Just a few hours after I explained on Jihad Watch what was wrong with Michael Totten’s pro-Albanian-supremacist post on Commentary magazine’s website, the following item was posted on the site. It concerns an article that came out in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle last week on the one-year anniversary of the Ft. Dix arrests of four Albanians, the significance of which becomes clear if you notice that the woman’s name is Albanian. Introductory comment by JW director Robert Spencer:

She says she’s just being singled out because she is a Muslim. And I’m sure that’s true. I’m sure there are plenty of 911 operators illegally searching the terror watch list, and they’re getting off scot-free. It’s Islamophobia, I tell you, and I’m not going to take it anymore!

“Ex-911 operator accused of illegal database searches“, May 8:

A former city 911 operator faces multiple felony counts for illegally searching state driving records and state police databases that included the FBI’s terrorist watch list, officials said Wednesday.

The fired employee, Nadire P. Zenelaj, 32, of Rochester insists she did nothing wrong and is being singled out because she is Muslim.

“I feel they targeted me because of my religion,” said Zenelaj, who worked at the 911 center for nearly six years. “I have no criminal history. I have never gone against the law.”

Richard Vega, director of the city’s Office of Public Integrity, said Zenelaj was “running personal information on herself, on her family and on friends. I think it went beyond curiosity. … We think she was accessing this information to pass it on to others.”

What the above paragraph means is that she was checking on whether the names of fellow Albanians appear on any criminal or terrorist watch lists yet. Perhaps friends and relatives asked for this information, perhaps not. Either way, this behavior fits the context of the Albanian red flag that my Jihad Watch piece tried to raise, and what I was correcting Michael Totten about. After all, if anyone should be far removed from any such activity, it’s a young Albanian woman born and raised in America, as Zenelaj was. Furthermore, imagine how different the scene in Greater Albania would be if the U.S., NATO and UN started cracking down on crime and actually enforced laws in and around Kosovo; if instead of turning a blind eye to the weapons going into Macedonia and Serbia proper, they were confiscated. Imagine if Albanians were held accountable for the people they kill and brutalize — and one by one the Albanians’ KLA heroes ended up in jail. How pro-American would Albanians be then? How quickly would Albanian terror against Serbs, Macedonians, Montenegrins and other locals turn into terror against the U.S.? (For a clue, count the number of UN vehicles blown up in Kosovo over the past nine years.) But no one is enforcing any laws in or near Kosovo, so there is very little anti-American sentiment or activity that we hear of.

Even here, imagine if instead of treating gun smuggler and law breaker Florin Krasniqi as a friend of the U.S. and giving him a pass on his criminal activities and fundraising for the KLA — which operates here with impunity — how pro-American would he be then? All of a sudden you would hear from Albanians, as you do from Zenelaj, that they are being discriminated against as Muslims, and the crutch of jihad would start to loom larger in Albanian life.

At least one of the 227 names that Zenelaj searched for was on the terrorist watch list, according to police. She was fired in December, arrested Tuesday and pleaded not guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor official misconduct and 232 felony counts of computer trespass — one for each allegedly illegal search.
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The databases, according to the city, include “highly sensitive” confidential information, such as outstanding arrest warrants and restricted law enforcement records…Vega said the investigation of Zenelaj was triggered after an employee saw something that looked suspicious and went to a supervisor. The police complaint states that all or most of the allegedly illegal searches occurred on Jan. 2, 2006, and on Oct. 26, 2007. Zenelaj did not have the ability to add to or delete information from the records, Vega said.

She was fired in December for various violations regarding unauthorized access of computer information and violations of the City of Rochester Ethical Standards of Conduct. Since then, local authorities have been working with state officials to build a criminal case, Vega said. No additional arrests or charges are expected.

Vega said misconduct was the sole reason for Zenelaj’s termination. He added that the city even went back through training materials and records to try to find any support for Zenelaj’s claims [in her defense]. However, anyone who went through the training signed a document agreeing not to search personal information, he said.

Trainees also had to take a test, which included a question that specifically addressed the prohibition against personal searches. “She got that question right,” Vega said.

Zenelaj was sent home on pre-trial release Wednesday, and is due to return to City Court at 9:30 a.m. May 21.

Corroborating her national origin — naturally avoided in the article above — was this local news site, which mentions that Zenelaj is of Albanian descent and born in NY City.

Now we just have to ask why, if Albanians are not defined by their religion — and they’re not– an Albanian would play the Muslim victim card. Answer: They learn quickly.

Now let’s ponder the irony of Muslims working for 911.

Two of a kind inevitably collide:

More than 100 Slovenians blocked Slovenia-Croatia border (April)

Ljubljana — More than 100 Slovenians blocked for a short period of time today the border between Slovenia and Croatia with a demand to receive back a territory subjected to a dispute, AFP reported. ‘We are here to defend our legal right, the Slovenian sea and our territory’, Marijan Potocnik, one of the initiators of the protest said.

Croatian Barbarians Vandalized Four Vehicles with Bosnian License Plates in Dubrovnik

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (May 6,2008) - Croatian barbarians have damaged four vehicles with the Bosnian license plates in the southern Croatian town of Dubrovnik on Friday. Insults and offensive symbols were written on the vehicles, stated the release of the Bosnian Foreign Affairs Ministry….The Ministry condemned this act of vandalism.

The Bosnian Ambassador to Croatia, Aleksandar Dragicevic after he found out about this incident contacted the city authorities of Dubrovnik and asked for the protection of the Bosnian citizens and their property from the Croatian barbarians.

Ambassador Dragicevic shall demand a meeting at the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss this incident.

What is there to discuss? If people make their own beds, they should lie in them. Without regard for national borders, Slovenia and Croatia seceded, taking control of Yugoslavian border posts. Then Bosnia did the same, ganging up with Croatia against the Serbs. Now they’re all having just a wee bit of trouble among themselves. Life is beautiful and God is a poet. What needs dicussion?

Iran official sees “destructive” Barbie influence

Imports of Barbie dolls and other Western toys will have destructive cultural and social consequences in Iran, the Islamic Republic’s top prosecutor was quoted as saying [last] Monday.

Iran’s conservative clerical establishment often rails against the perceived dangers of U.S.-inspired culture and consumerism, branding it “Westoxication.”

Well no wonder they’re always so anti-Occident!

Related: Meet Dara and Sara, Iran’s answer to Ken and Barbie.

The Muslim dolls have been developed by a government agency to promote traditional values, with their modest clothing and pro-family backgrounds. They are widely seen as an effort to counter the American dolls and accessories that have flooded the Iranian market.

Toy seller Masoumeh Rahimi welcomed the dolls, saying Barbie was “foreign to Iran’s culture” because some of the buxom, blonde dolls have revealing clothing. She said young girls who play with Barbie, a doll she sees as wanton, could grow into women who reject Iranian values.

