Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the hirelings and traitors who deal with the chief financier of the global jihad:
The Saudis are looking to implement a border surveillance program. Raytheon is “reportedly showing interest in the contract estimated to worth between $7 to $8bn.”Why is Raytheon dealing with the Saudis? Why is anyone?
Saudi Arabia has spent untold sums on behalf of precisely the same ultimate goal as Bin Laden: the submission of the non-Muslim world to Islam. His main weapon is terrorism, paid for by many rich and not-so-rich Saudis, as well as by residents of the U.A.E., which deserves to come out and take a bow as well; the Saudis’ main weapon is propagation of the faith through the building and staffing of mosques (not only in all the historic capitals of Christendom, but all over the United States); of madrasas (which busily churn out people in poor Muslim countries incapable of anything other than Jihad -- the Taliban emerged from Saudi-financed mosques for Afghani refugees in Pakistan, for example, and then went back and with Saudi help and diplomatic recognition, seized control of Afghanistan); and of bribery, direct and indirect, of ex-diplomats and ex-C.I.A. agents.
Congress: look at the dispatches sent back from Saudi Arabia from 1970 to 1977 by Mr. Raymond Close, until he quit to go into business with two Saudis, later ending up in the BCI mess, and tell us what how well, or ill, he was informing the American government about the nature of Saudi Arabia. And what about the American ambassador in the same period -- James Akins. What was he reporting during and after the 1973 price rise about what that money would likely be used for, with suggestions as to energy policy and the wisdom of relying on that "staunch ally" Saudi Arabia. Compare, please, what Close reported, and Akins reported, with what was offered in J. B. Kelly's Encounter article from 1979, "Of Valuable Oil and Worthless Policies".It would be salutary to expose the workings of the hirelings and traitors who prevented the United States from seeing that Saudi Arabia was never an ally, and never a friend, and could not be, given the nature of its ruling belief-system. And in failing to understand that, the government failed to come up with policies, three decades ago, that could have recaptured oligopolistic rents and saved this country and the West several trillion dollars. The behavior of those who made their millions and tens of millions from the Saudis by promoting them, defending them, and obscuring their real attitudes and of course the use to which much of that OPEC money was put, are collective participants in one of the greatest acts of perfidy, as yet unrecognized, in the history of the United States. Certainly what they have done and continue to do -- all while receiving Saudi and other Arab sums, either directly, as noted, or indirectly, is notin the interests of the United States, or of Infidels anywhere.
Perhaps there should be a citizens' lawsuit, intended to recover the sums paid out to all these ex-diplomats and ex-C.I.A. men and others who abused their offices and deliberately misled the American government about the nature of Saudi Arabia -- often, while they were still in office.
This scandal is as yet completely unremarked by official Washington. Other things -- liquor and wild women at Watergate parties -- apparently are of greater moment. What Congressman, what candidate, will make the buying-up of influence, through former diplomats and intelligence agents, journalists and diplomats and heads of false academic centers, as well as through corporations, a matter for public discussion, formal investigation by Congressional committees, and media attention? The oil money will not stop, and the Saudis and other Arabs will not cease to try to buy influence wherever they can. Things can only get worse -- if spotlights are not brought in.
The men at Raytheon, for example, or all those who came out in force to lobby for the AWACS sale a quarter-century ago (Whitney, United Technologies) and who are in the thick of bidding for this or that contract in Saudi Arabia, ought to get out of their corporate headquarters in Lexington and take a walk at lunchtime. In one direction, they can visit the homestead not only of Capt. John Parker, but that of his grandson, the noted abolitionist Theodore Parker. Neither would have found anything to approve in Saudi Arabia -- and just as Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and so many others took the measure of Islam, they would have taken the measure of Saudi Arabia.
If they followed in the footsteps of these men there would no bidding on contracts by American defense contractors such as Raytheon and many other eager suppliers of advanced technology, in the eager effort directed at "recycling petrodollars" rather than at diminishing the total amount of those petrodollars available to be recycled. And there would be no doing the bidding of the Saudis by so many former diplomats, journalists, businessmen, academics, who are directly or indirectly recipients of Saudi and other Arab largesse.
And in the other direction, on another day, the "Corporate Relations" people who have decided to curry corporate favor with the sheikhs by doing nothing to displease and everything to please them, could go into town and visit the scene of the first battle of the American Revolution. There they could gaze at the statue of that same Captain Parker standing, musket in hand, on the Battle Green.
