"Attorney Marc Van Der Hout, who represents the "L.A. Eight," said the judge's order will make it safer for immigrants to express political views".

Oh goody for us-I'm glad these people will have an easier time expressing their political views. Bombing, shooting, raping, stealing, hijacking, etc will all increase as a result because these are the ways the political views of Islam are expressed.

I hope the judge and this shyster both get a personal sampling of such an expression of political views.

Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at January 31, 2007 10:10 AM

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Trapped Between Two Worlds

WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama, the only major black candidate in the 2008 presidential race, has spent much of his life anguishing over his mixed-race heritage and self-described “racial obsessions.”

Descended from a white American mother and black Kenyan father, the Illinois Democrat once wrote: “He was black as pitch, my mother white as milk.”

In his first memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama observed that when people discover his mixed-race heritage, they make assumptions about “the mixed blood, the divided soul, the ghostly image of the tragic mulatto trapped between two worlds.”

Indeed, Obama acknowledges feeling tormented for much of his life by “the constant, crippling fear that I didn't belong somehow, that unless I dodged and hid and pretended to be something I wasn't, I would forever remain an outsider, with the rest of the world, black and white, always standing in judgment.”

Obama's views on race are certain to be an issue in the upcoming presidential campaign, according to Princeton University professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell, who specializes in African-American politics.

“There’s no question that race and all the permutations that it’s going to take for Obama are going to be central issues,” she predicted.

Although Obama was raised by his mother, he identified more closely with the race of his father, who left the family when Obama was 2.

“I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites,” he wrote.

Yet, even through high school, he continued to vacillate between the twin strands of his racial identity.

“I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds,” he wrote in “Dreams.” “One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved — such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.”

Although Obama spent various portions of his youth living with his white maternal grandfather and Indonesian stepfather, he vowed that he would “never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”

Obama wrote that in high school, he and a black friend would sometimes speak disparagingly “about white folks this or white folks that, and I would suddenly remember my mother's smile, and the words that I spoke would seem awkward and false.”

As a result, he concluded that “certain whites could be excluded from the general category of our distrust.”

Donna Brazile, who managed former Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 2000, said Obama's feelings of distrust toward most whites and doubts about himself are fairly typical for black Americans.

“He was a young man trying to discover, trying to accept, trying to come to grips with his background,” she explained. “In the process, he had to really make some statements that are hurtful, maybe. But I think they're more insightful than anything.”

During college, Obama disapproved of what he called other “half-breeds” who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks. And yet after college, he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the other way around. He later married a black woman.

Such candid racial revelations abound in “Dreams,” which was first published in 1995, when Obama was 34 and not yet in politics. By the time he ran for his Senate seat in 2004, he observed of that first memoir: “Certain passages have proven to be inconvenient politically.”

Thus, in his second memoir, “The Audacity of Hope,” which was published last year, Obama adopted a more conciliatory, even upbeat tone when discussing race. Noting his multiracial family, he wrote in the new book: “I’ve never had the option of restricting my loyalties on the basis of race, or measuring my worth on the basis of tribe.”

This appears to contradict certain passages in his first memoir, including a description of black student life at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”

He added: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”

Obama said he and other blacks were careful not to second-guess their own racial identity in front of whites.

“To admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred,” he wrote.

After his sophomore year, Obama transferred to Columbia University. Later, looking back on his years in New York City, he recalled: “I had grown accustomed, everywhere, to suspicions between the races.”

His pessimism about race relations seemed to pervade his worldview.

“The emotion between the races could never be pure,” he laments in “Dreams.” “Even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.”

After graduating from college, Obama eventually went to Chicago to interview for a job as a community organizer. His racial attitudes came into play as he sized up the man who would become his boss.

“There was something about him that made me wary,” Obama wrote. “A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.”

Harris-Lacewell said such expressions of distrust toward whites will not hurt Obama in the Democratic presidential primaries, which are dominated by liberal voters.

“To win the Democratic nomination, he's got to get a part of the progressive, anti-war, white folks,” she said. “And those white folks tend to be suspicious of any black person who wouldn’t be suspicious of white people.”

