McCarthy's Ghost has returned to Washington...Islam is the new RED.

That guy Ann Coulter prays to McCarthy every night. He does a pilgrimage every year to his tomb, He even has a picture of it on his website.

It will be a sad day for our country Thursday .........

NY rep King stated that the Americans of Islamic faith are the only group that are presently being recruited by foreign forces, unlike your traditional homegrown terrorist like right wing extremist, which include the Klan and skin heads, who have been here for quit some time. His matter of fact tone implied that the terror we know is better than the terror we do not know. If king truly wanted to be the Terrorist Emirate, he needs to address all homegrown terrorism. Terror is terror-- no matter the color of the skin of the terrorist, no matter what language the terrorist speaks, no matter what god or cause they evoked when carryout their deadly acts, their goal is to terrorize. If he truly wants to do a job, he may as well do it in its entirety. Otherwise, he will be viewed as being Biased and hypocritical, a politico who engaged in selective amnesia when he threw his full support by the once deemed terrorist group, the IRA—and now have found his McCarthyism mojo now that the perceived targets skin complex—and religion—are in contrast to his.

Could not have said it better. If there is anyone allergic to print. Watching Lawrence of Arabia may glean some historical truth in how we systemically screwed the region---I mean some. The war with The Nazis was more about control of the Middle East and its resources than it was for freedom. And Japan was also about access to Asia and their natural resources. We have been after them since the opium wars.

The corporations and Rich Families of the 20th century saw a friend in the USA. In that we are Xenophobic to a fault. We have the tactical advantage to invade anyplace, with out reprisal. And the US citizens psyche has been molded by 'me first', and capitalist ideology. The Rockefellers and the Rothchilds would have a harder time coercing governments unless they had fascist tendencies to begin with.

My country is nothing but a Rube in the employ of more cunning men.

Thats pretty much been the case since 9/11. Also, the fear of Socialism has been revived by a certain someone *cough Glenn Beck.

All of this nonesense about a Muslim threat hinges on the myth of what the mainstream media and the 9/11 Commission concluded about what happened on 9/11.

9/11 Truth is the anti-war, anti-police state antidote. Without it, you get TSA and very dangerous people like Rep Peter King and Senator of Tel Aviv Joe Lieberman free reign to trump the US constitution.

But that's where I my agreement with this article ends. McCarthy was right and the admitted historical facts have vindicated him. We can argue whether a "witch hunt" was the correct way to address the Communist threat, but there really was Communist infiltration in the US government, but there is no Muslim infiltration in the US government.

You're saying muslims are the new commies. Close, but not quite. Commies were idealogues with beliefs heretical to Capitalist dogma.

The muslims we are worrying about also come from countries that the West (primarily Britain and the US, and earlier on France) has since the early 20th century invaded, installed puppet tyrants, and exploited to grow fat and sassy while most of the indigenous population lived in privation, slaving for the Corporate West while a chosen few elite in their countries became the uber-wealthy. It pretty much began when Churchill installed Faisal I on the throne of the newly-created Iraq in the 1920's, and used the RAF bomb and terrorize anyone who protested England's failure to keep its promise of independence if Persia/Mesopotamia allied with England against the Ottomans in World War I.

The West has been after economic "lebensraum" to feed our need (addiction) for petroleum-based energy by political means where possible, and using war and terrorism (the lie machine and "shock and awe") when that doesn't work. It is only a coincidence that a huge part of the planet's oil reserves are in Islamic countries. These people represent the population of countries we have invaded, either with Capitalism's fifth columnists, Corporations, or, when that method goes awry, with Capitalism's armies and weapons. These people are fighting us to free their nations from an invader.

So while there are ideological principles in Islam that conflict with Capitalism - for example, Islam forbids usury, one of the pillars of modern Capitalism - their ideology is secondary to their convenient use as a religious group by the lie machine.

It's far less like Commies and McCarthy - it's far more like Jews and Nazis.

Why must we allow fear to rule? Why must we sacrifice everything we stand for in the name of safety? If we cannot stand for liberty and justice no matter the test of our resolve do we really deserve it?

McCarthy is alive and well, alright. That fool was from my state. Islam is the new RED. They always have to pick out one group. America never learns from it's past...it always repeats it. I like how these Reps make blanket statements that it's all Muslims. It's not. When it comes to domestic terrorism, just look at the tea baggers, the religious right, the anti-abortion groups, anti-gay groups, rascists etc. That's where the scariest stuff is. These are the groups that bring guns to town halls, blow up abortion clinics and kill abortion providers, kill or threaten gay people, etc. We have to some how come together in America. But I don't know how.

