Poland’s Upper House of Parliament passed a unanimous resolution to honor a WWII hero who helped save the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during the Nazi Holocaust. Her name is Irena Sendlerowa and she banded together with a group of social worker colleagues in 1940 to secretly rescue Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto.

Don’t be surprised if you haven’t heard of her; today’s Western press seems loathe to cover inconvenient stories of heroes who risked life and limb to save the Jews from the murderous hands of the Nazis. Compound that with the fact that this is a story that involves Catholic charity and you have all the elements necessary to relegate her accomplishments to a passing reference somewhere in the back of a newspaper, never again to inconvenience the Holocaust deniers or those who prefer to remember the war through the prism of Hollywood’s warped lens.

Mrs. Irena Sendlerowa had been actively giving the Jews aid, food and shelter since the war came to her doorstep in 1939. By the time the war ended almost all of Poland’s 3.5 million Jews had been wiped out and Sendlerowa had been captured, imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to death for her actions.

To leave the story there however would be a gross disservice to her memory. Like so many others who lived and died as citizens of history’s greatest generation, Irena Sendlerowa does not consider herself a hero.

In conclusion let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly.

The opposite is true - I continue to have qualms of conscience that I did so little.

The truth of the matter however outweighs her humble grace. Irena Sendlerowa is a tremendous hero. The kind of person whose actions should be taught in schools and printed in papers. Her message is important.

The Nazis set up the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940 as a means to isolate the Jewish population. During this time a wave of muggings and increasingly violent attacks were launched on Jews by Polish gangs; many times in front of innocent bystanders who did nothing.

The Jews were rounded up and cordoned off in the ghetto where their food was inhumanely rationed along with medical aid and other basic human rights. The prisoners of the ghetto were not even allowed to school their children and many died as a result of starvation and disease. But the ghetto was just a layover for the Jews who survived its brutality; their ultimate destination would be the Nazi death camps.

Amidst all of that was a young 30 year old Irena Sendlerowa. Her Catholic upbringing had taught her to help people of all faiths and nationality. That kindness translated into a movement to rescue children using various schemes to secretly sneak the children out of the ghetto, provide false identification as gentile Poles and find places for them to live as orphans of the war. Many children who spoke only Yiddish had to be taught Polish to complete the ruse.

In 1942 the Polish underground set up the Council for Assistance for Jews and named Mrs. Sendlerowa as the head of the children’s department. The underground was called the Zegota and they waged a war against the Nazi’s until the underground was eventually defeated by the German armies.

Sendlerowa often told stories of the struggle to convince parents to give up their children.

It soon proved imperative to get children out on the so-called Aryan side since inside the ghetto it was hell.

We reached homes to say we could rescue children and lead them outside the ghetto walls. The basic question which then arose was: what guarantee could we give.

We had to admit honestly that we could give no guarantee since we did not even know whether we would succeed in leaving the ghetto today.

That was when we witnessed infernal scenes. Father agreed but mother didn’t. Grandmother cuddled the child most tenderly and, weeping bitterly, said “I won’t give away my grandchild at any price”.

We sometimes had to leave such unfortunate families without taking their children from them. I went there the next day to see what the whole building had come to and often found that everyone had been taken to the Umschlagsplatz railway siding for transport to death camps.

The tactics used to usher the children out of the ghetto were ingenious and perilous. To be caught would likely mean death for all. Various tricks such as hiding the children under ambulance stretchers, through secret passages in the courthouse, in the sewers and even hiding the children in suitcases. Everything was tried.

Yet getting them out of the ghetto was just the beginning of the journey. Sendlerowa personally cataloged the names of all the children with redundancy and buried the names and family origins in a jar so that the children would have some idea of their family history if they survived the war.

Often children would have to be moved. There was no end to the attempt to hunt them down and kill them.

I know of cases when the sole chance of survival was the external window-sill, behind a curtain, keeping the child there as long as necessary, holding on with numb hands so as not to fall, until the Germans left the home of his adopted parents.

The children paid dear for the “price of life”. A child sometimes had to be taken away from one “parents” and placed with others for their safety and that of the child.

I once carried such a tearful, broken-hearted little boy to other guardians when he asked me, crying and sobbing, “Please tell me how many Mums can you have, for this is the third one I’m going to”.

