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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Sharia to to be taught at Univ of Montana
Posted on May 3, 2011 by creeping
Creep creep creeping in Montana. First, the State Dept. imported Muslims to teach public school students Arabic and Islamic “culture.” Now Montanan’s can progress into sharia law. hat tip SheikYerMami via Islamic law class to be taught next semester:
Earlier this semester, Jeff Renz, a law professor at The University of Montana, appeared on a conservative radio show to discuss the myths and realities of Islamic law. Accompanying him to Missoula’s KVGO studio were UM professor Mehrdad Kia and Robert Seidenschwarz, president of the World Affairs Council of Montana.
According to Renz, the talk stirred up a fair amount of debate.
“It was an interesting conversation,” he said. “A lot of the myths were repeated and we talked about those as well as a lot of the accuracies that are negative.”
The appearance was a launching pad for Renz, who plans to expand the conversation this fall semester by teaching an Islamic law class at UM.
Dearborn Muslims Mob Pastor Terry Jones as He Speaks in Front of City Hall
May 3, 2011
This past Friday, an angry, hate-filled, unruly, mostly Muslim mob of several hundred people broke through police barricades and rushed across the street toward Pastor Terry Jones while he was speaking in front of the Dearborn, Michigan City Hall. The mob was yelling and screaming, making obscene gestures, holding Korans, throwing shoes and water bottles at Pastor Jones and his supporters.
Resembling riots in the Middle East, the mob waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags while hurling profanities in Arabic and English at Jones and his group of supporters. As Pastor Jones cautioned the crowd to honor and obey the Constitution, they booed loudly, jeered, and whistled to drown him out.
Riot police finally had to intervene to prevent the crowd from getting to Pastor Jones and his supporters. The police were eventually able to push the mob back across the street, but not until several of Jones' supporters had been hit with shoes and other projectiles hurled by the angry mob.
The City of Dearborn denied a permit for Pastor Jones and Associate Pastor Wayne Sapp to protest Sharia law and Jihad on April 22, 2011, on public property in front of the Dearborn mosque. Subsequently, the county prosecutor used an arcane statute dealing with peace bonds to file a complaint to prevent the pastors from speaking in order to “prevent crime.” The judge ordered Pastor Jones and Sapp to appear before the court, which ultimately resulted in an order to either pay a peace bond or face jail. Both Pastor Jones and Pastor Sapp were thrown in jail and were not released until after they paid the peace bond. The judge also ordered them stay away from the mosque and adjacent property for three years (now being appealed by the Thomas More Law Center).
Legal organizations including the ACLU, which vehemently opposed the content of Pastor Jones’s speech, as well as media commentators across the political spectrum, decried Dearborn’s violation of Jones’s constitutional right to free speech. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan has agreed to represent Jones and Sapp, without charge, in their appeal of this unconstitutional suppression of speech.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center commented, “The constitutional right to free speech means that government cannot suppress speech just because it or a majority of society disagrees with the content of that speech. Nor can government charge someone a price to engage in free speech.”
The actions of the Muslim demonstrators were a stark contrast to Pastor Jones’s peaceful supporters, many of which stood holding American flags as they listened to his speech against radical Muslims, opposition to Sharia law in the U.S., and support of the Constitution.
Dearborn’s mayor, Jack O’Reilly, has a history of pandering to his large Muslim constituency. In early March 2011, he appeared on CNN to oppose House Homeland Security Chairman Congressman Pete King’s (R-NY) investigation on the extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community. Moreover, the Mayor’s administration has engaged in a pattern of harassment of Christians who have attempted to minister to Muslims.
In June 2009, Dearborn police enforced a rule that prevented Sudanese Christian pastor George Saeig from distributing Christian religious literature during the annual Dearborn Arab Festival. The Thomas More Law Center is representing Pastor Saeig in that case.
In June 2010, again at the Dearborn Arab Festival, four Christian missionaries were arrested on breach of the peace of charges while they were peaceably discussing their Christian faith with a group of Muslim youth. In September 2010, after a five-day jury trial, the missionaries, represented by Thomas More Law Center attorney Rob Muise, were found not guilty.
