Time for the Death Penalty

It’s high time for the death penalty to be brought back to this country for people convicted of espionage. Time and time again our most valuable secrets are stolen right from under the noses of those who’s jobs are to prevent this thief. From hard drives missing from top secret nuclear plants like Los Alamos to the U.S. Navy’s Top Secret battle plans these documents just walk out the door.

The most recent case reported today involves a contract employee Oak Ridge National Laboratory was arrested Thursday on charges of stealing classified data about enriching uranium used in nuclear weapons, a law enforcement official said.

The argument that the govenment uses to protect these criminal is rediculous. First thing they do is work out a plea deal where the spy get a nice cushy jail cell instead of a bullet to the heart. And why does the government do this? They throw out the “National Security Card”. This is BS. Those who wanted the information already have it. So what or who are they protecting? I say they are playing a game the government knows so well, the CYA card. Cover Your Ass! All they want to do is protect the people who are in charge of the agency.

And what do the spies get? Almost nothing. Accourding to Espionage by the Numbers: A Statistical Overview by Richards J. Heuer, Jr., of Defense Personnel Security Research Center and Katherine Herbig, TRW Systems the average Length of Sentence: The percentages for each initial sentence length are as follows: 18% less than 5 years; 20% 5 to 9.9 years; 18% 10 to 19.9 years; 10% 20 to 29.9 years; 7% 30 to 30.9 years; 2% 40 years; 12% life in prison. Sentencing information is available for 127 cases. Twenty cases are known to have had other outcomes such as defection, suicide, or immunity from prosecution.

It is hard to believe that in today’s high tech world these scum can’t be stopped as soon as they leave the building. Is no one watching the cameras? Are there not metal detectors? Don’t the security people open brief cases and Star War’s lunch boxes? How about install some simple degaussing system. Yes, it would destroy the data, but that is better than letting fall into enemy hands.

And then a process that even the government could understand. Assign each piece of equipment a number. When you want say, a certain hard drive, you give the security person a chit with your name and employee number on it. When you return the hard drive, you get your chit back. As YOU leave the building, the security people count and take your chits. You get them back the next day when you show them your ID badge. No badge, no chit. Simple. Why you could even color code them for government plants.

Now that is a plan that any idiot in government can understand!

“As happens too often in Washington, common sense didn’t carry the day - special interests did,”

New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg summed up the latest defeat of a gun control bill ever so eloquently when he stated, “As happens too often in Washington, common sense didn’t carry the day - special interests did,”

Access to Gun Sales Data Blocked
Associated Press | July 13, 2007

WASHINGTON - “Pro-gun rights Democrats teamed with House Republicans on Thursday to block local governments and law enforcement agencies from gaining routine access to gun-purchasing data.

The House Appropriations Committee defeated two attempts by gun control advocates to strip four-year-old restrictions on the use of information from Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives tracing gun sales. The votes were a victory for the National Rifle Association and came despite the Democratic takeover of Congress in January.

The committee’s emotional debate often focused on broader gun rights issues rather than the matter at hand, involving when the bureau can share such information.

Gun control advocates say the gun sales data is essential to uncovering dealers who sell guns that disproportionately end up in the hands of criminals.

Gun rights advocates, led by Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., said mayors such as New York’s Michael Bloomberg want the data to sue out-of-state gun dealers.

Oh what a lovely picture of bed fellows: NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox (l.), congratulates Congressman Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.) for championing legislation that will protect the privacy rights of law-abiding American gun owners.

Tiahrt, the key sponsor of the restrictions on sharing gun trace data, also said easing the restrictions could lead to the disclosure of police officers’ identities and other details to criminals. (A statement that is not true as it was fixed in the final bill, hence it is a lie.)

“What the Tiahrt amendment does is protect those who protect us,” Tiahrt said. (Another lie)

Pro-gun advocates say the data-sharing restrictions protect gun owners’ privacy. But Bloomberg and other mayors contend they hamper law enforcement authorities’ ability to trace illegal guns and arrest weapons traffickers. (Must be considered a bad idea to the gun lobbiest who support Tiahrt)

See the video about Tiahrt against gun control.

“This handcuffs the cops, not the criminals,” said Rep. C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger, D-Md.

