Want to see Bush and Cheney behind bars?

h/t AfterDowningStreet

“Lock ‘Em Up”

more about “Convict Bush and Cheney and … | Aft…“, posted with vodpod

A Warm Redneck Thanks

If you read my Letter to The President and it inspired you to write him, as well, I just want to say, “Thank You”!

Perhaps this is the first step into stopping the jailing of sick people simply for making themselves better.

Having Federal Authorities circumvent the state laws due to bogus Federal Laws and a failing and erroneous “War on Drugs” is just not right. It is wrong and harmful on every level. So, along with my thank you, I wanted to share the same wishes from Rob Kampia of MPP (who initiated the letter event). BTW: I plan to write President Obama today to thank him.

Yes You Did- Obama Vows to End Raids

More than 10,000 of you have written President Obama and Congress to ask that the president send a clear signal to Bush holdovers at the DEA about their continuing raids against medical marijuana dispensaries in California.

It worked:

On the front page of the Washington Times today, a White House spokesman said:

“The president believes that federal resources should not be used to circumvent state laws, and as he continues to appoint senior leadership to fill out the ranks of the federal government, he expects them to review their policies with that in mind.”

Your letters paid off. Would you take one minute to use MPP’s easy online system to e-mail the president and thank him for his commitment to protecting medical marijuana patients?

Change is happening, and you’re a part of it.

Sincerely,

Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.

P.S. As I’ve mentioned in previous alerts, a major philanthropist has committed to match the first $2.35 million that MPP can raise from the rest of the planet in 2009. This means that your donation today will be doubled.

P.P.S. You can opt out of receiving fundraising mentions in the e-mail alerts I send you in 2009 by visiting www.mpp.org/2009optoutpreference at your convenience.

My Letter of thanks:

Thanks For Helping Sick People

Dear Mr President,

Thank you for your statement on medical marijuana raids. When you said that “federal resources should not be used to circumvent state laws” you were correct and I am so very glad that you came out and said to the American public what needed to be said.

There is no amount of War on Drugs rhetoric that can help sick people. The WoD has only caused many more people to suffer needlessly and now is “the” time we become truly “progressive” about marijuana and use it for its benefits, which far out-weigh any negative effects or stigma.

The current mentality of marijuana being “evil” and compared to cocaine, heroin, etc, is simply ludicrous, when each and every comparison falls flat since it is untrue. Compared to alcohol and tobacco, marijuana is even less harmful… to the contrary, beneficial for users in many ways. There is a huge hypocritical discrepancy here and it can only be driven by ignorance of the American public and our leadership in Congress and the Judicial system.

And this is not to mention the tax incentive that could be utilized or the fact that hemp is the greatest biofuel substance grown on earth. It is time we begin to educate people and stop the lie of the War on Drugs and the scare tactics of the bogus “Reefer Madness” mentality.

So, thank you, Mr President for speaking up about these raids into sick people’s lives, destroying them in some of their hardest and most trying times of their lives.

But this is much deeper than that and this is only a first, brief step into rectifying the craziness that is America’s drug policy.

Bill Walker: I Hope You End Up OWNING Chattanooga

I have written about Mr Kenneth freeman’s absolute criminal behavior towards the Wal-Mart greeter, Bill Walker in Chattanooga around Christmas here, here and here. I said back then that he needs to sue those assholes for everything he can get… not that I agree with law suits, especially frivolous ones, but because the only REAL way we can fight the Police State is with their methods… MONEY.

You see, it is because the Homeland Security apparatus now desires that police departments go full force on virtually everything and if there is a problem, work it out in court. They invade homes, arrest citizens that protest and end up getting sued, but it is only money (your money). Most poor people have to succumb.

You see, they can go to extremes, then pay you off with your own tax money when they step out of bounds. Nice racket.

I know of one way to counter them and that is to sue. Perhaps, if all the people who have been screwed over by the police just in the last year were to conduct a mass law suit, maybe we could get some shit done. At the very least, some of the conservative nutjobs that sit on the Supreme Court need to go.

