“This is the way it goes, Frank. We’ll saunter into the bank dressed as cowboys. We’ll pull our neckerchiefs over our faces and wander around the bank, take a look at the safe, peek out the window and say ‘Nice day, isn’t it?’ or ‘Ever had a bank robbery around these parts?’ We’ll keep our hands on our guns but won’t draw them no matter what. Marshall Dillon will hurry over from the Marshall’s office, place us under arrest and drag us down to the jailhouse. We’ll protest. We’ll say we’re poor working cowboys…we’re tired of being picked on. We’ll hire Texas Jack Cochrane and he’ll charge Dillon with occupational profiling…for persecuting poor working cowboys like was done by the Earps at Dodge City and by Marshall Cogburn in the Territories. We’ll sue the pants off ‘em.”

“It will never work, Jesse, it will never work.”

Maybe not in 1875 when profiling was almost as common as Teddy Roosevelt’s mustache—but what about 2007? A safecracker could stroll into a building in broad daylight with an acetylene torch in one hand, a tool bag in the other, and with a turban on his head and everybody would look the other way. Nobody wants to be accused of profiling. Sure, the rascal might look a little Middle-Eastern but if a safe isn’t blown in an hour or so, everybody can forget it.

So why did American Airlines take the risk of hauling six Iraqi men off Flight 590 from San Diego to Chicago on August 28 before it could leave the gate? Was it profiling? The six claimed it was and they had been publicly humiliated. They are suing. One said he felt “violated.” Another said he was “mortified.” Was it as bad as some of the things that have happened to George Costanza? Probably not, but how will they retrieve their reputations—assuming they reputations? There are some problems here.

 Their activities on the plane—whatever they were—caused at least one passenger on Flight 590, a mom with two children, to feel uncomfortable. She wanted off. Well, that would never do! Airline officials thought it would be best it they asked the men a few questions.

The six were detained for an hour. There were no handcuffs, no shackles or tasers. There were no blindfolds. No one was waterboarded. Their lawyer, Lawrence T. Garcia, said, “Security is a noble goal.” Then he got tough. “My clients were detained,” he said. “It was false imprisonment, they were aware of their captivity.”

Captivity? Where were they held? Camp X-ray? Zenda? Stalag 17? Was it Devil’s Island? And just who in the hell was doing the ‘violating?’

Tony Loeks, Director of Safety and Security for Sun Country Airlines, believes it is the Airlines that are being ‘violated.’ “There are some groups out there pushing the line,” he said. “They behave in a non-violent but suspicious manner to get themselves pulled off the aircraft with the result of a civil suit against the airline.”

“See, Frank! I told you it would work!””

The Iraqi Six were following in the footsteps of the Minnesota Six, the half-dozen Imams who’ve been suing or threatening to sue just about everybody connected with the incident at Minneapolis-St. Paul International last November. The Imams were dragged off Flight 300 Minneapolis to Phoenix amidst charges of bigotry, racism and slander in what looked then—and even more so since—as an attempt to bring down Airport Security, Homeland Security and the US Constitution.

The Iraqi Six may be after a windfall and nothing else. Unfortunately, their little contretemps was not the first such incident aboard an airline flight and it was far from being the worst. Sun Country Airlines Flight 274, Washington to Minneapolis, June 27, 2007, was, to put it mildly, disrupted. The boys from Porky’s II were on board and behaved outrageously—no wait, there was no ham involved. It wasn’t the boys from Porky’s II—they were Middle Eastern men and they made themselves as obnoxious and as offensive as could be. The Katzenjammer Kids didn’t behave that badly the day they set fire to Der Kapitan’s beard. They stood up in unison; changed seats; passed cell phones back and forth and despite the protests of the flight attendant, dragged out cameras, camcorders and mikes and played Candid Camera with the other passengers, many of who felt intimidated. Do the words ‘humiliated,’ ‘violated,’ and ‘mortified’ strike a bell? They should—a warning bell.

“They treated me like a terrorist,” said David Al-Watan, 30. “We didn’t do anything wrong, but they made everybody scared of us.” Everybody?