Continuing his pattern of pandering to his Muslim constituency, Mayor O’Reilly blamed the lawlessness of the mob on Pastor Jones, rather than on the mob itself.
What Is Israel's Next Move In The New Middle East?
Moment Magazine asked: "In recent months, the Middle East has been set aflame by democratic uprisings, popular protests, brutal crackdowns, political upheaval and international military intervention, shattering conventional wisdom about the region. Israel—surrounded by a newly unstable Arab world and confronting a Palestinian march toward statehood—faces uncertainty on every front. Moment speaks with an array of leading Middle East experts and thinkers to examine how Israel should weather the storms unleashed by the 'Arab Spring'." For all sixteen replies, click here. Daniel Pipes's response:
read more: http://www.danielpipes.org/9759/israel-new-middle-east
Palestinians mourn Osama bin Laden, rebuke Obama
Tuesday, May 03, 2011 | Ryan Jones
International media outlets suggest that Osama bin Laden's star had been on the wane across the Muslim world in recent years. But there is one place that was not true - amongst the Palestinian Arabs, where the Al Qaeda leader still enjoyed relatively high approval ratings.
A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that 38 percent of Palestinian Muslims supported bin Laden. Some Jerusalem Arabs demonstrated that support on Monday evening when they gathered to mourn bin Laden's assassination by American forces.
Dozens of Arabs from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan gathered for an evening vigil punctuated with rock attacks on Israeli police officers stationed nearby.
The Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem were the scene of mass Arab celebrations following the successful Al Qaeda attacks on America on September 11, 2001.
In Gaza, Hamas harshly condemned the killing of bin Laden. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh referred to bin Laden as a "modest man and a Muslim warrior."
read more: http://www.israeltoday.co.il/tabid/178/nid/22772/Default.aspx
Israel to US: Congrats on bin Laden kill, now stop criticizing us!
Tuesday, May 03, 2011 | Ryan Jones
Israel on Tuesday congratulated America on finally catching up to and eliminating Al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, and noted that the targeted killing was very reminiscent of Israeli counter-terror operations for which Jerusalem is so often criticized.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement praising the determined American war on terror, and calling the successful assassination of bin Laden "a resounding victory for justice."
Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren said the White House phoned him two hours before US President Barack Obama's public announcement to let Israel know "we got him."
With all of the excitement in Washington over having successfully assassinated a terrorist leader like bin Laden, Israeli lawmaker Shaul Mofaz, head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, suggested the US refrain from being hypocritical when Israel takes such action in the future.
read more: http://www.israeltoday.co.il/tabid/178/nid/22773/Default.aspx
Final remarks by Geert Wilders at his trial
Posted on May 3, 2011 by creeping
via KitmanTV, Geert Wilders Final Remarks at his trial – Amsterdam, May 2nd, 2011: (h/t Bella)
Final remarks by Geert Wilders at his trial in Amsterdam, May 2nd, 2011
Mister President, members of the Court. I recently tried to have Your Honors removed from the case for your refusal to register a statement of perjury against Mr. Hendriks. My challenge of the court did not succeed. I must accept that. I do wish to say, however, that I was more annoyed by another declaration of the President of the Court on the day of the official hearing of Mr. Jansen.
He said that I was a free man, that I could not be compared toMr. Nekschot because I was a free man. Mister President, you could not be more wrong. For almost seven years now, I have not been a free man. I lost my freedom in 2004. I live as a prisoner with guards without you having convicted me. Without protection I am even less certain of my life than I am now.Mister President, you would not use the words “free man” if you could change places with me for one week.
Mister President, members of the court, I am here as a suspect again today. I have said so before: This penal case is a political trial. An attempt is being made here to silence a politician who speaks on behalf of one and a half million people and who already pays a heavy price for that every single day. Formally, only I stand on trial here, but in practice the freedom of speech of millions of Dutchmen is on trial. This trial is not merely a political trial. It is also an unjust trial. When you look at the order of the court (to prosecute me) it is clear that the verdict has already been passed. The court has issued an order to prosecute me in which it concludes that I am guilty of incitement to hatred. The court has concluded that my statements as such are of an insulting nature. The court has concluded that I am guilty of the most serious charge: the incitement to hatred and discrimination. The court has concluded that it expects that the criminal prosecution will indeed lead to a conviction. Mister President, members of the court, the court has already done your job. Long before I was brought to trial before you, I was found guilty and was condemned. Hence my right to a just trial has been violated.