Irena Sendlerowa’s life nearly came to a common end in 1943 when the German Gestapo arrested her for her suspected involvement with Zegota. They tortured her and imprisoned her to gather information. During the harsh interrogations she suffered broken legs and feet and other brutal acts of torture that almost crippled her for life.

But Sendlerowa stuck to her story and was sentenced to be executed. Yet again this brave woman bucked the fate of so many others by escaping the firing squad and even fooling the Gestapo into proclaiming her death.

I cannot give a short description of what I experienced in the Gestapo cellars in Szucha Street and in Pawiak prison. The Pawiak museum contains a special cabinet with the instruments used by those “supermen” to torture prisoners. I still carry the marks on my body of what those “German supermen” did to me then. I was sentenced to death. “The Żegota” [Relief Council for Jews, working under the auspices of the Home Army] the Jewish underground aid organisation smuggled messages to me that I am not to worry for it is doing everything possible to get me out. The whole leadership of Żegota liked me very much and had great respect for my work. They spared no effort to find a way to have my death sentence rescinded.

Apart from any sentiments, there was also anxiety that the only trace of those children would disappear should I die.

It is beyond description to tell what you feel when travelling to your own execution and, at the last moment, to find you had been bought out. A Gestapo officer had let me out for a large bribe. I figured in their documents as having been killed by firing squad. But after two months incorrect records were found in their registers. The Gestapo bribe-taker was sent to the eastern front and the Gestapo again visited me, but unsuccessfully for after leaving Pawiak illegally I had to change all my documents and also never to be found at home.

I had to “steal” my dying mother from our home and take her to unknown persons until she ended her life several weeks later. The Gestapo was looking for me so obstinately that they were even at Mother’s funeral asking which is the dead woman’s daughter. Our friends replied “her daughter is in Pawiak prison”. To which a Gestapo functionary replied furiously: “Sure she was but inexplicably no longer is”. I continued working as the head of the children’s section of “Żegota” though using entirely changed personal documents.

After the war Sendlerowa helped put the pieces back together for the children she helped save. Most of the families they belonged to perished at the hands of the Nazi’s but generations live on as a monument to the bravery and courage of a young Catholic girl; a true living hero.

Irena Sendlerowa’s story is very important. We live in a day and age where memories have faded and anti-Zionist aggression is back on the rise.

I often wish that these WWII heroes hadn’t been so humble. Their accomplishments are often overshadowed by revisionist historians and hypocrites who have a displaced sense of moral outrage based on lies, ignorance and political expediency. Their ignorance casts a shadow on history’s most important lessons by muting the words that serve as a warning to future generations.

Irena Sendlerowa is aware of this fact even at the ripe old age of 97.

“But we and future generations must also remember the human cruelty and hate which led those who handed over their neighbours to the enemy, the hate which told them to commit murder. There was also indifference towards the tragedy of those who perished.

“It is my dream that this memory become a warning to the world and that humanity never experience such tragedy ever again.”

It seems much more convenient for the mainstream media to offer up excuses about disaffected terrorists and why they hate rather than cover examples of heroism and valor by a group of people who should truly be disaffected by today’s standards. Yet Sendlerowa’s generation somehow managed to rise above the scars of the gas chambers, firing squads and concentration camps. They survived as an example of what people can overcome when facing the most unimaginable adversity.

Irena Sendlerowa is a hero of the past and a messenger for the future. Her story is a lesson we should all take to heart and teach to our children.

Update: I haven’t gotten over being irate at the fact that Irena Sendlerowa was passed over for the Nobel prize in preference to Al Gore. However, when reflecting on the event I realize that Sendlerowa has struggled against hate and discrimination her whole life. It is unfortunate that her accomplishments have gone unrecognized by a group of anti-American elitists that feel recognition of partial truths and unsubstantiated claims are more important to honor than the life saving accomplishments of a 97 year old hero; a person without whom many Jewish Americans would not be alive today.

Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters notes that WWII hero Irena Sendlerowa (almost forgotten) was passed over by the mainstream media and the Nobel committee in favor of Al Gore. When comparing the accomplishments of the two it is painfully clear that we are in the middle of a culture war with a worldwide movement on the left.

… meet Irena Sendler, a 97-year-old Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.