“I think every Barbie doll is more harmful than an American missile,” Ms Rahimi said.
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The siblings help each other solve problems and turn to their loving parents for guidance.

The children are supposed to be eight years old, young enough under Islamic law for Sara to appear in public without a headscarf.

Great. So the only Iranians allowed to get aroused in public are the pedophiles.

Meanwhile, to help the siblings help each other solve problems, Dara’s accessories include a knife in case Sara turns nine but forgets to put on her headscarf outside.

…Another toy seller, Mehdi Hedayat, said: “Dara and Sara are strategic products to preserve our national identity. And of course, it is an answer to Barbie and Ken, which have dominated Iran’s toy market.”

Let me see if I have this straight. Dara and Sara are the Iranian Barbie and Ken? What is the mullahs’ penalty for incest? Those aren’t her eyes he’s looking at:

Aw, look — Dara and Sara couldn’t compete with Ken and Barbie. What a surprise:

Authorities launched a campaign of confiscating Barbies from toy shops in 2002, denouncing the un-Islamic sensibilities of the iconic American doll. But the campaign was eventually dropped.

Also in 2002, Iran introduced its own competing dolls — the twins Dara and Sara — who were designed to promote traditional values with their modest clothing and pro-family stories. But the dolls proved unable to stem the Barbie tide.

Note to the murderously pious: Get a grip. Even God likes to see a little skin here and there. Recall his answer to Ken and Barbie: Adam and Eve.

Carla del Ponte’s allegations that Albanians slaughtered Serbs for their organs aren’t the first to surface about Serbs being used in medical mischief. According to the 2003 statement below, Croatians did it too, in addition to draining Serbs of blood for their Serb-killing paramilitary machine. Vukovar, Croatia, 1991:

Involuntary blood taking from Vukovar Serbs (with supplementary deposition and statement)

Among the gravest crimes committed in the Vukovar Hospital…is involuntary blood taking from Serb civilians, who were for this particular purpose forcefully brought into the hospital by the members of the ZNG [Croatia’s self-styled “National Militia” guilty of countless crimes aginst Serb civilians and POWs ]…

The victims were brought in — usually from various shelters or prisons, where they were held hostages — to the transfusion department of the Vukovar Hospital or to one of its improvised outpatient departments…

Some of [the Serbs] were apprehended at the order of Jastreb, commander of Croatian armed forces in Vukovar, and kept in custody in the ZNG military police prison in the basement of the city hall building until a wounded Croatian soldier would need a transfusion of a particular blood group.

Blood was forcefully taken usually from those Serbs whose blood type was O Rh-negative. According to the testimony of hospital personnel, at least 450 ml of blood was taken from them, so that many experienced serious health problems afterwards.
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Dr. Vesna Bosanac was traded in a prisoner exchange after the fall of Vukovar. Dr. Bosanac was accused of the murder of numerous Serbian patients under her care, whose blood was deliberately drained and given to wounded HV Croatian soldiers. Upon their death, the vital organs of these Serbian patients were removed and sold on the black market in Germany. Eyewitnesses have come forward to testify to these facts.

Ironically, not only has Dr. Bosanac not been charged with war crimes, she is one of the tribunal’s chief witnesses!

In the past, Croatian readers have asked me to address the “Vukovar Massacre”, which is how they — much like Bosnian Muslims on the subject of Srebrenica — depict what happened to Croatians in Vukovar once the Yugoslav Army got the upper hand and a battle ensued. In particular, Croatians decry that the mostly Serb Yugoslav soldiers didn’t exclude the above-referenced hospital from the gun battle. But the above-cited report (along with numerous other sources) explains that the Croatian soldiers/killers ran into the hospital to hide among civilians and patients:

In late 1991, the Yugoslav Army captured the city of Vukovar from Croatian forces who had been systematically ethnically cleansing the Serb minority in the city…A Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy article in London in December 1992 said “At least 1,000 Serbs, mostly women, old people and children, were shot, knifed, axed or bludgeoned to death systematically one-by-one, in two main centres…One visiting Croat female journalist during the Vukovar fighting, unfamiliar with firearms, asked one of the young gunmen to cock a pistol for her so that she could feel what it was like to kill a Serb. She shot, indiscriminately, an old Serb woman who was standing under Croat guard.”

In November 1991, the Toronto Star said that “a photographer reported seeing black plastic bags containing pieces of the bodies of children about 5, 6, or 7 years old.” When Serb forces broke through and discovered the grisly scenes, Croatian soldiers, in an attempt to escape justice, fled to the protection of the Vukovar hospital and became patients.

I’ve acquired some photographs of the dead Serbs of Vukovar and nearby Gospic (where just last year cafes were using sugar packets with Hitler’s image and Holocaust jokes on them). These are the photos you won’t see on the walls of Holocaust museums because they’re simply too gruesome, and because most of the museums guard the real story about the 1990s ‘genocides’ as carefully as the governments that subsidize them. For there can be no Serb “victims”. These killings were in 1991, shortly before the U.S. stepped in to help Croatian fascist revivalists kill more Serbs — as we continue to do today in Kosovo. The photos appeared in the March 1993 issue of the now defunct British magazine Living Marxism, my convergence with whom I explained here. The article was titled “Hidden side of the Yugoslav war: the pictures they don’t want you to see”, and explained:

The British government has banned an exhibition of photographs showing atrocities committed against Serbs in the civil war in the former Yugoslavia…under sanctions imposed on Serbia by the United Nations. Croatian and Muslim groups from the former Yugoslavia have been allowed to stage their own exhibitions of atrocity photographs in Britain without hindrance.

Living Marxism takes no side in the Yugoslav conflict. But we have sought to expose the distorted way in which this war has been presented to people in the West. In particular, we have opposed the dishonest campaign to demonise and scapegoat the Serbs…

Original captions by Living Marxism preserved:

As Croatian forces withdrew from Vukovar on 15 and 16 November 1991, they dragged Serbian civilians from the cellars where they were hiding, and massacred them. These Serbs were axed to death in a courtyard, after being dragged from the cellar at 74 Nikola Demonja Street in Borovo-naselje, near Vukovar [Names, courtesy of the 4international blog: Radosav Pavic and Velimir Trajkovic (both wearing red); Zorica Pavlovic, her brother Zoran, mother Nada and Milojka Pavlovic.]