Try, and not only at Raytheon though Raytheon is physically closest, in assorted corporate suites, to think about Capt. John Parker, and of his grandson Theodore Parker. And then think about the American soldiers who are in Iraq and Afghanistan being asked to deal in one way with only one instrument of the Jihad. Then think about all the varied instruments of Jihad. And think about Saudi ideology -- behind the smiling facade that Prince Bandar used to offer. And then think about what the future will bring, beginning with the islamization of Western Europe. Give it a try.
Corporate America should be brought to account: what has Saudi Arabia done for you? And what, since 1973, have your companies done in lobbying, in contributing to a general misperception of Saudi Arabia, in official Washington? What have you done to promote, or to disabuse people of, the idea that Saudi Arabia is our "ally," our "staunch ally"? What have you done to make sure that our leaders would decide that no coherent energy policy, no steadily increasing taxes on gasoline, no taxes on oil, no subsidies to mass transit, no government investment in nuclear, wind, solar energy -- during this past one-third of a century of energy-policy paralysis -- were necessary?
Did Saudi Arabia make you an offer you couldn't refuse? A little shame, Raytheon? A little compunction, Exxon-Mobil and all those other oil companies that should long ago have been urging taxes on gasoline, and should long ago have transformed themselves into "energy" companies -- for who knew better the real Saudi malevolence toward Infidels than those with experience in Saudi Arabia? And all those arms sellers -- Grumman, Lockheed, United Technologies -- should they have done a little more than do Prince Bandar's bidding when various measures came up? Should they have been a little less willing to contribute funds to what in the end are institutions that promote Saudi interests, including a sanitized version of Islam and of the House of Al-Saud?
A little embarrassment at this point? The beginning of a hint of a glimmer of a little concern beyond third quarter earnings? Anything?
I wonder if Curt Weldon and Tom Tancredo could get a House investigation underway with Andy McCarthy in charge?
Saudi money corruption is a huge scandal demanding an investigation going back into who took what in the 1970's.
Who's on the take now? Who was on the take then?
Just how much damage has been done?
"...the Saudis' main weapon is propogation of the faith through the building and staffing of mosques (not only in all the historic capitals of Christendom, but all over the United States)..."
Yes, and it certainly seems to be effective in introducing lots and lots of Muslims into the American bloodstream. I was at the mall last night in beautiful, downtown, American suburbia and started to get a little nauseas at the amount of head scarves and jabbering Farsi coming my way. I was contemplating the number of ticking time bombs in the vicinity and also the number of average Americans, busily running to and fro, with absolutely no cognition about who and what is all around us and planning our enslavement.
The signs are all present. What will it take to wake us up?
Selling high-priced pitchforks to low-life devils.
As 'rope' sellers one furnished the scaffolds of the Soviets.
The suicidal stupidity marches on. And on. And on.
"...Pekunia non olet..." Hugh.
There are always those who let their love fall where the money lies.
And all those recycled petro-dollars have to be repatriated, somehow...
Could be worse: Imagine the Chinese, the Russians or the Japanese would sell them the gear, would you like that better?
The transfer of ten trillion dollars to a bunch of baboons, the greatest transfer of wealth in human history to the most undeserving tribes on the face of the planet, must be stopped.
9/11 would have been good enough to invade SA and the world would have understood that taking the oil-fields in compensation for the WTC. But GWB had to be his fathers son and shake down Saddam Hussein, how clever was that?
First, any experience Raytheon has with Saudia border defenses can be transferred to any US-Meican border barrier. Second, the company might just be giving the US information on the defenses, just in case we have to go into Saudia at some future date.
Other than that, lets bring the ethanol and coal-oil fuels to market, and let the Saudis eat sand.
chsw
What about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his dealings with King ibn-Saud: was FDR naive, culpable, irresponsible, too early in the neo-Jihadi timeline to have known; or responsibly realpolitisch...?
See www.divestterror.org for a discussion of boycotting businesses that do business with Islamofascism, and a list of the "dirty dozen."
Also, check out Frank Gafney's www.warfotting.com for practical steps we need to take in this war.
Make that war footing.
Not to mention, that via the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) companies are providing a shield for the aggressive psychological nature of Islam.
I am a computer specialist at a software company downtown. As a devout Muslim, I am required to attend prayer services at my mosque for a short period on Friday afternoons. Obviously this conflicts with my work hours. Can I ask for the time off to attend services?
Gee Whiz don't criticize Islam --- Renew America Article
Jail threatened over Islam insults
Distudbing as this is, is anyone really surprised? I mean, with Dubya kissing the prince, Condi holding Iftaar dinners and Karen Hughes "improving" US image?
