Who are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s “peers” for Jury Duty?

New York City, (in spirit), Dec. 5, 2009  -  by El Marco

Today 500 protesters rallied in the pouring cold rain at Manhattan’s federal courthouse where the recently announced Terrorist vs America, circus trials will take place. Two weeks ago, the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition sent a letter signed by 300 family members of 9/11 victims to President Obama, Attorney General Holder, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking them to reverse course. The letter has now been signed by over 135,000 Americans.

We adamantly oppose prosecuting the 9/11 conspirators in Article III courts, which would provide them with the very rights that may make it possible for them to escape the justice which they so richly deserve. We believe that military commissions, which have a long and honorable history in this country dating back to the Revolutionary War, are the appropriate legal forum for the individuals who declared war on America. With utter disdain for all norms of decency and humanity, and in defiance of the laws of warfare accepted by all civilized nations, these individuals targeted tens of thousands of civilian non-combatants, brutally killing 3,000 men, women and children, injuring thousands more, and terrorizing millions.

photo: P Hall

It is morally offensive to offer Constitutional protections to individuals charged with murdering 3,000 individuals, in essence, to jeopardize justice for war crimes victims, in order to make an appeal to the Muslim world. The use of Article III courts after the 1993 World Trade Center attack didn’t stop any of the subsequent terrorist plots, including the attack on Khobar Towers, 19 Americans killed, the 1998 East African Embassy bombing, 212 killed, the USS Cole bombing, 17 sailors killed. The attacks of 9/11 were a resounding rebuke to the view that federal courts were an appropriate counterterrorism strategy. Afterward, we didn’t send law enforcement personnel to apprehend the perpetrators, we sent the United States military, who captured them and held them pursuant to the 2001 Authorization of the Use of Military Force (AUMF).

The American people do not support the use of our cherished federal courts as a stage by the “mastermind of 9/11″ and his co-conspirators to condemn this nation and rally their fellow terrorists the world over. As one New York City police detective, who lost 60 fellow officers on 9/11, told members of the Department of Justice’s Detainee Policy Task Force at a meeting last June, “You people are out of touch. You need to hear the locker room conversations of the people who patrol your streets and fight your wars.”

photo: P Hall

On Tuesday New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly stunned the nation when he revealed that city officials were not consulted, prior to the recent government announcement, of the decision to bring the 9/11 terrorist conspirators to trial in a New York City civilian court. “There was no consultation, no consultation with the police department. That decision was made. We were informed.”

Debra Burlingame, rally organizer and co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America said Tuesday, “This shocking revelation makes it crystal clear that the Attorney General’s decision to bring Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) to New York City was pre-ordained, and he wasn’t about to ask for input that would have resulted in his having to defend the indefensible.”

UPDATE: A 9/11 TRUTHER with a thick Greek accent, interrupted the rally speakers by climbing barricades and the stage and yelling truther garbage to the assembled crowd. Although he was ignored by everyone except security who removed him, the police didn’t look so kindly on his performance. After fleeing to a nearby Starbucks a heartwarming New York drama unfolded.VIDEO Hat tip: P. Hall

I photographed the “Danish cartoon protest” in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in 2006. These ”New Yorkers” were participating in the worldwide Islamist protests against the publication of cartoons in Denmark.

Some say Al Qaeda mastermind KSM has no peers in New York since he is not an American. At the cartoon rally I suspect that he had more than a few sympathizers and even “peers”. Moderate moslems do not protest harmless cartoons or western free speech traditions. Only Islamists and their leftist enablers do. Just as International Communists renounce nationalism, Islamists proclaim that they are moslems first, above and before they are nationals of non-moslem countries.

Obama, in gifting a civil trial to KSM, has entitled him to a trial by a jury of his peers. But who in New York City are KSM’s peers? Christians? Jews? Hindus or Sikhs? Atheists? These are KSM’s prey not his peers. Only Islamists are KSM’s peers, with the addition of some far leftists who regard terrorism as a revolutionary virtue.
Continue reading 9/11 Families Rally Blasts Obama’s Show Trial Travesty

Updated – November 16 2009 – by El Marco

While China bans Oba-Mao T-shirts and cracks down on consumers and producers, it’s an entirely different story in the U.S. Capital. The popularity of Obama iconography around the world is indisputable, but who can match the audacity of those who cater to the cult of Obama just a few blocks from the White House? T-shirts, shot glasses, and even condoms are all freely available and sales are unrestricted in Obama’s new neighborhood in Washington, D.C.

This T-shirt in the window of the Washington DC Souvenir Headquarters caught my eye and my curiosity.

