, not to fear it, and hence influenced HIS civilized world to carry freedom’s torch: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John Chapter 8).