Al-Watan works for Defense Training Systems, a department of International Logistics Services Corporation of Anchorage, Alaska. Al-Watan and his buddies had been training Marines at Camp Pendleton. That’s right—they had been training Marines! Not in house-to-house fighting or in how to exit an LCI in choppy seas—nothing like that; they had been teaching Marines about Iraqi culture, Iraqi customs and etiquette, how to behave in Iraq as Iraqis do.

“These are some of the most pro-American people around,’ said Garcia. Yes, indeed! Some of them were born in America! Apparently they are going to use that as an argument.

Okay, so they got on the plane—these most pro-American people around—and what? No one knows. Did they smile? Did they smirk? Did they observe airline etiquette? Did they sit still? Did they dash about? Perhaps it they had attended a couple of classes in American culture and customs this sorry episode might have been avoided. But classes, no matter how many, would not have prevented the deliberately boorish behavior of the 12 Middle Eastern men on Flight 274—some of whom were, apparently 60 to 70 years old! These miscreants—certainly a suitable description—treated the other passengers on Flight 274 as if they were, Allah forbid, dhimmis. They publicly humiliated them. This is something Jeff Davis and Robert Barnwell Rhett would never have done to their slaves.

Perhaps Al-Watan and his friends behaved more like Bluto than Popeye. Sometimes there is a fine line between what is proper and what is not. Not all Muslims are Ibrahim Hoopers. “This is the face of prejudice and racism that happens today,” explained Garcia. Maybe he missed 9/11 and the Bali bombing and the anti-American and anti-Semitic rallies and demonstrations that take place regularly in the streets of New York and on major college campuses all across America. Racism and prejudice often hide behind those who attack it most vigorously.

Garcia quoted Jefferson (perhaps to impress everybody with his learning): “Anyone who sacrifices liberty in order to gain security deserves neither.”

Without security there is no liberty—ask the passengers on Sun Country Airlines Flight 274, Washington to Minneapolis, June 27, 2007.

Well, there’s another school Uncle Jed can write off—the University of Delaware. Jethro needs to advance his education but this University—Diversity, they calls it—of Delaware doesn’t seem any better than the middle school Jethro attended at Oxford. A lot of high-falutin’ professors—real educated folks, can speak Latin and Greek, but don’t seem to have learned anymore than Jeff Davis learned during the Civil War. ‘Bout the only difference is they don’t chew tobacco and eat fatback and collard greens. Racist too! They hates while folks! Thought Patton and Eisenhower kicked that hate stuff out of them Nazis during World War Two. Guess they didn’t have time to round up the haters here in the States.

Must be there aren’t enough Jews around these days so they has started in on the paler species. Preston Brooks didn’t say as many bad things about the Abolitionists as this here Office of Residence Life Diversity Education Training at Delaware says about Peewee Herman and Woody Allen—though there is a lot can be said about that Herman critter. Somebody better tell Jethro he can’t go to the Uni-Diversity of Delaware because he’s a racist. It will break his heart but he will learn from the experience. He’s a big boy—he can take it.

Brazen folks, too, these Delawarians—they’s right up front with what they’s preaching. The Office of Residence has a document it intends to hand out to its preschoolers—freshmen they calls ‘em. This is how they define Jethro. Unbelievable! A Racist: (They say) A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to white people (i.e. people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality.”

Well, somebody better tell Rosie O’Donnell and Hillary Clinton and maybe somebody can start a collection to buy them some jackboots and riding crops. Won’t do for them to parade about improperly attired.

This would be amusing if it weren’t so confusing. Gets a person to thinking though. Ever wondered what happened to the rascals and miscreants that spit on the GIs returning from Vietnam in the ‘60s and ‘70s and wouldn’t let Bob McNamara speak and booed old Hank Kissisnger wherever he went? Ever wondered what happened to Mario Savio and the Free Speechers at Berkeley that made the F-word more popular on college campuses than in the meanest whorehouse on the other side of Skid Row? Ever wondered what happened to the Weathermen and the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Chicago Seven? Well, they is alive and well and is running the University of Delaware…and Berkeley…and Chapel Hill…and Columbia…and Georgetown…and Manchester Community College. Haven’t got enough room to name all of ‘em. And, you know what, they ain’t changed much. They hated Kissinger and Nixon and LBJ worse than John Wilkes Booth hated Old Abe. It has kind of carried on. A racist has to be full of hatred and if there’s one thing these rascals at Delaware is full of—it’s hatred.