Al Qaeda's Next Wave of Terror
The death of Osama bin Laden is important only for its symbolic message, because Bin Laden had long ago ceased to be a figure of any operational importance and become a symbol of the Jihad. As a 'martyr' he will be just as useful. Perhaps even more so.
His death is not a period, but an anticlimactic comma in a run on sentence whose full length still remains unclear. For Americans it's a chance to celebrate the death of the man who became a symbol of Islamic terrorism. For Muslims it means a day of mourning for the death of a new Saladin. No matter how dead he is now, he achieved his goal of becoming a symbol of the Jihad for an Islamic world order. And that Jihad will not be buried in the ground with him.
We have not really been fighting Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda in some time now. Instead we have been fighting the Taliban, Iranian backed militias and local affiliates of Al-Qaeda. Whatever influence the recruits his diminished organization was able to bring to the battlefield in Afghanistan achieved was limited by the centrality of the Iraqi battlefield to the global Jihad. Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda remained a threat, but more as an inspiration, than the globe-spanning network that media reports have made it out to be.
The early years of the War on Terror had cut down its financial links and its safe operational zones. The new wave of Jihad came from organizations that called themselves Al-Qaeda but had their own command centers, their own funding networks and their own agendas. Organizations that like Al-Qaeda in Iraq no longer answered to Bin Laden and did not even listen to his criticisms. Men like Zarqawi whose appetite for bloodshed made even Bin Laden seem like a reasonable moderate by comparison.
We have not really been fighting Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda in some time now. Instead we have been fighting the Taliban, Iranian backed militias and local affiliates of Al-Qaeda. Whatever influence the recruits his diminished organization was able to bring to the battlefield in Afghanistan achieved was limited by the centrality of the Iraqi battlefield to the global Jihad. Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda remained a threat, but more as an inspiration, than the globe-spanning network that media reports have made it out to be.
The early years of the War on Terror had cut down its financial links and its safe operational zones. The new wave of Jihad came from organizations that called themselves Al-Qaeda but had their own command centers, their own funding networks and their own agendas. Organizations that like Al-Qaeda in Iraq no longer answered to Bin Laden and did not even listen to his criticisms. Men like Zarqawi whose appetite for bloodshed made even Bin Laden seem like a reasonable moderate by comparison.
read more: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/05/al-qaedas-next-wave-of-terror.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews+%28from+NY+to+Israel+Sultan+Reveals+The+Stories+Behind+the+News%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail
On Bin Laden, Muslim Brotherhood Makes Different Statements in English and in Arabic
In Arabic, they honor bin Laden as a "sheikh" and call for terrorism against American forces in Muslim lands.
The Muslim Brotherhood, a dominant political force in Egypt and around the Arab world, is notorious for saying one thing to Western media and something else to local media. That was the case today, when leading member Essam al-Erian gave Reuters a strong but measured statement on the killing of Osama bin Laden — but left out key details from the group’s reaction on its Arabic-language website.
“With Bin Laden’s death, one of the reasons for which violence has been practised in the world has been removed,” Essam al-Erian, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s governing body, told Reuters. “It is time for Obama to pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq and end the occupation of U.S. and Western forces around the world that have for so long harmed Muslim countries.”
While al-Erian portrayed bin Laden as a cause for violence in the Reuters article, the Muslim Brotherhood’s statement on their Arabic-language page said nothing critical of him. The website refers to the killing of “Sheikh” Osama bin Laden, using an honorific title, and condemns the attack as an assassination. It demands America stay out of the internal affairs of Arab and Muslim countries, and blames the West for launching a media campaign to demonize Islam.
Above all, the MB’s Arabic-language statement “confirms that the legitimate resistance against foreign occupation, for any country is a legitimate right guaranteed by divine law and international convention,” in reference to America’s presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. By supporting violence against America’s troops in Muslim lands, the MB essentially defends the al-Qaeda campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.
read more: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/on-bin-laden-muslim-brotherhood-makes-different-statements-in-english-and-in-arabic/
Arabs Riot in Jerusalem Over Bin Laden's Demise, Hamas Angry
by Hillel Fendel
While most of the free world praised the United States for having rid it of arch-terrorist Bin Laden, the Hamas organization - which has recently all but merged with Fatah, headed by Mahmoud Abbas - condemned the act.
