Shouldn't Bush be trying to avoid even the appearance of impropriety? From WFTV.com's "News of the Strange," with thanks to EPG:
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A year after federal agents raided his home in a terrorism investigation, Muslim businessman Syed Maswood is lucky to get on an airplane without being detained and searched. But that didn't stop him from getting an invitation to dine with President Bush.Maswood, a nuclear engineer who has not been charged with any crime and has been trying for months to get his name off no-fly lists, received an invitation to serve as an honorary chairman at a Republican fundraiser with Bush in Washington next month.
A Republican who has donated money to GOP campaigns, Maswood said he briefly considered attending but his wife refused to fly. The last time they were in Washington, he said, they were held for hours at the airport.
"I didn't want to go stag," Maswood said, "and she's absolutely adamant."
FBI and Homeland Security agents raided Maswood's home last year because he donated money to the Benevolence International Foundation, a once IRS-approved charity that was accused of supporting terrorism.
Investigators also said they uncovered an e-mail Maswood sent indicating support for Islamic rebels in Chechnya, but Maswood said he was simply trying to help humanitarian workers in the war-torn region....
Maswood said he voted for Bush in 2000 but not in 2004.
"I supported President Bush. I supported President Bush on Iraq. I really think he's a good guy," Maswood said. "But when you become a victim of this kind of thing over and over again, it becomes personal."
In the article from WFTV.com, I read these words: "The U.S. attorney's office in Connecticut had no comment Thursday." No wonder! There's nothing one can say except "White House security is down on the job." If the President's House is not carefully monitored, how can the rest of us be safe?
Meanwhile, we who are not on a watch list cannot get or arrange tours of the White House without jumping through hoop after hoop.
More evidence of the right hand not knowing what the left one is doing...
And to think all those lofty pronouncements about the need to integrate security services and info under one umbrella might've had credibility....
'More evidence of the right hand not knowing what the left one is doing...' ~ voletti
*lol* kj, this one is for you: I am starting to agree with you on some points. In many cases, perhaps not for the same reasons. You can thank my best friend (after my wife) and Best Man at our wedding, who doesn't trust the Right or the Left. He's teaching me. (but you are still Wrong on a couple of things :P)
I think the Right hand doesn't know what the Left hand is doing.
But they sure are twiddling thumbs.
The Saudi Royals that President Bush has in his back pocket are real Muslims just like Bill and Hillary Clinton are real Christians.
It was your President who said that islam ws a peaceful religion. He would be right if he said it was a pieceful religion. But he said peaceful.
Tell me Ummagumma, who is your leader of your country?
I hope its only a matter of 'keeping your friends close, and your enemies closer.'
Bush is a Disgrace. He doesn't need to keep up the act any longer. He can't run again. He's just being himself -- a hypocrite liberal in Conservatives clothing. Saying he's stupid gives him too much credit. Seems he too has forgotten 911 and what it means to capitulate to terror.
Don't be fooled by the conservative "plants" in our government. What better disguise right now for a spy than a gung-ho conservative? And don't be swayed by the lies they tell when their lips move. Instead, watch what they do ...
Is Grover Norquist an Islamist?
http://www.citizensoldier.org/norquist.html
http://www.mediatransparency.org/people/grover_norquist.htm
Paul Sperry, author of the new book, Infiltration, in an interview calls Grover Norquist "an agent of influence for Islamists in Washington." When asked by FrontPageMag.com why a Republican anti-tax lobbyist should so passionately promote Islamist causes, Sperry implied that Norquist has converted to Islam: "He's marrying a Muslim, and when I asked Norquist if he himself has converted to Islam, he brushed the question off as too ‘personal.'" As Lawrence Auster comments on this exchange, "Clearly, if Norquist hadn't converted to Islam, or weren't in the process of doing so, he would simply have answered no."
Indeed, Norquist married Samah Alrayyes, a Palestinian Muslim, on April 2, 2005, and Islamic law limits a Muslim woman to marrying a man who is Muslim. This is not an abstract dictum but a very serious imperative, with many "honor" killings having resulted from a woman ignoring her family's wishes.
Alrayyes has radical Islamic credentials of her own; she served as communications director at the Islamic Free Market Institute, the Islamist organization Norquist helped found. Now, she is employed as a public affairs officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development – and so it appears that yet another Islamist finds employment in a branch of the U.S. government.
Norquist has for some years now been promoting Islamist organizations, including even the Council on American-Islamic Relations; for example, he spoke at CAIR's conference, "A Better America in a Better World" on October 5, 2004. Frank Gaffney has researched Norquist's ties to Islamists in his exhaustive, careful, and convincing study, "Agent of Influence" and concludes that Norquist is enabling "a political influence operation to advance the causes of radical Islamists, and targeted most particularly at the Bush Administration."
But if Norquist is indeed a convert to Islam, it could be that he is not just enabling the Islamist causes but is himself an Islamist. (April 14, 2005) Permalink
Who is your leader Kemaste, Fidel Castro?
Hooper Kuhn of the Saudi American Bund does lunch with Neville Bush. Why would anyone cair? Aren't we all adherents of the same Abrahamic faith? Why not relax. Let's go to the movies. Yeah, I'm liking it.
What's the alternative? We could go instead to New Orleans and see for ourselves that the BNP leadership is meeting at a Stormfront convention, but naw, let's go to the movies instead.
Let's find the final will to drag ourselves off the death-bed, and let's go to the movies. We could pass out copies of Spencer's bookjacket to those standing in line to watch the Kingdom of Heaven. We could try to discourage people in Hollywood from investing in dhimmitude by letting them know that bad movies mean they lose a lot of money.
Galloway gets a Respect seat; BNP's Ole Nick meets with David Duke; CAIRorists dine at the White House. Well, cut off my nose! For a while there I was disgusted. Now I know that after 20 centuries of stony sleep the true spirit of Mickey Mouse is coming to skip happily across the land making all of us wonderfully content. Yeah, we're all going to rush out and leaflet the movie line-ups. The baddies must be trembling. Hundreds of responses to Spencer's call for ideas on new bill boards! I thought I'd seen it all. Wonders never cease.
Cross, the leader of my country is Prime Minister Paul Martin. He is a liberal and is very muslim friendly.The leader prior to him was Prime Minister Jean Cretien. He too was very muslim friendly. Both leaders have bowed to CIAR CANADA. BTW, I didn't vote for them.
I must admit that I have mixed feelings about this one. Putin has tightened local elections and freedom of the press, railroaded the founder of Yukos, maintained a gangster economy with a few robber barons, and still manages to be a large improvement over the majority of Soviet or Russian leaders in a long time.
Wow, it sucks to be Russian.
Putin's KGB, and recently called the fall of the Soviet Union one of the greatest tragedies in modern history. Maybe I'm biased because I have Polish ancestry and majored in history. However, given the gulags, purges, starvation, environmental destruction, and constant expansionist warfare, I'm calling BS on that last statement.
Stalin murdered Chechens and shipped the entire population to Siberia.
Syed Maswood supports an independent Chechnya? Well, how independent? What does he think about our First Amendment? It won't take but a few seconds to read and digest. Does he plan on waging a jihad against the West with nuclear weapons, Allah willing, or does he have a real plan for the future?
It would be rude to un-invite him. Perhaps dinner could be scallops wrapped in bacon followed by Roast Boar. I suggest an Italian wine followed by English port.