Reuters News Service FoxNews.com
January 31, 2010

The head of the Taliban in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed in a U.S. drone attack, Pakistan state television reported Sunday.

Degenerate Islamic Taliban Terrorist Chief Was Sent To The Cornfield.

The report stated Mehsud had been injured in a drone attack in the Shaktoi area January 14 and died three days later. He reportedly was buried in the village of Mamuzai in the North Waziristan region.

The Pakistani army said Sunday that it was investigating the reports.

The militant leader’s death would be an important success for both Pakistan, which has been battling the Pakistani Taliban, and the U.S., which blames Mehsud for a recent deadly bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan.

The army’s announcement came shortly after Pakistani state television, citing unnamed “official sources,” reported that Mehsud died in Orakzai, an area in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region where he was reportedly being treated for his injuries.

“We have these reports coming to us,” army spokesman Gen. Athar Abbas told The Associated Press. “We are investigating whether it is true or wrong.”

A tribal elder told the AP that he attended Mehsud’s funeral in the Mamuzai area of Orakzai on Thursday. He said Mehsud was buried in Mamuzai graveyard after he died at his in-laws’ home. The elder spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from the Taliban.

Pakistani intelligence officials have said that Mehsud was targeted in a U.S. drone strike in South Waziristan on Jan. 14, triggering rumors that he had been injured or killed. The strike targeted a meeting of militant commanders in the Shaktoi area of South Waziristan.

Mehsud issued two audio tapes after the strike denying the rumors. But Pakistani intelligence officials told the AP on Sunday that they have confirmation that the Taliban chief’s legs and abdomen were wounded in the strike.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Pakistani Taliban officials were not immediately available for comment, but low-level fighters have dismissed rumors of Mehsud’s death in recent days as propaganda.

The drone strike that targeted Mehsud came about two weeks after a deadly suicide bombing he helped orchestrate killed seven CIA employees at a remote base across the border in Afghanistan. Mehsud appeared in a video issued after the bombing sitting beside the Jordanian man who carried out the attack.

The bomber, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, said he carried out the attack in retribution for the death of former Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud — Hakimullah Mehsud’s predecessor — in a U.S. drone strike last August.

The U.S. refuses to talk about the covert CIA-run drone program in Pakistan but officials have said privately that the strikes have killed several senior Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders.

Pakistani officials publicly protest the strikes as violations of the country’s sovereignty, but U.S. officials say privately they support the program, especially when it targets militants like Mehsud who the government believes is a threat to the state.

Mehsud, who has the reputation as a particularly ruthless militant, took over leadership of the Pakistani Taliban soon after Baitullah Mehsud’s death.

The 28 year-old militant leader has focused most of his attacks against targets inside Pakistan, but his men have also been blamed for attacking U.S. and NATO supply convoys traveling through the country en route to Afghanistan.

Hakimullah Mehsud first appeared in public to journalists in November 2008, when he offered to take reporters in Orakzai on a ride in a U.S. Humvee taken from a supply truck headed to Afghanistan. He was the Pakistani Taliban’s regional commander in the Orakzai, Khyber and Mohmand tribal areas before taking over the organization.

He has taken responsibility for a wave of brazen strikes inside Pakistan, including the bombing of the Pearl Continental hotel in the northwestern city of Peshawar last June and the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore earlier that year.

The group stepped up its attacks after the Pakistani army invaded its stronghold of South Waziristan in mid-October. More than 600 people have been killed in attacks throughout the country since the ground offensive was launched.

Authorities have said Mehsud has been behind threats to foreign embassies in Islamabad, and there is a $120,000 bounty on his head.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

China Protests US Arms Sales-Warns Of “Serious” Impact
The Drudge Report
January 30, 2010
China Hits Back at US Over Taiwan Weapons Sale

China on Friday protested the US decision to sell 6.4 billion dollars in weapons to Taiwan and warned of “serious” damage to relations and cooperation with Washington.
China’s Vice Foreign Minister He Yafai made an urgent official demarche to the US ambassador in Beijing, Jon Huntsman, in the early hours Saturday local time, Wang Baodong, spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington, told AFP.

“The latest US move to sell weapons to Taiwan, which is part of China, constitutes a gross intervention into China’s internal affairs, seriously endangers China’s national security and harms China’s peaceful reunification efforts,” Wang quoted the protest as saying.