Such liberals would have little basis for suspicion after reading some of Obama’s conclusions about the white race, which he once described as “that ghostly figure that haunted black dreams.”

“That hate hadn't gone away,” he wrote, blaming “white people — some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.”

Obama’s racial suspicions were not always limited to whites. For example, after making his first visit to Kenya, he wrote of being disappointed to learn that his paternal grandfather had been a servant to rich whites.

He wrote in “Dreams” that the revelation caused “ugly words to flash across my mind. Uncle Tom. Collaborator. House nigger.”

Such blunt and provocative observations about race are largely absent from Obama’s second memoir.

“I have witnessed a profound shift in race relations in my lifetime,” he wrote in “Audacity.” “I insist that things have gotten better.”

An adolescent confrontation

Barack Obama recalls punching out the “first boy” who “called me a coon” in seventh grade.

“I gave him a bloody nose,” Obama wrote in his first memoir, “Dreams from My Father.”

“Why’dya do that?” the boy said through “tears of surprise,” according to Obama.

It was not the first time young Obama would be subjected to racial slurs. He recalled an assistant basketball coach in high school referring to a group of black men as “niggers.”

“I told him — with a fury that surprised even me — to shut up,” Obama wrote.

“There are black people, and there are niggers,” the coach explained, according to Obama. “Those guys were niggers.”

Obama answered with contempt.

“'There are white folks and then there are ignorant motherf---ers like you,’ I had finally told the coach before walking off the court,” he wrote.

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Tricks? Taqiyya?

Posted by: Borg at January 31, 2007 10:25 AM

Borg, isn't it just awful how whites have made him angry?
/by being white

Posted by: Carolyn2 at January 31, 2007 10:58 AM

So he admits he is/was a racist. He is half white, but apparently being half black cancels that out, even though it appears his father abandoned him and his mother was left to fend for both of them, the mother gets little credit. Well Mr. Obama, these views you speak of, we know they exist in large numbers in your community (his description) and that is why we are suspicious of you. What decent Patriotic American in their right mind would want you anywhere near them? Ok, so Americans fought each other and the slaves were freed, the rest of the slave trading free world soon followed. I sometimes wonder, w/o the civil war would Mr. Obama and his people ever have stood up and changed things? I doubt it, it did after all take 100 years for blacks to finally stand up for their rights.

So that’s what we get for it, called names, stereotyped. He doesn’t want to be a collaborator, that is good cause us Americans do not want that type in our crowd, he’s a weak link. This disgusts me beyond that which I can describe. I am starting to believe that the dems want America changed into a place where if you deal with white people you are a traitor/collaborator. Lucky for the Jews of WWII there were all those racist whites putting their butts on the line to destroy totalitarianism, just think where they would be right now if they were forced to rely on obamas gang. All this worry about being seen as a collaborator shows that there is massive peer pressure in his chosen community to reject all things white, but that’s ok with me, as long as I know the rules we are playing with.

And since we are speaking truth, here is a tip for the senator, you are an Apostate of islam, yes you can quit but you can never leave, don’t take my word for it look it up for yourself.

Posted by: tgusa at January 31, 2007 11:07 AM

California courts and justices are cesspools of people obviously educated beyond their intelligence....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at January 31, 2007 11:08 AM

Harris-Lacewell said such expressions of distrust toward whites will not hurt Obama in the Democratic presidential primaries, which are dominated by liberal voters.

Which is true because "liberals" (aka Marxists) are self-loathers, ashamed and disgusted with their success in the realm of capitalism, even as that realm and its consequent wealth creaks under increasing assault on it emanating from the grade school classroom, the TV, the newspaper, the pulpit, and, yes, the gubmint.

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at January 31, 2007 11:12 AM

"he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the other way around. He later married a black woman."

...clearly shows his narrowmindeness...and unwillingness to assimilate into the real world....JUST LIKE A MUSLIM....and just like a Muslim...Love have no meaning... and just like a Muslim...predisposed not to accept others because they are different...Just like a Muslim....

after all..."What's Love Got to do with it!...

