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U of Texas faculty needs education

Posted by Steve on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:50:17 PM
Mike Adams writes about a letter University of Texas professors wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying the United states should force Israel to stop defending itself here.

He suggests writing to these dunderheads and take them to task for their anti-Semitism and general lack of knowledge. I took him up on it. Here a letter I wrote in response, I suggest you read Mike Adam's column then finish this post.

University of Texas faculty;

I’d like to respond to your recent letter to Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice. You claim to be concerned about “our students, former students, and colleagues who remain in Lebanon and Palestine/Israel, indeed to all the citizens of these countries, because they are from the region and have no place else to go.” Yet you only concern yourself with Israel’s defensive actions. You don’t seem to be very concerned when we’re talking about Hezbollah firing Katyusha rockets into Israel. No mention is made in your letter of trying to disarm Hezbollah, just Israel. Your anti-Semitism is quite visible in your letter.

As for your contention that it is an “unprovoked and illegal war in Iraq” you either are ignorant of the history of the region prior to September 11, 2001 or you choose to ignore it. I don’t have an argument against someone who would say that the Iraq war was mistaken, or was not achieving the goals Americans set for it or was just plain wrong, but to make the claims you do there should be some evidence you can cite, and you fail to supply any evidence for your argument.

Just to get you up to speed, Saddam Hussein was the only leader in the Arab/Moslem world actively shooting at Americans prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. His regime routinely attacked patrols of the no-fly zones, which were part of the ceasefire agreement from the first Gulf war. He continually refused to meet the requirements of several U.N. resolutions, which I will list so you can see for yourselves the lengths the United States went to in order to get compliance from Hussein. I suggest you look up these resolutions and see just how far our government went to work with the United Nations to get compliance from Hussein. Not that you will, you are too impressed with your own opinions to bother with facts.

Resolution 687 (April 3, 1991), Resolution 707 (August 15, 1991), Resolution 1060 (June 12, 1996), Resolution 1115 (June 21, 1997), Resolution 1134 (October 23, 1997), Resolution 1137 (November 12, 1997), Resolution 1154 (March 2, 1998), Resolution 1194 (September 9, 1998), Resolution 1205 (November 5, 1998), Resolution 715 (October 11, 1991), Resolution 1284 (December 17, 1999), Resolution 1051 (March 27, 1996), Resolution 1134 (October 23, 1997), Resolution 1137 (November 12, 1997), Resolution 1284 (December 17, 1999).

If your letter to Dr. Rice is an example of your academic prowess I fear the University of Texas has all the intellectual rigor of a local kindergarten. I hope that the students under your tutelage have some other guidance, otherwise they are doomed to failure to thrive in the real world.
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A shot in the dark

Posted by Steve on Monday, August 07, 2006 10:43:03 AM
Do we want our immigration policy enforced or don't we? World Net Daily reports here on an incident where an illegal, drug-smuggling alien was shot in the butt by border patrol agents who now face 20 years in prison for enforcing our borders.

As far as I'm concerned the agents should both get marksmanship medals for their shooting. Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean deserve better from our government. Perhaps they made mistakes, who doesn't, but that doesn't mean that prosecutors should come down on them so hard.

Come on, I could see prosecuting them if they were rousting people for no good reason or routinely breaking the law themselves, but to prosecute them for something so minor has one inevitable consequence, reluctance on the part of law enforcement to actively pursue criminals. By the way, that's a bad thing.

What's needed are more law enforcement officers shooting more criminals in the butt. It might not reduce crime statistics but a lot more criminals would be standing around, unable to sit back and enjoy the situation.
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The Conscience of the King

Posted by Steve on Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:49:20 AM
Mel Gibson recently spewed forth a bunch of hateful rhetoric. It was inexcusable and I'm not going to go out of my way to try to do so. What this incident does is help to illuminate the difference between someone with a well-developed moral compass and those without that asset.

Having a moral compass doesn't mean you will never get lost, but if you do it will help you get back where you belong. Gibson is human and heir to all the frailities of the species. What he did after his drunken rant is more revealing than the fact that he spewed hateful, racist and sexual remarks to the guardians of the public roads. Gibson admitted what he did was wrong, but he went further, he said he wished to show his remorse and contrition by reaching out to those he wronged.

He didn't say some waffle-worded blather about "people he MAY have offended". Gibson knew full well what he did offended people and he admitted it and said he would work with Jewish people to help alleviate the pain he caused.

In the Bible James says the tongue is capable of getting a person in big trouble. James 3:3-6 says:  "When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. "

Gibson did wrong, he apologised and more importantly he is willing to make amends. That should be enough for us. It's all our God and our savior ask of us, who are we to demand more of Gibson than God does?

UPDATE

Sometimes I hit publish before I'm ready, especially if something comes up I have to take care of, I don't want to leave my work sitting there without saving it.

The thing about all the blather Hollyweird types are spewing at Gibson that gets me is they forgive some people anything. Look at Robert Downey Jr. who was still on Ally McBeal even after his arrest and conviction for drugs and breaking into someone's home. It was all forgive and forget for him.

Look at convicted murderer Tookie Williams. He writes a few kiddie books, and that supposedly gets him off the hook for murdering several people in cold blood. Not to mention he was the founder of a gang responsible for many, many more murders. Oh, and let's not forget that he attacked prison officials during his incarceration. Hollyweird was willing to do everything in their power to prevent this scumbag's rightful execution. The lefty bunch are willing to forgive anything, as long as you are a communist, a murderer or a pervert. Forget forgiveness if you are an upstanding citizen who happens to have a moral mistake. Upstanding, righteous folk are supposed to be the intolerant ones but the left are the ones who refuse to forgive.
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Big Bully?

Posted by Steve on Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:54:10 PM
Israel is coming under attack again, in the media this time, for their attack on a building in Lebanon housing terrorists and civilians. Someone needs to explain to the reporters on scene that if they are going to constantly refer to "civilian casualies" they should acknowlege that Hezbullah terrorist mingle with and are indistinguishable from said civilians.

If a terrorist fires a missle at Israel and then runs from the launch site and Israeli forces kill that terrorist he is counted as a civilian by the media, which is preposterous.

Attacking a country while hiding among civilian populations is a war crime. Hezbullah fighters do that almost exclusively. They are therefore war criminals of the worst stripe and are eligible for summary execution.

Let's be real here. Israel consists of 8,000 square miles of land and six million people, a million of whom are Arab. The Arab League consists of 22 countries with a combined population of 312 million people and sits on 5 million two hundred thousand square miles of land.

To put it in percentages Israel has 1.6 percent of the population of the Arab League and sits on 0.15 percent of the land the league has. How is it that the media constantly expect Israel to hold themselves to a higher standard than countries that combined have nearly 50 times as many people and 500 times as much land?

The media are enablers of Arab terror. Their disregard for facts that show Israel's plight in a realistic manner and their pandering to Arab sentiments is disgusting and totally unprofessional. Any unbiased observer who looks at how much power the Arabs have versus how small Israel's forces are cannot help but come to the conclusion that Isreal is more than justified in their use of force.

I haven't even mentioned that before Israel attacks a site that might have civilians in harms way they leaflet the area and tell the civilians to remove themselves from harms way. In one case against the Israeli's targeted a Hamas terrorist and they telephoned him and told him they were going to distroy his house, then they bombed it. What other country on the face of the earth goes to such lengths to avoid civilian casualties? I'll tell you--none, not even the United States.

Let's place the blame firmly where it belongs, on Hizbullah and its enablers, including the media and the U.N. -- but that's a subject for another time.
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