A Preventable Death in Britian?

Although The Sun is a conservative paper, it is missing a key point (probably because it is in Britain). If the woman could have had a handgun, there is a good chance she would be alive. The woman had an injunction against her ex-husband and she had the 999 operator on the phone. Yet she died helpless and powerless. The old saying goes “a gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.” Unfortanutely some fail to see that gun ownership can help save innocent lives.

"THE final words of a terrified wife seconds before she was shot dead by her millionaire husband were revealed at an inquest yesterday. Trembling Julia Pemberton, 47, dialled 999 as she hid from rampaging financier Alan in a storeroom at the family house. He had already blasted their son William, 17, to death and was closing in on Julia as she desperately tried to summon help from an emergency operator. The wife, who had suffered years of abuse from Pemberton, said: “He has killed my son.” She added: “Oh God, I have about one minute before I die. I can hear him — he is coming through. “I am hiding in the storeroom. He will catch me. Here he comes. Oh my God, he’s come.” The operator heard the storeroom door open. Pemberton, brandishing a shotgun, snarled: “You f***ing whore.” Julia cried out — and the line went dead. After blasting healthcare worker Julia, 48-year-old Pemberton turned the gun on himself — leaving police to find three bodies at the £975,000 property in Hermitage, Berks. The couple split up acrimoniously after a 23-year marriage, the Reading inquest was told. Mum-of-two Julia made allegations of sexual and psychological abuse against Pemberton. And the volatile husband, who later moved in with a new love, responded with a barrage of death threats. The frightened wife, who had fought breast cancer, stayed in the five-bedroom Hermitage house while attempts ere made to sell it.

She handed in her husband’s shotguns and the family’s kitchen knives to police. She won a High Court injunction banning him from coming around. And the home was fitted with a panic button linked to a 999 call centre.....The Sun

The BIG Debate Question

With the first debate two days away, I have one big question. Will John Kerry be FOR the war or AGAINST the war during the debate? Or will he manage the feat of being for the war AND against the war during the debate?

Kerry Turns to the Economy

John Kerry has heeded advice of Clinton and has turned to the economy. I think it’ll be an uphill battle as the economy is in fair shape. Kerry, who by the way did NOT mention that he served in Vietnam, headlines a middle class tax cut, but later explains that all he will do is make the middle class tax cuts “permanent” while raising the taxes on those over 200,000. This is a cute political way of saying only that “he will not raise middle class taxes.” However, Clinton repeatedly promised a middle class tax CUT in his 1992 campaign, but then raised taxes for the middle class after being elected. I don’t think any sane candidate would promise a middle class tax increase. For the past two years, with several stances on the same issue, Kerry has a credibility problem. His rotating opinions have shattered any trust that he will do what he says.
As for the economy, the Dow stood at 10,578 the day GW Bush was sworn in, but dropped to under 7,181 in the months following 9/11. Today it stands tall again at 10,318. Unemployment has dropped to 5.4%. I don’t think the economy is as gloomy as described in the article and, I think Bush has done a rather good job in rebounding the economy.

With a decent economy, John, the main crisis facing America is still the war on terror. Remember, the President takes an oath to “preserve, protect, and defend” not “tax and spend.”

"My economic plan will do the following: (1) Create good jobs, (2) cut middle-class taxes and health-care costs, (3) restore America's competitive edge, and (4) cut the deficit and restore economic confidence." -John Kerry Wall St. Journal

Victory in the Blogosphere

The giant media out let, CBS, the Columbia Broadcast System, has been brought to its knees by some little known web loggers. It's think it's quite a coup for the little guy in the media world.

The whole CBS forget document scam really hurts the Democrats more than it did Bush. I’m confident was not Kerry, though. I think mostly likely theory was it was by some amateur from Moveon.org. Little does the amateur realize that is when it is exposed to be a fraud it hurts Kerry. Similarly, with Kitty Kelley’s new “Bush is a cokehead” book, is being squashed by the Dems because it contain not one real source. Such inaccuracy and wild accusations, will end up making Kerry look bad.

The long shot theory is that it was some loyal Clinton aide who wants to sink Kerry’s campaign to make way for Hillary in 2008. See my post on Friends of Bill.

Shame on CBS though. They are so blinded by their own partisan politics that they have surrendered all auspicies of impartiality. Anyone with half a brain can tell the document is faked. Experts had told them they were fake (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/bush_guard_documents_040914-1.html ) but CBS didn’t want to consider the truth. Edward R. Murrow must be turning in his grave.