“The US plan will definitely undermine China-US relations and bring about serious negative impact on exchange and cooperation in major areas between the two countries,” he added.

China “strongly urges the US side to fully recognize the gravity of the issue, revoke the erroneous decision on arms sales to Taiwan and stop selling any weapons to Taiwan,” he said.

China snapped off military relations with the United States temporarily after the last US arms package to Taiwan in October 2008.

Beijing considers Taiwan, where China’s nationalists fled in 1949 after losing the mainland’s civil war, to be a territory awaiting reunification, by force if necessary.

The United States in 1979 switched recognition to Beijing. But Congress requires the administration to provide Taiwan weapons for defensive purposes.

Wang said that the weapons deal violated the 1982 communique between China and the United States, which said the arms sales to Taiwan “will not exceed, in qualitative or in quantitative terms,” the level in the years before that.

State Department spokesman Philip Crowley earlier said that the arms sales were consistent with the three key communiques between the United States and China when they normalized relations.

January 30, 2010
GOP: Obama Has ‘Blind Spot’ on Terror War
(AP) FoxNews.com

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration’s handling of a Nigerian student who allegedly attempted to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas exposed its “blind spot when it comes to the war on terrorism,” a Republican lawmaker said Saturday.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins kept up the Republicans’ drumbeat of criticism following a report by The Associated Press a week ago that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was questioned for 50 minutes without informing him of his right to remain silent.

When he was later advised of his rights, Abdulmutallab refused to speak further with investigators. He was treated as a criminal defendant, not as an “enemy combatant,” she said.

“President Obama recently used the phrase that ‘we are at war’ with terrorists. But unfortunately his rhetoric does not match the actions of his administration,” Collins said in the weekly Republican Internet and radio address. “The Obama administration appears to have a blind spot when it comes to the war on terrorism.”

Collins’ choice of the Christmas Day attack as a topic for the radio address suggests Republicans have found what they consider a weak spot in the Obama administration — the handling of terrorism. That theme is likely to surface frequently during coming campaigns.

White House aides have cited “lapses” and errors in the sharing of intelligence and clues about the Nigerian man accused in the foiled attempt. National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said the suspect should have been treated like a potential terrorist and questioned by a special detainee interrogation group before any decisions were made on whether to place him in the civilian court system. But White House officials said they have other options for getting more information from the suspect.

Collins seized on the admission by some intelligence officials that the suspect was mishandled.

“When the Obama administration decided to treat Abdulmutallab as an ordinary criminal, it did so without the input of our nation’s top intelligence officials,” she said, noting that such officials as the director of national intelligence and the director of the National Counterterrorism Center were not contacted.

“They would have explained the importance of gathering all possible intelligence about Yemen, where there is a serious threat from terrorists whose sights are trained on this nation,” she said. “They would have explained the critical nature of learning all we could from Abdulmutallab. But they were never asked.”

Abdulmutallab allegedly was carrying explosives in his underwear, but they failed to detonate and he was detained with the help of passengers and crew members.

After his capture, Abdulmutallab spoke freely and provided valuable intelligence, officials said. Federal agents repeatedly interviewed him or heard him speak to others. But when they read him his legal rights nearly 10 hours after the incident, he went silent

Gandhi’s Ashes Scattered Into Indian Ocean
January 30, 2010
(AP) FoxNews.com

DURBAN, South Africa — Six decades after his death, some of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s ashes were scattered off the coast of South Africa Saturday into the Indian Ocean, which links the country to India.

An early morning service in a harbor in the eastern city of Durban on the 62nd anniversary of Gandhi’s death included the laying of flowers and candles on the water’s surface. Gandhi had lived for 21 years in South Africa, and some of his philosophies were developed while he was in this country.

Gandhi, known as the Mahatma or “great soul,” was shot dead by a Hindu hard-liner in 1948 in New Delhi. His ashes were divided, stored in steel urns and sent across India and beyond for memorial services. It was not unusual for some of the ashes to have been preserved instead of scattered as intended. In 2007, some ashes were sent to a Gandhi museum in Mumbai by an Indian businessman whose father, a friend of Gandhi, had saved them. Those ashes were scattered in the sea off Mumbai in 2008.

In 1997, ashes that had been found in a bank vault in northern India were immersed at the holy spot where India’s Ganges and Yamuna rivers met.