Similarly, Arabs in the village of Silwan, adjacent to the City of David neighborhood in Jerusalem, rioted Monday night in protest over the elimination of Osama Bin Laden. The rioters threw stones at police and attempted to block roads.
The Gaza-based website Al Qassam reports that Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the local Hamas chapter that runs Gaza, told reporters on Monday that Bin Laden was an "Arab holy warrior."
Meeting with journalists in his office in Gaza City, Haniyeh said, "If this news [of Bin Laden's killing] is true, then this means that it is part of the American policy based on the oppression and bloodshed in the Muslim and Arab world."
read more: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143848
Similarly, Arabs in the village of Silwan, adjacent to the City of David neighborhood in Jerusalem, rioted Monday night in protest over the elimination of Osama Bin Laden. The rioters threw stones at police and attempted to block roads.
The Gaza-based website Al Qassam reports that Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the local Hamas chapter that runs Gaza, told reporters on Monday that Bin Laden was an "Arab holy warrior."
Meeting with journalists in his office in Gaza City, Haniyeh said, "If this news [of Bin Laden's killing] is true, then this means that it is part of the American policy based on the oppression and bloodshed in the Muslim and Arab world."
read more: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143848
Chafee puts marijuana dispensaries on hold
May 3, 2011 - projo.com
PROVIDENCE — Governor Chafee “placed a hold” Monday on the state’s medical-marijuana dispensary program in response to a warning by the U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island that he might prosecute or take civil action against the centers and anyone involved with them.
The owner of one of those planned centers, Dr. Seth Bock, asked Chafee in a letter Monday to “stand strong against the federal threats,” saying there was “no rational argument” for halting the dispensary program
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin, who while a member of the Rhode Island House voted to allow medical marijuana and create state-licensed dispensaries, said through a spokeswoman Monday that the question of their legality is not something his office intends to pursue. “This is a conflict between state law and federal law,” said the spokeswoman, Amy Kempe.
Kempe said that Kilmartin plans to introduce a bill to “tighten up the current medical-marijuana laws.” She declined to be more specific.
Chafee’s decision leaves in place the current informal medical-marijuana production system with licensed patients permitted to grow for themselves a limited number of plants or to obtain marijuana from state-licensed growers or caregivers who may grow for up to two patients. That construct would remain in place with dispensaries.
Sen. Rhoda E. Perry, D-Providence, who was the prime sponsor of the medical-marijuana dispensary statute in 2009, said she is looking into an amendment –– before the General Assembly adjourns –– to address Justice Department concerns. She called Chafee’s action “appropriate” in light of U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha’s intimation that he would raid the dispensaries if they were open.
“I don’t know where this comes from,” Perry said of Neronha’s views of the dispensaries. “It is quite bothersome to me.”
“There are thousands of people who need the substance and need it in a legal way,” said Perry.
The state has licensed about 3,400 people to use marijuana to treat medical conditions.
Six weeks ago, the state Health Department tentatively approved licenses for three dispensaries: Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center, in Portsmouth; Summit Medical Compassion Center, in Warwick and the Thomas C. Slater Compassion Center, in Providence. Principals of the three had been planning to open this summer and fall.
But on Friday, Neronha, in a letter hand-delivered to Chafee’s office, threatened to take action against those involved with the compassion centers if they open. And on Sunday, in an interview with The Journal, the U.S. Attorney said he hoped the dispensaries don’t open because he considers them to be large-scale for-profit cannabis production centers that are against federal law.
The Summit organization had said in its application for a state license to operate that it expected to be serving 8,000 patients and taking in $25 million in revenue by 2013, Neronha pointed out.
Chafee, who was in North Carolina Monday at an education conference, said in his announcement some 72 hours after Neronha’s letter: “In light of the United States Attorney’s articulated position on closing compassion centers, seizing proceeds and prosecuting business enterprises that market and sell medical marijuana, I have placed a hold on the state’s medical-marijuana certificate of registration program.”
