Jefferson Corner

The tragic and shocking mass murder today at Virginia Tech should give the Republican Party and the NRA a good to celebrate and dance in the streets having succeeded in giving Congress and the Courts the only interpretation of the Second Amendment rights to bear arms and go out and kill and murder innocent people and students.
During the last several decades some 40 such incidents took place where students and young kids taking free and liberal interpretation of the Second Amendment and taking full advantage of lose and very liberal laws covering ownership of guns, went on rampage killing and murdering fellow students. Columbine High School and University of Texas at Austin are but few incidents of such killing and murder.
It is obvious to so many American and the world that it is the gun lobby, the National Rifle Association and its Republican mistresses in Congress have always stood in the way of putting an end to such reckless and painful killing of innocent people and the total destruction of innocent families who lost a loved ones. Yes, it guns and it is guns in hand of people that kills.
The tens of millions of dollars of the gun lobby money that goes to Republican members of Congress make it easier for the courts to give expansive and lose interpretation of the Second Amendment that gives citizens the right to bear arms, even though the first part of the amendment talks of the need for armed and organized militias to protect the states from insurgents and to defend against the colonialist Brits, and does not cover the kind of guns that are on sales now especially since we have a professional army and national guard.
While one can understand the need of hunters, whether professional or armature to own hunting rifles and the need to have such ownership restricted through some very well worded laws and regulations to prevent abuse, there are simply no needs for any professional hunters to buy and carry bazookas or RPG or Uzi or M-16 or for that matter automatic and high caliber weapons such an M-50 mm gun. There are simply no needs for any professional or armature hunter to own and buy an Uzi to go out and hunt animals. A simple shotgun can kill even the most powerful animal. No needs for any hunter to use an Uzi to hunt and kill a moose or a dear. These guns are made to kill people and only people, and Republicans are partners in the assault on America.
The Cheney-Bush’s White House and before that the Reagan and Bush’s White House have always supported the purchase and use of a wide range of weapons including automatic weapons. In the US some 40,000 people are killed annually by gun wielding citizens. This is Vietnam day in and day out with the annual total victims is only few thousands less than the total number of American soldiers who died in Vietnam.
No one can convince me and convince the millions of Americans who are simply fed up with the easy access to guns, that the Republican Party and the NRA are defending the Second Amendment right to bear arms. It is all about lobby money and it has nothing to do with defending the constitution or the rights of citizens. Since when Republicans are known for defending the US Constitution. The Founding Fathers were not in bed with the NRA and did not write the Second Amendment with the futuristic view of giving average citizens to go out and buy all kind of guns and to go out and kill and murder. The Second Amendment was and is designed to give the rights to “bear arms within the context of organized militias. Perhaps the Republican Party can organize its own militia making sure that the millions of Americans who own guns are members of the Republican Militias. At least there will be the possible chance of putting some kind of gun control in the country. At least we citizens who chose not to bear arms know very well that we are secure in our homes and shops and are secure in our towns and cities with the present of a well-armed Republican Militias. Perhaps George Bush and Dick Cheney will consider the needs to send members of this militia to Iraq to fight the Republican War on Iraq. Thus saving the lives of our soldiers and members of the national guards for other and better things.
How many more have to die until such time the Republican Party and its representatives in Congress will come to their senses and put forward an effective gun law that puts behind lock once and for all the tens of millions of guns that are lose and within the reach of so many crazy people. Time for the Republican Party to join all of us and say enough is enough and to say NO to the tens of millions of dollars from the NRA. One has to recall the late Charles Heston as he stood up with his rifle in the NRA convention and declared” Over my dead body” a challenge to America and to Congress. Perhaps Heston is now celebrating too.