I am sick of my country being run by a bunch of religious freaks who claim Jesus as their “Savior” yet act as if they never knew Him (which He will explain later). As for now, I am telling you that you do not emulate or even remotely bear witness to His persona and purpose. From Jonathon Turley:

Assaulted Walmart Greeter Sues Police Officer and Chattanooga Police Department

There has been general outcry after the Chattanooga Police Department refused to charge Officer Kenneth Freeman with assault after he knocked down a seventy-one-year old Walmart greeter and threw another man through a glass door. Now, Bill Walker, 71, is suing Freeman and the police department for $21 million.

Walker says that he was assaulted by Freeman on Christmas Even when he asked to see the officer’s receipt. When Freeman did not stop, he touched his arm and Freeman allegedly hit Walker. When a good samaritan tried to intervene, Walker says that Freeman shoved him through a glass door.

The police department refused to charge Freeman and merely suspended him for 28 days for conduct unbecoming an officer, execessive use of force and improper procedure.

Now, the department itself may have to pay for its employment and treatment of Walker. This is an example of how such civil lawsuit can play a needed role of deterrence in the absence of responsible conduct by department like the Chattanooga Police Department. Perhaps a degree of civil liability will instill a greater sense of responsibility for the department.

For the full story, click here and here.

Traveling long and hard today… like everything I do. Long and Hard.

Valentines for Palestine

My Bro’, Manilla Ryce at The Largest Minority posted the following video regarding he and Anita’s idea for showing Gazans what real Americans think about the situation (he did a special Google video to honor my boycotting of YouTube… he is a cool dude).

This old redneck is not buffaloed by the MSM and our government (much less the Zionist government and MSM of Israel) and can think past the talking points regurgitated by them all.

I am not fooled and cannot forget decades of abuse and murder from Israel, nor can I place blame on Hamas or anyone who is trying to keep their own people from starving to death or to get hospital care when needed.

Israel has been blockading this small land mass and totally encirceled it with brab wire and weapons. Israel is the cause for this mess and the sooner Americans wake up to that unarguable statement of fact and are willing and able to call them for their atrocity, nothing will change.

Did George Washington and our founding fathers stop because of the opporession? No. I expect that NO American would allow what is happening to te Gazans to happen to their own families.

How ’bout showing some love for a change?

We will be having an art show in LA on the 12th, but candlelight vigils on the 14th are also encouraged if you can organize one in your respective areas. Bring a bucket for donations.

Here’s the official site where people can get info and donate:
http://www.ValentinesforPalestine.org

This is our email for the org:
ValentinesforPalestine@gmail.com

And here’s the Art & Craft Village in Gaza City where the pieces will be sent:
http://www.gazavillage.org/

HEADLINES: Dog Finds Absolutely Perfect Place To Shit

PORTLAND, OR—After carefully examining every inch of sidewalk within a four block radius of his home Tuesday, local dog Sigmund, 4, finally found the absolutely perfect place to squat down on his hind legs and void his bowels. The Labrador retriever mix—who bypassed a series of nearly perfect spots to deposit his feces—scanned the ground for a full seven minutes before eventually locating the 4-by-5-inch region that exhibited an ideal synthesis of ground texture, smell, and plant-life proximity. Sigmund then carefully strained out two and one quarter lengths of excrement onto the ideal site, approximately 11 inches from the curb and 4 inches from a street sign soaked in another dog’s urine. This marked Sigmund’s most successful location hunt today, surpassing an earlier incident in which the dog found a pretty okay place to vomit.

h/t The Onion

Does Pot Demotivate and Cause People to be Couch Potatoes?

As Michael Phelps (altho he pussed out in his written response) can attest…

NO

It doesn’t have to. And this is the point: He made you rednecks all giddy with his awesome performance this past summer and he is a “dope head”. How does that fit into your craw?

Now, Michael, you know you didn’t make a mistake. You simply got caught. And you think it may harm your rep or money. And it probably could.

But it SHOULDN’T.

So, here is Michael’s response for getting caught (given to the AP):

“I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment. I’m 23 years old and despite the successes I’ve had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again.”

Michael, take it from the 47 year old ex swimmer, I don’t expect any “promises” for you to stop. What you should do is use this opportunity to help open the eyes of America to the lies that it has been told. At 23, you are now old enough to capitalize on your fame and gifts by using them both to spread the truth about marijuana and not kowtow to the pressure.

Personally, what you do is none of my business and unless usage gives you some advantage in competition, no one else should give a damn, either.

