Monologue-News Roundup

Let’s talk a little about the news.  There is a lot going on at the moment.  The Canadian government seems poised to fall, bringing to an end, perhaps, to the government of Stephen Harper, one of the most pro-American Canadian leaders in memory.  He has been undone, apparently by the bailout of his coalition partners in the Labor party, with some very troubling implications. Depending on how it sorts out, Harper may return which I think, on balance, would be a good thing, or he may find himself weaker in another coalition government, or perhaps be replaced altogether.  This would bring a return to power of folks who have been generally fairly hostile for “friendly neighbors”, and there may be implications for trade, immigration, Afghanistan, and not the least for our security.

For the 7^th time, the Associated Press reports, a federal judge has rejected a Guantanamo Bay detainee’s appeal for release.  This is a bit of good news.  It doesn’t happen every day that the Us judiciary is on the side of America and freedom and standing with the rest of our law enforcement community and our military in trying to defend us against people who are sworn to destroy us.  Indeed on 29 other occasions Gitmo detainees have been released by these judicial arbiters.  We can only hope that the Obama administration will not bring more of them to our country and thereby assure we will have still more judges making still more decisions unlike that of today, to release these folks perhaps right here into our own population.  We’ll be following this story as it develops.

Then there’s the latest in the ongoing fiasco of the Lockerbie affair in Britain.  Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as we have been talking about for some time, was in fact complicit in the decision to release the man convicted of killing 270 Americans and Brits and others in the worst act of terrorism against the United States prior to 9/11.  We’re being told that Abdul Beset El Magrahi, the man convicted of that crime, the scapegoat for Muhmar Khadafi, is now being hospitalized because his condition has worsened.  It must have been all that ticker tape excitement upon his return.  All I can say is we can hope that he quickly meets his maker, receives the reward he is due, a reward that I would have preferred he receive from his prison deathbed, rather than in the comfort of a Libyan hospital.  More to the point, this really is, as the evidence continues to mount of the extent to which the British government and sadly, our own, are complicit in efforts to rehabilitate Muhmar Khadafi and otherwise curry favor with this despicable despot is now being disclosed as the Libyan government rubs the nose of the Brown in Britain.  Rubbing our noses in it is the least of our problems.  Khudafi is seriously erratic and likely to prove troublesome again in the future if we continue to behave as we have.

Then there’s this from the Zionist Organization for America, a marvelous organization standing here in America for freedom (in Israel and American).  It is often alone in opposing some of the more lunatic ideas coming out of our government and Israeli’s government that would jeopardize the Jewish state.  This report is about a particularly scandalous thing that has just happened on behalf of the government of France.  The Légion d’honneur, one of the highest awards of the government of France has been given by the consulate in Jerusalem to the longtime Jerusalem Bureau Chief of France Two TV, a gentleman by the name of Charles Enderlin.  Now, why is this important?  Charles Enderlin was deeply implicated in one of the most outrageous Anti-Semitic and strategically momentous journalistic frauds in recent memory .  Back in 2000, France Two TV was involved in the fabrication of information about a purported murder of Muhammed Al Dura, a young boy, by Israeli military police who were allegedly deliberatively targeting civilians including this young child.  You almost certainly saw the video imagery that was made available by France Two TV.  This became a rallying cry and served as a pretext for intensified Palestinian terror against Israel.  It provoked public condemnation around the world of Israel.  And it was entirely fraudulent, as has now been documented by not only successive independent investigations by other news organizations, but even by a French appeals court.  All I can say is that it is despicable to have the government of Nickolas Sarkozy in any way implicated in suggesting that a man who is engaged in this momentous and dangerous misrepresentation is somehow worthy of a legion of honor of France.  It is almost as unfair and unfriendly a thing as releasing terrorists that have been convicted of killing Americans to see such a man legitimated and raised up as has been Charles Enderlin.