Feb 13, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
Tehran--To celebrate Valentine's Day this year, Iranian police have been confiscating Valentine's cards and forcing businesses to remove the "Western" influenced heart-shaped decorations.
"They are opposed to love and affection," one infatuated Iranian teenager complained. "They don't want us to be happy because Valentine's Day promotes happiness." No, no, you silly girl. Shoving the barrel of an AK-47 into the face of a Hallmark vendor is just part of your charming, peaceful culture.
Just ask your friends on America's left coast.
Today, peace Nazis kicked-off a week of "resistance against war and racism" in shameless approval of oppressive Islamic regimes everywhere. The festivities began with a "Make Love Not War" benefit in San Francisco, where I'm sure your Iranian police pals would have been welcomed with open arms.
With any luck, they'll hold the next rally in downtown Tehran, where they can "feel the love" firsthand.
Feb 12, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
Reports the Daily Telegraph, [2/11/03]:
A Chinese dissident who has lived in America for 20 years has been jailed for life in China, accused of terrorism and spying for Taiwan.
Wang Bingzhang, 55, a father of four, all of whom have American citizenship, was arrested in mysterious circumstances last summer while on a trip ostensibly to meet Chinese labour activists in Vietnam.
The Chinese authorities say he was kidnapped by a local gang and that police found him bound and gagged in a Buddhist temple in the southern Chinese province of Guanxi last July after he could not pay a £6.5 million ransom demand.
The Free China Movement, which represents Dr Wang's China Democracy and Justice Party in addition to other opposition groups abroad, says Chinese security agents kidnapped him in Vietnam and smuggled him across the border. Official media confirmed his arrest only in December, announcing that he was accused of selling defence secrets to Taiwan in the 1980s and of plotting terrorist attacks.
The charges were condemned as "trumped up" by the FCM.
Feb 12, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
ROME (Reuters) - The United States is receiving reports that United Nations food aid for desperately hungry North Korean women and children is being eaten by the military instead, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.
Of course it is, you "humanitarian" idiots.
Feb 11, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
At the Department of Defense website, you can give your thanks online to all of the members of the U.S. Armed Forces for defending our rights. Here's the link: www.defendamerica.mil/nmam.html. I think it's a great idea, and I added my name to the list, which is already over 4.2 million names long.
Considering how the protesters of the anti-America left always get their time on the news despite their numbers, I think it would mean a lot to our men and women in uniform to know, as they rise to the defense of our freedom yet again, that the people of America and the world understand what they do for us, and that we honor them for it.
Feb 10, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
South Korean Prime Minister Kim Suk-soo told parliament Monday there is no proof the North has produced nuclear weapons despite U.S. assertions that Pyongyang has one or two atomic bombs.
"North Korea is believed to have extracted enough plutonium to make one or two bombs before 1994," Kim said. "Since there has been no confirmation that it actually has produced nuclear weapons, we believe that they do not have any." [Associated Press, 2/10/03]
It's true that if there's no evidence for something, there's no warrant for saying it exists, even possibly exists. But with regard to North Korea we're way past that stage.Feb 10, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
An eye-opening article in Asia Times Online claims that Germany has made up the bulk of suppliers for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs, even after the Gulf War. Furthermore, German national intelligence is well-informed of these programs. As just the most recent example,
In April 2001, [intelligence chief August] Hanning told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that Iraq was developing a new class of chemical weapons, reiterated his alert on Iraq's missile and nuclear programs, and said that several German companies had continued to deliver to Baghdad components needed for the production of poison gas. In March 2002, he told the New Yorker magazine that, "It is our estimate that Iraq will have an atomic bomb in three years." [Asia Times Online, 2/5/03]
The entire article is worth reading, if you want to see just how much they know--and how much Schroeder is trying to evade.