Terrorists at Fla. Atlantic U Are O.K., Young Americans for Freedom VERBOTEN

We send our young adults to university to be educated in the ways of the world, we all know. Following that well-worn path, young James Schackleford decided on the publicly funded Florida Atlantic University for his edification and boy did he learn a lesson about modern education last week. Mr. Schackleford learned that the FAU administration prefers its campus Islamic terrorist supporters over representatives of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom organization. He also learned that it’s open season on all conservatives at our American universities.

At the Boca Raton campus Mr. Schackleford determined that his school needed a chapter of YAF, a 40-year-old conservative student organization, and so gathered a few like-minded students to meet with YAF State Director Daniel P. Diaz to discuss how they should proceed on organizing a chapter in the school.

As the few gathered were meeting, university administrator David Blank* burst into the room and demanded that they cease their meeting and vacate the room. According to the YAF press release, Mr. Schackleford asked for an additional 15 minutes to finish and Blank acquiesced to the request. But the 15-minute grant was short lived.

Upon hearing Diaz address the liberal bias on the FAU campus, Blank stopped the meeting again and boorishly ordered the students to vacate the meeting room. Blank the shut off the room lights, tore down the group’s promotional posters, and called the campus police.

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Posted Mar 8th 2010 at 8:38 am in Culture, Education, News, Politics | 85558100 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2010/03/08/terrorists-at-fla-atlantic-u-are-o-k-young-americans-for-freedom-verboten/Terrorists+at+Fla.+Atlantic+U+Are+O.K.%2C+Young+Americans+for+Freedom+VERBOTEN2010-03-08+16%3A38%3A51Warner+Todd++Huston

Israel’s Increasingly Dangerous Neighborhood

I was invited to speak on 21st century missile threats and defenses at the recent 7th annual Jerusalem Conference, 2010, held at the Regency Hotel on Mt. Scopus, in the city of David, but I was pleased as well to hear a wide variety of experts (speeches are delivered in English and Hebrew with convenient wireless earphone translation headsets).

This gathering is rooted in historic Zionism, the meaning of the land of Israel, and the spiritual meaning of Jerusalem. Many Israeli statesman and American political leaders come to address current security crises, as well as existential questions ever-present for the Jewish state still facing war.

The Palestinian Front

On the Palestinian front, many now believe that the idea of a small PLO state within the 1967 borders, to include Gaza, major parts of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, has lost its appeal within Araby.

Radical Islamism, unrealistic expectations, and daily incitement against Israel in mosques, the media, and madrassas, have all added up to another era of Palestinian intransigence and irredentism.

Unfortunately, the drive for Palestinian independence has not been equated with responsible state building leading to the kind of sovereignty that would help the Palestinian people themselves.

Palestinians universally wish to cast Israel off their shoulders, but this does not mean they support a fair division of land, or a desire to live in peaceful coexistence with a Jewish state in the middle east.

Israeli journalist and commentator Ehud Ya’ari stated that the Palestinians have now fully collapsed into the unwilling arms of the Israelis, and that Israel must urgently solve the seemingly unsolvable.

Israel is today faced with a reverse annexation: It is the Palestinians who have decided to annex Israel, because Israel did not annex them first.

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Tags: abu mazen, AIPAC, ayatollah sistani, bernard lewis, chas freeman
Posted Feb 28th 2010 at 9:57 am in History, News | 81954315 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/lgreenfield/2010/02/28/israels-increasingly-dangerous-neighborhood/Israel%27s+Increasingly+Dangerous+Neighborhood2010-02-28+17%3A57%3A30Larry+Greenfield

February Fundraiser for Convicted Terrorist Supporter in Al-Awlaki’s Mosque

On Saturday, February 13,  the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia – about 20 minutes from the White House -  held a fundraiser dinner to raise money for Sabri Benkhala’s various legal appeals.  (They’re holding an even bigger fundraiser in April, which may be attended by some well-known elected officials – more on that later….)  Benkhala is serving a 10-year term in a federal prison for perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI.

According to a February 5, 2007 statement from the Department of Justice, “Benkahla was convicted of making materially false statements both in his grand jury appearances in 2004, as well as to the FBI in 2004. These false statements included his denial of his involvement with an overseas jihad training camp in 1999, as well as his asserted lack of knowledge about individuals with whom he was in contact.”