Fish is rotten at it's head and unless the "head" is replaced (yes, Tom Tancredo, Curt Weldon, Robert, Hugh, Michelle, Debbie get my vote, which means.. noone, NOONE else does), Little can the tail do, but wiggle, if you know what I mean.........
ABDUL AZIZ IBN ABDUR RAHMAN AL FAISAL AL SAUD King of Saudi Arabia. There's some connection between that linguistic jungle of Arabic, and the psychopathological fanaticism of Islam; I'm not sure what it is...
I'm in wholehearted agreement with Hugh, in principle. But when it comes to giving Raytheon several billion for high-tech systems to control the uncontrollable borders of the dark kingdom, go for it. Transfer some of that wealth back our way, because no matter what Raytheon or anyone else says, there is no technical surveillance means that will control the borders KSA has with IZ or YE. It's an incredible boondoggle in the making, and it transfers some of that wealth back our way. Go for it!
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As long as the US government does not recognize Saudi Arabia or indeed Islam as our enemy or a hostile ideology, how would Raytheon approach this?
Say you are the CEO of a public company. You have your board, your stockholders, your employees, not to mention customers. Saudi Arabia comes to you and wants to buy from you a product or service that you are authorized to sell.
Now, you have a responsibility to show higher revenues for your company. You have the choice of taking this order, or punting. You know that if you punt, your nearest competitor would lap up the bid.
What do you do? Do you tell the board, "If we step out of our corporate headquarters in Lexington and take a walk at lunchtime, we have visited the homestead not only of Capt. John Parker, but that of his grandson, the noted abolitionist Theodore Parker. Neither would have found anything to approve in Saudi Arabia -- and just as Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and so many others took the measure of Islam, they would have taken the measure of Saudi Arabia.
As a result, we cannot bring ourselves to deal with this regime".
It would be different if the leadership at the top stated that Islam is the problem, and any solutions to the threat we face has to take into account the Jihad. As a result, all interactions between the US and the empire of Islam are being banned, or minimized as much as possible. Once this is done, then Raytheon should be brought to task if they continued to lobby for the Saudis.
It's not the job of Corporate America to separate the good guys from the bad. If they did it during Apartheid, that was because there was a public backlash waiting for them if they did otherwise. Therefore, pressure has to be brought to bear either from the top (the government) or the bottom (us). It cannot be brought to bear from the middle.
I would like all the oil companies, and all the sellers of advanced armaments and technology, to never allow themselves to be used as promoters of Saudi Arabia. Too many of them show up again and again, for example, as corporate sponsors of events, or take out ads in publications, or donate to certain pseudo-academic centers, that are all part of the Saudi and larger Muslim web of apologists and propagandists.
Why did I select Raytheon? No particular reason, except that the proximity of its corporate headquarters to both the statue of Captain Parker, in one direction, and to the homestead of both Captain Parker and Theodore Parker, the Ameridan Wilberforce, in the other direction, simply struck me. The more one considers the level of those who once led or influenced policies in this country, and what we now have, and the role played by greed, gussied up in all kinds of ways, so that it becomes very easy to convince oneself that this sale, and this sale, and this sale, won't do any damage (this is exactly what all those European companies that keep ignoring the boycott that American companies are required to observe, with such regimes as the Islamic Republic of Iran). Perhaps I should have added, to be fairer, an oil company such as Mobil (which no longer exists), that spent so much money on the Op/Ed page of The New Duranty Times, all through the 1970s and 1980s, persuading us that Saudi Arabia was swell, Aramco was swell, energy policy was right on track, there was nothing to worry about. There are lots of such people running around still. They should be put always on the defensive. Even an appeal to their consciences, vain as it may be, at least makes a point. Saudi Arabia is not an ally. It is not neutral. It is a primitive and malevolent place, and many in Saudi Arabia will, and have, spent large amounts of money promoting Islam and the Jihad all over the Western world. Every mosque, every madrasa, built and then maintained by the Saudis is a threat. Those who do business with them willingly should never let that realization out of their heads.
They don't have names, they have Titles.
Exalted son of the father of the slave of Allah, father of the song of the Creator the "revert" from America or
Ali ibn Abdul abu Nasheed Khaleeq al Mawali al Ameriki.
Saddam was born Saddam ibn Hussein al Tikriti, Saddam son of Hussein from Tikrit, but he westernized made a law that forbid the al Whatever nominen, as it betrays heritage, tribe, village.
Muhammad's name is a title affixed after his death (if he ever lived) it means The Praised one, his first student was called the Exalted son of the father of the student or Ali ibn Abu Talib. and his followers are called Taliban. (Followers of the student).