“During this hiatus, I will be consulting with the governors of other states with similar medical-marijuana programs, with federal officials and with the compassion center applicants themselves.”
In a 2009 memo, the governor said, “The Department of Justice … indicated that it would not focus its limited resources on doctors and their sick patients who prescribe and use marijuana if such use was permitted by state law. This position was interpreted by some states as giving them latitude to authorize medical-marijuana cultivation and distribution programs. Friday’s letter makes it clear that DOJ will now pursue certain commercial cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana, even if such cultivation and distribution is permitted by state law. Compassion centers, their owners, landlords, financiers and other operations ‘facilitators’ are identified as potential targets of federal law-enforcement activities.”
None of the compassion centers had been authorized by the state to begin operations.
Bock, an acupuncturist and herbalist who heads the Greenleaf dispensary project, said the organization has spent tens of thousands of dollars on plans for his facility, the Health Department registration process, attorneys’ fees “and thousands of dollars in unpaid effort to build a perfect model of how to run a compassion center.”
He said he just got his building permit Monday from the Town of Portsmouth to start constructing his dispensary and that he’d planned to open in August. But now, he says, he is going to hold off starting construction.“It wouldn’t make sense to start construction now if they’re going to pull the plug on the entire program,” he said.
He termed Chafee’s announcement Monday as “a little bit of a surprise,” but said “it’s understandable that the governor would want to research this a little bit more. In my opinion, Rhode Island has crafted a program that we feel the Department of Justice would want to stand behind, as opposed to the types of dispensaries that are in the media a lot in California and other states out in the Wild West,” Bock said.
Under state law, the number of plants that can be grown by the compassion centers are strictly limited based on how many patients designate a particular dispensary as their caregiver.
Bock said he is optimistic that some consensus will be forged between state and federal authorities and the dispensaries will open. “I feel strongly that we are going to prevail on this,” he said.
Chris Reilly, spokesman for the Slater organization, said, “We look forward to meeting with the governor to stress the importance of providing safe access to patients in need of medicine … Any disruption of that mission is something that concerns us.”
Over the past several weeks, U.S. Attorneys in several states — including Washington, Hawaii, Colorado, Montana, New Jersey, Arizona and California — have written letters to their states’ public officials warning that the 2009 Justice Department memo dealing with medical marijuana does not protect business enterprises dealing in medical marijuana or those who work or help facilitate them, even if such activities are sanctioned by state law. There have been recent raids on dispensaries and greenhouses in Washington, California and Montana.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have medical-marijuana programs. But only Colorado, New Mexico and, as of this month, Maine, have state-regulated dispensaries in operation. Rhode Island would be the fourth.
PROVIDENCE — Governor Chafee “placed a hold” Monday on the state’s medical-marijuana dispensary program in response to a warning by the U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island that he might prosecute or take civil action against the centers and anyone involved with them.
The owner of one of those planned centers, Dr. Seth Bock, asked Chafee in a letter Monday to “stand strong against the federal threats,” saying there was “no rational argument” for halting the dispensary program
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin, who while a member of the Rhode Island House voted to allow medical marijuana and create state-licensed dispensaries, said through a spokeswoman Monday that the question of their legality is not something his office intends to pursue. “This is a conflict between state law and federal law,” said the spokeswoman, Amy Kempe.
Kempe said that Kilmartin plans to introduce a bill to “tighten up the current medical-marijuana laws.” She declined to be more specific.
Chafee’s decision leaves in place the current informal medical-marijuana production system with licensed patients permitted to grow for themselves a limited number of plants or to obtain marijuana from state-licensed growers or caregivers who may grow for up to two patients. That construct would remain in place with dispensaries.
Sen. Rhoda E. Perry, D-Providence, who was the prime sponsor of the medical-marijuana dispensary statute in 2009, said she is looking into an amendment –– before the General Assembly adjourns –– to address Justice Department concerns. She called Chafee’s action “appropriate” in light of U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha’s intimation that he would raid the dispensaries if they were open.
“I don’t know where this comes from,” Perry said of Neronha’s views of the dispensaries. “It is quite bothersome to me.”