Maybe the President could send Jimmy Carter to Delaware to have a talk with ‘em. Jimmy knows more about hatred than most people because he has spent so much of his time with folks like Arafat and Castro and Kim Jong the Ill. The only think that keeps those madmen from being called racists—besides insanity—is they ain’t white.

The Office of Residence document says: “By this definition (It’s theirs, not Webster’s), people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities or acts of discrimination.”

Well, you rascals at the Office of Residence at the University of Delaware, you have had your fun. Now dig out your copies of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book and turn to the page where is says power grows out of the barrel of a gun. We know it, you know it—so it’s time to fess up. For nigh onto thirty years you have controlled higher education in these United States of America and you know what the record is. A half-century ago almost all of the racists, bigots and anti-Semites were white, now most of them are members of minority groups. You have tarred-and-feathered Jefferson and Washington, castrated God and set the likes of Noam Chomsky on pedestals not claimed by Zeus. It was Lincoln that freed the slaves, not Code Pink. It you want to free somebody, there’s a half billion Muslim women being held in slavery around the world while you spout your Marxist jargon and parade about the campus with the slaveholders.

George Armstrong Custer didn’t steal any land from the Indians—they lost it the same way they got it. They took it from somebody else and then somebody took it from them. That was the way things were done in those days and the transfers occurred without treaties. And La Raza and MEChA want Texas! Why? It never belonged to Mexico. Spain stole it from the Indians. At least Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston made treaties with the Tonkawas and the Karankawas and the other tribes.

There must be some truth to the old adage: Those than can, do; those that can’t; teach. Ward Churchill…Robert Jensen…Nicholas de Genova…a thousand just like them…cast adrift by the implosion of the Soviet Union. Hear them screech! A hundred thousand Mogadishus! Little Eichmanns! Was it Goebbels? Was it Molotov? It wasn’t Miss Peach; it wasn’t Welcome Back Kotter. How does America expect Vinnie Barbarino to get an education and become a decent human being if he has to listen to the crap spewed out by self-hating Marxist professors who not only think they are smarter than George W. Bush but act out every one of the stupidities they have attributed to the much-maligned Texas Gunslinger? Most of today’s college graduates are more familiar with Rigobertu Menchu than with Alexander Hamilton and as about as likely to make the correct change for a dollar bill as Mortimer or Bullwinkle.

Yet an RA (Resident Assistant) told students at Delaware, “Like it or not, you are all future Leaders and the world is Diverse, so learning to Embrace and Appreciate that diversity is Essential.” In China and Vietnam they were called reeducation camps. It sounds neater than Gulags. Nonetheless, it is indoctrination and socialism, not education. Make no doubt of it, the Churchills and the de Genovas and the Chomskys and their running dogs at Berkeley and Cambridge and the University of Delaware, too, would put millions of Americans to death to test their socialist theories if they ever get a chance to run things. It is in their nature.

The Chicago Cubs mastered diversity thirty years ago. The University of Delaware is one light year, six months, three days and seventeen seconds behind; they are not bringing students together, they are driving them apart. College dorms are not Collective Farms. Universities are supposed to raise IQs, not crops of potato-heads. Socialism can be imposed but it is not a unifying force and the end result is 1984.

When Jethro was told he wouldn’t be going to the University of Delaware, he said that would be okay. He didn’t have any hankering to be a racist—it would give Granny and Uncle Jed a bad name.

Public pressure has forced the University of Delaware to dump this ridiculous program, but like Freddy Krueger they will be back.

