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Archive for August, 2010
After My Daughter’s Death — A Father’s View of the Immigration Debate
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Opinion on 12/Aug/2010 18:32
By Ray Tranchant,
My 16-year-old daughter, Tessa, was killed by an illegal immigrant in Virginia Beach three years ago while sitting at a stop light. Her friend Ali Kunhardt, 17, also perished instantly. […]
Ramos was actually smug at the trial and took his lumps: 40 years in prison. There was nothing I could do but forgive him; forgiveness cleanses the soul. He was an uneducated foreigner patronized by local merchants who needed cheap labor.
Hundreds of thousands of illegals in Virginia do the same. We don’t share a border with Mexico, so the awareness here isn’t as great as Arizona or California.
http://www.limitstogrowth.org/wp-content/cache/supercache/www.limitstogrowth.org/index.html
14th Amendment: Is birthright citizenship really in the Constitution?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 12/Aug/2010 18:26
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment begins this way: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
The key phrase here is “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” say some experts.
Illegal immigrants are not subject to US jurisdiction, in the sense that they cannot be drafted into the US military or tried for treason against the US, said John Eastman, a professor at the Chapman University School of Law, in a media conference call Monday. Their children would share that status, via citizenship in their parents’ nation or nations of birth – and so would not be eligible for a US passport, even if born on US soil, according to Dr. Eastman.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/319362;_ylt=AjKKaAYntSECCfH1lhxGLbV0fNdF
US ARMY taking MultiCam to Afghanisan
Posted by Gary in Clothing, Warrior Tools on 12/Aug/2010 17:50
From: ARMY.Mil
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Aug. 11, 2010) — Soldiers deploying to Afghanistan will now go with a new uniform in their mobility bag — one that fights fire and fleas, and makes them more invisible to insurgents.
The next generation of uniform for Soldiers deploying to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom bears the new “OEF camouflage pattern” — called OCP for short. The pattern is better suited than the “Universal Camouflage Pattern” to blend-in in the Afghanistan environment. It is also known as “MultiCam.
Atlantic Signal Tactical Headsets
Posted by Gary in Comms, Gear, Warrior Tools on 12/Aug/2010 17:27
Atlantic Signal Custom Tactical Headset Systems, Options & Accessories
Atlantic Signal and its predecessor, New Eagle, have been in the business of designing and manufacturing tactical communications for L.E. and Military Operators worldwide since 1989. www.atlanticsignal.com
Warrior Quote
“Americans are so hard to fight because they do not know their doctrine, and if they do, they do not feel compelled to follow it” – Unknown, but attributed to a Soviet Officer.
“Hey, Ayatollah, leave those kids alone!â€
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 12/Aug/2010 17:01
A Toronto-based rock band is garnering worldwide attention after remaking Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” into a new anthem — “Hey, Ayatollah, leave those kids alone!” — as a sign of solidarity with Iranians fighting against Tehran’s regime.
Blurred Vision, formed in 2007 by brothers Sepp, 28, and Sohl, 35, who fled Iran with their family in 1986, was inspired to cover the classic tune after watching protests in Iran unfold over the controversial reelection of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“We did a show in Toronto in September and while we were performing we decided let’s play ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ just for the hell of it and as the chorus line came up I just decided to sing ‘hey Ayatollah’ instead of ‘hey teacher’ and when I sang that line the crowd went insane,” Sepp told FoxNews.com.â€
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/blurred-vision-sees-straighter-ayatollah
Canadian child soldier comforted himself by thinking about killing an American soldier
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 12/Aug/2010 16:51
In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, Canadian Omar Khadr attends jury selection for his war crimes trial at the courthouse for the U.S. military war crimes commission in the Camp Justice compound of Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)
Toronto-born Omar Khadr, who was 15 when he was captured in 2002, is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a Delta Force medic after a firefight in Afghanistan.
“When asked what he was most proud of in his life, he said conducting the operations against the Americans.”
“He was there because his father told him to go there,” Jackson said. “He was there because Ahmed Khadr hated his enemies more than he loved his son.”