This three-year old Serbian boy was shot dead while hiding in the cellar at 72 Nikola Demonja Street. His mother and father, Sladana and Miroslav Cecavac, were also killed [From 4international: “This 3 year old Serbian child was labelled a ‘Serbian aggressor’ by [wartime Croatian president] Tudjman’s…government and the Western corporate-controlled media. In order to stop his so-called ‘aggression’, the so-called ‘brave’ Croatian neo-Ustashe soldiers put a bullet in the back of his head, which exited from the front of his skull. In the war in Croatia and Bosnia, by mid-1994, 7,000 Serbian children were killed: twice as many as Croatian and Muslim children combined…(From: The Suppressed Serbian Voice And The Free Press In America By William Dorich, 1994 - p 30)]

Between 16 and 18 October 1991, 24 Serbian civilians from Gospic in Croatia were slaughtered. Croatian forces killed the 15 men and nine women with guns, knives and sledgehammers, doused the bodies with petrol and set them on fire. From October 1991 to February 1992, more than 500 Serbian civilians from the Gospic area disappeared without a trace

Mira Kalanj, a Serbian civilian from Gospic in Croatia, was killed and burned by Croatian forces between 16 and 18 October 1991. Her husband, Duro, was machine-gunned in the back and then burned (Inset caption: A family photograph of Mira and Duro Kalanj with the eldest of their two sons)

A Serbian girl, suffocated to death in PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) and stuffed in a mechanic’s pit, Borovo-naselje, November 1991

A closer look at how the people in the first photo above were killed (below photos provided by a friend of the photographer who took them):

In supplement to these photos is some context for the Serb-killing orgy in Croatia that started in 1991 (exactly 50 years after Hitler founded the Independent State of Croatia in 1941), and continued into 1995. It comes via a recently started blog in Australia, named 4international.com, which has additional photos and information from those years.

To wrap up where we began, author William Dorich in his book The Suppressed Serbian Voice And The Free Press In America also mentions Croatians stealing Serb organs:

In battles between Croatian HVO forces [the joint Bosnian Croatian-Muslim army] and the Serbian Chetniks in the Krajina region on September 1, 1991, both sides took 3 prisoners each from their opponents. On September 3, 1991, in a trade of prisoners, the Serbians returned three captured Croatian HVO troops in exchange for three Serbian Chetnik troops. Little did the Serbians know that the three live Croatians were being traded for three dead Serbs. One of the bodies was brutally beaten, stabbed dozens of times, the toes cut off, the left leg broken. Evidence obtained in autopsy indicated that vital organs were missing, corroborating the Serbian claim that vital organs of victims were being sold on the black market in Germany. Video footage of one of the three victims was shown on German and Zagreb television during the first week of September, 1991, as “conclusive evidence” of the brutal torture and death of Croatian victims at the hands of the Serbs. The English translation of this video footage is believed to be narrated by the American actor, Martin Sheen, and copies of the video were sent to representatives in the American Congress and Senate. Dusan Markovich however, was not a Croatian victim. He was a thirty-two year old Serb, father of one child, with a pregnant wife…

Note: In cases such as those cited by William Dorich above, wherein Serbs have been simply found without organs, please note that when it comes to Croatians leaving Serbs organless, it’s not necessarily done for sale on the black market, since Serb-organ removal is a national Croatian pastime, no profit needed. Witness the hollowed-out bodies after the three-minute mark of this montage, and the Serbian soldier in 1995 Krajina below:

If you’re wondering why the above crimes against Serbs in Vukovar were never officially investigated, keep in mind that even Del Ponte’s allegations were dismissed out of hand by the Hague and UN. Given the history and persistence of anti-Serb bias that permeates media, governments, NGOs, militaries and the entertainment industry, any Balkan observer can almost guarantee that the claims made by Del Ponte and those of the witnesses above aren’t just credible, they’re the tip of the iceberg.

A fun Earth Day item I missed:

Immigration Is Bad for the Environment, Group Says

(CNSNews.com) - “As Americans commemorate Earth Day on April 22, the country’s ecology and resource base continue to be imperiled by mass immigration,” says a group that wants the “rule of law” enforced at the nation’s borders.

…[T]he Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)…notes that since the first Earth Day in 1970, the U.S. population has grown by more than 100 million people — “driven by ever increasing levels of immigration.”…On Earth Day 2008, the organization is renewing its call for a rollback of “excessive” immigration to the United States…Unless the government does something about the ever-increasing levels of immigration, Americans will face a future that holds worsening environmental conditions, dwindling resources, and greater dependence on foreign energy sources, [FAIR President Dan] Stein said.

“This was not the sort of future envisioned by people like the late Senator Gaylord Nelson who initiated the Earth Day celebration,” he added. “As we observe Earth Day, we call upon our nation’s leaders to get off the immigration and population growth spiral that can only lead to further environmental degradation.”

Ah diversity. Environment vs. Immigrants — and here we’ve got Native American tribes cleaning up after the immigrants: “Diverse Trash Found All Over”

But it’s like I’ve been saying: Some people want to hold the U.S. legally liable for rising sea levels in other countries (see Kyoto) because of our disproportionate carbon dioxide emissions. But the people from those countries are the ones moving here to do their emitting. And can we be legally liable if half of them come here illegally? Maybe if we didn’t have such open borders, and maybe if more countries were more industrialized, people wouldn’t be risking their lives to do their driving and farting over here.

I’m also going to use this occasion to question why everyone is so sure that Democrats are better for the environment than Republicans. After all, it’s liberals who are polluting our water supply with all their anti-depressant medication that ends up in the system. That’s not Republican Prozac in the water (Republicans are able to function in reality — that’s why they don’t need to create an alternate universe for themselves like Hollywood or academia). This just proves that liberalism is a mental illness. The proof is in the water.

You know what else ends up in the water? All the liberated bitches’ contraceptives. Which are giving the fish sex changes. So it’s not enough that they’re confusing our kids in the public schools over whom to be attracted to first — boys or girls — they have to confuse the fishes too. Which reminds me to link this:

Children’s hospital launches sex change for kids program

A doctor at the renowned Children’s Hospital Boston has launched a new program to drug children to delay puberty so they can decide whether they want a male or a female body, according to a report today in the Boston Globe.

Pediatric endocrinologist Norman Spack, 64, says he started the Gender Management Service Clinic because he found himself encountering 20-somethings who were “transgendered” and in good shape socially, “but they were having trouble getting their physique to conform to their identity.

“I knew the 20-somethings could have better chances of passing if they were treated earlier,” he said.
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“Is this our future?” asked [the pro-family organization] Mass Resistance in a commentary. “Dr. Norman Spack runs a clinic for young children who’ve ‘decided’ they are transgendered. Among other things, the clinic administers powerful hormones to delay (or even stop) puberty in order that the children more easily undergo operations that mutilate their bodies to ‘change’ them to the opposite sex.”
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In a question-and-answer session with Globe columnist Pagan Kennedy, she starts the apologetic for doing surgery on children by saying, “Little boys sob unless they’re allowed to wear dresses. The girls want to be called Luke, Ted, or James.”
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Spack tells the interviewer he’s seen “preadolescents” who have been dressing in underwear of the opposite sex “for years.”

“The puberty-blocking drugs work best at the beginning of the pubital process, typically age 10 to 12 for a girl and 12 to 14 for a boy,” he said…He said such treatments not only change the physical characteristics of the growing children, but also could leave them sterile for life.

“You have to explain to the patients that if they go ahead, they may not be able to have children. … But if you don’t start treatment, they will always have trouble fitting in,” he said.

“This isn’t conjecture,” Mass Resistance’ commentary said. “It’s happening now. And ‘transgenderism’ is being promoted to kids by homosexual/transgender activists in the public schools.”

Children as young as 12 already have been given the treatment.

Meanwhile, LifeSiteNews has reported that Spack previously acknowledged that only about 20 percent of children who claim to have a confusion over their gender hold those feelings in adulthood.

Below is an AP Worldstream story that didn’t make it to the AP’s “A” stories that become available in the U.S. and AP Online. Let’s see if we can figure out why. Oh look — it must be because it concerns Bosnian-Muslim war criminals:

Police detain three former Bosnian Army soldiers suspected of war crimes (April 8th):

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Officials say police have detained three former Bosnian Army soldiers suspected of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 conflict.

The prosecutor’s office of the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina says that Adil Ruznic, 41, Mehur Selimovic, 46, and Emir Mustafic, 47, were detained Tuesday in the western Bosnian town of Bihac on suspicion of having committed crimes against civilians and war prisoners in 1994 and 1995.

The Bosnian Army tried for more than three years to break the Serb siege of Bosniak-dominated Bihac before finally succeeding in 1995. Serbs have claimed the Bosnian Army committed crimes against the Serb population in surrounding villages during those attempts.

First, let’s note the use of the word “claim” — always employed when the subject is crimes against Serbs. Whereas the Srebrenica “genocide/massacre” is a fact beyond debate, such that if you question the circumstances of those deaths and the actual tally in this “worst atrocity since WWII,” you’ve joined the ranks of Holocaust deniers. But what happened to the Serbs in and around Srebrenica which precipitated the Srebrenica operation, can only ever be a Serbian claim. Especially since international investigators weren’t tasked with documenting dead Serbs. That’s why if a dead Serb is lying in front of you, it’s actually only a Serbian “claim.”

But getting to the point. Many a foreign “eyewitness” to the Bosnian war will tell you, as some have told me: “I saw the Siege of Sarajevo with my own eyes. There’s no defending the Serbs on that count.”

Andy Wilcoxson explains in his forthcoming book about the Milosevic trial that Fikret Abdic, a truly moderate Muslim Bosnian leader and therefore not the one to win American support, sided with the Serbs in the war against the creation of a secessionist Islamic Bosnia, and it was his forces that held northwestern Bosnia, with assistance from the Serb side. Canadian former ambassador to Yugoslavia James Bissett also gives us a glimpse into the infamous “Siege of Sarajevo”:

During the siege of Sarajevo it was not only the Muslim population that suffered. The Serbs who remained in Sarajevo and who were prevented from leaving not only were on the receiving end of the shelling and sniping but were also victims of retaliation by a hostile Muslim population. [Alija] Izetbegovic, the Muslim leader, decreed a policy of “self-organization” and this meant that local Muslim strongmen took command of certain neighborhoods and raised their own private armies. Many of them were former criminals and they adopted aliases such as: Juka, Caco, Celo, Puska etc. These local warlords broke into Serb homes, forced Serbs to leave their apartments, they looted and robbed and set up their own prisons for uncooperative Serbs, where many were killed and others simply “disappeared.” Serbian shops and businesses were prime targets and Serbs were forced to dig trenches in areas of extreme danger. Sarajevo became one large prison for the Serbian population. Later when the Muslims and Croats fell out and began to fight each other, the Croats in Sarajevo suffered the same fate as the Serbs. Of course the international media reported none of this and [so] only Muslims were victims. It is also commonly known that the Muslims frequently fired on their own people to show visiting media representatives how the dreadful Serbs in the hills above shot innocent civilians.

On that point, I’m looking at a February 8, 1994 letter from Bosnian-Serb President Radovan Karadzic to then Secretary-General of the UN Boutros Boutros Ghali:

Your Excellency,

You are of course aware of the tragic event that took place in the Sarajevo market place on Saturday. Ever since, there has been a torrent of world-wide accusations against the Serbs. The campaign has been unprecedented in its ferocity, the level of emotion involved, but most important in its blindness both to the wider circumstances of the incident in Sarajevo and to circumstances of [the] incident itself.

As you know, the UNPROFOR [UN Protection Force] report concluded that “the round could have been fired from either B&H [Bosnia-Herzegovina] or BSA [Bosnian-Serb Army] positions.” Our own indications, from sources in Muslim-held Sarajevo, are that a shell reinforced with plastic explosive was hurled at the market place from a neighbouring building. In any event, although the culprit has not been identified, the world media and many politicians have declared the Serbs the perpetrators of the atrocity.

We have been here before. A sense of deja vu is overwhelming for those who are familiar with Muslim tactics in Sarajevo. In the effort to generate world sympathy for its aims, the Muslim leadership is not above sacrificing innocent civilians to attain those aims. [Indeed, please note that this is what the sacrifice at Srebrenica was all about — coming up with the 5,000 bodies that Clinton said Izetbegovic would need to get an intervention.] The fundamental truth is that the Muslims are not interested in a peace settlement based on compromise. They want the whole of Sarajevo and the whole of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Nothing else will do for them. Hence, Your Excellency, there has been no significant progress in the peace talks. [See Kosovo.]

The day before yesterday we met the co-chairman of the ICFY [International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia] and agreed with them to start exploring the possibility of pacifying Sarajevo District in advance of an overall peace settlement. But we absolutely insist that the matter of the market place massacre be cleared up first. We demand a thorough and impartial investigation, to be carried out by UNPROFOR, with experts from the Serbian and Muslim sides taking part. Particular attention should be paid to ballistics and to pathological findings with regard to the victims. At stake here is the fate of a whole people as well as the fate of an entire region of Europe. I urge Your Excellency to exert your influence in order to allow the truth to emerge.

Yours Sincerely,
Dr Radovan Karadzic
President, Republic of Serbia

On June 6, 1996, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) carried the following item:

“UN Admits Muslims Responsible for February 1994 Sarajevo Massacre”

New York - For the first time, a senior U.N. official has admitted the existence of a secret U.N. report that blames the Bosnian Muslims for the February 1994 massacre of Muslims at a Sarajevo market.

Yasushi Akashi, the Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and the former head of the U.N. mission in Bosnia, told the German Press Agency dpa that the secret report is “no secret.”

An international outcry over the massacre, in which 68 civilians perished at Markale marketplace, led directly to a toughening of Western policy towards the Serbs, who were widely blamed for the incident.

But there have been persistent rumors at the United Nations ever since that a U.N. report clearly blamed the Muslims for firing on their own people in order to create international sympathy and get the West to fight on their side against the Serbs.

Until Thursday, U.N. officials strongly denied the report existed, even after it was quoted in press reports. Akashi told dpa that not only did the first report exist, but that some journalists already had a copy. He said the details were in a 1995 story by U.S. journalist David Binder, who quoted from the confidential report.

According to Binder, the report said U.N. peacekeepers were prevented by Muslim police from entering the site in the aftermath of the explosion. No doctors were allowed on the scene and the 197 victims were carried away to a hospital within 25 minutes.

After studying the crater left by the mortar shell and the distribution of the shrapnel, the report concluded that the shell was fired from behind Muslim lines. U.N. monitors reported no Serbian shelling that day from points near the marketplace.

The official U.N. report that was subsequently released said the evidence as to who fired the shell was inconclusive, since it originated from an area where Muslim and Serb lines were very close. The two reports represented divergent views, but the United Nations chose to publish the neutral report and keep the other secret.

The incident led to a NATO ultimatum to Bosnian Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo.

At the time, Madeleine Albright, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said: “It’s very hard to believe any country would do this to their own people, and therefore, although we do not exactly know what the facts are, it would seem to us that the Serbs are the ones that probably have a great deal of responsibility.”

Indeed, it is precisely this prototype — perpetually in disbelief of reality — that seems to gravitate toward professions in policymaking, all such clones eventually finding their way to the State Department and its equivalent abroad. The “expert” who debated author John Schindler on Voice of America several months ago used exactly the same language as Albright (a paraphrase): I refuse to believe that Muslims would kill their own.

And this is after decades of examples of what Palestinian Muslims do to their own, including the youngest children. Since then, of course, the Iraq war has provided us with plenty more examples of this self-killing tactic.

Just to get an added window into the Siege of Sarajevo, purportedly at the singular hands of those dastardly Serbs, there is my recent post about the experiences of Jews living in a Muslim-ruled Sarajevo (see last portion of this blog). Add to this the contents of a Jan. 28, 1994 communique from the Bosnian-Serb embassy in London:

Five doctors — three Serbs, a Jew and a Croat — were arrested by the Muslim authorities in Sarajevo, allegedly while trying to escape from the city. Several nurses were also arrested, on the same charge. [The doctors] had all worked in various Sarajevo hospitals throughout the present conflict, and saved many lives…The arrested doctors are being physically and [psychologically] mistreated. The representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited the arrested doctors and communicated with their families. The Serb Republic was not given any information pertaining to the location where the doctors and nurses are being held. Muslim sources report that the father of one of the arrested doctors committed suicide. The Serb Republic informs that he was killed after he visited his son in the prison.

The Serb Republic regards this case as added proof that life for non-Muslims under Izetbegovic’s Islamic regime is utterly unbearable. The fundamental question is why should people be stopped if they wish to leave? The Serb side regards free movement of civilians as a basic right and regrets that the Muslims in former Bosnia-Herzegovina treat non-Muslim under their control as hostages and prisoners…The Government of the Serb Republic does not accept that the arrested doctors and nurses be treated as POWs. They were targeted because of their ethnicity and religion. The fact that they include persons of Serb, Croat and Jewish background at least indicates that the Muslim regime in Sarajevo is indiscriminate in its persecution of non-Muslims.

In the current attempt by international mediators to effect confidence it is indeed imperative that the arrested medical personnel be set free and allowed to leave the Muslim sector of Sarajevo with their families. We also demand that all people, regardless of nationality, religion or profession, be allowed to leave areas under Muslim control if they so wish.

Finally, a rather graphic interview depicting life for Serbs in Sarajevo during the siege can be read here. (It appeared in the Serbian paper Vecernje Novosti (Evening News), and the interview subject is Milivoje Ivanisevic, Director of the Centre for the Investigation of Crimes Committed Against the Serbian People.

Below are two Serbs who lived in Sarajevo during the “Serbian” siege, from the Real Srebrenica Genocide website:

“The body of a Bosnian Serb from Sarajevo, who was killed, mutilated, and burned. His body was thrown in the Miljacka river by Bosnian Muslim forces.”

“Sarajevo: The body of Bosnian Serb Nenad Beribaka. The Bosnian Muslim forces mutilated his body after killing him by extracting his brain.”

But then, Serb suffering is officially irrelevant:

[Dragomir] Milosevic Defence Portray Serb Suffering
But judges repeatedly question testimony’s relevance to the case.
June 16, 2007

The defence in the trial of Bosnian Serb Dragomir Milosevic this week attempted to paint a picture of the suffering that both sides went through during the conflict in and around Sarajevo.

Witnesses gave detailed, emotional testimony, but the judges on several occasions intervened to ask about the testimony’s relevance to the case.

Milosevic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Sarajevo Romanija Corps, SRK, is charged with seven counts of crimes against humanity and violations of laws and customs of war for artillery and sniper attacks which are said to have terrorised the inhabitants of Sarajevo from August 1994 until November 1995.
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Drazen Maunaga, a witness for the defence, testified about how the Serb population in the vicinity of Sarajevo lived in fear of Bosnian army guns - something the defence counsel called “a sure sign of sowing fear among one’s people”.

He said Serbs he encountered during his employment as head of the office for cooperation with UNPROFOR in the Ilidza municipality would ask him “since I had contact with foreigners, whether it was possible for me to get a visa for them so they could leave the area”.

Maunaga said that he had himself been seriously wounded by a Bosnian shell.

“I was injured in the stomach. Basically, I had my intestines in my hand,” he told the court.

The judges, who at one point enquired about the witness’s current health, nonetheless said that it was not enough for the defence to argue that the Serbs were also suffering.

The defence, however, continued their theme on Wednesday with the testimony of Zoran Samardzic. He was originally under protection - known as “T-47″ - but the chamber granted his request for protective measures to be lifted.

Samardzic testified about how he went to visit a friend who had been hit by a shell while he was out in the streets, and returned to find that his son and his friend had been killed in a bombardment.

“When I returned to my apartment I found my child dead!” said Samardzic. “My only child, Sasha - 13 years old, he was, and his friend…he was 11 years old. I found them in pieces!”

After giving the witness a few minutes to compose himself, the judges again asked how his testimony was relevant to the charges in the indictment, and encouraged the defence to move on.

It was the third time that judges enquired about the relevance of defence testimony that day.

Could Wright be too white?

I think I figured out Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I think he may be a case study of the phenomenon I recently wrote about regarding light-skinned blacks over-identifying with their blackness. Just look at him. He’s lighter than Obama, and Obama is half white:

Here’s a reminder of what one reader explained based on his familiarity with the phenomenon:

For those familiar with the Afro-American community in this country, black prejudice toward mixed race people is bitter, vitriolic, and in some cases homicidal…Blacks of lighter skin color, or who bear European features, are branded “chocolates,” and verbally and socially abused. Their racial and ideological purity is questioned…I know the children of mixed race parents are subjected to school ground hazing. I know that some mixed race kids, especially those who are very light complexioned, over-identify with their “blackness.” I recognize their anger as that which comes from a wounded spirit. It’s as if they have to prove how “black” they are by repeating all the appropriate racial political mantras showing the proper amounts of disdain and anger and culture consciousness. I recognize in their judgemental behavior the desperate need for acceptance…

So here’s what likely happened:

As a kid, Jeremiah was ragged on and resented by fellow blacks, because of his “lightness”, accusing him of not really being a “brother” and resenting him for being able to sometimes even pass for white and most likely getting better treatment, or at least no scared looks, from white people. And, as difficult as race relations were when Jeremiah was growing up, he may have even had white girls checking him out — not unlikely in the racially mixed area of Philadelphia where he grew up, especially since his high school was 90% white. This would have really been too much for his fellow blacks he was trying to fit in with.

Poor Jeremiah didn’t fit in with the brothers, or with Whitey. So what could he do? Light bulb: out-black and out-anti-white EVERYONE by peddling the darkest kind of dark and becoming the uber-black leader of the blacker blacks. I would bet money that this is what formed the “reverend” Jeremiah Wright.

Jeremiah Wright, sufferer of the Barely Black syndrome

RJC Statement on Recent Gallup Poll Data

Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) Executive Director Matt Brooks issued the followed statement today:

“The just released Gallup poll of Jewish voters is another important indicator of the ongoing troubles Barack Obama has with Jewish voters. In the poll of Jewish voters (conducted April 1-30), it showed Obama getting only 61% of the Jewish vote against John McCain (32%). By comparison, in 2004, John Kerry received 75% of the Jewish vote and George W. Bush received 25%…This data comes on the heels of the exit poll data from the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton beat Obama among Jewish voters 62% - 38%,” said Brooks. “These results show that the American Jewish community is troubled by what they know of Barack Obama, his views and his positions.”

Poll results from CNN-Time Election Exit Polls 1996 and CNN Election Poll results 2004.

As rapper 50 Cent and others have said, they worry that if a black man becomes president, “he’ll probably be killed.” Considering that most black victims are targets of black-on-black crime, and considering that Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright is pretty pissed at him right now, I think that between Wright and the first black president Bill Clinton, Obama should know whom to watch out for. In fact, check out Wright’s phrasing in the following sentence just last week:

Wright said he’s told Obama that if he is elected in November and is inaugurated in January, “I’m coming after you.”

Kosovo partition “extremist idea” (April 3):

TIRANA — Albania’s foreign minister says partitioning of Kosovo is a crazy idea dreamt up by extremists.

“There can be no partition of Kosovo, because that would be a violation of the basic principles of the Contact Group,” the Albanian foreign minister told Vienna daily Standard. He said that a partition of Kosovo was the idea of extremists “who are usually involved in organized crime, and who cannot live under peace-loving conditions.”

So there you have it: Giving the Muslim Albanian nationalists anything less than the entirety of what they demand is an extreme idea.

(And his projecting about who it is that can’t live under peace-loving conditions and is involved in organized crime needs no comment.)

Asked by Bill O’Reilly last week how she feels when she hears people like Rev. Wright say the ugly things he does about America and seeing people stand up and cheer in response (including to the notion that HIV was created to kill off black people), Hillary Clinton answered that she was very offended by it.

But the base level of humanity that Jeremiah Wright plays to is exactly what the Clintons have been playing to for 16 years. These are precisely the anti-American, racially divisive attitudes that both Clintons always helped foment, with Wright being no more than a single notch over the top of the Clintons. Bill and Hillary Clinton were the original Jeremiah Wright. Obama is merely “stealing” their base base.

As the editor of the new humor book Clintonisms, I’m fresh off of researching several decades’ worth of Clinton quotes and can therefore easily refresh Americans’ memories about this pair of Sharpton/Jackson facsimiles.

Here is Hillary Clinton addressing a mostly black audience last June:

If HIV/AIDS were the leading cause of death of white women between the ages of 25 and 34, there would be an outraged outcry in this country!

And there was this beauty from both Clintons concerning the Amadou Diallo shooting:

If it had been a young white man, in a young all-white neighborhood, it probably wouldn’t have happened.

– Bill Clinton at a fundraiser in California on March 3, 2000

[Many minorities] do believe, if Amadou had been a white man in an all-white neighborhood, he would still be alive…Too many people are considered suspect because of the color of their skin.

– Hillary Clinton, March 5, 2000 at Riverside Church in uptown Manhattan

(What was that Hillary was telling Obama about not borrowing speeches?)

And here was a gem from Bill Clinton at a Georgetown University speech talking about terrorism, just two months after 9/11:

First of all, terror…has a very long history. Here in the United States, we were founded as a nation that practiced slavery and slaves were, quite frequently, killed even though they were innocent. This country once looked the other way when significant numbers of Native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights…And even today we still have the occasional hate crime rooted in race, religion, or sexual orientation. So terror has a long history.

Meanwhile, some folks are noting that Obama alters his dialect to the “blacker” when speaking to black audiences. What’s interesting is that while Billary was the first black president, Barack Obama is merely a second Billary. Because look who else altered her dialect when speaking to a black church:

Hillary tried an impression of a black preacher and it was clunky and embarrassing. Even to my British ear I could tell that the Southern twang was phony.

– Tony Harnden, March 5, 2007 UK Telegraph blog “Hillary: Civil Rights Struggle was for Me”

And of course the revelations that every two people Obama is connected to is a communist, including this mentor who was an official member of the Communist Party USA, is further proof that even if Obama does ultimately become the first actually black president, again he is still just a second Bill Clinton — the previous candidate promoted by Communist Party USA.

Probably Because They’re Both Used to Paying Women

McCain, Clinton Pay Women Better than Obama

Non-intern female employees did better working on the Senate staffs of John McCain and Hillary Clinton during the latest public reporting period than they did working for Barack Obama.

– CNSNews.com, April 30, 2008

Below is an early email I received from a reader named Theodore, who served almost three decades in the U.S. Navy. It is from September 2006, and is followed by his more recent email to me last week.

Thank you for your continual education of what “The Kosovo War” was/is really about. The Serbs were/are still wronged - and worst of all the world refuses to look into the situation or that the true travesty is that the islamic-fascists have benefited from it. Thanks to Bill and Monica! At that time I was a member of the US Armed Forces so did my duty and participated in that “war”. Having learned the truth - partly through your writings - I am ashamed of the medals awarded for that (and almost wish to throw them away - preferably at Bill Clinton). One of the medals was nicknamed the “Girl Scout Medal” as it is green and yellow and named ambiguously (like all the wishy-washy Clinton-era things were ): the “Armed Forces Service Medal”, which to those of “old-school” means nothing as we serve(d) with pleasure and pride and need(ed) no medal for this. Another of the Clintonistas’ lame attempts to placate our military…

Email from last Thursday:

I was debating on removing the medals awarded for actions in the “K.C.” [Kosovo Campaign] from my (now retired) uniform. When Kosovo was stolen - a few weeks ago - that did it. I took a step - meaningless to 99.999% of people - as these have no idea of the significance of such medals/military traditions.

It was/is very difficult to do this - even though the medals/awards were for the unjust actions, i.e. bombing innocent Serbian peoples, and awarded by authorization/approval of Clinton himself (that alone is disgusting to me). To the point: the medals - against all US military discipline, rules, traditions, and regulations - are now, and forever, no longer part of my uniform. As above I write - this means nothing to - well everyone - but I can no longer stand to even look at my uniform with these tainted medals on it (i served almost all my life for the things/ideas that made the USA good - Clintons’ Kosovo Campaign can not be included). These medals - every time I look at my old uniform - are reminders of what Clintonistas and cohorts did and continue to do to Serbian peoples. The uniform is now tainted (and this is a sad situation for me) as in place of where the medals once were - there are blank spaces (totally illegal by military law/regulation/customs). But thus it will remain forever - tainted, improper, “civilian sloppy” - thanks to the Clintonistas (still nothing in comparison to the hell that “Bill and Hill” et al, put the Serbians to (and still are - with the aid of those who should have known better))… I hope that the truth of the Serbian situation will be known/spread far and wide someday - and soon…This entire situation is so unacceptable.
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Regarding Clintonistas and the [bombing] of Serbia: It is my opinion that all Clintonistas were/still are almost completely clueless about exactly what they did to the Serbs and/or what it meant/means to the bigger/long-term picture (and are primarily responsible for the perpetuation of the situation - leading to the stealing of Kosovo by the international community). I highly doubt that even the “collective genius” of the Clintonites could put together any grand scheme that would have any long-term strategic meaning. Perhaps other forces/entities were/are involved, but if true - Clintonistas were nothing more than useful idiots playing along.

And after my follow-up email to Theodore:

The medal is referred to as the “Kosovo Medal”, “Kosovo Campaign Medal”, etc. It is one of two which i have removed from my uniform. The other is the “Armed Forces Service Medal” (typical ambiguous/meaningless-ness kind of medal from the Clinton “Comander-in-Chief” era - awarded for actions in theater including Bosnia, Croatia, later Kosovo, areas; nicknamed by many who were awarded this medal as the “Girl Scout Medal” (not to diparage the Girl Scouts or girls - it was the color combination - yellow, olive green light green, light blue - that gave the medal that extra dimension of meaninglessness…Also, the notion - held by many - [was] that the CIC (commander in chief) didn’t really know what he was doing - particularly with regard to military actions/combat operations/warfare as part of diplomacy, etc.) Perhaps some insiders (or those unwillingly part) of the Clintonistas’ administration realized that what we (the USA) were doing was just not right - and so the award/medal could not be called/designated in more accurate terms as the “Re-establishment of the Islamic Caliphate” Medal… So better to have sent in the Girl Scouts - as things would have ended up basically the same as they have, except perhaps with less loss of innocent life. Anyway, it’s is also off of my uniform forever.

My only desire is that in some very small way it may help people to become aware - especially Serbians - that not all Americans are clueless - and that more can/must be done to alert the (civilized/free world) to this horrible situation…Also, I am very very displeased with what the Bush administration has done regarding the issue of Kosovo - as well as with Israel, etc. In fact this part (why the Bush admin is playing along with the islamists) I can not figure out.

Kosovo Albanians still shooting at Serb police…in Serbia

Kosovo Albanians steal timber, fire at MUP

A group of armed Kosovo Albanians today crossed the administrative line in the south and attacked police officers patrolling the area.
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Policemen noticed a group of three to five people they identified as Kosovo Albanians who has crossed from the province, “carrying tools for cutting trees”.

They opened fire at officers, who did not shoot back, the news agency reported.

The automatic fire, police said, lasted for half an hour. It is unclear whether the officers from MUP’s [Serbian Ministry of the Interior Police] Kuršumlija department were the ones that came under attack.

The Kosovo Albanians then withdrew to the Podujevo village of Metojia, on a tractor loaded with timber.

Police said that there was no investigation of the location “for security reasons” — KFOR must first secure the area. But officers did recover one chainsaw left behind at the scene by the attackers.

So stealing trees is worth a 30-minute gun battle. Then again, if you’re Albanian, anything is worth a gun battle. Indeed, there’s a whole lot of stealing going on. We steal Kosovo from Serbia, Kosovo Albanians steal trees from Serbia, and Albanian Albanians steal trees from Kosovo. More on tree-stealing, from an interview with Canadian journalist Scott Taylor:

I have seen that the southern border (to Albania) does not exist, that it’s completely open. I went down to the place where one should be able to see it (the border), but KFOR, who should be acting as border police behave like traffic conductors, just as one of them a German, joked, himself. He says that every vehicle goes through freely, and their only concern is to avoid traffic congestion. The roads are open wide, drugs pass through freely. We were in Albanian villages, in Korcus, for example, where we were unsuccessful in trying to find any kind of border limit. There is nothing, no line, no fence, nothing, just one German soldier who went to the place where there should be a border gestured in plain air where the border (Kosovo province’s border with Albania) should be.

Q: What did the Gorani (Slavic Muslims) say? Are they loyal citizen of the southernmost tip of Serbia or are they in the middle part of a Greater Albania? How does UNMIK treat them?

ST: Yes, they are loyal to Serbia and they get their pensions from Belgrade, but it is obvious that Kosovo and Albania are one country. Albanians, from Albania mind you, not only steal their stock from Kosovo, cows, horses, and what is very significant, they freely cut forests.

If Kosovo regarded Albania as an adjoining country, not the same country, they would protect their resources, but I saw for myself that the Albanians have no problem freely taking the Gorani’s forests and destroying the region. It tells me that this is Greater Albania.

NATO knows what is happening and they said that they have vehicles that can go up hills where they can see those that steal well enough to see the color of their eyes. We could stop this, but nobody will — that’s what they told me. NATO, if it wanted, could but it cannot act independently of Kosovo parliament — that is, the Albanian leadership. Everybody knows there are no borders, but nobody will close them. We have the same information in secret documents we have received from our sources in UNMIK.

All this tree-cutting, meanwhile, reminds me of the most famous Albanian family in the country, the Duka brothers — and masterminds of the foiled Ft. Dix plot that was revealed a year ago this month. As Srdja Trifkovic wrote at the time:

Because of the Dukas’ behavior at least two families decided to move from the tree-lined street. According to the Inquirer… “Patty, 35, said the Duka family moved into the four-bedroom Colonial next to them in 1999. ‘First, they cut down all the trees for firewood,’ she said. Then came the barnyard animals and the watermelon vines growing between their houses. On weekends, dozens of visitors would arrive in vans with New York license plates, the couple said. ‘The straw that broke the camel’s back was when I looked out my kitchen window and saw the women slit a lamb’s throat with a kitchen knife.’”