Hadn’t heard of her? Well, don’t feel bad, for since the Nobel Committee announced the nominees in February, there have only been 107 reports about Mrs. Sendler being one of them. By contrast, Al Gore and “Nobel” have been mentioned in 2,912.

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As a post script, I wanted to point out some of the major media outlets in our nation that boycotted her nomination. A search of LexisNexis identified the following: The New York Times; USA Today; The Los Angeles Times; The Chicago Tribune; The San Francisco Chronicle; The Miami Herald; CNN (Beck’s report was on CNN Headline News); MSNBC; CBS; Fox News (only Prime Time broadcasts and Fox News Sunday are transcribed).

It’s a wonder that Americans of this generation and future ones even know about Hitler. Detractors on the left are quick to compare President Bush to Hitler, completely oblivious of the real horrors that occurred during WWII, the experiments on children, the torturing of the human body to study it’s effects, mass extermination by firing squads and then gassing entire families, men, women and children. Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Himmler are probably just names to a whole generation of people that have been systematically turned against the United States through errors of omission and overt advocacy by a crowd that cares little about reporting the full story, maintaining the true context of historical facts or honoring someone based on real accomplishments as opposed to the political machinations of the global warming industry.

From today’s news

Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, died in the Polish capital on Monday after a long illness, local media said.

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Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev said: “Irena Sendler’s courageous activities rescuing Jews during the Holocaust serve as a beacon of light to the world, inspiring hope and restoring faith in the innate goodness of mankind.”

Using her position as a social worker, Sendler regularly entered the ghetto, smuggling around 2,500 children out in boxes, suitcases or hidden in trolleys.

The children were then placed with Polish families outside the ghetto, created by Nazi Germany in 1940 for the city’s half a million strong Jewish population, and given new identities.

But in 1943 Sendler, who led the children’ section of the Zegota organization which helped Jews during the war, was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo.

She only escaped execution when Zegota managed to bribe some Nazi officials, who left her unconscious but alive with broken legs and arms in the woods.

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1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.

As for voting against MLK day, so what? Personal federal holidays had always been about Presidents. This vote involved jettisoning a 150 year tradition to accord a signal honor to someone who was not an elected leader. That MLK was a man greatly to be respected did not make him a President, and there was no good reason to turn precedent on its ears. I wouldn’t have voted for it either, not out of a lack of respect for MLK, but because it was stupid political posturing. That it’s now become a political hot potato is something entirely different.

As for the “key civil rights laws,” that’s a bit disingenuous to say the least. The first law referenced is one to make it easier for employees to sue their employers – it’s a plaintiff’s attorneys rights law. As for affirmative action, I am deeply opposed to affirmative action. I believe that (a) it is un-American to have preferences and racial quotas and that (b) it is harmful to minorities who either end up in institutions that destroy them because they are not prepared for the place or, if they are prepared, their qualities go unrecognized because people assume – and why shouldn’t they? – that they achieved their position only through affirmative action, not merit.

The disproportionate number of minority children in prison might be better addressed, as Bill Cosby and even Barack Obama concede, by examining much of minority culture, which honors thugs, dishonors education, and sees it as selling out to try to achieve through the system.The government can only do so much, and it’s worth noting that, up until Johnson’s Great Society legislation, black crime rates were dropping and black incomes going up. (Keep in mind that this is separate from the horrors of Jim Crow. This is simply examining statistics about blacks. See John McWhorter’s Losing the Race : Self-Sabotage in Black America which, I believe, discusses these statistics.)

Economic dependency and crime accelerated wildly in the 40 years after the government encouraged a welfare system that made black men redundant and, indeed, financially problematic in a family. Most studies show that the single greatest indicator of whether a young man will end up in prison is whether there is a father around. The American government has, for 40 years, ensured that black fathers are unnecessary. I could go on, but you can see that what MoveOn .org considers to be a series of failures, I consider to be virtues.

2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain “will make Cheney look like Gandhi.”

Great. Although you won’t read it on the front page (and perhaps it was removed from the front page because the media didn’t want to concede that things are going), things in Iraq are, in fact, going quite well. Al Sadr’s army is in retreat, Al Qaeda is on the ropes, and fully 70% of all Iraqis in the last poll are optimistic – which is a nice change from America’s 20% optimism vote. Perhaps the difference is that we read the NY Times and they do not.