Posted by: exsgtbrown at January 31, 2007 11:23 AM

Fight them with the truth, never speak PC especially in front of children. It is extremely important to set an example for the young. Don’t let their indoctrination proceed w/o a fight, most of the ideology our kids hear can be shot down in a matter of minutes. Oh I have had many people stare at me with their mouths wide open shocked to be hearing, get ready for it… straight talk centered around facts. But I know by the look on their faces as they walk away that they are thinking, hmmmm, it wasn’t the nicest thing to say but it is the truth. In spite of what they may think I don’t make the truth I just expose it. I have no doubt that some of them will eventually do the same thing. I don’t have the luxury of being nice any longer when it comes to the survival of my country.

Posted by: tgusa at January 31, 2007 11:36 AM

Nice: a non-citizen can distribute propaganda from a known terrorist organization and be involved in fund raising for same terrorist group, has a right that is called freedom of speech. So that same and other non-citizens can distribute propaganda and raise funds for terrorist groups (I suppose as long as they do not touch the actual cash).

Sounds like CAIR will like that one, they can go back to their fund raising activities openly, and without any reprisal. Freedom of speech for all! No matter what there status and how shocking and destructive the end result of their speech. “Death to America, Death to Israel, here’s your pamphlet, send your money to the PO Box on the envelope, your contribution will support our important research to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and other obviously humanitarian aid.” When law enforcement knocks on the door, you can say you had no idea that the $ was for nuclear bombs and suicide bombers, but who cares eventhough you aren’t a citizen you have “freedom of speech” to pursue those activities, after all you didn’t touch the money, it went to a foreign PO Box.

http://www.aclu-sc.org/News/Releases/2006/101920/ ACLU
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0356253 Democracy Now
http://adc.org/action/2001/13july2001v002.htm American Arab Anti-discrimination Committee
AAAC says:
The agency wanted to maintain the right to deport lawful immigrants who raised funds for legal activities abroad if the groups who received the money also were involved in military activities. But the members of the L.A. Eight have never been accused of doing anything criminal, he added. And the government has admitted that U.S. citizens could never have been prosecuted for taking part in these types of free-speech activities.
Frankly, the case sounds like something that happens in Third World police states. Mr. Shehadeh was at home with his young child, when several armed agents raided his apartment and hauled him away at gunpoint for supporting a political cause opposed by the authorities. Mr. Shehadeh and the others have spent these years fighting to stay in the United States. They've also lived productive lives and had families. The INS' success at deporting the L.A. Eight would, by the way, mean the tearing apart of several families.

Yep, the jackbooted federal agents knocked down the door, that is why non-citizens should have the same rights and standing as citizens. Not that it is easy to deport people now, but now it will be next to impossible unless you catch them in the act.

Posted by: GrimReaperxxx at January 31, 2007 11:59 AM

He added: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”

Thamk you Borg. Now the meat is finally being slapped on the bones and we are beginning to see what B. Hussein Obama believes in.

This should give us a clue as to how he would stand in the immigration case discussed above. Somehow I don't think he would be in favor of deporting this scum as it is the same scum he identified with in school.

Posted by: TexasInfidel at January 31, 2007 4:52 PM

Tunnels Found at US border.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C248658%2C00.html

Posted by: Borg at January 31, 2007 9:50 PM

MeanieMo:
Why would Hillary be any worse than Obama? On what do you base that assumption? She would have Bill to guide her through the intricacies of government, she knows her way around the White House, she has a campaign crew in place, she has the support of Hollywood, etc. She is cleverer than Obama, has wider political experience, is not averse to scrambling in the gutter, in short, she is a much more difficult opponent for the Republicans. Of course she is a crazie, but so is Obama, so what's new? And where is this silent majority going to come from now that 70% of people polled state they want to give up on the War on Terror and throw George Walker Bush to the wolves??
Just how many people in America actually give a ratsarse for JW/DW and Muslim extremism .. the silent majority votes AA .. Apathetic Abstentionism'
Confucius says: Abject disappointment is the lot of the Optimist.

Posted by: meekee at February 1, 2007 9:47 AM

The immigration judge who made this decision should be sued by the American public for reckless endangerment, after all these Palestinian terrorists may be responsible for future murders on US soil!

I deem this judge a threat to national security!!!

Posted by: pythagoras at February 1, 2007 8:46 PM