Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute, eh? Not any more. In a story entitled "Rice: $100 A Month To Terrorists 'on Pension,'" Israel National News (thanks to Marsha) is reporting that Condoleeza Rice is pursuing a proposal to raise money for danegeld, er, that is, a pension fund for jihad terrorists who promise to stop murdering people:
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has proposed a $100 monthly allowance to terrorists who agree to lay down their arms and retire or find another profession.The money would be part of a $350 million package deal announced by U.S. President George Bush this past week. The Bush administration suggested that Congress consent to send $41 million immediately for an “immediate impact in support of democratic transition.” Under Congressional rules, the money would go for specific projects, and not directly to the Palestinian Administration (PA).
Rice, about to pay her first visit to the Middle East in her new position as successor to Colin Powell, wants part of the money to go directly to “retired” terrorists. Speaking between visits to European countries, she proposed a pension fund for at least 1,000 terrorists.
This is so breathtakingly absurd, and such a clear sign of moral and spiritual exhaustion, that I could scarcely believe it was true. Surely INN was exaggerating! So I searched around and found this in a story called "Rice tells Israelis to make 'hard decisions'" from the International Herald Tribune:
American officials say that $400 million pledged by Kuwait, Qatar and other Gulf countries has not come through, and that this money could help pay for such vital steps as retirement benefits for members of Palestinian militias and welfare payments of $100 a month to poor Palestinians.
If one does not want to be hit by the mafia,it would pay protection money,and if one does not want to be hit by muslim jihadists,it would pay jizyia....next thing we have to do,declare ourselves a dhimmi nation.
That's insane.
Americans continue to disappoint me. I don't expect too much from European leaders, but this, the feeble response to the Jersey Copts killings and the funding of the sharia state in Iraq add up to a not too impressive picture of either this administration or the USA in general.
This is a joke, right?
MY tax money?! ARRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Time to write my congressmen...
Outta this world with that one. Who authorized this?
How much would it take for them to get mine?..........PRICELESS (just like the commercial)
Nuke em all and let YKWH sort them out
Now lets see...this means that Mark Koernke and the Michigan Militia, plus the boys and girls in the Montana Militia are now entitled to pension payments?
God, I love it! Maybe I should try to find some militia unit in my state and join it. Does that mean I get my pension now or do I have to wait a few months for the paperwork to clear?
Oh, wait, this proposal only applies to non US Nationals...I see. Once again us folks in flyover country are getting the shaft. Why is it that its foreign nationals getting all of our money, and we get the bills. Gee, when is 'our' government going to do something for us, for a change?
As an afterthought, I guess one really needs a PHD to think this one up!
Me with my little BS degree could never have come up with this idea.
I would start a betting pool to see who can come up with what Condi is going to do next, but after this, who can possibly imagine what she'll do? I do concede that this really is 'thinking outside the box'. Pensions, indeed....
Stupid, stupid, stupid! They will take the money and go about business as usual.
UNBELIVEABLE!!!
The stupidity of the government, and in particular the Bush administration, is staggering. I would say they know better, but apparently they don't!
This one makes me mad, because it makes me an unwilling contributor to the jihad!
This topic belongs in 'Dhimmi Watch', or better yet, 'Jizya Watch'...
Readers and posters at JW know much more about the consequences of dhimmitude and appeasement than do those eminent Washington establishment types. For that is what this is: appeasement.
Danegeld indeed! Payment of this type will have the exact same effect as did paying the Danes NOT to invade England in the Middle Ages. More will come, expecting more and more. It's only human nature.
Pathetic and disgusting.
How many of us know some old grandfather or grandmother that could use $100 extra to add to their paltry social security checks? It always galls me to hear about foreign aid of any sort, but this just p%^*#s me off.
In principle I am against paying Danegeld. However, these suicide bombers have, as they say in the KGB (the good guys), a very low price. After all, they thought they were getting a good deal when Sodom Insane was paying their survivors $25K.
Message form BIG ALLAH
"THANKS FOR ALL THE GOLD, INFIDEL SCUM. MY SWISS BANKACCOUNT WAS NEVER BIGGER. IT IS SO NICE TO KNOW I HAVE MILLIONS OF SLAVES IN THE WEST WOKING AWAY TO KEEP ME LIVING IN STYLE. I THINK I WILL GO NOW, SOAK SOME RAYS IN MY HAMMOCK, SIP A ORANGE JUICE ON THE BEACH, THEN RELAX BY THROWING DARTS AT PICTURES OF THE GREAT SATAN. WHO SAID THAT JIHAD DOESN'T PAY? WELL IT DOES EVENTUALLY."
As long as Papa Bush and son Bush and Cheney are in bed with the Saudis, nothing of substance will ever happen. Yes, it is an unspeakable mess, but where is the alternative?
You are asking for nothing less than a revolution in Government, the judiciary, the military, the security services and the CIA/FBI.
Who is there to lead it? The Pope? Robert Spencer? Arnie?
Hmmm; would Arnie be a muzzie buster?
One would think that taking into account all the "pensions" that are paid to American "helpers" by the Saudis , they might themselves undertake the terrorist pensions.
or is this another form of 'Jisya" to be paid by the great satan ?
George
Definitely extortion.
Haven't we always known what really fuels jihad other than pathological hatred fueled by Islamist preaching? A large population that puts a low value on human life and willing pledge its allegiance to anyone willing to give them a few bucks. Where else have we encountered mothers who get to brag about whose son was a greater martyr as they count the blood money that Yasser and Saddam used to give them and the Saudis still give them.
LOL, Protection money is jizya in Arabic.
Sicily was occupied by the Arabs, Catholic Sicillians paid jizya, where do you think the Mafia got the idea of Protection money?
They learned it from the Arabs.
Time to write my congressmen..
Write your congressman? LOL.
Dollars to donuts you and most of the rest of the posters on this blog, voted for Bush, in fact Gary calls anyone who doesn't support Bush and his administration a troll and a leftie taqiyyist.
Now take a sledgehammer and knock some sense into your head and realize that you have been snookered, been had, been jerked around by your short hairs.
Money for terrorists, in bed with the Saudis, Bandar sleeps in the Lincoln bed room, partners in profit with the Saudi's, Jay Garnder approves an Iraqi Interim constitution that made Iraq an Islamic Republic. (Not the one being re written but the interim constitution).
Snookered my ass.
The number 1 reason Bush or Republicans have gotten any support from me was the FACT that the commie-Dems want to illegally disarm the law-abiding citizenry. A TOP PRIORITY OF TOTALITARIANS.
Ashcroft has reversed the modern trend of subversive leftist judges and politicians, and re-established the legal basis of the citizen's Right to Bear Arms per the 2nd Amendment.
The leftists(and others) have been doing what the muslims have been doing, they take the text from the Consitution(or Koran) and twist the meaning to suit their agenda, knowing that alot of people won't bother to look into the documents like the debates,the Federalist Papers, speeches,letters and diaries,and early legal opinions(or the Hadith-Sunna-Sira,recorded history etc) that leave absolutely no doubt about the purpose and meaning of the Constitution and Bill of Rights(or islam), as envisioned and enacted by the Founders.
Its clear to me the American experiment has failed, it has been destroyed from within over many years of subversion and circumvention of the Laws of the Land, and recovery is unlikely. America is a Socialistic society and will continue on that path as the situation allows. All the non-sense about major differences between the 2 political parties(not individuals) is the illusion of choice propagated by the media.
The real choice is between a fast suicide or a prolonged one.