Debra Burlingame

Divest terror, Iran

Urge Utah Senate to divest terror

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Christopher Holton, the Vice-President of the Center for Security Policy, writes:

State Representative Julie Fisher of Utah has taken the divest terror movement on her shoulders and done heroic work in her state in the current legislative session. Working against great odds, through cunning and persistence she has pushed Utah’s Divest Iran bill through the Utah House of Representatives singlehandedly.

Now she needs our help.

Due to some VERY questionable, but monied, interests, including interests with possible ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran, the deck is stacked against her bill in the Utah Senate.

We need a wave of action to overcome. Please take 3 minutes to view the YouTube video at the link below. It does an outstanding job of putting this issue in perspective. If I could, I would make this video the flagship for the initiative nationwide.

Look at the video, forward it to everyone you know–EVEN IF YOU AREN’T FROM UTAH. We need to create a national buzz about this. If you have a web site, please embed this video on that web site. If you have contacts in the blogosphere, please forward this email to them. If you know any talk radio hosts, please forward this video to them.

And, again, even if you are not from Utah, I urge you to contact the Senators in that video. Email them. Call them. Those of you who are in the Guard and Reserve and are members of military families especially. OUR PUBLIC INVESTMENT DOLLARS ARE BEING USED TO INVEST IN FOREIGN COMPANIES THAT PROVIDE CORPORATE LIFE SUPPORT TO THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM–IRAN. IRAN IS ALSO THE COUNTRY THAT IS SUPPORTING INSURGENTS IN IRAQ WITH ADVANCED IEDS, AS WELL AS TALIBAN FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN.

Here is more on the bill.

9/11, Hillary Clinton, Political wind, War on Terror

The Clintons’ Terror Pardons

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Updated Feb 13, 2008 (see below)

The Wall Street Journal has my opinion-editorial The Clintons’ Terror Pardons in this morning’s paper (that you can view via that link). Here is an excerpt

While the pardon scandals that marked Bill and Hillary Clinton’s final days in office are remembered as transactions involving cronies, criminals and campaign contributors, the FALN clemencies of 1999 should be remembered in the context of the increasing threat of domestic and transnational terrorism that was ramping up during the Clinton years of alleged peace and prosperity. To wit, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Tokyo subway Sarin attack, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1995 “Bojinka” conspiracy to hijack airplanes and crash them into buildings, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, the 1996 Summer Olympics bombing, Osama bin Laden’s 1996 and 1998 “Declarations of War” on America, the 1998 East African embassy bombings, the 2000 USS Sullivans bombing attempt, the 2000 USS Cole bombing, and the 2000 Millennium bombing plot.

It was within that context that the FBI gave its position on the FALN clemencies — which the White House succeeded in keeping out of news coverage but ultimately failed to suppress — stating that “the release of these individuals will psychologically and operationally enhance the ongoing violent and criminal activities of terrorist groups, not only in Puerto Rico, but throughout the world.” The White House spun the clemencies as a sign of the president’s universal commitment to “peace and reconciliation” just one year after Osama bin Laden told his followers that the United States is a “paper tiger” that can be attacked with impunity.

It would be a mistake to dismiss as “old news” the story of how and why these terrorists were released in light of the fact that it took place during the precise period when Bill Clinton now claims he was avidly engaged, even “obsessed,” with efforts to protect the public from clandestine terrorist attacks. If Bill and Hillary Clinton were willing to pander to the demands of local Hispanic politicians and leftist human-rights activists defending bomb-makers convicted of seditious conspiracy, how might they stand up to pressure from other interest groups working in less obvious ways against U.S. interests in a post-9/11 world?

Radical Islamists are a sophisticated and determined enemy who understand that violence alone will not achieve their goals. Islamist front groups, representing themselves as rights organizations, are attempting to get a foothold here as they have already in parts of Western Europe by deftly exploiting ethnic and racial politics, agitating under the banner of civil liberties even as they are clamoring for the imposition of special Shariah law privileges in the public domain. They believe that the road to America’s ultimate defeat is through the back door of policy and law and they are aggressively using money, influence and retail politics to achieve their goal.

READ THE REST.

Updated Feb 13, 2008: Editor — WOR Talk-radio host Steve Malzberg interviewed Debra Burlingame this afternoon about her commentary. Here is the audio: