HALF-FULL REPORT 03/28/08

One of the coolest guys on the planet has been a friend of mine for thirty years – Col. Robert K. Brown, publisher of Soldier of Fortune Magazine.  We've had various adventures together, like being shot at by Soviets in Afghanistan, and please don't ask him how he got the nickname "Bob Ka-bab," or else he'll tell you about "Snuffy Jack."

Thus the first item on the HFR agenda this week is to tell you how you can participate in Bob's Stir The Chicom Pot Contest. 

Soon to be announced in the next monthly edition of SOF, it's an essay contest on how "to best cause the Chicoms some well-deserved grief over their genocidal colonialism of Tibet and ongoing suppression of human rights." 

Essayists are invited to propose what method will best "tarnish the Chicom effort to bamboozle the world" through a Communist propaganda extravaganza known as the Beijing Olympics.

The winner will get a free year's subscription to SOF and "the privilege of being followed by Chicom secret police."

I've already submitted my suggestion.  There are thousands of "torchbearers," folks who will be carrying the Olympic torch for a distance in the round-the-world torch relay.  Enter "Olympic torchbearers list" in Google and you'll get who they are in what country.  They should be contacted and persuaded (the opposite of any threats or intimidation) to stand up for freedom in China and Tibet.

A torchbearer could, e.g., announce to the press, "This torch must be a light of freedom for the people of Tibet," or douse the torch in a pool of water, proclaiming "This is how the light of freedom has been extinguished in Tibet," or say, "I carry this torch for freedom and human rights in China."

Again, they cannot be intimidated in any way, just made aware of the thrilling opportunity they have in assisting freedom rather than participating in its suppression.  Out of the thousands of torchbearers, if just a few dozen did so, the damage would be dramatic.  If hundreds, disastrous.

That's mine.  To submit yours, write to Bob at [email protected].

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If done right, efforts to sabotage the Chicom Olympics may reach a "tipping point," turning them, as the Washington Post just noted, into a "politically toxic showcase of repression."  Another tipping point was reached this week in the debate on "climate change," when data from NASA's Aqua Satellite now shows the earth has been cooling, not warming, since 1998.

Desperate to ignore the latest falsification of their religion, glowarmers frantically announced the collapse of an ice sheet in Antarctica.  Quick to expose the hype was Senator James Inhofe's aide Marc Morano, who explained how Antarctic ice has been growing and the continent cooling for the last 50 years.  The glowarmers go down in cold flames again.

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Additional happy news on the enviro front comes from the Bush Administration.  The EPA infuriated eco-freaks this week by delaying regulations on just how CO2 should be considered a pollutant.  Such anger, of course, causes eco-freaks like Ed Markey (D-MA) to expel more polluting CO2 – so the best thing they can do for the environment, of course, would be to shut up.  Stopping breathing altogether would be the ideal solution.

They continued their angry pollution-expelling ways, however, denouncing yet another Bush enviro-outrage:  Endangered Species Listings Plummet.  So proclaimed the Washington Post:

With little-noticed procedural and policy moves over several years, Bush administration officials have made it substantially more difficult to designate domestic animals and plants for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

There are few more fascist laws better designed to destroy private property rights than the Endangered Species Act.  It is entirely unconstitutional and should have been declared so by the Supreme Court.  We should, I suppose, be grudgingly – half-full – grateful that at least Bush has slowed the fascism down.

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But we can be more than half-full grateful that the Roberts Court this week decided 6-3 for American sovereignty in the Medellin v. Texas decision.  In 1993, Jose Medellin, an illegal Mexican immigrant, raped and murdered two teenage girls in Houston, for which he was sentenced to death by a Texas jury. 

Then the government of Mexico and Medellin's shyster lawyers began arguing the verdict should be set aside because he wasn't told of his supposed right (via a treaty, not any US law) to talk to the Mexican consulate at the time of his arrest.  The International Court of Justice ruled in Mexico's favor.  The Supreme Court ruled on Monday (3/24) that the sovereign state court of Texas could ignore the ICJ ruling.

Liberals bleated that it was a "disgraceful defeat for international law," but it really was a defeat for Condi Rice, who sweet-talked the President into signing an Executive Order demanding Texas enforce the ICJ ruling.  The Supreme Court's decision voided that EO.  For Condi, "repairing damaged relations with the international community" by siding with the ICJ was more important than the sovereignty of American law.

Condi lost, the libs lost, our sovereignty won, and Jose Medellin will die as he deserves by lethal injection.  Good news all the way around.