Pete, from The Drug War Rant found a blog post with the correct type of answer and response to your critics, Michael. Mine could be done with two short words:

Fuck You!

But that is just me. Maybe something like this from The Agitator makes more sense:

A Letter I’d Like To See (But Won’t)

Dear America,

I take it back. I don’t apologize.

Because you know what? It’s none of your goddamned business. I work my ass off 10 months per year. It’s that hard work that gave you all those gooey feelings of patriotism last summer. If during my brief window of down time I want to relax, enjoy myself, and partake of a substance that’s a hell of a lot less bad for me than alcohol, tobacco, or, frankly, most of the prescription drugs most of you are taking, well, you can spare me the lecture.

I put myself through hell. I make my body do things nature never really intended us to endure. All world-class athletes do. We do it because you love to watch us push ourselves as far as we can possibly go. Some of us get hurt. Sometimes permanently. You’re watching the Super Bowl tonight. You’re watching 300 pound men smash each while running at full speed, in full pads. You know what the average life expectancy of an NFL player is? Fifty-five. That’s about 20 years shorter than your average non-NFL player. Yet you watch. And cheer. And you jump up spill your beer when a linebacker lays out a wide receiver on a crossing route across the middle. The harder he gets hit, the louder and more enthusiastically you scream.

Yet you all get bent out of shape when Ricky Williams, or I, or Josh Howard smoke a little dope to relax. Why? Because the idiots you’ve elected to make your laws have have without a shred of evidence beat it into your head that smoking marijuana is something akin to drinking antifreeze, and done only by dirty hippies and sex offenders.

You’ll have to pardon my cynicism. But I call bullshit. You don’t give a damn about my health. You just get a voyeuristic thrill from watching an elite athlete fall from grace–all the better if you get to exercise a little moral righteousness in the process. And it’s hypocritical righteousness at that, given that 40 percent of you have tried pot at least once in your lives.

Here’s a crazy thought: If I can smoke a little dope and go on to win 14 Olympic gold medals, maybe pot smokers aren’t doomed to lives of couch surfing and video games, as our moronic government would have us believe. In fact, the list of successful pot smokers includes not just world class athletes like me, Howard, Williams, and others, it includes Nobel Prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, the last three U.S. presidents, several Supreme Court justices, and luminaries and success stories from all sectors of business and the arts, sciences, and humanities.

So go ahead. Ban me from the next Olympics. Yank my endorsement deals. Stick your collective noses in the air and get all indignant on me. While you’re at it, keep arresting cancer and AIDS patients who dare to smoke the stuff because it deadens their pain, or enables them to eat. Keep sending in goon squads to kick down doors and shoot little old ladies, maim innocent toddlers, handcuff elderly post-polio patients to their beds at gunpoint, and slaughter the family pet.

Tell you what. I’ll make you a deal. I’ll apologize for smoking pot when every politician who ever did drugs and then voted to uphold or strengthen the drug laws marches his ass off to the nearest federal prison to serve out the sentence he wants to impose on everyone else for committing the same crimes he committed. I’ll apologize when the sons, daughters, and nephews of powerful politicians who get caught possessing or dealing drugs in the frat house or prep school get the same treatment as the no-name, probably black kid caught on the corner or the front stoop doing the same thing.

Until then, I for one will have none of it. I smoked pot. I liked it. I’ll probably do it again. I refuse to apologize for it, because by apologizing I help perpetuate this stupid lie, this idea that what someone puts into his own body on his own time is any of the government’s damned business. Or any of yours. I’m not going to bend over and allow myself to be propaganda for this wasteful, ridiculous, immoral war.

Go ahead and tear me down if you like. But let’s see you rationalize in your next lame ONDCP commercial how the greatest motherfucking swimmer the world has ever seen . . . is also a proud pot smoker.

Yours,

Michael Phelps

American Israeli Foreign Policy: The Flounder of The Middle East

Yellowtail flounder

Jeff Rotman- Stone/Getty Images

Wikipedia

Flounder: While flounders have both eyes situated on one side of the head, they are not born this way. Their life involves metamorphosis. During metamorphosis, one eye migrates to the other side of the body so that both eyes are situated on the upward-facing side of its body.