If you want to fundraise for a jailed jihadist, Dar Al-Hijrah is definitely the $40-donation-for-a-halal-chicken-dinner venue of choice.  Dar Al-Hijrah’s  jihadist credentials are impeccable:

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Tags: abelhaleem hasan abdelrazig ashqar, ahmed omar abu ali, Al Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Christmas terror attack
Posted Feb 14th 2010 at 4:03 pm in Congress, Culture, Defense, History, Justice/Legal | 74774128 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/fgaffney/2010/02/14/february-fundraiser-for-convicted-terrorist-supporter-in-al-awlakis-mosque/February+Fundraiser+for+Convicted+Terrorist+Supporter+in+Al-Awlaki%27s+Mosque2010-02-15+00%3A03%3A05Frank+Gaffney

Sen. John Kerry Letter Supporting Code Pink’s Hamas-Aid Gaza Freedom March

[Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.]

Massachusetts senior U.S. Senator John Kerry provided a letter on Senate stationery that supported constituents who participated in last December’s anti-Israel, pro-Hamas Gaza Freedom March, led by President Barack Obama ally Code Pink.

Democrat Representative Andre Carson of Indiana’s 7th District also provided a letter of support for participants in the so-called Gaza Freedom March.

Kerry is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was the Democratic Party’s 2004 presidential nominee.

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Tags: Andre Carson, Christopher Wyman, Code Pink, Electronic Intifada, Gaza Freedom March
Posted Feb 4th 2010 at 8:57 am in Defense, News | 6949067 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2010/02/04/sen-john-kerry-letter-supporting-code-pinks-hamas-aid-gaza-freedom-march/Sen.+John+Kerry+Letter+Supporting+Code+Pink%27s+Hamas-Aid+Gaza+Freedom+March2010-02-04+16%3A57%3A06Kristinn+Taylor+and++Andrea+Shea+King

Call For An Audit of Obama’s Campaign Finances

In light of the long-overdue ruling by the Supreme Court to throw out the free-speech-killing and unconstitutional McCain-Feingold finance law (was there ever a more destructive, corrupting influence on elections ever?), it is a good time to revisit the active complaint to the Federal Elections Commission over Barack Obama’s campaign finances.

Back when Obama was running for President, I broke a number of campaign donation stories that should have blown the race wide open. The Obama campaign committed the most egregious violations of election contribution laws, and they were dismissed with a wave of the hand. Millions came in from foreign countries — which is illegal: the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) “prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly.”

I broke the jaw-dropping story about how tens of thousands of dollars came in to the Obama campaign from a Hamas-controlled camp in Gaza. Al-Jazeera actually ran video of Obama phone banks in Gaza. One large contributor to the Obama campaign was Monir Edwan, who was listed on FEC documents as contributing to Obama from the city of Rafah in the state “GA.” If you were reading quickly, you might have thought it was just a contribution from Georgia. But there is no city of Rafah in the Peach State. Monir Edwan sent money to Obama from Rafah, Gaza.

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Tags: al-Jazeera, Barack Obama, FEC, foreign campaign contributions, Gaza
Posted Jan 25th 2010 at 8:38 am in News, Obama, Politics | 64854168 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/01/25/call-for-an-audit-of-obamas-campaign-finances/Call+For+An+Audit+of+Obama%27s+Campaign+Finances2010-01-25+16%3A38%3A25Pamela+Geller

Hamas Terrorists Guaranteed Code Pink’s Safety in Gaza

Hamas rally, March 30, 2005 (Reuters/Nayef Hashlamoun)

[Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.]

How deep are the ties between the so-called antiwar group Code Pink and the terrorist group Hamas?  Deep enough that Hamas guaranteed Code Pink’s safety when the group led an international delegation of anti-Israel leftists to Gaza in late December for the ‘Gaza Freedom March.’

Code Pink claims to have delivered “tens of thousands of dollars in humanitarian aid” to Hamas-controlled Gaza to protest a blockade of the terrorist enclave by the civilized world.

Before Code Pink departed for Egypt where the march was based, co-founder Medea Benjamin told the Western Massachusetts publication The Reminder that Hamas “has pledged to ensure our safety.”