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

Suppose Sheriff Andy, Deputy Fife and Special Deputy Goober had received free copies of The Second-Story-Man’s Guide To Quick Wealth and Fame during Mayberry’s annual Support Your Local Law-enforcement Officer Week? What would they have done? Would they have suspected Opie? Suppose Dennis Kucinich and Pete Stark had found copies of Ann Coulter’s best-selling book, If Democrats Had Brains, They’d Be Republicans, on their desks while debating the V chip? What would they have done? Would they have given them to needy Republicans? Suppose Axis Sally had sent copies of Mein Kampf to FDR and George C. Marshall the day before the Normandy invasion? Would they have been read? No one knows.

Suppose Oklahoma’s Ethnic Advisory Council was preparing to send copies of the Qur’an to Oklahoma State Rep. Rex Duncan, R- Sand Springs, and the rest of the state legislature in celebration of the state’s centennial? What would Duncan do? These were not ordinary Qur’ans. They had been printed by the Council and were embossed with the State Seal. No public funds had been used. Sheriff Andy would have had a good laugh and the Second-Story books would have been recycled and Goober still wouldn’t know what a second-story-man was. Duncan was quicker. He refused the gift before it ended up on his desk. “Most Oklahomans do not endorse the idea of killing innocent women and children in the name of ideology,” he said. Sixteen other Republicans and one Democrat joined Duncan in refusing the Muslim Holy Book.

Allison Moore, a Muslim convert, who works for the Tulsa Islamic Center’s newsletter, was miffed. “We do not condone suicide bombing any more than Christians,” she said.

Jamal Miftah was once a member of the same Mosque. Some time ago he exercised his freedom of expression by writing an op-ed for the Tulsa Whirled. “Because of lack of knowledge of Islam,” he wrote, “Muslim youths are misguided into believing by the so-called champions of the cause of Islam that the current spate of killings and barbarisms, which has no equal in the recent civilized history, is jihad in the name of Islam. They are incited, in the name of Islam, to commit heinous crimes not pardonable by any religion and strictly forbidden in Islam. Even Mosques and Islamic institutions in the U. S. and around the world have become tools in (al-Qaeda’s) hands and are used for collecting funds for their criminal acts.” Jamal appealed to Muslim youths, to Muslim clerics and to al-Zawahiri to stop spreading evil, to cease killing innocent humans. He might as well have been Ayaan Hirsi Ali thundering in the Dutch parliament—the reaction was the same. Jamal was expelled from the Islamic Council of Tulsa.

Mujeeb Cheema, one of the incorporators of the Islamic Society of Tulsa, is on the list of un-indicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation fundraising-for-terrorism trial in Dallas. Cheema has made numerous trips to Pakistan. He may or may not be related to Faizal Cheema, roommate of Oklahoma State suicide bomber Joel Henry Hinrichs III. Cheema is also a board member of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an un-indicted co-conspirator in the same trial.

In December 2003, the United States Senate Finance Committee listed ISNA as one of 25 American Muslim organizations that “finance terrorism and perpetuate violence.” Testifying before Senator John Kyl’s (R-AZ) subcommittee was Stephen Schwartz of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “Wahhabi control over mosques means control of property, buildings, appointment of Imams…literature distributed in mosques…organizational solicitations, “ he said. “Similar influence extends to prison and military chaplaincies, Islamic elementary and secondary schools (academies), college campus activity, endowment of academic chairs and programs in Middle East studies, and most notoriously, charities ostensibly helping Muslims abroad, many of which have been linked to or designated as sponsors of terrorism. The main organizations that have carried out this campaign are the Islamic Society of North America which originated in the Muslim Students Association and CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations). Support activities have been provided by the American Muslim Council, the American Muslim Alliance and the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (among others).

The Tulsa Islamic Center is an outgrowth of these organizations. Many of these groups enjoy tax-exempt status.

Another member of the board of ISNA is Siraj Wahhaj, the first Muslim to lead a prayer before a session of the U.S. House of Representatives. That was in 1991.He was entertained at a State Department banquet by Madeleine Albright in 1999. No matter—it wasn’t long before he was saying, “And he Allah declared ‘Whoever is at war with my friends, I declare war on them.’ Who is a friend of Allah? Your true friend is Allah, the messenger, and those who believe. Americans and Canadians. Hear it well. Hear what I’m telling you. The Americans are not your friend, hear what I’m telling you, hear it well.” Wahhaj was declaring war on America.