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/12/4874159-prosecutors-gitmo-inmate-took-pride-in-slaying
Treating a Nomad Boy
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 12/Aug/2010 16:44
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 Spc. Britane Y. Whipple, a combat medic of Charlie Company 1-48th Brigade Support Battalion Evacuation Platoon treats the skin of a nomad boy during a medical drop held in Kabul District 7, Kabul province, Afghanistan, Oct. 24.
170th Soldiers train to keep eyes in the sky
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 12/Aug/2010 16:38
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Pfc. Christopher Cervantes, an unmanned aerial vehicle maintainer with 3rd Platoon, 502nd Military Intelligence, 170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, and Cpl. Frederick Tuisl III, also an unmanned aerial vehicle maintainer with 3rd Platoon, loads the Shadow RQ-7B unmanned aerial vehicle onto its launcher here during mission readiness training July 8, 2010. Photo by Sgt. Christopher Klutts
Nuevo Laredo Fears Simmer
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 12/Aug/2010 16:33
By KIRSTEN CROW
LAREDO MORNING TIMESTwo days after the most recent gunbattle between suspected drug traffickers and Mexican military forces, an uneasy calm settled over this embattled border city.
But despite the seeming respite from the bloodshed that wracked the city throughout July, experts remain concerned about the escalation of the violence — its frequency, intensity and growing numbers of indiscriminate attacks.
Howard Campbell, Ph.D., an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, said that while there was once a “sort of idea of a gentleman’s agreement, the old mafia code of ‘Don’t mess with women, children and bystanders,’†it has ceased to exist.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/nuevo-laredo-fears-simmer.html
Sanctions helping Tehran, says top dissident
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 12/Aug/2010 16:29
Isolated ... the regime is cracking down on opposition.
LONDON: PUNITIVE international sanctions imposed on Iran have strengthened the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and helped its post-election crackdown on the opposition movement, a leading reformist politician and former presidential candidate says.
”These sanctions have given an excuse to the Iranian government to suppress the opposition by blaming them for the unstable situation of the country,” Mr Karroubi said in emailed responses to questions.
The United States must not abandon Iraq?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 12/Aug/2010 16:26
“Today, Iraq has no functioning government, and violence is on the rise: last month, 535 people were killed, the highest total in two years.
Little wonder, then, that Lieutenant General Babakar Zebari, the head of Iraq’s armed forces, has warned that an American pull-out would be premature, and that his troops will not be in a position to take control of internal security for a decade.”
Ironically, those militant Iraqis who claim to want the US out of Iraq so badly may, by their continued violence, convince the US that we need to stay engaged longer.
Smartphones, Jailbreaking and the New Battle Front for Enterprise Security
From: IDGA
… So why is this so bad? First and foremost jailbreaking is a hack! Users are inviting a third party developer to hack your device. Plain and simple. Most recent versions of these tools are able to run over a simple webpage that is exploiting a few unpatched vulnerabilities in the smart phone operating system code. This risk was exposed last year when a worm “rick rolled” jailbroken iPhone users, exploiting a default password setting in secure shell daemon installed as part of the jailbreaking process.
Taliban X: The next generation of terrorists
Posted by Gary in News, Threat Watch on 10/Aug/2010 11:42
From: The Washington Examiner
Afghan police at the site where a suicide car bomber struck a police vehicle outside Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. Two police officers died in the blast, according to the provincial government.(AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi) (AP)
Early last month, Taliban suicide bombers, all believed to be in their early 20s, raided a compound of an American contractor in a northern province of Afghanistan, killing four security officers and themselves.
A month earlier, a boy about 13 years old crashed a wedding party in Kandahar and detonated his suicide vest, killing more than 40 people and wounding more than 80.
Those attacks are part of a troubling trend, according to some U.S. intelligence officers, in which young Afghanis radicalized by nearly nine years of war with Western forces are opting for suicide martyrdom rather than the traditional role of conventional fighting under a local warlord.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Taliban-X_-The-next-generation-of-terrorists-1008566-100291009.html#ixzz0wDpPR5Xz
