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My friends at RadioJihad.org interview Geert Wilders who is an outspoken critic of Radical Islam in his native Netherlands. I was also recently interviewed by Vito and Alan, on RadioJihad.org.
Geert Wilders Wikipedia Entry:
Geert Wilders (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈxeːrt ˈʋɪldərs] or [ˈʝeːʁt ˈʋɪldəʁs]; born 6 September 1963) is a Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom, a party in The Netherlands. Born in the city of Venlo and raised as a Roman Catholic, Wilders attributes his politics to his support for what he calls 'Judeo-Christian values'. He formed many of his political views in his travels to Israel, as well as the neighboring Arab countries and his early job at the Dutch social insurance agency moved him to politics, where he worked as a speechwriter for the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. In 1996, he moved to the city of Utrecht, and was elected in the city council, and later the House of Representatives of the Netherlands.
Citing irreconcilable differences on the party's position on Turkish accession to the European Union, Wilders left the People's Party in 2004 to form his own party, the Party for Freedom. Since then, he has been outspoken on a number of issues such as immigration, freedom of speech, the fundamental beliefs of Islam,[2] and the behavior of Moroccan youth in the cities.[3] His controversial 2008 film about Islam in the Netherlands, Fitna, has received international attention. On 21 January 2009, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ordered his prosecution for what it said was "the incitement to hatred and discrimination".[4] Wilders has also been banned from entering the United Kingdom since 12 February 2009, with the Home Office viewing his presence as a "threat to one of the fundamental interests of society".[5] |
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The purpose of history is the detection of patterns, the understanding of personalities who create movement (for good or evil) on the world stage, and the concepts of cause and effect. The American Historical Society has these and other points.
- History Helps Us Understand People and Societies
- History Helps Us Understand Change and How the Society We Live in Came to Be
- The Importance of History in Our Own Lives
- History Contributes to Moral Understanding
By reading history, you will see patterns and fight against them. By reading historical biography, you will see three dimensional personalities (if they are well-written) and understand more about psychology. A Romanian intelligence defector describes below the manipulation by the KGB of Yaser Arafat's image so it could be sold to the West.
The KGB's Man
By ION MIHAI PACEPA
The Israeli government has vowed to expel Yasser Arafat, calling him an "obstacle" to peace. But the 72-year-old Palestinian leader is much more than that; he is a career terrorist, trained, armed and bankrolled by the Soviet Union and its satellites for decades.
Before I defected to America from Romania, leaving my post as chief of Romanian intelligence, I was responsible for giving Arafat about $200,000 in laundered cash every month throughout the 1970s. I also sent two cargo planes to Beirut a week, stuffed with uniforms and supplies. Other Soviet bloc states did much the
same. Terrorism has been extremely profitable for Arafat. According to Forbes magazine, he is today the sixth wealthiest among the world's "kings, queens & despots," with more than $300 million stashed in Swiss bank accounts.
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"I invented the hijackings [of passenger planes]," Arafat bragged when I first met him at his PLO headquarters in Beirut in the early 1970s. He gestured toward the little red flags pinned on a wall map of the world that labeled Israel as "Palestine." "There they all are!" he told me, proudly. The dubious honor of inventing hijacking actually goes to the KGB, which first hijacked a U.S.passenger plane in 1960 to Communist Cuba. Arafat's innovation was the suicide bomber, a terror concept that would come to full flower on 9/11.
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Read more... [Action: Understand History to See the Future]
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In this article, Breitbart notes a report from the Federation of American Scientists in which Twitter and other technologies might be used by terrorists and others. Twitter has been used by various groups from Communists, socialists and other groups for mass public action in demonstrations and could be used for surveillance techniques. The article, " Terrorist 'tweets'? US Army warns of Twitter dangers", adds that GPS software and voice changing software might also become tools of terrorists.
A chapter on "Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter" notes that Twitter members sent out messages, known as "Tweets," reporting the July Los Angeles earthquake faster than news outlets and activists at the Republican Convention iin Minneapolis used it to provide information on police movements.
"Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audiences," the report said.
Hacktivists refers to politically motivated computer hackers.
"Twitter is already used by some members to post and/or support extremist ideologies and perspectives," the report said.
So if terrorists groups might consider using Twitter to surveil potential targets, then couldn't the Citizen Soldier use Twitter with his Action Brigade to watch potential Terrorist Suspects? Of course, the Looney Left will say that's Big Brother operating - right, a group of citizen keeping an eye on their community - but Terrorists using the same technology shouldn't be stopped.
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Terrorism is defined as the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property for the purposes of intimidating or coercing a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political and social objectives.
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Read more... [Conduct Terrorist Operations]
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