MITCH McCONNELL & JOHN BOEHNER to share the 2015 Benedict Arnold Traitor’s Award

Finally, the votes have been tallied and the results are in - - McConnell and Boehner won by a landslide.  They combined to go back on every promise they made while running their campaigns for seats in the Senate and the House – and once they were settled into their roles as the Republican leaders in their respective chambers of the U. S. Congress, they stuck it to us!

They were expected to reverse much of the damage done by Herr Obama’s tyrannical use of the presidential tool of ‘Executive Order’.  They were expected to use the power of the purse strings in the case of the House and legislative craftsmanship in the case of the Senate.  They did neither in fact, they did precisely the opposite.

They worked hand-in-glove with Obama and the demonic Democrats to give him everything he wanted and more.  We loyal Republicans who voted these traitorous bastards into office were appalled at what we were witnessing.  It was as if  both (R) leaders had agreed to replace the (R) after their names with a (D)  – and do it at every opportunity, without explanation or  displaying even the slightest shame or embarrassment. Rather than being lauded upon his retirement, John Boehner and his sneaky cohort Mitch McConnell should have been publicly horse-whipped.  They sold out to the corrupt Democrat jackasses in Washington, D.C. and deserve nothing but the utter disdain of every patriotic American who voted for them.  They stink!

I liked Paul Ryan when he was running as VP to Romney however, I became quite anxious about the manner in which he played coy and became demanding in his run up to the Speakership of the House.  And then, to go along with the latest cave-in by Boehner to the Democrats that lets Obama off the hook for the balance of his term - - gave me an very uneasy feeling about how the House will be run under Ryan.  I’m experiencing mixed emotion – hopeful yet, unsettlingly apprehensive.

It is up to us Folks – that’s YOU & ME, to keep very close tabs on our representatives in the U. S. Congress and begin to communicate our reactions and our responses to their every damned move . . . every damned day they are in session.

Let’s watch ‘em all like a hawk – and let them know we’re watching.                             MORT KUFF     ©10-20-2015

MORT’s meanderings

WAKE UP AND PAY ATTENTION:

All JEWS in the

United States Congress.

What in Hell are you thinking?

Are you just going to let Obama arrange for IRAN to kill us all?

IS THERE ANY ONE OF YOU WHO HASN’T GONE COMPLETELY STUPID WHEN IT COMES TO ACTUALLY SUPPORTING ISRAEL AND AMERICAN JEWRY INSTEAD OF THE SO-CALLED PALESTINIANS?  IS THERE ONE JEW SITTING IN THE CONGRESS WHO ISN’T A DEVOUT COWARD OR A SUCK-UP OBAMA FINK?  ARE YOU ALL BLIND OR, HAVE YOU EACH BECOME ROBERT WEXLER TRAITORS AND GONE COMPLETELY ‘J-STREET’ NUTS?

          MORT KUFF  © 3-24-2015

          Native born U.S. Citizen & WWII Navy Vet and a Jew

          who loves this country and wonders why you don’t?

U.S. Bridges Being Built by Chinese Firms

This one should be tough for the supporters of the current regime to swallow. Barry Soetoro is for Jobs in America? Ya, right if the Company which prospers is from China, Russia or run by the Muslim Brotherhood. Wannabe Socialist Diane Sawyer tries to act shocked yet she and her cowardly cohorts in the MSM made Barry the King.

The Zombies can re-elect Obama and push his master plan to destroy America from within. Any Voter who votes for Barry Soetoro at this point in time is a traitor.

Operation Hot Mic! Words of a Traitor?

Obama said these words all on his own, or was he quoting his racist Pale, Rec. Wright? This Marxist must be sent packing! His destruction of America is welcomed by the Left Wing Democrats and Nazis.

Barry Soetoro shows his true colors, sympathetic not to Judeo-Christians values, but Islam and its surrogate controlled states. The Barry Soetoro design is to hammer Israel, get in bed with Iran, Russia and of course the Muslim Brotherhood.