Friends of Bill

Bill Clinton was giving advice to Kerry from his bedside at the hospital. Kerry has recently hired on many aides close to Clinton. Soon after that, CBS on 60 Minutes II has come up with a “memo” from supposedly, Bush’s commanding officer from 1973 saying that Bush was shirking his duties and he is being pressured to sugar-coat his record. This “memo” has been quickly debunked as a complete fraud but CBS stands by it authenticity. It was obviously done on Microsoft Word and ran through a copier for several generations to give the appearance of it being old. The “th” for numbers like 111th was superscript as is automatically done with Microsoft Word, but couldn’t be done with the typewriters of 1973, and one of the officers discussed had retired a year before. A reproduction written on Word superimposes exactly. Internet bloggers had quickly picked up on these errors. Now my post isn’t to discuss the memo itself, but…..

Do you think Bill Clinton, whose wife has definitely ruled out presidential runs in 2004 and 2012, would purposely give Kerry bad advice so he would lose? Would Clinton’s aides, such as James Carville, “unearth” this document and make it fake enough to be easily discovered as a fraud in order to sink the Kerry campaign? So would it be wise for Kerry to rely on Clinton and his aides so much, in lieu of Hillary's ambitions?

Putin Goes Global?

I agree with Putin on his stance to negotiate with the Islamic Chechen terrorists. He compared it to the White House negotiating with Bin Laden and he is quite right. Islamic fighters get trained and are pouring into Chechnya. It is the one of the hotspots that the Islamic terrorists dream of fighting in. I heard Putin on the BBC saying he would internationalize the fight against terrorism. Chechnya is getting money and fighters from many foreign lands. Where are these people getting trained?

Would the Russians invade a country they believe to be harbouring terrorism? If so, who?

Terrorism's Old Front

I agree with Putin on his stance to negotiate with the Islamic Chechen terrorists. He compared it to the White House negotiating with Bin Laden and he is quite right. Islamic fighters get trained and are pouring into Chechnya. It is the one of the hotspots that the Islamic terrorists dream of fighting in. I heard Putin on the BBC saying he would internationalize the fight against terrorism. Chechnya is getting money and fighters from many foreign lands. Where are these people getting trained?

Would the Russians invade a country they believe to be harbouring terrorism? If so, who?

The Hamburg Cell

I watched the TV movie, the Hamburg Cell last night on Britian’s Channel 4. It was a docu-drama of the story of 9/11 as seen through the eyes of one of the terrorists, Zeid Jarrah. My initial fear was that the movie would romanticize the terrorist movement. Although it put a human face on the terrorists, it didn’t show compassion or sympathy towards them. Jarrah was a Lebonese born Muslim who lead a fairly liberal lifestyle. The movie follows his life and involvement from the beginnings in 1996 to the fateful day in 2001. Beginning in 1997, Jarrah got slowly more and more involved with fanatics and Jihad. The band of terrorists moved to live and “study” in Hamburg. Their reoccurring complaint about the West is that Muslims are “dominated and humiliated.” Everyday their hatred grows. Jarrah went off to Afghanistan with the others in 1999 to train for Jihad. Jarrah has a girlfriend –then wife who remains normal and opposed to his involvement with fanatical Muslims. He ends up constantly lying to her and his family about his activities.

When I watched the film, I got an indirectly worse impression of Islam. It seems that the Muslims, who aren’t interested in jihad, are the ones that aren’t very religious. The more “religious” Jarrah became, the worse he treated his wife. The better Muslim he became the worse of a person he became. Scenes from a mosque in Egypt show the entire mosque, a “peaceful” religious institution, chanting death to America and the infidels. One of the terrorists is fanaticizing about becoming a martyr and hopes his burial is a “good Muslim burial,” which he explains that a good burial means that no women will be present or ever visit his grave. I got the impression, whether intended or not, that moderate Muslims were ones that weren’t very Muslim and were just basically Muslims-in-name-only.

It also made you think about the terrorists in a different aspect. In a country such as Syria, a child could grow up learning to hate America, hate Jews, and that he must die for Jihad from his family and his religious teachers. He brainlessly goes to Iraq to detonate himself on a bus full of children. He doesn’t know any better and hasn’t experienced life apart from learning about Jihad. These 9/11 terrorists, however, lived and worked in the West. Jarrah lived in Florida and saw that Americans weren’t horned devils. The fact that he interacted so much with normal people, but still wanted to kill the innocent, makes his crimes all the more worse.

The movie ends with the terrorists boarding the planes intermixed with video of 9/11 happening. Although it doesn’t show the actual hijacking, it does also put a very human face on the fellow passengers who were aboard the plane. It serves to remind everyone that 9/11 wasn’t just a death toll number, but an innocent 8 year old girl, a 40 year old father, a caring 60 year old grandmother, or an optimistic 24 year old stewardess. I think people should see the movie, because it serves a good reminder of 9/11.