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Tags: anti-Israel, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Code Pink, Davood Mohammad Niar
Posted Jan 12th 2010 at 7:07 am in Defense, Obama, Politics | 5813091 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2010/01/12/hamas-terrorists-guaranteed-code-pinks-safety-in-gaza/Hamas+Terrorists+Guaranteed+Code+Pink%27s+Safety+in+Gaza2010-01-12+15%3A07%3A21Kristinn+Taylor+and++Andrea+Shea+King

Obama Ally Code Pink Invites Muslim Brotherhood: ‘Join Us In Cleansing Our Country’

[Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.]

Fresh on the heels of their Hamas-protected trip to Gaza, the so-called feminist, American antiwar group Code Pink, co-founded by top Obama funder Jodie Evans, is running banner advertisements on the English language version of the official Web site of a terrorist sympathizing group, the Muslim Brotherhood, one of which invites the Muslim Brotherhood to “join us in cleansing our country.”

The ad, titled “Arrest the War Criminals” with a subhead that contains the invitation to “join us in cleansing our country” links back to a Code Pink site that calls for the kidnapping of former President George W. Bush, his wife Laura and other former members of his administration through ‘citizens arrests’ for defending America against terrorists in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks by Al Qaeda.

The Jawa Report first reported the advertising in a post this morning (January 11, 2010).

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Posted Jan 11th 2010 at 10:27 am in Defense, News, Obama | 58210174 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2010/01/11/obama-ally-code-pink-invites-muslim-brotherhood-join-us-in-cleansing-our-country/Obama+Ally+Code+Pink+Invites+Muslim+Brotherhood%3A+%27Join+Us+In+Cleansing+Our+Country%272010-01-11+18%3A27%3A24Kristinn+Taylor+and++Andrea+Shea+King

Obama Funder Jodie Evans Provokes Crisis in Egypt Over ‘Hamas-Aid’ Event, Obama Pals Ayers and Dohrn in Cairo with Code Pink

[Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.]

“We hope the Egyptians get so annoyed they just want to get rid of us.” Jodie Evans, Cairo, December 29, 2009

Top President Barack Obama funder Jodie Evans and her terrorist sympathizing group Code Pink have provoked a violent crisis in Egypt over an attempt to deliver ‘humanitarian aid’ to Hamas-run Gaza to mark the one-year anniversary of Israel’s response to repeated provocations by Hamas terrorists. Evans was joined in Cairo by Obama pals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn, both former terrorists with the Weather Underground.

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Tags: al-Aqsa Mosque, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Code Pink
Posted Dec 31st 2009 at 1:03 pm in Culture, Defense, News, Obama, Politics | 5415884 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/12/31/obama-funder-jodie-evans-provokes-crisis-in-egypt-over-hamas-aid-event-obama-pals-ayers-and-dohrn-in-cairo-with-code-pink/Obama+Funder+Jodie+Evans+Provokes+Crisis+in+Egypt+Over+%27Hamas-Aid%27+Event%2C+Obama+Pals+Ayers+and+Dohrn+in+Cairo+with+Code+Pink2009-12-31+21%3A03%3A56Kristinn+Taylor+and++Andrea+Shea+King

Media Matters Throws Hostage Gilad Shalit Under The Bus

Once again, Media Matters’ evil twin – Media Matters Action Network – has penned a horribly offensive anti-Israel blog post: Compassion for Gilad Shalit Is Commendable But Easy [December 22, 2009 3:24 pm ET by MJ Rosenberg]

The gist of the entry is that anyone can feel compassion for hostage Gilad Shalit, but it takes a real humanitarian to feel compassion for Hamas.

Reading the first paragraph is like pulling back the curtain for a frightening peek into the ethically barren back room of Media Matters:

The year ends with Israel obsessively focusing on the captured soldier, Gilad Shalit. He has been held by Hamas for over three years and, with the help of Israel’s sensationalist media, the entire country seems to be in a fury over the boy’s continued captivity.