Obama Regime Leaks Israeli Secrets

TREASON: Obama Leaks Israeli Strike Plan on Iran
by Conservative Byte

“‘We’re watching what Iran does closely,’ one of the US sources, an intelligence officer engaged in assessing the ramifications of a prospective Israeli attack confirmed,’” according to the article. “But we’re now watching what Israel is doing in Azerbaijan. And we’re not happy about it.’” And this is just the latest in a series of high-profile stories – based, in most cases, on unnamed American sources – warning about a possible strike.

According to the logic in the last piece, if Israel attacked, then Iran – which essentially developed its program in contravention of the Non-Proliferation Treaty it signed, and despite international inspectors – may choose not to let those inspectors back in and, as a result, have an easier time pursuing nuclear weapons.

Now, that is an interesting bit of logic: Don’t attack, because if you do, Iran won’t let back in the inspectors who were so impotent in the first place that Tehran is now on the cusp of nuclear capability.

And this constant drumbeat of Israel-must-not-take-action articles is not only in press reports. A report Wednesday by the Congressional Research Service – the US Congress’s nonpartisan “think tank” – said Iran could recover from a strike and rebuild its centrifuge workshops within six months, meaning that such a strike would be futile. It is “unclear what the ultimate effect of a strike would be on the likelihood of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons,” the report read.

These reports and stories are not being made up out of whole cloth. Rather, they are fed by sources intent on sending a clear message: Do not attack.

That a spate of these reports is coming out just a couple of weeks after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Obama in the White House shows that despite the smiles and the talk then about understanding and hyper-close coordination, the US and Israel are not seeing eye-to-eye on the Iranian “military option” issue.

The US wants Israel to wait, and what this constant drip of stories indicates is a sense in Washington that its efforts to convince Israel to do so are failing.

As a result, some in Washington are using a more public route to get that message across and to try and tie Jerusalem’s hands.

Pelosi Represents Marxism and Socialism

Check these credentials. Then read this Patriot's letter to Pelosi!
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Born St.. Louis , Missouri , August 21, 1944
Bar Admissions:
North Carolina , 1969
U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina , 1969
U.S. Tax Court
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Education: Woodford College , 1966 A.B.
Mercer University , 1969 J.D.
Phi Alpha Delta
Vice-Justice, District XIV, 1968 - 1969
Professional Associations and Memberships:
North Carolina and American Bar Associations (Member, Sections on: Administrative Law; General Practice; Litigation)
26th Judicial District and North Carolina State Bar
Mecklenburg County Bar Association
American Association of Justice
North Carolina Trial Lawyers Association
Captain, U.S. Army, 1969-1971, Vietnam
National Defense Medal, 1969
Republic of Viet Nam Service Medal, 1970
Bronze Star Medals (2), 1971
Assistant District Attorney, Mecklenburg County , 1971 - 1974
Charlotte Chamber of Commerce
Chairman, Board of Trustees Providence United Methodist Church
Board of Directors, Alexander Children's Home
Board of Directors, Charlotte Culinary Institute
Wofford Alumni Executive Council
Scoutmaster, Boy Scouts of America
Board of Directors, Boy Scouts of America of Mecklenburg County
Board of Directors, Girl Scout Council
Life Member, National Eagle Scout Association
Life Member, Girl Scouts of America

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Dear Ms. Pelosi:
I write to you out of utter disdain! You are as despicable and un-American as the traitor Jane Fonda.

I am a soon to be 65 year-old who has voted in every state and local election since 1966. I have voted for both Republicans and Democrats alike. I have worked on campaigns for both Republicans and Democrats, white and black. I served the country that I love in Vietnam, as my son did in the Middle East. I was awarded two bronze stars. I have been involved in politics since age 6 when my father was campaign manager for a truly great American Congressman, Charles Raper Jonas, who worked for his constituents and his country, and was to be admired, unlike you.

You obviously haven't read the Constitution recently, if ever, the Federalist Papers, or even David McCulloughs book on John Adams. You ought to take the time while riding around in your government provided luxury executive jet to do just that. You represent Socialistic and even Marxist principals that our founding fathers tried to avoid when setting out the capitalistic republican form of government represented by our Constitution.