Flounder are ambush predators…

Let me explain my analogy. A flounder is a mean assed fish. And it can do shit that changes its body right before your eyes (were you to look long enough). Israel is the same. It has changed itself, slowly, into a ravaging killing machine. What was first an amicable country just looking for a place to lay its head, now has turned into a bottom dwelling creature feeding from us and our scraps.

The bottom side is the only place to attack it, but it protects itself by lying on that side, with the two eyes looking upwards. Its hard to get at its weak side and most attempts are futile (much like the Hamas rockets). Yet, this fish is viscious.

Israel lives off of the fish we allow them to eat, for we are the giant shark swimming just over head. Whatever we don’t devour, we let them have it (or worse, let them eat the scraps that fall from the table). The entire group of congresspeople swim in a orchestrated school just waiting for any and every opportunity to discuss how the flounder needs to protect itself, so we make sure we have our school of sharks swimming around protecting this one-sided fish, for God Allah knows that this little flounder would have been killed and eaten long ago by the baracuda called Iran, or Egupt, or Palestine or (name any ME country that is sick of the USA fed Israeli domination).

The ocean is tainted by this bizarre fish called Israel, simply because it has allowed itself to metamorpise itself into a two faced predator that could not take care of itself with the really Big Fish without the Great Shark’s undying allegiance and aid.

Glenn Greenwald has written about the conflict in Gaza a few times and once focused on the American politician’s  knee-jerk response, “Israel has a right to defend itself”. But surely there is a real rationale for this utterance. Or maybe there is a lot of media hype trying to brainwash the American public into going along with the carnage Israel has unleashed on an imprisoned population. In these few clips of an article Glenn did about Marty Perez (and the entire right-wing propaganda arm called the MSM) where he addresses the 800# gorilla that obviously reigns in the room but no one talks about:

Marty Peretz and the American political consensus on Israel

Opinions about the Israeli-Palestinian dispute are so entrenched that any single outbreak of violence is automatically evaluated through a pre-existing lens, shaped by one’s typically immovable beliefs about which side bears most of the blame for the conflict generally or “who started it.”  Still, any minimally decent human being — even those who view the world through the most blindingly pro-Israeli lens possible, the ones who justify anything and everything Israel does, and who discuss these events with a bottomless emphasis on the primitive (though dangerous) rockets lobbed by Hamas into Southern Israel but without even mentioning the ongoing four-decades brutal occupation or the recent, grotesquely inhumane blockade of Gaza — would find the slaughter of scores of innocent Palestinians to be a horrible and deeply lamentable event.

But not The New Republic’s Marty Peretz.  Here is his uniquely despicable view of the events of the last couple of days:

So at 11:30 on Saturday morning, according to both the Jerusalem Post and Ha’aretz, as well as the New York Times, 50 fighter jets and attack helicopters demolished some 40 to 50 sites in just about three minutes, maybe five. Message: do not fuck with the Jews.

“Do not fuck with the Jews.”  And what of the several hundred Palestinian dead — including numerous children — and many hundreds more seriously wounded?

Israeli intelligence reported 225 people dead, mostly Hamas military leaders with some functionaries, besides, and perhaps 400 wounded. The Palestinians announced 300 dead, probably as a reflex in order to begin their whining about disproportionate Israeli acts of war. And 600 wounded.

Objections to the Israeli attack are just “whining.”  Those are the words of a psychopath.  And what to do now?

Frankly, I am up to my gullet with this reflex criticism of Israel as going beyond proportionality in its responses to war waged against its population with the undisguised intention of putting an end to the political expression of the Jewish nation. . . .

The current warfare will go on a bit longer. If there is a pause and if I were giving advice to the Israelis, this is what I would say to Hamas and to the people of Gaza: “If a rocket or missile is launched against us, if you take captive one of our soldiers (as you have held one for two and a half years), if you raise a new Intifada against us, there will be an immediate response. And it will be very disproportionate. Proportion does not work.”

This super-tough-guy warrior — whose prime accomplishment in life was marrying an heiress and then using her family’s money to buy himself The New Republic — beats his chest and threatens that even a single Palestinian act in response to this bombing campaign will provoke still more massive retaliation in the form of collective punishment (which, not that anyone cares, happens to be a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions, as are Hamas’ far less harmful rocket attacks on Israeli civilians).