Duncan has more critics in the Oklahoma legislature than Wahhaj, Cheema and ISNA combined. Mike Shelton (D-Oklahoma City) has been to Turkey—which apparently makes him an expert on just about everything. Duncan’s comments embarrassed him. “Muslims come in all colors and shades,” he said. “Al-Qaeda is nothing but gang members.” Yeah, and so were the Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisition.

When was the last time a Crip or a Blood quoted the Bible? Got it on tape, Geraldo? An eye for an eye! Where’s the chapter and verse? Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri know the Qur’an forwards and backwards. Some of the Mara Salvistrucha thugs might have been named after Jesus but none of them have been captured on tape screaming. “Jesus is great! Jesus is great!” after completing a drug deal. Maybe Shelton isn’t on the US Senate Finance Committee’s mailing list.

Jim Mishler is executive director of the Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry. Duncan’s remarks, he says, reveal “an appalling lack of awareness of religious history. Most religious communities have had zealots who have acted violently out of their take on their scriptures, including our own Christian community.”

Sure, there was Paul Hill and Eric Rudolph and that…that Cotton Mather fellow. Have to go a ways back though, years, centuries even and Cotton Mather recanted, sort of, but they are there, without the Lord’s blessings, of course. Like most of the religious left, Mishler fears Pat Robertson and a return to moral certitude more than he fears Islamic barbarism.

The Rev. Darryl DeBorde of the Tulsa Interfaith Alliance says state legislatures should treat everybody with respect and dignity. “To purposefully condemn and denounce all Oklahomans who are members of one religious body is just wrong, whether they are Muslim, Baptist or anything else.”

Ishaq: 231 “Muslims are one ummah (community) to the exclusion of all men. Believers are friends of one another to the exclusion of all outsiders.”

DeBorde may not be aware of it but he is one of Ishaq’s outsiders. Perhaps he could get Robert Edgar to read him a quote of two from the Qur’an.

3:61 “If anyone disputes with you about Jesus being divine, flee them and pray Allah will curse them.”

4:168 “Those who reject (Islamic) faith, Allah will not forgive them nor guide them to any path except the way to Hell, to dwell therein forever. And this to Allah is easy.”

Duncan made the right decision. Accepting the Qur’an would have been the first step down the road to dhimmitude. Hell will always be preferable.

These should be no compulsion in religion.

The following anti-Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week flyer appeared on certain American campuses last week:

   Who hates America? We do.

     Your typical American is:

     0 A racist. A sexist. A homophobe.

     0 An Islamo-phobe.

     0 Is willing to invade other countries for oil and pleasure.

     0 Is easily manipulated by Rush Limbaugh and Jews.

     0 Is the cause of global warming.

     Join Us For American Fascism Awareness Day

     Place: Washington (Slaveholder) Monument

     Date: November 31, 2007

     Time 12PM-2:00 PM

      Speakers:

      Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, congressmen Adam Kokesh, Iraq

      War veteran Chris Hedges, journalist Cindy Sheehan, Harry

      Karry, peace activists Michael Moore, Sean Penn, film-makers.

      Sponsors:

      Peace and Social Justice Crusade, Iraq Veterans Against the War,

      Code Pink, Muslim Students Association, American-Arab Anti-

      Discrimination Committee, Students for Justice in Palestine,

      Revolutionary Communist Party, International A.N.S.W.E.R.,

      Moveon.org, DailyKos.com, Indy-Media.org, HuffingtonPost.com,

      Ivorypower.com

Who in the heck is Harry Karry? Is that his real name? It sounds fictitious. Is he a friend of Norman Finklestein? And why does he keep such bad company? Dennis Kucinich! Ron Paul! Michael Moore! Chris Hedges! Cindy Sheehan! Sean Penn! None of those rascals would know an Islamo-fascist if they slept with one—not that any of them have, being in bed with the enemy doesn’t connote a sexual relationship.

