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UN reaping what it has sown

[source, source] Alan Dershowitz gets one right.

For more than a quarter of a century, the U.N. has actively encouraged terrorism by rewarding its primary practitioners, legitimating it as a tactic, condemning its victims when they try to defend themselves and describing the murderers of innocent children as "freedom fighters." No organization in the world today has accorded so much legitimacy to terrorism as has the U.N. Consider the following: There are numerous occupied peoples around the world seeking statehood or national liberation, including the Tibetans, Kurds, Turkish Armenians and Palestinians. Only one of these groups has received official recognition by the U.N., including observer status and invitations to speak and participate in committee work. That group is the one that invented and perfected modern international terrorism - namely, the Palestinians. These rewards were first bestowed in the 1970s when the Palestine Liberation Organization was unabashedly committed to terrorism. In fact, Chairman Yasser Arafat was invited to speak to the U.N. General Assembly in 1974 at a time when his organization was seeking to destroy a member-state of the U.N. by terrorism. By rewarding Arafat and the PLO for such behavior, the U.N. made it clear that the best way to ensure that your cause is leapfrogged ahead of others is to adopt terrorism as your primary means of protest. The Tibetans, whose land has been occupied more brutally and for a longer period than the Palestinians, but who have never practiced terrorism, cannot even receive a hearing from the U.N.

California threatens suicide if Ahnuld not elected

More news from California concerning just how crazy those California voters are. These concern Cruz Bustamante, who is the Democratic candidate for governor in the recall election.

Bustamante has a history is a former member of an explicitly racist organization, "MEChA":http://www.panam.edu/orgs/MEChA/nt_const.html which also seeks to overthrow the US government (at least in the southwestern US). Bustamante has explicitly stated he has no regrets about his membership.

Bustamante wants gasoline "regulated as a public utility":http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/29/CRUZ.TMP. I'll bet that works out as well as the current governor's energy purchase plan!

UPDATE: The MEChA precursor organization leaders hanging out with Yassir Arafat under the gaze of a picture of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Media bias watch

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Chetwynd was plugging "DC 9/11" during the Television Critics Association's (TCA) summer press tour in Hollywood. Question: "You did contribute to [Bush's] campaign?" Chetwynd: "Yeah, the limit was $1,000...Would it make a better film if I'd given $1,000 to Gore?" Question: "Yes." Chetwynd: "Why?" Question: "Because it would show less potential bias." The questioner was absolutely serious. If you donate money to Bush, you're biased towards Bush, but if you'd donated money to Gore you wouldn't be biased AGAINST Bush. Supporting Gore is just the normal default position, as everyone knows. Chaw

No media bias there!