More than a dozen Democrats, most from rural districts, joined with all but two committee Republicans to defeat a bid by Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., to ease the data sharing restrictions but ensure that police officers’ names would not be compromised.

Earlier, a bid by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., to reject Tiahrt’s language altogether lost by a voice vote.

The mayors say gun tracing data helps police departments determine the source of illegal guns, who buys them and how they are distributed.”

Almost three-fifths of guns used in crimes are sold by just 1 percent of gun dealers, who forge relationship with gun traffickers making multiple purchases.

Under Bloomberg, who recently left the GOP amid speculation he may run for president as an independent, the city has sued out-of-state gun dealers in an attempt to reduce the flow of illegal guns into New York. The NRA-backed restrictions block cities from getting ATF data for such suits.

The committee chairman, Rep. David Obey - a liberal Democrat representing a rural Wisconsin district - said the issue was only marginally related to gun rights. He opposed the efforts to ease the data restrictions.

But Obey lashed out at both the NRA, which failed to endorse him in his most recent race despite his pro-gun rights record, and Bloomberg. He said the mayor’s representatives met with his staff and threatened to run television ads attacking him.

Lindsay Ellenbogen, a Bloomberg aide, denied any threats. Bloomberg is co-chairman of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which has run ads in a few congressional districts.

“As happens too often in Washington, common sense didn’t carry the day - special interests did,” Bloomberg said.

Thursday’s result continued a run of back luck on Capitol Hill for gun control advocates. They have lost many times since a Democratic-controlled Congress pushed through an assault weapons ban in 1994. Many Democrats credited the ban for losses in rural seats as the party took a drubbing at the polls that year.

The return of Congress to Democratic hands did not appreciably hurt the NRA’s position because many of the newcomers are from rural, pro-gun rights districts.

“To allow this information to be misused by trial lawyers and gun control groups who want to sue gun manufacturers because criminals misused legally made and legally sold guns is not only bad policy but bad politics,” said Chris W. Cox, the NRA’s top lobbyist.

The votes came as the committee approved a $53.6 billion bill for the departments of Commerce and Justice, as well as NASA and science programs.

Just another case of the best government money can buy and damn the people.

And now for the most ridiculous news of the day.

Hard to believe but this junior Publicity Whore, Cindy Sheehan is actually going to try her hand in politics. And to make it even more ridiculous, if not unbelievable, she want to run for the seat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi now occupies. Actually what the peacenik is trying to do is black male Ms. Pelosi into introducing a bill to impeach President Bush.

The disgraceful publicity whore Sheehan has given Ms. Pelosi a July 23rd deadline to get the legislation going. Just what America needs. Another convict working in Washington, DC. She plans her official candidacy announcement Tuesday.

And the reasons for her actions? “Sheehan, who will turn 50 on Tuesday, said Bush should be impeached because she believes he misled the public about the reasons for going to war, violated the Geneva Convention by torturing detainees, and crossed the line by commuting the prison sentence of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. She said other grounds for impeachment are the domestic spying program and the “inadequate and tragic” response to Hurricane Katrina.”

Lookout Washington, another loon is trying to head your way!

Radical Islamic Clerics Like to Dress in Drag.

Well here’s a new twist on Radical Islam. Some have become more Westernized than was first thought. Chief cleric of the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque Maulana Abdul Aziz in Islamabad, Pakistan was captured by a female police office who was checking women fleeing the mosque, tried to search his body, which was concealed by a full-length black burqa. Wonder how many more of these drag queens there are in Pakistan? (Sorry, no pictures available of the Cleric terrorist in drag).

This just in: Startling pictures posted on the web shows on Radical Islamic Terrorist dressed in burqa. Film at 11.

On the serious side, how many Radical Islamic Terrorist have escaped using the all concealing burqa? Perhaps this is why the UK is becoming more strict in their rules governing the wearing of the burqa. These cowards will do anything to avoid captures. They are well know for hiding among civilian, non-combatant population.

The terrorists wearing burqas is particularly troubling because no American trooper would ever, most likely under penalty of military justice, would ever remove even part of burqa. I can hear the furor this would cause in the Islamic world and with the left coast in this country. I’m sure most American combat operations don’t include a woman to check if the body shrouded.

Of course the troops could go back to the old idea of, “kill them all, let God sort them out” way of fighting.