Wow! Israel is “obsessed” with their citizen being held hostage by an Islamist-terrorist group, all thanks to Israeli tabloid journalism paying too much attention to the subject. This is awfully dismissive of a nation’s grief over the fate of one of its own citizens, but what is the fate of one Jew worth when people are suffering  somewhere else? To Media Matters, apparently very little [emphasis added]:

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Tags: Egypt, Gaza, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, Hostage
Posted Dec 23rd 2009 at 2:13 pm in Culture, Media Criticism | 5133844 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/12/23/media-matters-throws-hostage-gilad-shalit-under-the-bus/Media+Matters+Throws+Hostage+Gilad+Shalit+Under+The+Bus2009-12-23+22%3A13%3A04Andrew++Marcus

Jane Fonda: Obama Funder Jodie Evans Met With Taliban; Code Pink Gives Terrorists Direct Line to Obama

[Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans.  Click here to read earlier articles.]

Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she had with Evans last month. The meeting with the Taliban took place just weeks before Evans was videotaped directly handing to President Barack Obama a package of information about her trip to Afghanistan at a high dollar fundraiser in San Francisco.

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Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Code Pink, Evo Morales, Fidel Castro
Posted Nov 17th 2009 at 5:42 pm in Defense, Featured Story, News, Obama, Politics | 32574146 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/11/17/jane-fonda-obama-funder-jodie-evans-met-with-taliban-code-pink-gives-terrorists-direct-line-to-obama/Jane+Fonda%3A+Obama+Funder+Jodie+Evans+Met+With+Taliban%3B+Code+Pink+Gives+Terrorists+Direct+Line+to+Obama2009-11-18+00%3A42%3A38Kristinn+Taylor+and++Andrea+Shea+King

Why You Should Care About CAIR….

Over the next month, we will be exposing new evidence about the activities of the Council on American Islamic Relations, known as CAIR.  The evidence – and ensuing requests for formal investigations of CAIR – will be submitted to members of Congress, to the Departments of Justice and Treasury, as well as to the public here at Big Government.  To set the scene, here’s a brief “CAIR for Dummies” backgrounder  from author Paul Sperry, whose just-published best-seller Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America unmasks CAIR and its foreign backers:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations bills itself as a “civil-rights advocacy group,” much like the NAACP, but for Muslims

However, the FBI says that far from being a benign nonprofit, CAIR is a front group for Hamas terrorists and the radical Muslim Brotherhood in America. And the bureau recently cut off formal ties to CAIR’s national office in Washington and all 30 of its branch offices across the country.

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Tags: Council on American Islamic Relations, Dubai, FBI, Hamas, Holy Land Foundation
Posted Oct 28th 2009 at 12:00 pm in Congress, Defense, Justice/Legal | 2107065 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/fgaffney/2009/10/28/why-you-should-care-about-cair/Why+You+Should+Care+About+CAIR....2009-10-28+19%3A00%3A13Frank+Gaffney

Is Obama the Next Woodrow Wilson?

At the end of last week, I was watching President Obama’s speech before the United Nations. I must admit it was given with eloquence and was quite moving. However, for the most part it was rhetoric and the dreams of an idealistic man in Fantasyland. I do not want to really beat a dead horse, but as stated in my last article about the ideology of liberals, President Obama’s foreign policy completely ignores reality. It is almost delusional. Obama dreams about everything being utopian, but ignores the writings on the wall. And, in the process he insults our trusted ally Israel by demanding it stop building settlements without requiring the Palestinians to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist.

The speech was also very Wilsonian. I could imagine the words of Woodrow Wilson pitching the League of Nations to the United States Congress after the end of World War One. The League of Nations “is a definite guaranty of peace. It is a definite guaranty by word against aggression. It is a definite guaranty against the things which have just come near bringing the whole structure of civilization into ruin. Its purposes do not for a moment lie vague. Its purposes are declared, and its powers are unmistakable. It is not in contemplation that this should be merely a league to secure the peace of the world. It is a league which can be used for cooperation in any international matter.” In fact, parts of President Obama’s speech today mirrored these themes exactly. (more…)

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Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, League of Nations, Obama
Posted Sep 27th 2009 at 9:36 am in History, Obama, Politics | 9170122 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/fdemartini/2009/09/27/is-obama-the-next-woodrow-wilson/Is+Obama+the+Next+Woodrow+Wilson%3F2009-09-27+16%3A36%3A55Frank+DeMartini