I find it interesting that you and your husband are multi-millionaires with much of your fortune being made as a result of your public service. You have controlled legislation that has enhanced your husbands investments both on and off shore. At the same time you redistributed the wealth of others. Our system of a free market economy is being destroyed by the likes of you, Harry Reid, and now our President. You ride around in a Gulfstream airplane at the tax payers expense while criticizing the presidents of companies who produced something for the economy. You add nothing to the economy of the United States; you only subtract therefrom.

I would like to suggest that you return to the city of fruitcakes and nuts and eat your husbands canned tuna and pineapple produced by illegal immigrants and by workers who have been excluded from the protection that 90% of the legal workers in the United States have.

I await your defeat in the next election with glee.

Don't ever use the term un-American again for protesters who love this country and are exercising their rights upon which this country was founded. By the way, while I served in the Army, I was spit on by the same type of lunatics who support you and who you probably supported in the 60s and 70s. You are an embarrassment to all of us who served so that you would have the protected right of free speech to call us un-American. But at the same time, I have the right to write you to notify you that I consider you to be un-American, as do the majority of the people of this formerly great country. You are a true disgrace to most of the people who served this country by offering themselves for public service in the United States Congress.

I feel certain your aides will not share this letter with you, but I intend to share it with many.

Let's help this man fulfill his "commitment" to Nazi Pelosi. Please show this to everyone in you know!

Hat Tip to Mr. I

Socialism Masquerading as Free-market Education

We another strike back (with WORDS, calm down Obama drones and hypocrites) at South Florida Marxist Media, aka fringe MSM.

Dear Stephen L. Goldstein:

Imagine you, Stephen L. Goldstein, a socialist, against redistribution of dollars out of the pockets of the middle-class? In addition, you say that giving money to families to use at schools other than public schools is socialism masquerading as free-market education. Do you really believe that?

How can you be in favor of free-market education and then support "competition-free" monopolistic public schools which have been failing to provide a meaningful education to many thousands of our students for decades. Do you want to perpetuate the failings of the status-quo in our public schools?

If the public schools were doing their job, we wouldn't need "voucher schools", but when people, like you Stephen, use cliches to rail against remedies to what we are doing now, it shows that political considerations take precedence over common sense.

If we can get school vouchers ( a/k/a Opportunity Scholarships) passed over the objections of the teachers unions, far-left pundits, and liberal politicians, you'll see a dramatic increase in public school achievement because they'll have to compete for the students and dollars earmarked for education. Competition, like in the business world, will motivate the public schools to make the learning climate more conducive to learning by attracting the students and the dollars that are going to the public schools now.

So instead of championing free-enterprise education (your words), which you really don't believe in from your socialist background, why don't you give your support to the new governor (Rick Scott) in helping him to try to give the students the opportunity at getting a meaningful education by giving them a choice - isn't that what all leftists believe in? Or is that phrase only used when you talk about abortion?

In the words of economist/author, Dr. Thomas Sowell, "If you want to see the poor (students) remain poor (uneducated), generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior". By not reforming the system, that is what you will reap, year after year, to the detriment of the students, in particular, and to the country, as a whole.

Sincerely,

Chuck On The Right Side



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Most Onerous Tax, the Death Tax

Another counter attack to the South Florida Marxist Media, aka FRINGE MSM, aka Obama/Rev. Wright Drones. These Democrats want that Death Tax. Take, steal and lie. That is Barry's group ACORN and the Democrats only action.

Dear Clarence Page:

According to President Obama, all the economists he read or heard from , in the past few weeks, said that extending the recent tax rates would create jobs - if that's the case, why not extend those rates permanently? If it's good now, why would it not be good two years from now? The "evil" Republicans have been saying that for years, but have been demagogued for supposedly placating their "rich" friends.

The most onerous tax a government could assess is the Death Tax (a/k/a Estate Tax). The property that a deceased person leaves to his heirs has already been taxed, so is it fair to tax it again? That's double taxation! Is it fair to tax it again just because a person dies?