Soon after his arrival in South Africa in 1893, Gandhi, then a young lawyer, was thrown off a train for refusing to leave the “whites only” compartment. As a result, he threw himself into the fight for human rights in South Africa.

Gandhi lived in homes and farms across South Africa, before returning to India at the age of 46 to help fight for independence from Britain.

FOXNews.com And (AP)
January 30, 2010

As the Justice Department searches for a new venue to hold the trial of confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, critics are pouncing on the Obama administration’s steadfast refusal to consider a military tribunal to bring the terror suspect and his four alleged accomplices to justice.

The White House insisted late Friday that no decision has been made to scrap Manhattan as the location for the trial of confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but sources tell FoxNews.com alternative plans will need to be shored up sooner than later.

Law enforcement officials tell FoxNews.com that Lower Manhattan has been “definitely ruled out.”

“My sense is that the terror trials are not going to happen in lower Manhattan,” Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer said.

As the Justice Department searches for a new venue to hold the trial of Mohammed, critics are pouncing on the Obama administration’s steadfast refusal to consider a military tribunal to bring the terror suspect and his four alleged accomplices to justice.

The administration’s critics say moving the trial to a different venue isn’t the solution. They maintain that the terror suspects, who were captured on foreign soil and are being held at the military prison in Guantanamo, shouldn’t be brought to the U.S. at all.

“They belong in a military installation — Guantanamo would be an ideal location,” Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. said of Mohammed and his four alleged accomplices.

“… there is no community in the country that should have this foisted upon them,” King told Fox News. “I said then, I say now, the president’s decision, the attorney general’s decision to hold these trials in New York … was the most irresponsible decision any president has ever made.”

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who originally supported the Justice Department’s plan to hold the trial in Manhattan federal court, reversed his position this week and called Attorney General Eric Holder to lobby for moving the proceedings. The city claims it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to provide security for a court case that is expected to last at least a year.

White House spokesman Bill Burton said Thursday that President Obama is committed to seeing Mohammed and his alleged accomplices brought to justice in a federal court. The president believes that can be done successfully and securely.

“Currently our federal jails hold hundreds of convicted terrorists, and the president’s opinion has not changed on that,” Burton said.

Mayor Nicholas Valentine of Newburgh, N.Y., a small city about 70 miles north of New York City, said his community would be the perfect site for the trial. Valentine said his city has a new state-of-the-art courthouse that can easily be secured, and it is less than a 90-minute commute from Manhattan.

But Victoria Toensing, former deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration, said a civilian trial held elsewhere would pose the same problems as in New York City: controlling a media circus and dealing with evidentiary issues for terror suspects captured on the battlefield.

“I say take this into a military commission, and that’s where you have your case and you don’t have a regular criminal process,” she told Fox News.

Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show Friday that he had spoken with several “high level” people in the administration about his concerns. He said the administration understands and is “trying to do something.”

“I said it would be phenomenally expensive and it is very disruptive to people who live in the area and businesses in the area,” Bloomberg said of his conversations with administration officials. “So the economic impact is detrimental, and nobody knows how big. And it would be better to do it elsewhere if they could find a venue.”

King blistered the Obama administration’s attempt to hold the trial in New York.

” They never spoke with the police commissioner. They never spoke with the U.S. Marshals. They never spoke with the community,” the Republican congressman said. “And to think they could bring this trial into New York and tie up Lower Manhattan, costing billions of dollars, was showing an administration driven by ideology — the same ideology that gave Miranda warnings to the bomber in Detroit.”

James Hanson, a former special forces soldier, told Fox News that the decision reflects the mentality the administration has adopted in its fight against terrorism.

“Al Qaeda is at war with us,” Hanson said. “Are we going to be at war with them or are we going to fight them with lawfare?”

Hanson said he’s not sure Obama and Holder will bow to pressure to try the suspects in a military tribunal.

“They’ve been adamantly opposed from the start and I believe they’ve both been wrong on the issue,” he said. “Now the question is, are they going to listen to the combined wisdom of the rest of the counterterrorism groups that do that for a living and go back to what was the correct answer, and that is treating terrorist as enemies of United States of America, not common criminals?”

U.S. Supreme Court Grants NRA Motion
For Divided Argument In McDonald v. City of Chicago
National Rifle Association Press Release
January 30, 2010

Patriots, we will keep you updated regarding this case which is now before the Supreme Court.

On Monday, January 25, the U.S. Supreme Court granted NRA’s motion to allow it to participate in the upcoming oral argument in McDonald v. City of Chicago.