Be that as it may, the bottom line is that, in war, when you have the momentum, you don’t stop. You keep moving forward. Even if one concedes for the sake of argument, that it was wrong to go into Iraq, the fact is that we are now in Iraq. We don’t get a do-over on 2003. All we can do is deal with the here and now, and the here and now is that, when things are going well, you don’t throw up your hands, admit defeat, and leave Iraq to turn into a bloodbath that will make the killing fields look like preschool.

3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.

McCain has a tortured approach to torture. I don’t deny it. However, considering that organizations like MoveOn have been complaining that prisoners in Gitmo are tortured because the guards handle their prayer books without first washing their white gloves, I’m kind of unimpressed by this whole thing. It’s not a deal breaker for me, and I don’t think the MoveOn and Code Pink people have any credibility on the subject. Also, it’s worth noting that the Bush Administration stopped any form of waterboarding or like tactics aeons ago when there was an uproar. By the way, this is torture; Gitmo probably isn’t, as even honest opponents of Bush concede.

4. McCain opposes a woman’s right to choose. He said, “I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned.”

I’m still pro-choice, but McCain is right that Roe v. Wade is an appalling bit of judicial legerdemain. Had it been better decided, we might have a more coherent abortion rights policy, as well as less heat on the subject. The Constitution does not grant anyone a right to privacy, and there is nothing in the Constitution, one way or another to support federal abortion rights. It’s a state’s rights thing. It’s been a problem for more than 30 years that the Supreme Court made up a new “federal right” out of whole cloth. It’s a reminder that, when you have judges who make it up as they go along, you end up with problems at the end of the day. In any event, given that even if McCain wins he’ll still have a Democratic Congress with which to contend, I wouldn’t worry too much about this one.

5. The Children’s Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children’s health care bill last year, then defended Bush’s veto of the bill.

I don’t like the government controlling access to health care, and this bill was freely acknowledged by its supporters to be a wedge-bill on the way to fully socialized medicine. This was an especially silly bill, because the primary beneficiaries would have been children in middle class homes. Indeed, the poster family that the Dems advanced to support the bill (the Fosters) turned out to be a very, very middle class family that owned two homes, quite expensive cars, and a family business. When things were rosy, and despite having children, the parents had elected to stock up on material things, rather than insurance. Their goal was for you and me to insure them. I don’t think so.

A much better plan would be to knock down people’s taxes so that they would have more money to enter the market and select their preferred insurance. And do keep in mind that there are people who decide to gamble. Young people, for example, who are pretty sure they’ll live forever, or people like that poster family who are hoping against hope that the taxpayers will take care of them.

6. He’s one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a “second job” and skip their vacations.

So what? He married well. He actually isn’t rich, because he and his wife keep their money separate. He’s medium wealthy. In this, he is distinct from John Kerry (billionaire through his wife); John Edwards (multimillionaire plaintiffs’ attorney), Hillary Clinton (who shares $121 million dollars earned with Bill since their White House years); Al Gore (multimillionaire, money earned going green, which may be a problem as people starve and inflation increases because of biofuels); Nancy Pelosi (multimillionaire); Harry Reid (multimillionaire through fairly dirty land scandals in Nevada); Barack Obama (who got a $300,000 “gift” on a million dollar piece of property from a political supporter); etc.

By the way, all these millionaires and billionaires have ideas about money too. They’re not giving up their own money – they simply want to raise taxes on you. Also, I don’t recall MoveOn being perturbed by Kerry’s billionaire status. I guess it depends who’s piloting that private jet.

I’d also like to point out that a lot of the people who are having trouble now shouldn’t have been borrowing in the first place. The mere fact that you can own nine homes doesn’t mean that you should buy nine homes when you have no money – and then expect people like you and me to bail you out.

7. Many of McCain’s fellow Republican senators say he’s too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He’s erratic. He’s hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”

Sure, he has a temper, but there’s no indication that this leads him to erratic behavior. Also, keep in mind that a lot of Republicans don’t like him because they don’t consider him “pure” enough – an indication that he’s sufficiently moderate to make a lot of regular Americans fairly happy.

8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.

Yeah, it’s politics. It’s not nice, but I really don’t care, when it’s balanced against the other stuff. Obama has a few problems of his own with those close to him.