Many heirs (mostly family members) will have to pay taxes on the value of the property that was bequeathed. In many cases, the real property or business is valued at an amount so high that the recipient will be unable to come up with the cash to pay the tax. Real estate and businesses are not a liquid asset so the donee might have to sell off the asset, whether they want to or not, just to pay the "Death Tax".
Since most liberals use the term "fair" as their holy grail, is that fair to the heir or the family? Just because this tax won't affect a large amount of people, doesn't make it right to discriminate against anyone, regardless of their wealth or status in life.

As former Chief Justice John Marshall once opined, "The power to tax is the power to destroy". And so it is with the Democrats and, unfortunately, our government.

Chuck On The Right Side

Norman Thomas Institute for MSM

Another strike back at South Florida Marxist Media, aka MSM, aka Obama/Rev. Wright Drones.


Dear Rachel Patron:

With all due respect Rachel Patron, where did you get your economic education, at the Norman Thomas Institute? ( Norman Thomas was a well known Socialist of 60 years ago).

You bad mouth the former Soviet Union, and rightly so, but your economic philosophy is right out of the Karl Marx playbook. All you think about is how government can do this or do that for people when it is universally known that the most inefficient organization created is the government itself. Are you aware Rachel, that the top 1% of earners (making over $380,000) pay 40% of all income taxes? That the top 5% (making over $160,000) pay 60% of all income taxes? That the bottom 50% of earners pay just 3% of all income taxes and still you want to "sock it to" the "rich" who, by the way, are the primary job producers? Why do you and the Democrats always try to demonize the successful people (using class warfare) by over taxing them and by calling them greedy and insensitive? Don't you think everyone should pay into the revenue pot that the government collects? Do you realize that approx. 47% of all earners don't pay any income tax? Is that fair? Were you ever employed by a poor person? That means that America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them. That's why the Democrats demonize the "rich" because they are trying to appeal to the larger voting bloc, the 47% who don't pay income taxes, by offering them entitlements - getting something for nothing. It's like robbing Peter to pay Paul so that Paul will vote for them.

Go back to school Rachel, and get yourself some basic economic education, with a non-liberal economics instructor, with emphasis on our capitalist, free enterprise system, not the Marxist/Socialist crap you are spouting now.

Sincerely,

Another post from our friends at Chuck On The Right Side

Never Forgive a Traitor! Hanoi Jane is Disgusting!

For those of you too young to remember-- Hanoi Jane is a bad person and did some terrible things during the Vietnam war. Things that can not be forgiven!!!!

and now OBAMA wants to honor her......!!!! This sick, disgusting, lowlife Jane Fonda deserves to be jailed with the Fort Hood Traitor.

In Memory of LT. C.Thomsen Wieland who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton

IF YOU NEVER FORWARDED ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE FORWARD THIS SO THAT EVERYONE WILL KNOW!!!!!!

She really is a traitor.

A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA

This is for all the kids born in the 70's and after who do not remember, and didn't have to bear the burden that our fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to bear..

Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century."

Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam

The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.

In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison the Hanoi Hilton.

Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American 'Peace Activist' the 'lenient and humane treatment' he'd received.

He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward on to the camp Commandant's feet, which sent that officer berserk.

In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.

From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the 'Hanoi Hilton', the first three of which his family only knew he was 'missing in action'. His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a 'peace delegation' visit.

They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand.

When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: 'Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?' and 'Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?' Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.

She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper.

Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.

I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam , and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.

I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot , South Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs)

We were Jane Fonda's 'war criminals....'

When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her.

I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received... and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient."

Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weights placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.

I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.

These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of '100 Years of Great Women.' Lest we forget....' 100 Years of Great Women' should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.

There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can.. It will eventually end up on her computer and
she needs to know that we will never forget.

RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF 716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of Maintenance

PLEASE HELP BY SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE SEE THIS MAYBE HER STATUS WILL CHANGE

Donald Trump, Dhimmi: Miss Hezbollah Rima Fakih Wins Miss USA; Rigged for Muslima?

A great article below by Debbie Schlussel. Read on as she points out the Politically Correct Trump folds like a cheap suit. Isn't there a point when loyalty to your Country is a higher priority than Money? The PC Donald trashed Miss California, Carrie Prejean, last year because she has morals. Looking back 20 years ago, who would have thought Trump would be siding with Radical Islam, B. Hussein Obama and that low-life Perez Hilton?