“We are pleased with the Court’s decision to grant our motion,” said NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox. “NRA’s solitary goal in McDonald is to ensure that our fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms applies to every law-abiding American in every state. We are hopeful that the Court will share our view that the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment clearly intended to apply the Second Amendment to the states.”

Last September, the Court agreed to consider the McDonald case, on appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. That court incorrectly claimed that prior Supreme Court precedent prevented it from holding in favor of incorporation of the Second Amendment. NRA believes the Seventh Circuit should have followed the lead of the Seventh Circuit , which found that Supreme Court precedent does not prevent the Second Amendment from applying to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. As a party in McDonald, NRA looks forward to participating in the upcoming oral argument.

Bin Laden Blames U.S. for Global Warming in New Tape
January 29, 2010
(AP)

CAIRO — Usama bin Laden sought to draw a wider public into his fight against the United States in a new message Friday, dropping his usual talk of religion and holy war and focusing instead on an unexpected topic: global warming.

The Al Qaeda leader blamed the United States and other industrialized nations for climate change and said the only way to prevent disaster was to break the American economy, calling on the world to boycott U.S. goods and stop using the dollar.

“The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent,” bin Laden said in the audiotape, aired on the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera.

The terror leader noted Washington’s rejection of the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and painted the United States as in the thrall of major corporations that he said “are the true criminals against the global climate” and are to blame for the global economic crisis, driving “tens of millions into poverty and unemployment.”

Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders have mentioned global warming and struck an anti-globalization tone in previous tapes and videos. But the latest was the first message by bin Laden solely dedicated to the topic. It was also nearly entirely empty of the Islamic militant rhetoric that usually fills his declarations.

The change in rhetoric aims to give Al Qaeda’s message an appeal beyond hardcore Islamic militants, said Evan Kohlmann, of globalterroralert.com, a private, U.S.-based terrorism analysis group.

“It’s a bridge issue,” Kohlmann said. “They are looking to appeal to people who don’t necessarily love Al Qaeda but who are angry at the U.S. and the West, to galvanize them against the West” and make them more receptive to “alternative solutions like adopting violence for the cause.”

“If you’re looking to draw people who are disenchanted or disillusioned, what better issue to use than global warming,” he said. While the focus on climate may be new, the tactic itself is not, he said: Al Qaeda used issues like the abuse of prisoners by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay to reach out to Muslims who might not be drawn to Al Qaeda’s ideology but are angry over the injustices.

Bin Laden “looks to see the issues that are the most cogent and more likely to get popular support,” Kohlmann said.

The Al Qaeda leader’s call for an economic boycott helps in the appeal — providing a nonviolent way to participate in opposing the United States.

“People of the world, it’s not right for the burden to be left on the mujahedeen (holy warriors) in an issue that causes harm to everyone,” he said. “Boycott them to save yourselves and your possessions and your children from climate change and to live proud and free.”

Al-Jazeera aired excerpts of the message and posted a transcript on its Web site. The tape’s authenticity could not be independently confirmed, but the voice resembled that of bin Laden on messages known to be from him. The new message comes after a bin Laden tape released last week in which he endorsed a failed attempt to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day.

In the new tape, bin Laden refers to the Dec. 18 climate conference in Copenhagen — indicated the message was made recently.

The message — whose length Al-Jazeera did not specify — makes only brief passing mentions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine and instead hits on issues that could resonate at a time of widespread economic woes.

“The world is held hostage by major corporations, which are pushing it to the brink,” he said. “World politics are not governed by reason but by the force and greed of oil thieves and warmongers and the cruel beasts of capitalism.”

To stop global warming, he called for the “wheels of the American economy” to be brought to a halt. “This is possible … if the peoples of the world stop consuming American goods.”

“We must also stop dealings in the dollar and get rid of it as soon as possible,” he said. “I know that this has great consequences and grave ramifications, but it is the only means to liberate humanity from slavery and dependence on America.”

He also called for the “punishing and holding to account” of corporation chiefs, adding, “this should be easy for the American people to do, particularly those who were effected by Hurricane Katrina or those who lost their jobs, since these criminals live among them, particularly in Washington, New York and Texas.”

The message represents a honing of Al Qaeda’s rhetoric. In 2007, bin Laden issued a tape in which he warned that human life is endangered by global warning, and he blamed democratic systems for seeking the interests of major corporations, said the U.S.-based Site Intelligence Group, which monitors Islamic militant message traffic.