It may be true that, as Eric Alterman put it in his seminal article on Marty Pertez (quoting Ezra Klein), “Peretz is rarely held to account, largely because there’s an odd, tacit understanding that he’s a cartoonish character and everyone knows it.”  But how unusual are Peretz’s views, revolting as they are, in the American political mainstream?  He certainly expresses anti-Arab hatred and bigotry more bluntly than most, but this reflexive support for anything and everything Israel does is anything but unique in our political debates…

B’Man: To me, therein lies the problem. Those “cartoonish characters’, like Marty Perez, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, et al are politely shrugged off as over-the-top many times, but in reality they are used to propel bogus propaganda (and Americans are gullible enough to swallow it). These people want that message out there. The more hatred and division the better, for then they can make claim that they are carrying out the American citizen’s will. (Do I have to list the many times their “sense” was wrong and that they were going AGAINST the will of the people?) And those who are or seek leadership poitions fall all over themselves trying to fit in with the meme that it is sickening…

Here, as but one illustrative example, is Caroline Kennedy — who, in order to win her Senate seat, is self-consciously trying to turn herself into a Barack Obama clone — responding recently to a question about Israel from Politico:

QUESTION 8: Do you think Israel should negotiate with Hamas? Do you agree with Israel’s Gaza Strip embargo? Would you support an Israeli airstrike on Iran if they felt Tehran’s nuclear program represented a threat to their survival?

ANSWER: “Caroline Kennedy strongly supports a safe and secure Israel. She believe Israel’s security decisions should be left to Israel.”

What could be more absurd than that?  Apparently, not only should we continue to feed Israel billions of dollars a year of American taxpayer money and massive amounts of weapons — thereby ensuring that the world, quite accurately, perceives their actions as American actions — but we should then take the position that they are free to do anything they want with it, no matter how extreme or destructive to our interests, and our only view on all of it should be that we blindly support whatever they do.  Or, as Clinton aide Ann Lewis put it during the primaries, in response to Obama’s observation that he needn’t have a “Likud view in order to be pro-Israel”:

The role of the president of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel. It is not up to us to pick and choose from among the political parties.

Yesterday, the Bush administration applied this mindset, naturally, by expressing unequivocal support for Israel and heaped all blame on Hamas.  And, needless to say, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi echoed the administration’s view:

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi issued a statement concerning the Israeli operation in Gaza in which she wrote that “When Israel is attacked, the United States must continue to stand strongly with its friend and democratic ally.”

According to Pelosi, “Peace between Israelis and Palestinians cannot result from daily barrages of rocket and mortar fire from Hamas-controlled Gaza. Hamas and its supporters must understand that Gaza cannot and will not be allowed to be a sanctuary for attacks on Israel.”

Not a word of condemnation of the Israeli blockade — which has caused extreme suffering and deprivation in Gaza — or of the massively disproportionate response or the ongoing and ever-expanding Israeli occupation.  It is all one-sided support for whatever Israel does from our political class, and one-sided condemnation of Israel’s enemies (who are, ipso facto, American enemies) — all of it, as usual, sharply divergent from the consensus in much of the rest of the world.

It would be nice if U.S. citizens weren’t connected to and responsible for every Israeli military action, so that we really could and should take the attitude that what the Israeli Government does — or what is done to it — is not our responsibility.  That’s how it should be.

Instead, since we fund a huge bulk of it and supply the weapons used for much of it and use our veto power at the U.N. to enable all of it, we are connected to it — intimately — and bear responsibility for all of Israel’s various wars, including the current overwhelming assault on Gaza, as much as Israelis themselves.  Blind support for whatever they do — the consensus view in American political life in both parties — is therefore a total abdication of our responsibility.

It remains to be seen if Barack Obama intends to deviate even a small amount from what has been decades of excessively loyal U.S. support for Israel — which, over the last eight years, transformed into truly blind and absolute support for anything they do.  It’s impossible to know for sure until Obama is inaugurated, but the bipartisan, purely “pro-Israel” statements issued by his allies — such as Caroline Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi — don’t bode well, nor do the statements which Obama himself made during the campaign, as compiled yesterday by Salon’s Mark Schone:

The first job of any nation state is to protect its citizens. And so I can assure you that if — I don’t even care if I was a politician — if somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.