Miss Oklahoma’s Arizona Immigration Answer

By Debbie Schlussel
It’s a sad day in America but a very predictable one, given the politically correct, Islamo-pandering climate in which we’re mired. The Hezbollah-supporting Shi’ite Muslim, Miss Michigan Rima Fakih–whose bid for the pageant was financed by an Islamic terrorist and immigration fraud perpetrator–won the Miss USA contest. I was on top of this story before anyone, telling you about who Fakih is and her extremist and deadly ties.

Rima Fakih: Miss Hezbollah is Now Miss USA.

No, it’s not “just another beauty pageant.” Donald Trump, Muslims (who mostly support Islamic terrorist groups, like Hezbollah, which features many of Fakih’s close relatives as top officials), and even Barack Obama will exploit this as propaganda for Islam. Mark my word. Hezbollah is laughing at us, tonight. One of its auxiliary members won the Miss USA title without having to do a thing to denounce them and their bloody murder of hundreds of Americans, including the trampling/torture murder of Navy Diver Robert Dean Stethem aboard TWA flight 847, the 25th anniversary of which is next month.

Dhimmi Donald Trump simply didn’t have the guts to demand that Fakih denounce the Islamic group Hezbollah, whose martyrs and top terrorists are Fakih family members. It doesn’t matter to the Donald that this is the terrorist group that murdered more Americans than any other after Al-Qaeda, and probably more, when you count its joint ventures with Hezbollah. Trump made a bigger deal with Miss California USA and her bimbo activities, when–hellooooo–it’s a bimbo contest. Now, Hezbollah has the chief USA bimbo. And they’ll use it.
I don’t just wonder if this whole contest is rigged. I have a feeling that it is. Clearly, there is affirmative action for Muslim women in beauty pageants and other such “contests.”

We know that political correctness and bending over backward (and forward) to all things Islam, are the rules of the day. I had a bad feeling they’d pick her to try to pander to the Islamic world some more because–ya know–the collective American nose isn’t yet brown enough from ass-kissing Islamic butt all around the world . . . at least according to the conventional wisdom of idiots. The Islamic world is especially laughing that a sequined gay man dressed like the world’s ugliest cross-dresser, Johnny Weir, helped make a woman from their intolerant world, Miss USA. If they could, they’d still rip him to shreds and sever his penis, the way they torture their Israeli and even their own fellow Islamic victims.

Tonight, they celebrated and laughed at us from within at Dearbornistan’s Hezbollah restaurant, La Pita, where workers openly sing Hezbollah war songs and anti-Semitic “ditties” in the kitchen. It was the site of Fakih’s victory party, where falafel, and hummus, and hate were all on the menu, as they usually are there and throughout Fakih’s community.

I wonder how much influence Miss USA’s Islamic sponsor Farouk Shami–the racist 9/11 Truther and Palestinian terrorism supporter whose Farouk Systems helped pay for the pageant and broadcast–had on this win. A lot, I’d bet, especially since Fakih tweeted gushingly about hanging out with him. He probably urged Trump and the judges to make sure his fellow Muslima won. After all, it makes no difference that she’s a Shi’ite and he’s a Sunni. She had the support of Sunni terrorists like Imad Hamad, who helped fund her bid. And, as anyone who knows anything about the Islamic world knows, they’ll happily put their internecine Shi’ite-Sunni war on hold, if it means helping Islam in its propaganda war and fight to take over the West.

In her answer to a dumb question about insurance covering birth control, Fakih gave an even dumber answer. But it was a feminist, big government, anti-business, politically correct answer. And because she’s a Muslim, Fakih got away with her utterly conceited statement in a video profile: “When people meet me, they see a very beautiful, very smart, very funny person.” Hey, don’t be so modest. We gotta beat that fake notion of “Islamic modesty” that really doesn’t exist in the real world.