But in Friday’s message, the anti-democracy rhetoric is dropped.

“It’s populism, pure and simple,” Kohlmann said.

Malaysia terror arrests linked to Detroit bomb attempt, officials say

Twelve men arrested in Malaysia this month for alleged terrorist offences had connections to the Nigerian student accused of attempting to blow up a US passenger aircraft on Christmas Day, according to a report from Kuala Lumpur.

The Malaysian Home Minister, Hishamuddin Hussein, refused to confirm the report in the New Straits Times, a newspaper which follows the lead of the Government.

He insisted however that the detained men, who were arrested eight days ago at a gathering of Muslims in Kuala Lumpur, were “a serious security threat to the country”.

They included at least one Malaysian, four Syrians, one Yemeni, one Jordanian and two Nigerians, and are being held under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act (ISA). Under the Act suspects can be detained indefinitely without charge or trial.

Mr Hishamuddin said that the arrests were part of a broader international terrorist investigation, although he stopped short of confirming the report in the New Straits Times that they were members of a group connected to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who allegedly attempted to detonate explosives on a flight to Detroit.

“We were working with other international anti-terrorism agencies and nabbed the ten suspects who are on the international wanted list,” he said. “If you are talking about international linkages, international terrorism, it cannot stop with just the people we apprehended because we don’t know who else is out there.

“I think this is a very good wake-up call because the playground for the terrorist is no longer one location. In this borderless world that we live in now, the whole world is their playground.”

The detainees were among about 50 people attending a religious study group led by Aiman Al Dakkak, a Syrian academic who has lived in Malaysia since 2003. All those present were arrested but most were released the following morning after five hours of questioning.

One of those released, a Malaysian named Muhamad Yunus Zainal Abidin, said that the police asked him in detail about Mr Aiman and the character of his teachings. Mr Muhamad said that they were confined to religious subjects and did not touch on terrorism or violence.

It has been a tense month in Malaysia. A dispute over the use of the word Allah in Malaysian translations of Christian scripture led to arson and vandalism against churches. This week, in what appeared to be an act of retaliation for those attacks, the heads of boars, a creature abhorrent to many Muslims, were thrown into two mosques.

Two weeks ago the US Government issued a warning of the attacks against foreigners in the Malaysian state of Sabah in northwest Borneo — although no such incidents have so far taken place.

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Joint Patrol Finds 40 Kg of Opium

ISAF Joint Command

Date: 01.29.2010

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan-international security patrol searched a building in the Garm ser district of Helmand this morning and found 40 kg of opium.

The owner of the house was questioned and released. The drugs were confiscated and brought to a military base for disposition.

ANSF-ISAF Patrol in Helmand Finds HME

ISAF Joint Command
Date: 01.29.2010

KABUL, Afghanistan – An ANSF-international joint force patrolling in the Yekken Baba Ziarat district of Helmand province discovered 227 kg of homemade explosives this afternoon.

Three suspects were detained. The explosives will be destroyed.

ISAF Joint Command

Date: 01.29.2010

KABUL, Afghanistan – ANSF forces reacted quickly to contain an insurgent attack on the Afghan National Army’s Sharwali Barracks, located on the western edge of Lashkar Gah this morning and are currently in the process of providing additional troops.

According to initial reports, the small arms fire attack was primarily from an unoccupied four story building to the south of the barracks. Insurgents fired two rockets from the area to the west of the Helmand River (known as the Bolan Desert) at approximately 10 a.m., and the rockets are believed to have landed west of the barracks.

This coordinated attempt by insurgents to launch an attack on the Afghan National Army is on-going, but is being contained by ANA and ISAF forces. The main group of attackers was contained in a vacant building to the south of Sharwali Barracks. Attack helicopters are over the city and have fired upon insurgents.

No casualties have been reported at this time.

ANNIVERSARY TEA PARTY
Sat. Feb. 27th, 2010
11:00AM – 12:30PM
Half a block N. of the Star of India
N. Harbor Dr., San Diego

http://www.socaltaxrevoltcoalition.org

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FLIER: Please download the flier and share with your friends and neighbors:

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PARKING: FREE parking is available across the street at the County Admin Building. There is also two hour metered parking along Harbor Blvd.

