FARC
Posted at 8:06am on Jul. 3, 2008 A Roundup of the Colombian FARC hostage rescue.
Which, by all accounts, was one for the books.
By Moe Lane
As you've no doubt heard, fifteen hostages were rescued yesterday from the South American terrorist group FARC. Actually, what you probably heard was that French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt (oddly, though she ran for President of Colombia, it's never the other way around), Three Americans, and mumblemumblemumble some Colombian guys mumblemumblemumble got rescued, but that's just the American media's little way.
But I digress.
Read on.
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Posted at 2:37pm on Apr. 17, 2008 Why? Some questions about Obama's terrorist and communist fan club
It's like the Joker and Lady Vic campaigning for Lex Luthor for President. At some point it raises red flags.
By Erick
We have well documented Barack Obama's Marxist underpinnings. His wife, his preacher, his mother, his father, his childhood mentor, and his neighbor Bill Ayers all have underlying beliefs in marxism. They share a disdain for capitalism, capital, and job providers. They are all swept up in the call for social change. And Obama has been right there with them.
We get glimpses every once in a while -- Obama rails against corporate special interests and denies taking money from them, while using them to raise his money and while actually getting money from them. Obama expresses his distain for religion as a crutch for humanity, echoing Marx's view that religion is an opiate for the masses. Obama decries the unfairness of the rich while expressing his connection to the proletariat, despite not being one of them.
There is a growing sense though, both among some Clinton supporters and those of us on the right, that we're at a tipping point and it is a point that requires the press to dig a bit deeper.
Obama's ties to terrorist Bill Ayers and his terrorist wife are often played down by the Obama campaign, but they are only disputed by Obama's chief strategist. In fact, Obama's present successful political career was started in Bill Ayers's living room.
“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”
Then, of course, we have his dealings with Tony Rezko and Saddam loyalist Nadhmi Auchi, with whom Obama tries to play down his relationship. Nonetheless, Obama appears to have yet again lied to cover up his toasting of Nadhmi.
Equally disturbing is Obama's willingness to take money from Code Pink activists, that particularly repugnant group that harasses our military, assaults our elected officials, and accuses our heros of being war criminals. Obama has no problem with their money or their support. In fact, his rhetoric frequently appeals to this group and its supporters because it is so anti-American military, or rather anti-imperalist.
Maybe all these things combined send signals to those who live in that world. The signals are seemingly so strong that Obama has a terrorist fan club of sorts. We should review the members.
Read on . . .
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Posted at 6:14pm on Mar. 7, 2008 Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela Crisis Over
By California Yankee
The crisis over Columbian forces killing FARC leader and terrorist Raul Reyes, near the Ecuadorean border, is over.
The leaders of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela shook hands at the Rio Group meeting in the Dominican Republic:
"And with this ... this incident that has caused so much damage would be resolved," leftist Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said before standing up and shaking hands with his U.S.-backed Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe. [Read on.]
Posted at 4:55pm on Mar. 7, 2008 Another FARC Leader Killed
By California Yankee
Colombian security forces trying to arrest Ivan Rios, a top rebel leader of the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), killed a man in a shootout. If the body is identified as Rios, it would be the second member of the ruling secretariat of FARC, to be killed in a week.
Rios "was the youngest member of the secretariat. He was very important to the rebels," said Alfredo Rangel of the Bogota-based think tank Security and Democracy. "This shows the army is capable of taking down the rebels' most important pillars and that any of the leaders can fall at any time." [Read on.]