I knew the classy Miss Oklahoma USA, Elizabeth Woolard–who gave a good and somewhat educated answer about Arizona’s immigration law (watch the video, above)–would lose, the minute she said she supported the Arizona law. After all, the right answer was to say how “unAmerican” and “oppressive” this law is and how great these illegal aliens are for doing “the work that some Americans just won’t do” (like kidnapping, rape, stealing jobs, and driving down wages). It doesn’t matter that the question–uttered by judge Oscar Nunez–was incorrect, since his premise was that the law allows authorities to check the immigration status of anyone they think is here illegally (That’s not what the law allows at all). Since she said the right thing for America and Arizona, not the politically correct answer to win Miss USA, she lost.

Oh, and she wasn’t a Lebanese Muslim Hezbollah supporter with relatives who are top terrorists and “martyrs” in the group. If you don’t have relatives that have died killing some Jews and relatives who’ve murdered hundreds of Americans, you really don’t deserve to be Miss USA.

Do you?
By Debbie Schlussel

Hat Tip to Mr. I

The Shoe Bomb Terrorist

Congratulations to the JUDGE !!!!!
Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it?
Did you know his trial is over?
Did you know he was sentenced?
Did you see/hear any of the judge's comments on TV or Radio?
Didn't think so!
Everyone should hear what the judge had to say.

Ruling by Judge William Young, US District Court.

Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the defendant if he had anything to say. His response: After admitting his guilt to the court for the record, Reid also admitted his 'allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah,' defiantly stating, 'I think I will not apologize for my actions,' and told the court 'I am at war with your country.'

Judge Young then delivered the statement quoted below:

United States vs. Reid.

Judge Young: 'Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the Court imposes upon you.

On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutively. (That's 80 years.)

On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years again, to be served consecutively to the 80 years just imposed. The Court imposes upon you for each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000 that's an aggregate fine of $2 million. The Court accepts the government's recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $298.17 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines.

The Court imposes upon you an $800 special assessment. The Court imposes upon you five years supervised release simply because the law requires it. But the life sentences are real life sentences so I need go no further.

This is the sentence that is provided for by our statutes. It is a fair and just sentence. It is a righteous sentence.

Now, let me explain this to you. We are not afraid of you or any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before. There is too much war talk here and I say that to everyone with the utmost respect. Here in this court, we deal with individuals as individuals and care for individuals as individuals. As human beings, we reach out for justice.

You are not an enemy combatant. You are a Terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier, gives you far too much stature. Whether the officers of government do it or your attorney does it, or if you think you are a soldier, you are not----- you are a terrorist. And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not meet with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice.

So war talk is way out of line in this court. You are a big fellow. But you are not that big. You're no warrior. I've known warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal that is guilty of multiple attempted murders. In a very real sense, State Trooper Santiago had it right when you first were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and the TV crews were, and he said: 'You're no big deal.'

You are no big deal.

What your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have as honestly as I know how tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today?

I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty and admit you are guilty of doing? And, I have an answer for you. It may not satisfy you, but as I search this entire record, it comes as close to understanding as I know.

It seems to me you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose. Here, in this society, the very wind carries freedom. It carries it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom, so that everyone can see, truly see, that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely. It is for freedom's sake that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf, have filed appeals, will go on in their representation of you before other judges.

We Americans are all about freedom. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties. Make no mistake though. It is yet true that we will bear any burden; pay any price, to preserve our freedoms. Look around this courtroom. Mark it well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. The day after tomorrow, it will be forgotten, but this, however, will long endure.

Here in this courtroom and courtrooms all across America, the American people will gather to see that justice, individual justice, justice, not war, individual justice is in fact being done. The very President of the United States through his officers will have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged and juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically, to mold and shape and refine our sense of justice.

See that flag, Mr. Reid? That's the flag of the United States of America. That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag stands for freedom. And it always will.

Mr. Custody Officer. Stand him down.

So, how much of this Judge's comments did we hear on our TV sets? We need more judges like Judge Young. Pass this around. Everyone should and needs to hear what this fine judge had to say. Powerful words that strike home.

Now that is the way to talk to Terrorists! We don't need to "Hug it out" with them as Barry, Low-life Janeane Garofalo or Anti-American Rosie think we should.
This is highly recommended to all Low-Life Terrorist appeasers!

Hat Tip to Neil!