The Libel Terrorism Protection Act has just been passed into law in New York, despite being ignored by the mainstream and alternative media alike — that is, by those who will most depend on its safeguards.

Press Release from American Center of Democracy

The Libel Terrorism Protection Act, also known as RACHEL’s LAW, signed by Governor

Albany, NY (May 1, 2008) — New York State Governor David Paterson yesterday signed the “Libel Terrorism Protection Act” (S.6687/A.9652), which on March 31 passed the state’s Assembly and Senate unanimously.

Also known as Rachel’s Law, the bill sponsored by Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Queens) and Senate Deputy Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) will protect American journalists and authors from foreign lawsuits that infringe on First Amendment rights. The bill also received unprecedented support from Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

“New Yorkers must be able to speak out on issues of public concern without living in fear that they will be sued outside the United States, under legal standards inconsistent with our First Amendment rights,” said Governor Paterson. “This legislation will help ensure of the freedoms enjoyed by New York authors.”

Reflecting the New York legislation’s importance, U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) on April 16 introduced a similar bill, the Freedom of Speech Protection Act (H.R. 5814), in the House of Represenatives.

In Ehrenfeld v. Mahfouz, New York State’s highest court held that it was unable to protect Dr. Ehrenfeld from a British lawsuit filed by Saudi billionaire Khalid Salim Bin Mahfouz. Britain’s High Court ordered her to pay over $225,000 in damages and legal fees to Bin Mahfouz, apologize and destroy copies of her books.

Instead, November 2006, Dr. Ehrenfeld sought a U.S. federal court order to protect her constitutional rights. But a New York Court of Appeals ruling with national implications sent legal shockwaves throughout American newsrooms.

The New York court potentially undermined U.S. journalists’ ability to expose terrorism’s financial and logistical support networks, when it ruled that the court lacks jurisdiction to protect Americans - on U.S. soil - from foreign defamation judgments that contradict the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Rachel’s Law declares overseas defamation judgments unenforceable in New York State unless the foreign defamation law provides, in substance and application, the same free speech protections guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. The law gives New York residents and publishers the opportunity to have their day in court.

The bill could not have passed without the expert assistance of Attorney Daniel Kornsein of New York City’s Kornstein, Veisz, Wexler & Pollard, LLP. Kornstein represented Dr. Ehrenfeld in Ehrenfeld v. Mahfouz.
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“This law will give New York’s journalists, authors and press the protection and tools they need to continue to fearlessly expose the truth about terrorism and its enablers, and to maintain New York’s place as the free speech capit[a]l of the world,” Lancman stated.

“The truth is a critically-important component in the War on Terror,” said Senator Skelos. “This important new law will protect American authors and journalists who expose terrorist networks and their financiers.”

Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau said: “Terrorism and terrorist financing are matters of vital interest to all New Yorkers, in no small part because New York City remains a target of significance for international terrorists. New York authors must have the freedom to investigate, write and publish on terrorism and other matters of public importance, subject only to limitations that are consistent with the U.S. Constitution. This legislation will help to ensure such freedom.”

Today, Governor Paterson declared the intention of New York State, the publishing capital of America, to safeguard the First Amendment and its courageous writers.

Rachel’s Law marks an important step in Dr. Ehrenfeld’s efforts to stop Arab billionaires like Khalid bin Mahfouz from attempting to silence U.S. writers who expose Saudi terrorist funding and global radical Muslim organizations, including al Qaeda and Hamas.

Rachel’s Law — and your financial support—now make it possible for Dr. Ehrenfeld to return to court for a declaratory judgment against Mahfouz. Your generosity makes possible the continued exposu[r]e of financial jihad by courageous investigative journalists and researchers. We are only as strong as our supporters, and your financial assistance is essential to our success.

The American Center for Democracy (ACD) is a tax-deductible, non-profit organization that qualif[ies] as [an] exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and Regulations.

Your support is important to us. Thank you for helping our work to preserve democracy and freedom in America.

Please note that this victory now allows Rachel to go back to court, win the case — and test the law so it can be adopted nationally. In other words, sealing the victory will require a lot of money.

Another American journalist (making about five so far) has noticed that Rachel’s Law — possibly the most important piece of legislation since the Patriot Act — successfully passed when it was signed into law last week by NY Governor David Paterson. Diana West — who’s actually been the only prominent writer on top of this issue — had the following post this weekend on the Political Mavens blog:

Earlier this week, New York State Governor David Paterson signed a bill into law that is sure to help derail “libel tourists” in their attempts to take New York authors and publishers for a ride to the book-pulping machine via expensive, speech-chilling foreign libel suits.
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This is fantastic news for liberty enthusiasts. But it didn’t come out of thin air. This victory for free speech is due to the tenacious courage of author Rachel Ehrenfeld, the New Yorker who for nearly four years has battled to have a British default libel judgment against her — brought against her book Funding Evil by Saudi billionaire and “libel tourist” Khalid bin Mahfouz — declared unenforceable in the U.S. It is her ongoing case, which might well be described Abu-Dickensian in length and nefariousness, that inspired the bi-partisan bill that passed the New York State Legislature unanimously last month and was signed into law this week. New York’s lawmakers and new governor are to be greatly commended for recognizing the need to act to protect our liberty.

I asked Rachel to comment on the significance of this encouraging development. She wrote:

“‘Rachel’s Law’, as NY Assemblyman Rory Lancman stated, ‘give[s] New York’s journalists, authors and press the protection and tools they need to continue to fearlessly expose the truth about terrorism and its enablers, and to maintain New York’s place as the free speech capit[a]l of the world.’ This law should be followed by national legislation to protect all American writers’ free speech. Indeed, US Rep. Peter King submitted such law to Congress.”

That would be the Freedom of Speech Protection Act (H.R. 5814), which Rep. King (R-NY) introduced in the House of Representatives on April 16, and which should be passed on the double. Rachel continued:

“Personally, it marks an important step in my efforts to stop Saudi billionaires like Khalid bin Mahfouz from attempting to silence me and all U.S. writers who expose him and Saudi Arabia’s terrorist funding of global radical Muslim organizations, including al Qaeda and Hamas. Thus, I have to go back to court to win the case against Mahfouz and test the effectiveness of this law…Amazing how the media at large ignores this new and important development for their free speech rights.”

It’s not only amazing, it’s jaw-drop shocking. One completely appalling way to read the striking apathy is as a tacit concession to the speech curbs the Khalid bin Mahfouz[e]s of the world would like to impose on brave souls like Rachel — i.e., a tacit concession to dhimmitude.

Assemblyman Lancman’s remarks on the Assembly floor are viewable here.