9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his “spiritual guide,” Rod Parsley, believes America’s founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a “false religion.” McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church “the Antichrist” and a “false cult.”

Okey-dokey. The Parsley thing is smoke and mirrors, tied to a generic “religious guide” speech McCain gave the first time he met Parsley, who introduced him at a meeting filled with various religious people. This dishonest – and it is dishonest – attack is meant to deflect attention from the actual 20 year, very close relationship, Obama had with the problematic Wright.

The same thing holds true for the Hagee thing. Hagee has no close ties to McCain. This is an ordinary political support deal, with a prominent religious leader looking at two presidential candidates and endorsing one over the other.

Specifically with respect to the alleged Catholic slur, Hagee didn’t say what he is accused of saying. Here’s the best statement of what Hagee actually said – and we should care about what Hagee really said, both because it tells a lot about Hagee/McCain and a lot about those who will say a lot of things that are distance relatives of the truth to try to bring McCain down to Obama’s level in terms of religious relationships. By the way, this is not the first time that Dems have sought to misrepresent religious statements in an effort to drive a wedge between Catholics and Protestants. The same thing happened in the Jindal campaign.

10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.

I would love to see us get off oil flowing from fields in lands ruled by tyrants, so I’m not profligate with energy, and wouldn’t mind a useful alternative. As for the rush to green, though, given that the climate is actually in a cooling trend, that biofuels may create more pollution than they solve, and that we’re facing mass starvation, in part because food fields have been given over to biofuels and in part because the lack of alternative fuels, coupled with increased demand, has dramatically raised existing fuel prices, there may be a virtue in McCain’s unwillingness to rush into anything here.

McCain is far from perfect, but these attacks are either baseless, or stupid, or they fall into the “I don’t care” category, or I agree with McCain’s positions. MoveOn should be able to come up with something better than lies and misrepresentations to attack McCain’s character, history and policies.

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Countless times we think of a John McCain presidency and we are reminded that despite the left’s warnings that he is Bush the 3rd, Republicans think of him quite differently, as liberal light; the maverick Republican the left loves to quote when he turns bad on the right.

So when it was announced that John McCain is slated to meet with pro-illegal immigrant apologists La Raza on July 14th, Republicans once again are reminded that John McCain is no better that the rest of the Republican “moderates” that sold out the party base in 2006 if not much earlier. In fact John McCain is part of that group that led to sweeping Republican defeats in 2006. I blame him just as much as I blame others who lost their way.

The good or bad of it however is that I am not alone. John McCain doesn’t have to worry about me. He has to worry about people like me. The people that won’t be sitting at the water cooler countering the enthralled giggles of messianic Barack Obama supporters. He has to worry about the people that won’t be contributing money to his underfunded campaign. And sadly, the people that won’t be getting behind him to help drive any fleeting momentum into something bigger.

I personally think this campaign is John McCain’s to lose and that is exactly what he is setting out to do. God help us. If that is the reality in 2008 he need only look in the mirror one last time. He can think to himself, “well you tried my friend, but not hard enough. At least you were a maverick one last time”

Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin

I am sure that he meant to say 47 states and it sure appears that way given the context. However, he said it and it is out there for everyone to see. If John McCain had made an error like this the nutroots would be talking about how senile he is and that he is too dangerous to have near the nuclear buttons.

The Kos kids would be hammering him as a demented old fool and say that this shows he is too old to be president.

So can we ask if Obama’s mind is gone, if his brain function is not good, if he is mentally sound enough to be president?

Yes we can…

Video and Hat Tip Stop the ACLU

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Now we know why. Catch this video of the juvenile girls in the press corp salivating over getting a clear view to Obama’s crotch to take a picture. (h/t Michelle Malkin, Hot Air).

Yeah, this group of “professional journalists” is going to tell me who I should vote for. Not!

The political scene has seen the same shift. One hundred years ago, Republicans were rich and Democrats were not. That started changing with the Roosevelt Democrats. The change is now complete. As John at Power Line points out in a post about Democratic efforts to shut down Republican 527s:

Most rich people who care about politics are on the Left, and the Democrats have also mastered internet fundraising better than the Republicans. As a result, it is a given, for the foreseeable future, that in every important race the Democrats will have more money than the Republicans.

