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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (410153)	5/29/2003 2:41:32 PM
From: JBTFD	Respond to of 769670

Last night on NPR there was a historian reading about the politics of the revolution and early America. I was a little surprised by the visciousness of the attacks some of our founders had against each other. I think charged rhetoric runs in the American blood.

To: Land Shark who wrote (410153)	5/29/2003 2:51:32 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

Now now, that's not nice. You're showing your true inner rage. You're so full of hate, it bubbles out every so once in a while. That's truly hilarious coming from you!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

To: Land Shark who wrote (410153)	5/30/2003 9:51:35 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Canada Continues its Love Affair With Terrorists By Stephen Brown FrontPageMagazine.com \| May 30, 2003 Is anyone home? That's the question most rational people must be asking about Canada after a recent decision by that country's Immigration and Refugee Board to reject a Lebanese man's application for refugee status because he had spied on Hezbollah for Israel in Lebanon. The IRB's refusal was based partly on an American human rights group's reports about Israeli "war crimes" committed during its occupation of its neighbor. As well, a lawyer representing the Minister of Immigration at the hearing argued that the information the man provided to Israeli intelligence made him complicit in those crimes. As a result, the IRB ruled against the unidentified individual. The IRB's action is all the more unusual when one considers that many countries, including Canada, have declared Hezbollah a terrorist organization that runs a worldwide operation responsible for taking hundreds of innocent lives. It also launches attacks against Israel from its base in southern Lebanon. But the IRB's decision's true Alice in Wonderland quality occurs when one compares it with other refugee rulings Canadian legal bodies have made. Only last week, for example, a federal court approved the appeal of a Marxist guerrilla from Mexico for a new refugee hearing because his organization, the Popular Revolutionary Army, only attacked police and soldiers and not civilians, although this point is disputed. Since the Canadian Supreme Court has defined a terrorist organization as one that targets civilians, this particular refugee claimant cannot therefore be labelled a terrorist, the reason his original claim was rejected. But the Supreme Court's definition of what constitutes a terrorist did not somehow apply to Mahmoud Mohammed Issa Mohammad who once was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Along with another terrorist, Mohammad attacked an Israeli airliner with guns and grenades at the Athens airport in 1968, killing one person. Despite government efforts to deport him since 1988 (he lied about his background to get into Canada), he remains there, his case slowly winding its way through the Canadian courts. Fauzi Ayub, a genuine Hezbollah terrorist, didn't even have to lie to get into Canada. In the 1980s, Hezbollah sent Ayub to Romania to hijack an Iraqi airliner. But Ayub was arrested before he could carry out his assignment, leaving it to a second group to execute this terrorist act, in which 62 people died when the plane crashed. After Romania released him, Ayub came to Canada in the late 1980s with his family, but went to Israel in 2001 to foment terrorist attacks there. He now sits in an Israeli prison, accused of belonging to an elite Hezbollah unit. And when asked in an Israeli court why he didn't tell the Canadian authorities about his terrorist past in Romania, he honestly replied: "They didn't ask me." But this crazy double standard does not end there. Many terrorists park their families in Canada while they commit mayhem elsewhere in the world. Besides Ayub, some of the more famous ones include the wife and two sons of Abu Abbas, another P.F.L.P. terrorist. Abbas, whom American forces captured recently in Baghdad, was responsible for the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro, a ship on which 69-year-old, Leon Klinghoffer, an American Jew, was shot in his wheelchair and dumped overboard. Abbas's wife moved to Canada with their sons in the late 1980s after their divorce and is now a lecturer and Palestinian activist at McGill University in Montreal. One son went to Iraq in 1995 and spent a year with his father there. Americans also probably would be very surprised to discover that the family of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid also lives safely in Canada not far from their border. Aidid's militia was responsible for an attack on an American military unit that resulted in numerous American deaths. The movie, Black Hawk Down, is based on this bloody fight. Considering these cases, it is highly likely that the refusal to grant Israel's Lebanese friend refugee status has more to do with the internal politics of the Canada's governing Liberal party than any supposed wrongdoing. The Liberal government declared Hezbollah a terrorist group only last December against the strong opposition of the party's left wing. The rejection of this particular refugee applicant is, in reality, an expression of this faction's, and their bureaucratic supporters', anti-American and anti-Israel attitudes as well as an attempt to establish moral equivalency between Israel and Muslim terrorist groups. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that, instead of receiving the welcome mat from Canada, this refugee got only the boot.