TROLLEY: http://www.sdmts.com/Trolley/Trolley.asp

MESSAGE: Please bring your California related signage…Repeal AB32, Support the Citizen Power Campaign, Part Time Legislator, your favorite candidates, etc.

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SPEAKERS:

1) Our favorite local Historian and Author, Marc Stockwell-Moniz, will be our M.C. http://tiny.cc/3WrGz

2) Stephanie Jan will share details on the history and function of the Independence Caucus and the critical work they are doing to vet and support fiscally conservative candidates.

http://icaucus.us/

3) A representative from the Part Time Legislature effort will provide details on campaign and host a petition booth.

http://www.reformcal.com/cms/

4) An expert on CARB will share how critical it is we all support the effort to repeal AB32, California’s Cap & Trade which is putting thousands of people out of work this year.

http://www.suspendab32.org/

5) Richard Rider, long time San Diego taxpayer activist and founder of the San Diego Tax Fighters will discuss the Citizen Power Campaign in support of the petition drive we will hold at the tea party.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-rider/5/a9/74

http://UnplugThePoliticalMachine.org/

6) Roger Hedgecock, nationally syndicated talk show host and long time champion of the Tea Party, will give the keynote speech of the day and highlight California’s unique roll in the 2010 election. Many of you may not realize, but Roger gave Dawn her very first interview BEFORE the Feb. 2009 Tea Party.

http://www.rogerhedgecock.com

http://templeofmut.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/roger-hedgecock-to-speak-at-san-diego-tea-party-2010-this-feb-27th/

7) And more speakers/highlights to be announced soon!!

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Massachusetts Awakens From It’s Deep Freeze Coma (I Can Die Now)
January 23, 2010
by Marc Stockwell-Moniz ChandlersWatch.com

Many Boston Red Sox baseball fans felt blessed when the Sox finally won the World Series six-years ago in 2004, after an eighty-six year hiatus. After that victory, the joke making its’ rounds in the baseball world was, “Now I can die, the Red Sox have finally won it all.” I will include myself in that group. I am family and was a team member from 1969 to 1971 and was born in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. However, that is just baseball and sport, and that should not count for much in “real-life.”

The long awaited victory in Massachusetts that really counts and mattered took place recently, as a Republican candidate won the vacant Massachusetts senate seat to the U.S. Congress. It was the first senatorial victory for the Grand Old Party in Massachusetts in thirty-eight years. This was the “real” victory worth living to see happen. This victory surpasses and dwarfs the Red Sox achievement. And in sports crazy Boston, this is a really big deal.

There have been plenty of reasons that pundits have given for the Scott Brown victory over Democratic party candidate Martha Coakley. My favorite reason is her utter disrespect of Red Sox-legend, Curt Shilling. She referred to him as a Yankee fan. That’s a treasoness statement in Boston. How clueless can you be? That statement alone should stand-out as a reason not to vote for Coakley and showed the people how out of touch she is with the real world. That’s total hallucinogenic-insanity, and we are only talking about a sport. When you jump into the real policies that matter, the Brown victory was a complete rebuttal of all the nonsense that has come from President Obama’s Administration.

The current president has been traveling the world bad-mouthing our nation. He has taken over one of the giant car companies of the nation in General Motors. Mr. Obama has attempted to implement the “Cap and Trade” bill, which if passed will redistribute middle-America’s money to the undeserving foreign rich of the world. He has attempted to ram-down-the-throats of Americans a health-care bill that a vast majority do not want. And all of this would have been much easier for Mr. Obama had Martha Coakley not been so inept, pompous and condescending. Even Mr. Obama himself could not salvage this most precious senate-seat.

The fact that this contested-senate seat was held by the “champion’ for national health-care for many, many years, Ted Kennedy made Coakley’s defeat that more sweet for those of us who do not want the Federal Government to be running one-sixth of the nation’s economy.

I contend that the socialist-redistribution of wealth stopped in Massachusetts this past week by the good people of Massachusetts. As liberal as they can be, the folks in the Bay State still displayed fiscal-sanity in the nation’s economic struggle with an executive branch of government that is socialist in nature and foreign to America.

I can die now, Massachusetts is turning red, as in blood finally received to the brain and awakening from a deep freeze coma of nearly forty-years.

Marc Stockwell-Moniz is the Official American Historian of ChandlersWatch.com
The opinion offered in this article is the sole opinion of the author and not necessarily those of ChandlersWatch.com (although it probably is.)