Before Peter King was a congressman he was a newsman for the New York Post a right wing rag of a newspaper in a city like New York, with the New York Times available to read or the Wall Street Journal, but Peter king is a race or in this case a religious baiter. Portraying all followers of Islam as evil. One sick Puppy

Republican jerks like King (and some of the commenters in this thread) seem to be scared of their own shadows. As with any social deviates, terrorists are a very small percentage of the population and we have hired help (law enforcement personnel) to deal with them.

If King wanted to do good for our country and wanted to know more about what inspires terrorist types, he would investigate religion's influence on terrorism. Regardless of the religion, the thread that most runs through terrorism is religious fundamentalism.

Unions have become a boogie man as well. Listen to the arguments Faux News puts out against them. You'd think this country was overrun with people who want to destroy it and only a hand full patriots to save it. Ironically, the folks on Faux News belong to a union. Think BillO will quit his union? How about Hannity or Limbaugh? Of course not, they understand the benefits a union provides.This would make a good SNL skit if people's lives didn't hang in the balance. And by the way, McCarthy's ghost never left.

well i'm pretty sure he didnt mean all muslim americans. but with domestic terrorism being a continued threat it seems shaking down catholic nuns, hindu priests or the average american joe as we do in the airports would be a big waste of time and money. profile, profile, profile but in a sensitive trust but verifiable kind of way.

The first line of the article sums it all up: "There's a well-known truism that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." Before Muslims, it was the Red Scare, before that, Anarchists, before that new immigrants (I understand Peter King is of Irish decent), before that newly freed slaves, before that witches. I'm sure I've missed a few. You could listen to Peter King's arguments and substitute any one of the above targets and fit them nicely into the appropriate time period. I wonder who Peter King's "elderly black lady" will be? For those of you that don't understand the reference, McCarthy's downfall came not long after his inquisition of an elderly black cleaning lady whose obvious ignorance made a mockery of the whole Red Scare thing. Furthermore, Peter King himself has been accused of having ties to the IRA.

these grandstanding, hateful, neocons will do anything to keep fear alive......

Given that a potential terrorist plot has been disrupted every two weeks since Sept 2009 in the US, something is going on. There is one thing that links all of these plots. Having hearing into it is the responsible thing to do. Having people like Ellison there will ensure that it does not devolve into a "McCarthyite" situation. Be not afraid of words.

Charges of McCarthyism to stem this is interesting since most of what McCarthy said ultimately turned out to be true. Islam and sharia law is a true threat to our country. Ignoring it and using emotional terms such as "McCarthyism!!!" does not change that.

Divide and conquer, an age old tactic to spread doubt and enrage the masses.
Don't believe the hate. No religious group is out to get you.

It's the law of bigotry... They can't lynch black people anymore, they're not allowed to gas Jews, Communists aren't the big bad enemy they once were, Only Muslims and Mexicans are left to harass and degrade.

The solution is simple- deport the bigots. Strip the off their citizenship and move them on. Bigots make bad citizens, it is THEY who are truly responsible for most violence and criminal activity.

i'm glad they're holding these hearings.

i say things like acts of terrorism can never be investigated enough--
i bet if we investigated Timothy Mcveigh we would have found some Yemenese flags hidden behind the stars & stripes of these here united states (excuse me while i say a pray for lady liberty) that muslim in non-pork eating wolves clothing carried out the biggest domestic terrorist attack, ever.

remember Seung-Hui Cho? ya, you do. that mohamed-lover that was the shooter in the worst massacre on american soil (virginia tech) was south korean... hello! south korea has muslims. cha-ching! smoking gun!

these domestic terrorist are going to bring america to her knees, so what if the last three muslim american citizens that tried to carry out bombings failed miserably, and if there's only been two major attacks on american soil, which were funded by a millionaire who lives on the other side of the planet-- so what i say.

mericah is #1! so our domestic terrorists are the best too!
forget the economy! the only people who need jobs are the poor slobs sucking on the entitlement teet i like to call 'unemployment benefits' the rest of us don't need the government to work on creating jobs, spend MORE time trying to root out secret muslims who will eventually hurt our nation. (i have a hint, look in 1600 Pennsylvania ave, ya might find one)

this story should definitely be at #1. voted up.

i think we're seeing the real ayipis now.