Can’t the exact same mentality be deployed to justify everything Hamas has done and is doing, to wit:  “if a foreign power were brutally occupying my country for four decades — or blockading my country and denying my children medical needs and nutrition and the ability even to exit — I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that.  And I would expect Palestinians to do the same thing”?  But the last thing that our political class ever extends is reciprocal, two-sided analysis to this dispute.

The suffocating bipartisan orthodoxies in the U.S. regarding Israel thus make virtually impossible what the new Jewish-American group, J Street — in condemning the attack (even while calling it “justifiable”) because it “will deepen the cycle of violence in the region” — urges:  “immediate, strong diplomatic intervention by the United States, the Quartet and allies in the region to negotiate a resumption of the ceasefire.”  Most of our political elites know enough to avoid the ugly language of Marty Peretz, but the ultimate policy positions aren’t much different.

B’Man: Personally, I don’t want a nickel of my tax money being sent to Israel for any purpose, much less for weaponry and supporting the invasion into Hamas. I DO recognize that the Gazan’s elected a body to represent them, in response to our prodding, btw, and that winner is now the enemy. They did what we asked and that isn’t good enough.

What will be good enough to stop the rocket attacks from Hamas? Stop the Israeli oppression of the Gazans.

It really IS that simple, but you would never know that from hearing our leadership. That is because they don’t want you to know WHY Hamas keeps rocket attacking Israel.

As Glenn asked, if ANY method is enough to protect a country from an offending force, then the rocket fire out of Gaza is fine with me… UNTIL Israel STOPS the blockade and gives the Gazans the land it is trying desperately to steal from them.

Plain and simple, Israel is commiting genocide by starving and now bombing them, when the Gazans are trying to stop the starvation.

Israel is not our friend. They are the flounder that will cause us all to live in more and more fear and will eventually turn its ungrateful head towards us.

Charter Cable: Of All Days

My ISP, Phone and TV are all provided by Charter.

5 minutes into the game service in the entire town stopped.

(Posted from my Blackberry, sitting with my 4 year old, watching an old Scooby Doo movie)

You Probably Think This Song Is About You, Don’t You?

You’re So Vain

(hover over and a player should pop up)

B’Man’s Sabbath Watch: Jesus Walked With Dinosaurs

When I saw this picture, I knew that I had seen it before in some sort of children’s Bible book. And it brought back the image of Jesus on horsedinosaurback with a sword in hand, ready for the rapture. The Bible got the stuff about horses all wrong. It was dinosaurs. I also notice that this particular Jesus looks like I did when I was in my 20′s. This is something I didn’t realize, but makes a lot of sense, since I am treated as if I am a God.

But I also found out that He didn’t ride just the TRex in battle against the hordes of hell. He also rode some dinosaurs instead of camels, everywhere he went. When it was recorded that He came to town on a donkey, it was no donkey… it was a Barapasaurus and His side gig was a Barapasaurus baby sitter. All the throngs of leaves and branches thrown into the road were actually food for the baby dinosaur Jesus was carrying.

Unfortunately, this was the time that Jesus began riding side saddle causing all the other prophets to question if he was gay or not…

But then, we find an old picture of BeulahMan, before his most recent incarnation (and when I had lots of hair) and we realize that not only was I gay back then, I was a weird dinosaur pedophile. I’m sure glad that some of these traits aren’t passed along with each new life.

h/t Vintage Faith

And just so that we are all on the same page about the Sabbath (and watching over it), it is obvious to me that if you feel you must cut the tongue out of your daughter’s mouth BEFORE burning her to death due to her recent Christian conversion, that your child is too verbose and probably deserved it. God knows that if it weren’t for His followers, there would be no one to keep the faith in line. BuelahGirl, you better watch yourself…

Saudi man kills daughter for converting to Christianity

Riyadh: A Saudi man working with the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice recently killed his daughter for converting to Christianity.

According to sources close to the victim, the religious police member had cut the tongue of the girl and burned her to death following a heated debate on religion…

Then there is this arrest for the vile transformation from Islam to Christianity. In this story, religion proves, again, that it can repeat itself countless times throughout the history of the world and nothing changes. It wasn’t too long ago that the very same could be said about Christians converting to Islam and how barbaric those “Godly Men” could conduct themselves.

Granted, the Saudis would have my head for this blog. But so would have Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell, if they could have gotten away with it.

h/t Jonathon Turley