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DurIng Obama’s visit to China CNN reported that police harassed them when they purchased a recently banned OBA MAO T-shirt in Bejing. ”  CNN reported that ”a news blitz indicated the shirts had been “banned” by the Chinese government amid worries that they may offend the American president. It depicts President Obama wearing a Red Army uniform, the “Chinese communist-style” outfit made famous by Chairman Mao. On the front it says “Serve the People” in Chinese. On the back, “Oba-Mao” in English.”

CNN and the national press make a point of ignoring the fact that OBA MAO shirts are for sale everyday in America’s Capitol. All sorts of “communist Obama” posters flood the streets every time there is a protest against his fiscal policies, and the press fails to report about that huge trend either. US made “communist Obama” T-shirts are widely available on the internet, but can they really be meant as a compliment to the new President?

Continue reading Obama Mao T-shirts Banned in China, Popular in USA

As Democrats in Washington plan a cram down of their massive health care bill, America’s burgeoning Tea Party movement is gathering momentum. The call has gone out to converge on the nation’s capital Thursday and confront lawmakers face to face in their offices.

The Tea Party Express bus tours November 3rd Denver stop coincided with Election Day 2009. Thousands of Coloradans showed up at the Civic Center to protest growing government spending, attacks on Liberty and the private sector. Everyone was energized about sending a message to those who are recklessly increasing the national debt while steering America towards socialism.

Lu Ann Busse, the Colorado chair of the 9/12 Movement, points to Nancy Pelosis 1,990 page health care bill. The pages were passed around so that tea partyers could participate in shredding the bill. The shredded pages will be delivered to lawmakers in Washington. People are being asked to arrive in D.C. by noon Thursday.

Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann said Wednesday: ”There will be information people can take so they can find their congressmen and go into the capitol. Don’t bring your pitchforks. Bring your video cameras. Get these members of congress on camera. Ask them what are you going to do about voting on healthcare, keep your hands up on healthcare. And then post those YouTubes on video. I think about all you need to know about how bad this bill is is that members of congress have exempted themselves from it. It’s good enough for you, not good enough for them, and they are only giving you 72 hours to read it. So they obviously are embarrassed of their own bill.”

Joe Wurzelbacher joined in the shredding, as did Deborah Johns, Vice Chair of Our Country Deserves Better PAC.

Continue reading Tea Party Express Gathers Steam Across America

El Marco explores the Mao-loving roots of America’s cult of Obama worship.

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Nation-wide Protest Rallies Aimed at Biased “STATE MEDIA”

October 19, 2009, Denver, CO  -  by EL MARCO

In more than 100 cities across the U.S. protesters converged on newspaper and television offices Saturday to denounce the liberal-left bias in national and international reporting. These latest rallies are a response to blatantly biased media coverage of the center-right taxpayer protests,which began in February as a response to Washington’s unprecedented deficit spending. The ”Teaparty” movement gathered steam through the spring and summer with a series of nationwide rallies. On September 12th a massive Tea party was staged in Washington DC.

Can You Hear Us Now Protesters at NBC news headquarters in Denver on Saturday

These people are fed up with the MSM’s dishonest news coverage. When a million of these taxpayers swamped the nation’s capital on September 12 2009, big media dismissed them as angry racists and reported only tens of thousands. The Daily Mail the second largest newspaper in England headlined the event: A million march to US Capitol to protest against ‘Obama the socialist’.

I have personally experienced being in crowds of over one million on three occasions. Once in Santo Domingo, at a Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) march and rally in the late 1980s. I spent eight hours photographing that crowd. My second experience was when the people of Bali, rallied in support of Megawati Sukarnoputri when she visited Denpasar in the late 1990’s. She was later elected President of Indonesia. Both of those rallies were documented by national newspapers to have exceeded 1 million people.

I was also in Washington DC on 9/12, and I believe based on what I saw there, that 9/12 was a similar rally of over a million.

The “tea party patriots” have been denigrated and attacked repeatedly by corporate media giants and administration officials in the most vicious and lewd terms. They were called racists, nazis, and teabaggers by media and government elites. The size and demeanor of all these rallies goes under-reported or misreported and downgraded. Saturdays “Can You Hear Us Now” rallies in dozens of cities across the U.S. are a direct response to unethical liberal media misreporting in politics, both domestic and foreign.

