FINALLY…..THE THOUGHT AND HERITAGE POLICE!

(Huff Post, Aljazeera, Kerby Anderson, Frazer Chronicle)

 

It has finally and unequivocally happened, I knew it was just a matter of time, hell, after all the Federal Government for years has been talking about how it’s their first job to protect its citizens from harm, both domestically as well as internationally. And now in one sweeping blurb, Senator Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.), I love to do that, (R-S.C.), of course everybody knows it means, Republican, South Carolina, I just really like to do it.

 

The sweeping blurb by Senator Graham, verbatim, “that Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s ties to radical Islamic thought and his Chechen heritage should justify holding Tsarnaev, an American citizen captured on U.S. soil, as an enemy combatant.” This Graham guy, what a dude, a double threat kind of a guy, wanting to arrest a person for his thoughts as well as where he came from…..and what his ancestors were in Chechen.

 

This bold statement…..at least to me, suggests that all isn’t right in the bubble-land of Capital Hill, now we are going to have thought and ancestor cops, who the hell is going to fund this special branch of big brother?

 

One thing the statement did do for me…..was to spark my interest in Graham, radical Islamist thought, and the type of people that come out of Chechen, were the ogres, did they eat some of their new-born, did they rape their daughters and grandmothers…..why did Graham single these people out?

 

Radical Islamist would almost seem to be in the eye-of-the-beholder, don’t you think, I mean it could almost be equated to the wild-west days in American when it was said that the “only good Indian was a dead one.” I never did quite figure that one out, except that I did understood the racial overtones that white settlers had against Native Americans…..and how the white settler wanted to take the land for their own.

 

Lindsey Graham was born on July 9, 1955 in Central South Carolina to parents that made their living running a liquor store, the Sanitary Café. Graham graduated high school and was the first member of the Graham family to enroll in college at the University of where else, South Carolina. His graduation was put off when both his parents died within 15 months of one another. Graham, who had joined a Reserve Officers’ Training Corp. at South Carolina, had to move closer to care for his orphaned sister.

 

Graham joined the United States Air Force in 1982 and served on active duty until 1988, and remains to this day as a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve with a rank of Colonel. A note here, Colonel Lindsey Graham described himself as a Desert Storm Shield and Desert Storm veteran. In reality, it was revealed Colonel Graham, in reality, never left South Carolina.

 

The 1998 revelation that Graham was playing kind of fast and loose with the truth brought this response from Graham, “I have never told anybody that I was a combatant, I’m not a war hero, and never said that I was one, I never intended to lie, if I have lied about my military record, I’m not fit to serve in Congress, and I was never deployed.”

 

In 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Lindsey Graham who was a brand new Senator, in a ceremony at the White House received a promotion to full bird Colonel by then President George W. Bush. In some cases, water is thicker then blood!

 

To be fair, Colonel Graham did serve active duty as a reservist in Iraq and Afghanistan for short periods of time, for several weeks in April and two weeks in August of 2007, where he worked on detainee and rule-of-law issues. Graham worked in Afghanistan in August of 2009 during the Senate recess.

 

Graham is not new to freedoms of American citizens, or the lack there-of, during an appearance on Face the Nation in 2011, he suggested that Congress maybe should take unspecified formal action against the Florida preacher who was burning Korans. He in addition has dabbled in stripping the courts of some of their power, of amending the ability of Guantanamo detainees to file habeas corpus petitions to challenge there detentions.

 

CHECHEN PEOPLE

One thing you have to say about Chechen people is that they’re really old, first mention of the word, Chechen, was in the 8^th century, in Arabic sources. According to popular tradition, the Russian term, “Chechen” comes from the name of the village Chechen-Aul, where the Chechens defeated the Russian soldiers in 1732.

 

The Chechen people are mainly inhabitants of Chechnya, Russian Federation; there are also significant Chechen populations in other subdivisions of Russia, especially in Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Moscow. Outside of Russia, countries with significant Diaspora populations are Kazakhstan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and the Middle Eastern states of Jordan, Iraq where they are mainly descendants of people who had to leave Chechen during the Caucasian War.

 

The Caucasian War lasted from 1817 until 1864 and also is known as the Russian conquest of the Caucasus. The length of the war, and the barbaric activity that took place, and the wandering of the oppressed people made for some strong heritage. Of course the heritage of United States citizens from roughly that period would seem, to me, as a student of history, would tend to make American’s heritage roughly the same as the Chechens.

 

Chechen has been dominated by invaders throughout its history, were forced to move from their highland homes by the Little Ice Age in the late Middle Ages to the lowlands were they came into conflict with the Tereks and Gerben Cossacks.

 

During the almost constant war and attacks, and bloody defeats most of the Chechen people were slaughtered, large numbers of refugees immigrated to, or were forced to the Ottoman Empire. The Chechen people almost throughout history of had to fight for their independents, battling unbelievable odds, and in the middle 1990’s were at war again with Russia.

 

The isolated terrain of the Caucasus Mountains and the strategic value outsiders have placed on the area settled by Chechens has contributed much to the Chechen community ethos and helped shape its fiercely independent national character. Chechen society has traditionally been egalitarian and organized around many autonomous local clans, called teiups.

 

I don’t know if I’ve ever met a Chechen, I do know if I had, I wouldn’t have forgotten the crazy names that they go by. Of course maybe Joe Smith to a Chechen would seem like an odd name, and they’d never use it!

 

 

 

 

DO MUSLIMS REALLY WANT TO KILL US?