“There are thousands of people who need the substance and need it in a legal way,” said Perry.
The state has licensed about 3,400 people to use marijuana to treat medical conditions.
Six weeks ago, the state Health Department tentatively approved licenses for three dispensaries: Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center, in Portsmouth; Summit Medical Compassion Center, in Warwick and the Thomas C. Slater Compassion Center, in Providence. Principals of the three had been planning to open this summer and fall.
But on Friday, Neronha, in a letter hand-delivered to Chafee’s office, threatened to take action against those involved with the compassion centers if they open. And on Sunday, in an interview with The Journal, the U.S. Attorney said he hoped the dispensaries don’t open because he considers them to be large-scale for-profit cannabis production centers that are against federal law.
The Summit organization had said in its application for a state license to operate that it expected to be serving 8,000 patients and taking in $25 million in revenue by 2013, Neronha pointed out.
Chafee, who was in North Carolina Monday at an education conference, said in his announcement some 72 hours after Neronha’s letter: “In light of the United States Attorney’s articulated position on closing compassion centers, seizing proceeds and prosecuting business enterprises that market and sell medical marijuana, I have placed a hold on the state’s medical-marijuana certificate of registration program.”
“During this hiatus, I will be consulting with the governors of other states with similar medical-marijuana programs, with federal officials and with the compassion center applicants themselves.”
In a 2009 memo, the governor said, “The Department of Justice … indicated that it would not focus its limited resources on doctors and their sick patients who prescribe and use marijuana if such use was permitted by state law. This position was interpreted by some states as giving them latitude to authorize medical-marijuana cultivation and distribution programs. Friday’s letter makes it clear that DOJ will now pursue certain commercial cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana, even if such cultivation and distribution is permitted by state law. Compassion centers, their owners, landlords, financiers and other operations ‘facilitators’ are identified as potential targets of federal law-enforcement activities.”
None of the compassion centers had been authorized by the state to begin operations.
Bock, an acupuncturist and herbalist who heads the Greenleaf dispensary project, said the organization has spent tens of thousands of dollars on plans for his facility, the Health Department registration process, attorneys’ fees “and thousands of dollars in unpaid effort to build a perfect model of how to run a compassion center.”
He said he just got his building permit Monday from the Town of Portsmouth to start constructing his dispensary and that he’d planned to open in August. But now, he says, he is going to hold off starting construction.“It wouldn’t make sense to start construction now if they’re going to pull the plug on the entire program,” he said.
He termed Chafee’s announcement Monday as “a little bit of a surprise,” but said “it’s understandable that the governor would want to research this a little bit more. In my opinion, Rhode Island has crafted a program that we feel the Department of Justice would want to stand behind, as opposed to the types of dispensaries that are in the media a lot in California and other states out in the Wild West,” Bock said.
Under state law, the number of plants that can be grown by the compassion centers are strictly limited based on how many patients designate a particular dispensary as their caregiver.
Bock said he is optimistic that some consensus will be forged between state and federal authorities and the dispensaries will open. “I feel strongly that we are going to prevail on this,” he said.
Chris Reilly, spokesman for the Slater organization, said, “We look forward to meeting with the governor to stress the importance of providing safe access to patients in need of medicine … Any disruption of that mission is something that concerns us.”
Over the past several weeks, U.S. Attorneys in several states — including Washington, Hawaii, Colorado, Montana, New Jersey, Arizona and California — have written letters to their states’ public officials warning that the 2009 Justice Department memo dealing with medical marijuana does not protect business enterprises dealing in medical marijuana or those who work or help facilitate them, even if such activities are sanctioned by state law. There have been recent raids on dispensaries and greenhouses in Washington, California and Montana.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have medical-marijuana programs. But only Colorado, New Mexico and, as of this month, Maine, have state-regulated dispensaries in operation. Rhode Island would be the fourth.
Medical marijuana ordinance moves on to the Flushing City Council for approval
The ordinances regulate where caregivers can operate, special use permits for caregivers, rules of marijuana use within the city and penalties to applied with the amendments.
The first reading will go to City Council 7:30 p.m. May 9 at Flushing City Hall, 725 E. Main St.