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Patriotic anti-big-government taxpayers blast through the million protester mark
September 12, 2009, Washington, D.C.  -  by EL MARCO

Protesters flooded Washington today in what people in the crowd are calling “a conservative Woodstock”. Like the liberal Woodstock of the ’60s, thousands were rumored stranded on freeways. Some walked in to DC, ditching their cars and busses. I walked with a 5 deep 6 block long column of protesters from Pennsylvania who told me they had walked miles from where they were forced by gridlock to leave their busses. Networks including Fox News continued through the time I’m writing this at 8 p.m. local Eastern time reporting that “tens of thousands” showed up. What is up with that?  When will we get some reliable reporting out of the corporate media types? UPDATE: Two days later, there is still no conclusive count of the participants. Michelle Malkin’s site goes over the whole issue on a post linked at the end of this article.

This event had been promoted as a taxpayer “tea party” but the crowd’s concerns were wide ranging, from outrage at the corrupt ACORN activists and Obama’s socialist cadre known as Czars, to Obama’s naked untruthfulness. Protesters also displayed signs mocking Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for smearing the grassroots movement as “astroturfers” and an “angry mob”.

I think this gathering should be appreciated as the extremely important historical event that it is. This is the first great conservative anti-statist manifestation in American history. The conservative movement, which developed in the post-WWII, Cold War environment has now fully matured into the most significant political movement of the 21st century. I believe that this day could be referred to in the not too distant future as the day that changed America. This was the day the great silent conservative majority finally found its voice.

Many of the attendees were quite meek and timid and were unsure of exactly what to expect, this being the first time in their lives they’d been involved in a protest movement. Their fears evaporated early in the day and people reveled in the camaraderie , the joy and sheer civility that was exhibited at the entire event. Chants of “Freedom, freedom, freedom”, “No more czars! No more czars!” carried through the air without the slightest hint of the rancor which is the norm at the many leftist rallies I have photographed over the years.

The two photos above show a tiny fraction of the multitude that surged through the American capitol. I saw signs and heard lots of comments comparing this event to Woodstock. At the time this photo was taken, around 1:00 p.m., Pennsylvania Avenue was still jammed completely, and the mall was packed from the Capitol Building past the Washington Monument. See photo here.

Protesters came from every state in the union. This man came from San Antonio, TX. He said that he was really sorry he hadn’t brought his family. He stated that being a black conservative he was unwilling to expose his children to what he expected would be a lot of liberal abuse. He was thrilled with the overall tenor of the event and the fact that no liberals were present to harass him. He spoke about how incredibly intolerant the left is to black individuals who don’t bow to the party line.

These Ohioans took a day off their rodeo bull-riding schedule. They said they’ll be back at it tomorrow.

Mike Pence (R-Indiana) was one of the speakers who addressed the crowd: “After years of fighting runaway government on this hill, you people look like the cavalry to me..I believe we are on the verge of a great American awakening.”
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This is the scene that enthralled a young photographer on his first expedition from Canada to New York City in 1975. In the center left foreground is the 21 story Flatiron Building. I already knew of it from the photographs of Edward Stieglitz from 1903. It was one the first skyscrapers ever built, and for years was famous (incorrectly) as the tallest building in the world. This photo was taken from the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building, itself holding the world’s tallest record for 41 years until 1972. The most famous symbol of freedom in the world can be seen in the Harbor, background right. The Statue of Liberty Illuminating the World is the full name given by the French to their gift, seen between the southern tip of Manhattan and New Jersey.

Each in its time inspired the world, with beauty, size and above all the message of hope that liberty, and man’s creativity thereby unleashed, might lift humankind out of poverty and raise it above tyranny. The World Trade Center (WTC) took its rightful place among them as a symbol of freedom of 1972.

This is the scene that greeted workers if they looked up as they ascended from subway train to street level on a long spiral stairway. The human eye loves repetition, and never before had that simple truth been employed, for art, on such a scale. The quarter mile long parallel silver and black lines created Op Art moire patterns which can be seen in the photo above. At first I doubted this phenomena could be captured on film. I carefully moved my eye from viewfinder to subject and found that the moire looked the same to the eye and the lens. Later, in the darkroom, this photo distilled and revealed an image of the architect’s wild intention. Simplicity of design combined with sheer magnitude produced pure Op Art that constantly changed and attracted the eye.

The photos above show the two towers on the right and the Marriot Hotel on the left. Many escaped from the towers through the hotel before it was shorn in half by the first collapse and later the second.
Continue reading 9/11 – NEVER FORGET – NEVER GIVE IN

September 10, 2009, Washington, D.C.  -  by EL MARCO

Today doctors, nurses and other medical professionals came to Washington, D.C. from across the country to show their opposition to Obamacare. This rally exploded the government-created myth that there is unanimity amongst health care professionals for Democrat plans to take over health care. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons came to D.C. to present a petition from doctors to lawmakers. The AAPS has been a voice for private physicians since 1943. Their motto is Omani pro aegroto, “all for the patient”. The doctors met with the representatives from their respective states and argued for a platform that avoids unnecessary  bureaucratic intervention in health care.