And what about Ron Paul? He seems like a nice guy. He’s a capitalist! He’s a doctor! He reminds some people of Milburn Stone. Maybe all that Gunsmoke from Iraq rendered him blind. He should be careful. Some of his new friends are Socialists. The air he breathes will be full of Marxist and Leninist microorganisms. He could catch something. He should keep a copy of the U.S. Constitution in his pocket at all times. Better yet, a copy of Wealth of Nations! He’s in the Major Leagues now. He’s as vulnerable as Darla was the first day she laid eyes on Alfalfa.

Was that a hickey on his neck? Were those teeth marks? Did Sean Penn ever play Dracula? Paul will ruin his reputation. Dr. Faustus made a better deal with the Devil. Who will take him seriously after this?

But who in the heck is Harry Karry? He’s described as a peace activist. Big deal! So was John Kerry and it didn’t do him any good in 2004. If the name is merely a nom de guerre, couldn’t Harry X have chosen something else? There are millions of Harry Caray fans out there—and even though Harry has been dead a few years—some of them are not going to appreciate this creep’s dragging Harry’s good name through America’s radical left cesspool. He should be sued. Cub fans should find out who this creep is and next year, some time in spring training or on opening day, they could hang him in effigy. And someone could shout, “It could be! It might be! It is!” A mock tar-and-feathering would be nice but it can get messy and unless one has done it before it should be avoided.

                                                                                                                             
But who in the heck is Harry Karry? The other Harry Caray—the real Harry Caray, unlike Harry Karry—was as American as one could get. Everyone knew Harry. He was the voice of the Chicago Cubs for many years. “Cubs win! Cubs win!” he would shout. If Harry were still alive today nothing would make him happier than to shout, “Americans win! Americans win!” Who does this pathetic creep think he is sullying the Harry’s good name? He should commit Hari-kari! It would be the honorable thing to do, but judging from the company he keeps, he has little of that. Maybe he could commit suppuku. It’s the same thing but nobody would connect it with Harry.

And look at whom this creep hangs out with? Students for Justice in Palestine! Muslim Students Association! Code Pink! International A.N.S.W.E.R! A Rogues Gallery of Islamo-fascists! Not true?

At a rally at San Francisco State University, Students for Justice in Palestine surrounded a group of Jewish students leaving a synagogue and screamed, “Too bad Hitler didn’t finish the job!” On Holocaust Remembrance Day they circulated posters depicting Jews eating Christian babies.

In March 2003, the Muslim Students Association invited Maummad Faheed to speak at Queensborough Community College in New York. “We reject the U.N., reject America, reject all law and order,” screeched Faheed. “Don’t lobby Congress or protest because we don’t recognize Congress. The only relationship you should have with America is to topple it. Eventually there will be a Muslim president in the White House dictating the laws of Shariah.” There were no objections.

The Muslim Students Association promotes a brochure that says, “The Muslim woman was given a role, duties and rights 1,400 years ago that most women do not enjoy today, even in the West.”  That’s true! That’s true! They have all the rights of domestic animals! (Tabari IX:113 “Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves.”)

Ramsey Clark and the Workers World Party run International A.N.S.W.E.R Ramsey has more friends among ballot box stuffers, anti-Semites and mass murderers than Jimmy Carter. He is in line for the Grinch Who Stole Christmas Award.  ANSWER’s steering committee includes Free Palestine Alliance, the Muslim Students Association (those guys again?) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Is it any wonder they have been accused of anti-Semitism? The Party for Socialism and Liberation has close ties to the Muslim Society of America and Al Awda, also known as the Palestine Right of Return Coalition. And the Southern Poverty Law Center is worried about the Ku Klux Klan!

But who in the heck is Harry Karry? Maybe it doesn’t matter; he can’t be any worse than Sean Penn or Michael Moore and this whole thing will blow over. Maybe he was out of work and just happened by. Sure, it’s possible. He was caught up in the incitement. The pathetic wretch has time to be fully rehabilitated. .

But pity poor Mr. Paul! He ought to take a good look around and see if he’s got the right room. Even if this is a one-night stand he will need a lot more protection than he’s been taking. He should check into the nearest health clinic immediately and in the future choose his consorts more carefully. Ouch!