Part of the ordinance includes caregivers only being able to operate in the city's heavy commercial zone and 500 feet from schools, daycare centers, places of worship, parks or other medical marijuana caregivers.
Caregivers must apply for a Special Use Permit before using a building to grow medical marijuana and give assistance to patients.
"By making it as conservative as possible it best serves us all," said Neil Blackmore, planning commission member.
— Flushing Planning Commission members approved to send two medical marijuana ordinances to the City Council for approval. West Michigan veterans group seeks to establish special Treatment Court for vets in trouble
GRAND RAPIDS – As a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, retired U.S. Marines Lt. Col. Richard Edmonds knows that those returning from war aren’t likely to seek help – they just want to get back to their old lives.
But, he said, “You’re doing four, five, six tours, it’s a stress on them, it’s a stress on their families. It’s not going to be the same as it was when they come back.”
Too often, the stress leads to alcohol and drug abuse, family fights and other problems that put them in front of a judge, a rough landing for those who spent months and years fighting in other countries only to find trouble once home.
In an effort to help returning veterans, the West Michigan Chapter of Military Officers of America is working to establish a Veterans Treatment Court in West Michigan where veterans who get in trouble – drunken driving, for instance – would be prosecuted, paired with a mentor and be provided services by the Veterans Administration and veterans groups.
read more: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/05/west_michigan_veterans_group_s.html
But, he said, “You’re doing four, five, six tours, it’s a stress on them, it’s a stress on their families. It’s not going to be the same as it was when they come back.”
Too often, the stress leads to alcohol and drug abuse, family fights and other problems that put them in front of a judge, a rough landing for those who spent months and years fighting in other countries only to find trouble once home.
In an effort to help returning veterans, the West Michigan Chapter of Military Officers of America is working to establish a Veterans Treatment Court in West Michigan where veterans who get in trouble – drunken driving, for instance – would be prosecuted, paired with a mentor and be provided services by the Veterans Administration and veterans groups.
read more: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/05/west_michigan_veterans_group_s.html
Osama killed but Hezbollah increasing its power in Lebanon
Posted on | mei 3, 2011 |
While millions of Americans are celebrating the killing of the world’s Number One terrorist, Osama bin Laden, the global war on terrorism is far from over. Intelligence reports coming out of Israel and Lebanon reveal some disturbing events taking place in Lebanon.
Since the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Hezbollah has increased its power in munitions and number of operatives with tens of thousands of weapons stored in civilian villages throughout southern Lebanon, a direct violation of UN Resolution 1701, according to an Israeli Defense Force intelligence report.
read more: http://www.nl-aid.org/continent/middle-east/osama-killed-but-hezbollah-increasing-its-power-in-lebanon/
Islamists curse and threaten
May 3, 2011 | By Reuters
Islamist groups vowed yesterday to avenge Osama bin Laden's killing and prayed the news was not true.
Osama bin Laden Photograph by: SIPA PRESS/REX FEATURES
"Oh God, please make this news not true ... God curse you, Obama," said one message on an Arabic-language website.
"Oh Americans ... it is still legal for us to cut your necks."
Some members of Islamist forums urged others not to believe news of the death until it was confirmed online by militant news sources. "The source of news that we trust is that which comes from the mujahideen [holy warrior]," the Ansar forum said.
"Be patient and don't spread rumours . we've asked this repeatedly, so please do not write anything on the subject."
Hours later, several of the threads discussing Bin Laden's death had been shut down.
Cleric: Jihad coming to 'heart of America
Posted: May 02, 2011
7:41 pm Eastern© 2011 WorldNetDaily
 Anjem Choudary |
Warning there are motivated jihadists "in the heart of America," Choudary said al-Qaida will likely carry out revenge operations with "meticulous accuracy" and "devastating affect" comparable to that of the 9/11 attacks.
Choudary is the founder and former chief of two Islamic groups disbanded by the British authorities under anti-terror legislation.
Get the inside story, in "Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out"
Speaking today in an interview with "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" of New York's WABC Radio, Choudary said that while bin Laden was a "lion of Islam … there are many lions waiting to take his place."
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=294153
Al-Qaida revenge attacks to have 'devastating effect'
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