Dr. Shannon Norris, a radiologist from Atlanta, holds a People’s Cube poster describing Obamacare as offering “the efficiency of the Postal Service, the sustainability of Social Security and all the compassion of the IRS”.

Dr. Steven Ellison, a cardiologist from Georgia, displays graphically how doctors feel about being targeted by a party and president that slander and demonize them. On the podium, speaker after speaker talked about the slurs President Obama has made about doctors performing unnecessary amputations and tonsillectomies out of greed. Not only is it untrue that doctors profit from these procedures, but the premise that they would do such harm to their patients is an insult to doctors.

Dr. Hal Scherz, a pediatric urologist from Atlanta, founded Docs for Patient Care to voice doctors’ opposition to the “big rush” for a big government solution to health care reform. The organization of doctors suggests practical proposals such as tort reform, insurance reform, and opening up insurance pools between states.

Their petition to Congress can be found at TakeBackMedicine.com:

Physicians can no longer allow medical care in this country to be controlled by government and insurance companies 



Current reform options purport to be “cure-alls” for every American. But we know that every patient is different, and just like patients, there is no single big-government solution to change health care in this country. 



Instead, we need more diversity in solutions. 

Therefore, I support changes that address the following issues:

Petition point: 1. INDEPENDENCE: Doctors are professionals. They answer to their patients, not the government or an insurance company or any other third party. Treatments should be decided by doctor and patient exclusively.

Continue reading Doctors Against Obamacare – Rally in D.C.

August 29 2009, Denver, Colorado  -  by EL MARCO

 The Obama administration has sent out Organizing for America – the successor organization of Obama for America, Obama’s campaign organization – to create a false media show of support for his unpopular Obamacare initiative. The coast to coast bus tour arrived in Denver Friday. What I found when I arrived was the media manipulation technique known as Astroturfing in high gear.

Shockingly, opponents to Obamacare were bullied, and a Potemkin village of consent manufactured, by White House strategists and Obama campaign propagandists. Although the White House denies the single payer goal, that seemed to be the main message at the rally in Denver, where everything was tightly controlled.

I arrived early at North High School for Friday’s Organizing for America rally in Denver. OFA community organizers were hard at work. 

Whatever happened to ” it’s my body it’s my choice”?  OR  ”The government can’t tell me what to do with my body!!”. Lady, you’ve come a long way from personal choice, to choice for “nobody”.

This organizer was instructing volunteers to hand out signs to anticipated crowds. United States Congressman Ed Perlmutter is scheduled to arrive on the Obamacare Express to push the administration’s health care agenda to his constituents.
Continue reading Organizing for America Bus Tour: Fabricating Consent

No speaker Pelosi, it’s your Democrats and Al Gore who are hooked on Nazi references.

 August 21 2009, Evergreen Colorado  -  by EL MARCO

This was the scene that greeted residents of Evergreen CO at their Post Office on Thursday afternoon. Lyndon LaRouche workers were handing out pamphlets, quoting verbatim, recent webcasts from their leader. Lyndon LaRouche, seven time candidate for the Democrat Party Presidential nomination, claims to be America’s number one inheritor of F.D.R’s legacy.

Born a Quaker he has been a prominent Marxist, then Maoist, and SDS faction leader. In the 1960s his SDS faction competed with William Ayers, SDS Weather Underground, to be the true vanguard to “bring down America” through revolution. LaRouche’s organization also spent years disrupting, and beating up U.S. communists who refused to see him as their true leader.

This LaRouche worker’s card says he is from Texas, but his accent didn’t betray his true origins to my Canadian ear. Midwest? Or Colorado? He and his co-worker travel from town to town raising funds for LaRouche. He told me that Michelle Malkin and Rush Limbaugh are paid British agents working to undermine the American political system. That’s original and weird I thought. I learned later, he is 100% serious.

Before you dismiss LaRouche as a madman , just remember that Bill Ayers, Obama’s buddy, the Weather Underground terrorist leader, is now Vice President for Curriculum Studies of the powerful American Educational Research Association. Also a Democrat, Ayers sets the content and tone of what is taught to teachers and students. Ayers comes from the same ideological swamp as LaRouche. Those that the Democrats try to excuse as fringe, often pop up close to the center as the radicals force their party to the left. Don’t forget that Obama’s first political fundraiser was held in Bill Ayers Chicago home.

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