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As someone who travels very frequently through Paris on Air-France, one only need to see and view the check-in counter at Washington-Dulles Airport where a special check-in counter is set up for the World Bank employees traveling First Class on their mission to tell poor countries and poor government to reduce subsidies for basic food such as bread and maize. Keep in mind the cost of a First Class ticket on Air-France to a country in Africa is not less than $ 8,000. That amount can buy over 300,000 loafs of bread in Egypt, perhaps more in some African countries.
The World Bank well known for top tax free salaries and first class tickets and early retirements is also well known for making sure that poor countries take drastic measures to cut down expenses including subsidies for the basic food items such as bread, and cooking oil. This same World Bank in the early seventies was silent when poor African and Latin American countries where building huge White Elephants such as conference centers in cities that no one even dare to think to travel to let alone hold a conference at costs of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Come Dr. Paul Wolfowitz, that Zionist and Likudist, the architect of Cheney-Bush disastrous war on Iraq to lead the World Bank with a promise to clean up the bank from corruption and with a promise to make sure that recipient countries are free from corruption and of course that include nepotism.
Of course, Dr. Wolfowitz left the Defense Department making sure that his Zionist war on Iraq will costs the US tax payers hundreds of billions of dollars and making sure that it is American soldiers that die in his stupid war and making sure hundreds of thousands of Iraqis will perish during this war, for the most by killing each others. The Tel-Aviv mafia got us in this mess and they went to bigger and bigger jobs including Dr. Wolfowitz who went to head the World Bank to do some good, perhaps to make up for his sins.
Before leaving the Defense Department, Dr. Wolfowitz was romantically involved with a highly paid and highly compensated Shaha Riza a public relation employee at the World Bank. So far so good. There is simply nothing wrong with romantic engagement with one or more person. That is a private matter. The World Bank has very strict rule covering such relationships within the bank, where supervisors are simply forbidden to get romantically involved with their subordinates. Of course with one simple exception, Dr. Wolfowitz.
However Dr. Wolfowitz with his contacts in the Bush Administration arrange to give Ms. Shaha a $61,000 annual raise and dispatch her to the State Department where she became the highest paid employee, getting paid $193,000 annually, tax free and of course with a maid that comes with the job. Believe it or not more than Candy Rice gets.
Dr. Wolfowitz of course is so outraged with these Blacks, Arabs and Muslims leaders and officials who are simply too corrupt and who nurture nepotism. So now this Ashkenazi Jew is telling these leaders and officials to clean up their act, while he as someone who think he is superior to these Blacks and Arabs is doing simply what he is telling others not to do. No corruption, no nepotism and of course no subsidies for the poor. It seems that Shaha needed some subsidies to buy not bread but caviar. People with salaries like that do not eat bread and do not buy cooking oil. They have simply very expensive habits of eating low calorie caviar. Well, Dr. Wolfwotiz, you certainly can teach these Blacks and Arabs something about integrity and good government and of course nepotism. You are in deed setting a good example of what someone in your position should do to help his lover. So please do not complain when a Black or an Arab official hires his mistress and put her on the payroll of government. At least this mistress may be in a position to buy whole lots of loaf of bread for her family and friends. For sure she will not buy caviar. Let us not hear any more of your nonsense talk of helping the poor. The World Bank under your leadership is a joke. Time for you to go home and save us from your high sense of false morality and moral virtues. The World Bank should let its employees travel economy class and not first class saving the money and given it to the poor to buy bread, maize and cooking oil with it.
Just remember next time you are at Washington-Dulles Airport waiting to check in at Air-France, take a look at the World Bank employee and think with his ticket someone in Egypt can buy 300,000 loafs of bread.

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The alleged killing of BBC reporter Alan Johnson by an unknown Islamic group and the suicide bombing in Casablanca and the truck bombs in Algeria added to the daily suicide bombing and murder in Iraq, and the beheading of the Afghani translator by the Taliban are but a symptoms of what is wrong with Islam today.
For a long time, Islamic Jihad was dormant, until the Reagan administration and the CIA decided to revive it and with it the Afghan Mujahedeen became a household name in Arab and Muslim homes. Jihad became mission for many of those recruited by CIA agents with the cooperation of Arab governments who no doubt where getting a “commission” on every recruit that was heading to Afghanistan.
Suicide bombing and martyrdom became a mission from Casablanca to Kabul, passing through Riyadh, Gaza, Jerusalem Amman, Cairo, Lexuor, and of course the daily suicide bombing in Iraq became a culture, nurtured by a group of Muslim clerics who finally discovered their role and mission within an Islamic society for the most part ignorant and illiterate.
When young, desperate, poor, illiterate and drug addicted young men and women become human time bombs armed with a suicide belt raises many questions as to who stand behind all of these suicide bombing and the killings and murder of thousands of innocent people. No one simply go out and decide to become a suicide bomber. Someone must be the brain behind all of these suicide bombings. Who and what they are for sure is a puzzle that many heads of security agencies in countries like Morocco, Algeria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia would like to know?
To commit suicide without the intent of killing any one else is a simple task. One only needs to take an overdose of drugs or jump off a bridge or a tall building and they can commit suicide easy. But to commit suicide with intent to kill others is a process that takes too many players and requires sophisticated logistics, in addition to recruiting and brain washing these poor misfits.
The brains behind the killings and murder of innocent people are sophisticated well organized, well funded with access to places, like mosques and drug infested corners where they are able to recruit and send these young misfits and ignorant people to a mission to hell while they sit comfortably at home or at the mosque waiting for the next victim.
Suicide missions as a culture of death is new and strange to Islam and Muslims, especially when suicide itself is simply wrong or “haram” in Islam. Not so sure where the idea came about and who promoted it. However one thing for sure, Afghanistan was and is the breeding ground for such culture of death. And one has to go back to the roots of such culture and one has to go back to the Reagan administration with its mission of using Jihad as a way to defeat the Soviet and drive them out of Afghanistan.
Now with so many Muslim clerics appearing on television and in the media as heads of groups and organizations one has to raise the questions, since when Muslim clerics play a prominent role in society. I thought this is a Christian and Jewish phenomenon but not a Muslim one, since religious leaders in both Christianity and Judaism play major role in society and the lives of people. But not in Islam. In the Quran is no such class of people.
In my mind and in my view these Muslim clerics are the scrooge that is the cancer, spreading a culture not known in Islam. With a total absence of democracy and freedom in the Arab world, the only place where there is or perhaps a room to speak out was the mosque and of course the mosques are the domain of Muslim clerics. These Muslim clerics are working so hard these days to create a special “class” and status for themselves. Arab and Muslim democracies have to reckon with this class of religious professionals who want to make sure they are the “reference or marja’a” in society. Perhaps it is time to pull the carpet from underneath these clerics and send them back for some education and introduction starting with Islam 101, and reminding them of Allah’s words that those who kill an innocent life is like killing an entire humanity. One need to remind the clerics of Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Morocco, Algerian and Saudi Arabia that we need Muslim clerics that teach the world and us true Islam, not an Islam where they are the center of the universe, and where the true words of Allah are supreme.

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