The People of Egypt Have Spoken: Mubarak Must Go

I have been watching with amazement at what has been going on in Egypt.

The brave protesters have convinced me. Mubarak must go.

Therefore as a pathetically small measure of support I wish to say with them

Mubarak must go

Seventy Apostates Arrested in Iran

From ASSIST News: Iran: regime hits out at apostasy -- 70 arrested.

It is illegal in Iran to share Christianity with Muslims or preach the gospel in Farsi, the Persian language. It is also illegal for a Muslim to reject Islam (apostasy). Farsi-speaking Iranian Muslim converts to Christianity must worship therefore in illegal 'underground' fellowships. In September 2010 an appeals court upheld a death sentence against Pastor Youcef Nadrkhani, convicted of apostasy. The sentence is being delayed to give intelligence agents more time to try to coerce Pastor Nadrkhani to renounce Christ and return to Islam. His wife has been sentenced to life imprisonment. They have two small children. In a massive crack-down some 70 believers have been arrested by the authorities since Christmas Day. Most are young converts from Islam. They are being interrogated and coerced. Please pray.

The Shooting Of Gabrielle Giffords

I have just heard that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been shot. Let me state here my deepest sympathy to her family and friends.

This is a dreadful tragedy.

It is sadly no surprise to me that she was Democratic. Although no details of the perpetrator have yet been made public it must be stated that there has been a disturbing trend of acts of violence being committed by right wing individuals, such as Byron Williams who got into a shoot out with police while, alledgedly, driving to the Tides Foundation to terrorize them, alledgedly.

May justice be done.

TSA Tyranny Causes Diplomatic Incidents With India

The US government, and especially the TSA, have got to stop being so paranoid. The TSA tried to force an Indian UN envoy to let them search his turban.

In another incident another representative of India was subjected to a random pat down simply because she was wearing a sari.

Airport security has got to be more relaxed.

Iranian Dissident Set To Be Executed!!

Right now in Iran a man named Habbibolah Latifi, 29, a Kurdish activist, is on the verge of being executed. He seem to be scheduled to be executed on December 26.

In order to make this act as difficult for the Iranian authorities as possible I would encourage you to sign this petition, We want freedom for habib latifi at (http://www.gopetition.com/petition/40470/sign.html). You can sign anonymously.

Perhaps it is too late already, but it would be good to know that we tried to make this as difficult for the Iranian authorities as possible. This is a cause worth raising our voices for.

Russia Becoming Totalitarian?

Here's a very sad story from the New York Times detailing how one opposition party was handicapped by local authorities.

This reminds me of how I read of how Yuli Martov, a prominent leader of the Mensheviks, used to be shouted down by Bolshevik operatives during governmental meetings during that brief time when rival parties were (just barely) tolerated by the Soviet government after that most infamous coup of November 1917.

Another Shocking Expose of the TSA's Enhanced Pat Down Terror

Another shocking article exposing the viciousness of the TSA's wicked enhanced pat down terror regime. The TSA lied to "don't touch my junk" guy & you should understand your rights at airport security.

Noteworthy is his comments on how the TSA are deceptively hiding these new useless, vicious, cruel and disgusting rules and are not informing people of what they are now going to be exposed to under this tyrannical regime.

In all of the various experiences I've read about (and there are many), a common theme I have seen is that no one has reported seeing any signage at any airport about the new procedures one will be subjected to at that airport as a requirement of getting on the airplane. Not only are there no reports of such signage, there are many, MANY reports that specifically say they haven't seen any information at all at airports on the new scanner or patdown procedures.

There are signs about putting one's liquids in a ziploc baggie, hell I recall recently even still seeing signs about how you don't have to put unexposed camera film through the x-ray machines. I find this terribly amusing since I honestly can't remember the last time I used an actual "film" camera instead of a digital one.

But, there are no signs that outline what you are now subjecting yourself to in this new era of Scope-n-Grope, or what you rights are in regards to these procedures.

I agree with this opinion presented in thisABC News story:

"To the flying public, I would say they are trading away their privacy for the illusion of security,"

Look at this AP article:

At least one pilots union, the U.S. Airline Pilots Association, has issued new instructions to members to call in sick and not board flights if, after a pat-down, they are too upset to fly.

I repeat: This is INSANE!!!

Recently Keith Olbermann delivered this inspiring special comment quite relevant to this unbelievable invasion of people's liberty, Ted Koppel And The Real Death Of "Real News" explaining that the greatest and most highly renowned moments of journalism were not journalists "objectively" explaining every point of the situation but journalists making a stand and saying what they believed in. It is time for everyone, yes, everyone, to make their voices heard and call for the immediate end of this TSA Enhanced Pat Down Terror.

As far as I am concerned this must stop. Now. We must not wait.

We must not allow the TSA to imagine that this is normal.

We must not allow the TSA to image that they can get away with this.

The TSA are destroying and violating the liberty of their paymasters, the US taxpayers, you.

The long suffering American people do not deserve this.

Imagine if the British soldiers before 1776 were able to treat the American people like this. Do you think the Founders would have allowed this to happen to them? Why should we?

Israel does not do this. So why should the US?

They don't even have those full body scanners. See this: Full-body scanners are waste of money, Israeli expert says.

Because of this I will never go through a US airport because of the Enhanced Pat Down Terror.

At least when Al Qeada strikes we can trust that governmental authorities will do everything in their power to bring them to justice and to stop such things. But now it is the taxpayer funded TSA that are subjecting the long suffering American people to this tyranny of degradation. Will the state save us from this tyranny.

This TSA Enhanced Pat Down Terror is heart breaking.

This is the point where we are being robbed of liberty under the false guise of gaining security.

Your voice matters. Speak out! Stand up! Resist this pat down tyranny!

The pat down terror must end now!