The short answer is no, and probably the long answer also is no, there are approximately 1.62 billion Sunni Islamists roaming around the world today, and if a collection of 40% wanted to do away with us infidels, it could happen in pretty short order, but it makes no sense to me to have people kill me because I drive a Cadillac, love to look at scantily clad women, drink an occasion adult alcoholic beverage to wash down the hamburgers I just ate.

 

I do understand why Sunni Muslims might be just a little bit pissed off at the west…..us, we simply can’t seem to stay out of foreign countries, keeping our noses out of other people’s business…..and quite the silly policemen of the world attitude that we can’t seem to get over would solve a whole host of world problems.

 

The lightening rod of Islamic dissidence towards the United States is really our own fault…..no before you go off half cocked, let me finish this paragraph, and my meaning will become crystal clear…..you know me, I sometimes speak in metaphors. The 2001 September terrorist attack was launched by crazies that thought enough of their cause, and were bolstered by a silly religious idea that they would be rewarded by virgins with huge breasts, supple thighs and bulbous buns. Come on, the only place those types of virgins exist is in Las Vegas, Nevada, in those booths where you put a quarter in the slot, and the curtain opens and one of those afore mentioned women start a show…..until your time runs out.

 

The people who believe and practice this part of the Sunni Islamic religion are what everybody would call nut jobs, if for no other reason than there really aren’t women that suicide bombers might believe in for their sacrifice, you know, virgins,  big boobs, and the thigh thingy.

 

Of course we have some of those same types right here in the good old U.S. of A, and although they usually don’t blow things up, they turn into serial killers that can, at times, grip the entire United States in an atmosphere of fear.

 

Let’s face some facts; you can’t know what people are thinking about, you can only worry about yourself, and what kind of (at times) weird thoughts might be going through your head. About the time that we really do have thought cops…..I think it’ll be time to begin the big check-out.

 

Islamic people and large portions of the world at large do not agree with, or approve how we handle certain situations. We have, since about the turn of the 20^th century have been a meddlesome outfit that for whatever reason figures that we are right, righteous, and pretty much above either the law of a region, or for that matter the world.

 

RADICAL ISLAM OR MAINSTREAM ISLAM?

You see, to answer the question of radical or mainstream Islamic practices and study, you have course need to understand exactly what Islam really is. Now I could waste your time, and write down a whole bunch of stuff is written, but it really wouldn’t do any good.

 

Like the man said, “what we have here is a failure to communicate,” (Cool Hand Luke), basically Americans do not communicate very well with any foreign group. We may be one of the biggest melting pot for cultural mixing, pretty much as long as foreign people are hard workers, work for low wages…..and keep their collective mouths shut…..and practice basically the same religion that most Americans practice.

 

 

Muslims aren’t quite like that, first and foremost many Muslims are white skinned, and expect a decent wage whenever they work. The Islamic faith is usually right up front, and in your grill, I do not believe that they try and convert; rather they promote their faith through practice…..just like many Americans do every day of their lives.

 

There are people out there, basically conservative people, Christian people who believe in God, and Jesus who believe that the Islamist faith is a danger and a challenge to the status quo, many, many Jewish people can tell you what I’m talking about.

 

United States news shows, radio talk shows, television, and the print media by and large seem intent on fanning the fires of fear and hysteria. It was done after September 11, 2001, and again last week with the Boston marathon bombing. Islamic people have been stopped on the street, and questioned, and in some cases detained.

 

It has been suggested by people that carry a hell of a lot more certificates of education hanging from their walls then I do, that a movement is afoot that threatens the United States, and it’s just warming up. Whenever I read one of these guys stuff, or heard it on the radio, or watch a news report, I am reminded about the United States and her professed power.

 

After the Boston marathon bombing, David Gregory said “this is a new state of terror and the country has to get used to it.” Wait just a ding-donged minute here; I seem to recall that somebody somewhere was talking about Homeland Security, about the C.I.A. and about the F.B.I. I also seem to recall a defense budget of $600 trillion dollars, how is it that the United States is a state of terror?

 

If that is the case, that we are in a state of, and the Boston bombings are going to become the norm, I want my money back, I’ll fend for myself, thank you very much! What I hear is a bunch of people protecting their jobs, kind of like job security. If there was not war on terror, if there wasn’t any Boston bombing, a whole bunch of people would be out on the street looking to make enough money to fill their grocery carts at some different kind of a job.

 

TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE UNITED STATE OR AGAINST AMERICANS, NOTHING NEW

The United States has been attacked many different times, from September 16, 1920, to April 15, 2013. Nut case attacks aren’t new, and they’ve taken 3219 mainland people and 331 in foreign lands.
From disgruntled workers, to people with political agendas to suicide religious attacks perpetrated by people wanting sex with virgins with all those big things.

 

For a political official to condemn a suspected terrorists also is, sadly nothing new, all you have to do is revisit the early 1940’s to see how we dealt with Japanese American citizens, some who’s relations were members of the United States military. The powers that be took their homes, shops, and businesses, placed them in internment camps, allowing them to assimilate back into society slowly, and didn’t repay the surviving family members for their losses until the late 1990’s.

 

For Senator Lindsey Graham to denigrate my country, and its judicial system because he has a platform…..and can should give every American a time to pause, and to see how far we have really sunk as a leader of the world. To assume that all Chechen people are terrorist, capable of bombing incents is ridiculous, to identify Islamic thought as another reason to determine the guilt is discussing. To assume anything or anyone that is different is not only a fault of logic, but a loss of reason.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!