Just as the private schools in my community are for rich kids and their subsidized school mates, so too is the Democratic party for the very, very rich and their downtrodden buddies in select urban areas.  The middle income families (and those shading high and shading low in that middle, too), have gone to the Republicans or, sadly, collapsed into complete political inertia.

The question remaining is whether, just as more money in the home buys the better quality private schools, more money in the political arena will guarantee the rich party a numerical advantage at the polls.

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An Islamic convert facing terrorism charges was re-arrested after trying to walk out of his own trial Tuesday – saying simply that “I’m outta here” – after telling the court he wouldn’t recognize Canadian law.

The 20-year-old, who can’t be identified because he was underage at the time of his arrest two years ago, had been released on bail. But he spent last night in jail, and his legal future is unclear.

I have a question here. We have bent and invented a lot of rules for the sake of catching and holding terrorists. Security certificates ensure they can be held for amazingly long periods of time without charge, etc, yet, we still can’t name a 17 year old suspect? Don’t you think the public has a right to know?

A Toronto Muslim preacher told The Globe that the suspect had been coming to Friday prayers, saying that he’d rather return to jail than live in a non-Islamic household.

“He said ‘In jail, I can at least pray,’” Aly Hindy, imam of the Salahuddin Islamic Centre in Scarborough, said in an interview.

“I said ‘Don’t do this!’” Mr. Hindy said. He added that he counselled the young man to pray in secret, but tensions between the suspect and his father had reached a boiling point.

The family did not comment.

Mr. Hindy added that the young man is “confused” and that “lots of young people, they need guidance.” The young man had lately been expressing an interest in circumcising himself, the imam said, consistent with his understanding of what the Prophet Abraham had done.

A self-described Islamic fundamentalist, Mr. Hindy has appeared as a proposed bail surete for a variety of individuals facing national-security-related proceedings. The imam said that nothing in Islam calls for Muslims to disregard the Canadian criminal-justice system.

Another question… How come we haven’t arrested Hindy, if he’s a fundamentalist? And more importantly, why the hell is he allowed to be a surety for other terrorists?

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He warned of a disaster if party insiders try to wrest the nomination from the candidate with the largest number of votes and state victories.

An attempt by so-called Democratic superdelegates to override the popular vote “would be an almost unacceptable thing,” Carter told Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show.”

If a candidate has a clear edge in votes, state-by-state wins and delegates claimed at caucuses and primaries, “I can’t imagine that the superdelegates would go against them,” Carter said. “It would be a catastrophe for the party.” WBAL

This is the flaw in their process. First of all, the super delegates are allowed, by their rules, to select who they want. The party has done this before and selected someone who was not the popular candidate (Adlai Stevenson). Secondly, even if they go with the will of the people, the standard should not be the will of the people as a whole or the will of the people of a state but should be defined to the will of the people in a particular Congressional District. This standard would apply to elected super delegates who are in the House. The Senators represent an entire state so they will need to decide how to vote.

For example, in Maryland there are eight Congressional Districts, five of which have Democrats for their representatives. Obama won the state and if we apply Carter’s standard (and the standard of Obama supporters) then he should get all five super delegates. However, Clinton won one of the five (as well as the three headed by Republicans) so Obama should get four and Clinton one. This is how the will of the people is demonstrated. Their wishes are expressed by their Representatives. If we group all people together by state or as a country then the wishes of the people are not truly expressed.

The fact that Democrats want to do this does not surprise me because they do not care about the will of the voter unless they lose to a Republican (then there are voting problems and people were disenfranchised). The establishment is worried about one thing and one thing only and that is losing the black vote if they select Clinton over Obama. They are worried that Obama will not win the general election because he cannot carry the white vote in sufficient numbers. But, they are stuck with him unless they want to risk losing the black vote, a demographic they cannot win without.

If the Democrats cared about the will of the people they would let the people of Florida and Michigan have a say in the process. Instead, the Democrats have disenfranchised all those people who will probably remember this when it is time to vote in the general election. I agree with Rush Limbaugh. All the people in those states should register as Republicans because we will let your votes count.

In any event, the Democrats have painted themselves into a corner and they will end up getting bloodied before they can get out of that corner.

It will be so much fun to watch them beating themselves to death.

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