@crunchynuts...you are countering the president's own words by saying that the words you offer from reporters without even sighting a source are more indicative of the presidents true position. Dude you are full of I misleading rants.

Did you even read what Obama said?

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July 2009 Daniel Patrick Boyd of North Carolina, a U.S. citizen, drywall contractor, and Muslim convert, was charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and to murder people overseas. The government alleges he and several other men, including his two sons, discussed waging jihad, possessed rifles, and had done military-style training. In September, a charge of conspiring to murder military personnel was added, with the government alleging Boyd had gotten maps of the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.
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September 2009 Najubullah Zazi, an Afghan-born legal resident of the U.S. who lived in Denver, was charged in September, and pleaded guilty in February, to a plot to set off a bomb in the New York subway system. Zazi, who attended high school in Queens, said he got bomb training in Pakistan from al Qaeda operatives in 2008 and was persuaded to come back to the U.S. and "sacrifice myself to bring attention to what the United States military was doing to civilians in Afghanistan by sacrificing my soul for the sake of saving other souls."

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October 2009 In charges brought in October and unsealed this March, the government alleges that Colleen LaRose, a middle-aged Philadelphia woman who converted to Islam and used the online handle JihadJane, agreed to kill a Swedish artist who had drawn an insulting picture of Mohammed. In a 2008 YouTube comment LaRose allegedly wrote she wanted to help "the suffering Muslim people." She allegedly traveled to Europe last year and tracked the artist online but never made an attempt on his life. She is charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.

America has for a very long time existed in opposition to a bogey man or menace or monster that unites Americans into a homogeneous whole. That is why WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING. It is because our nation was constructed through war and it survives through war. America perfected and capitalized the brand of "US VS THEM".

GWB epitomized this brand when he declared that "If you aren't with us than you are with the terrorists" while his administration engaged in heinous terror because for almost two centuries now, America has bought into the notion that only a State has the legitimate reason to use force, violence, to engage in war to accomplish a political end. All others are terrorists, rebels, riff raff.

The time has come to put these notions aside and to strive for a higher ideal, one that binds us through peace rather than through war. Its time to beat our swords and crosses into plowshares and writing instruments.

For the pen is mightier than the sword and the plowshare more noble than the cross.

how come socialists, liberals and terrorists seem to cover each other's bottom??

an UNHOLY ALLIANCE INDEED..

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-martinez-latin-america-kada...

Unholy alliance
Leftist leaders in Latin America should be ashamed of embracing Moammar Kadafi.

Hugo Chavez is trying to come to the rescue of his friend and fellow "colonel," Moammar Kadafi. The Venezuelan president has offered to mediate Libya's civil war, and warned against any foreign intervention in support of Libya's opposition, which now controls much of the east of the country, including the port of Benghazi, home of the Hugo Chavez soccer stadium. The Venezuelan government even railed against the move to oust Libya from the United Nations Human Rights Council because of Kadafi's violent crackdown on his own people.

The attempt by Chavez (winner of the Kadafi International Prize for Human Rights in 2004) to play a role in Libya's future is unlikely to amount to more than a Quixotic gambit, though it remains a distinct possibility that Kadafi could find himself a comfortable retirement home in Venezuela (some reports in the British news media already have one of his sons hiding out on Venezuela's Margarita Island). But Chavez's solidarity with Kadafi (whom he has compared to Simon Bolivar) speaks volumes about the fate of democracy and human rights in the region — in Latin America, that is.

Disturbingly, Chavez isn't Kadafi's sole ally in this hemisphere. Fidel Castro (Kadafi Prize, 1998) has long been a comrade in arms, and the Cuban Foreign Ministry has accused the United States and the Western news media of instigating the current violence in Libya........

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could it be that they all share a perverted sense of what is right??

We are being programmed to hate the boogeyman. Radical Islam never hated Christianity anyway. Qutb founded the movement and the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Quaeda after that. The issue he was adamant about was that Western civilization was too self-centered, narcissistic and consumer oriented. He was right. He stressed that the two religions were not at odds, just the lifestyles. True Christianity does not mimic Western behavior. Western Christians are not Christians at all but actually more of a Masonic, Luciferan, self-centered people obsessed with consumerism by design starting with the influence of Freud and then Bernays. Islam was chosen as the enemy by politicians and the elite in order to get the 'Christians' to accept wars for profit.