American Glob

I can’t wait to see Olbermann and the New York Times’ take on this one. After all, if this guy had ever been within 500 miles of a Tea Party, we’d never hear the end of it.

In 2001, in the months that followed 9/11, there was a wave of terrorist attacks which came in the form of Anthrax laced letters being mailed to politicians, news offices and others. The culprit turned out to be Bruce Ivins, a scientist who actually worked for the United States government.

Ivins committed suicide as the FBI closed in on him in July of 2008. New FBI reports have since been released and they paint a pretty weird picture.

Despite being an FBI target, Ivins was often forthcoming about the details of his strange obsessions and private life. For example, as seen below, when agents executed search warrants in late-2007, an FBI supervisor asked Ivins if he was worried about those raids. Ivins said he was, noting that he did things a “middle age man should not do,” adding that his actions would “not be acceptable to most people.” He then noted that agents searching his basement would find a “bag of material that he uses to ‘cross-dress,’” according to an interview report.

Three months before his suicide, surveillance agents sifted through trash Ivins left at his curb and discovered that the beleaguered scientist was disposing of pornographic magazines, fetish titles, and 15 pairs of stained women’s panties.

The FBI records show that some Ivins acquaintances shared with the FBI e-mail and instant message communications exchanged with the scientist. In a July 2008 e-mail, Ivins wrote that “Dick Cheney scares me. The Patriot Act is so unconstitutional it’s not even funny.” He added, “I’m voting for Obama!”

If Ivins was alive today and sitting in a jail cell, I wonder how he’d react to the news that President Obama signed the order to continue the Patriot Act just last weekend.

The Democrats had the numbers to make changes, but another civil war would have ensued.  In addition, it appears that when these controversial legislative pieces are passed by the Democrats, it makes it all better.  No more outrage from the MSM and the far-left, because the rules of war and engagement are clearly different because, you know, the Democrats are in charge.

The MSM won’t say anything about Obama signing the Patriot Act for the same reason they’ll never point out that Bruce Ivins was an Obama supporter. It doesn’t serve their agenda.

Had McCain won in 2008 and signed the Patriot Act last Saturday night, you’d find that information splashed across the front pages of the New York Times, The Boston Globe and on every major network by 6 pm. It would be used as a confirmation that Republicans and Conservatives are evil, Constitution shredding, non-humans. When Obama does it, it must have been the right thing to do, now let’s never discuss it again.

If Bruce Ivins had sent an email to a colleague saying “Hey, how about that Sarah Palin? I like her.” it would surely be newsworthy. But he didn’t say that. He sent a message to a colleague saying he was “voting for Obama!”

That should pretty much guarantee that we’ll never hear anything about it in “the news.”

David Neiwert of Crooks and Liars is suddenly concerned about domestic terrorists who are anti-government and make bombs.

Neiwert has had his panties in a twist since last fall when Sarah Palin brought up Obama’s association to Bill Ayers and he’s still angry about it.

He has tried to point out that there are right wing domestic terrorists, which is true. Eric Rudolph and Timothy McVeigh are the examples Neiwert has used most frequently.

Unfortunately for Neiwert’s argument, Sarah Palin wasn’t friends with them. Nor did she launch her career in one of their living rooms.

Nice try, Dave.

More at Memeorandum.

The domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground, will speak at Purdue University later this month.

“Bill Ayers, co-founder of the radical anti-war Weather Underground protest group, is coming to Purdue University on Sept. 24 to participate in an educational forum.”

“Ayers, 64, is a distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He will speak on “Inequality and Education: The Challenge for Urban Schools” at the inaugural Cummings-Perrucci Annual Lecture on Class, Race and Gender Equality.”

We have been unable to confirm whether or not Ayers plans to blow up any buildings as part of his visit to the university.

VIDEO UPDATE: Here is Charles Krauthammer on Van Jones and Bill Ayers.

William Ayers, the American terrorist, Obama booster, founder of the Weather Underground and communist sympathizer, was detained and denied entry to the country of Canada yesterday.

According to reports, Ayers had no idea why Canada would deny entry to someone who participated in efforts to bomb the American Capitol and the Pentagon.

“I don’t know why I was turned back,” Ayers said in an interview this morning from Chicago. “I got off the plane like everyone else and I was asked to come over to the other side. The border guards reviewed some stuff and said I wasn’t going to be allowed into Canada. To me it seems quite bureaucratic and not at all interesting … If it were me I would have let me in. I couldn’t possibly be a threat to Canada.”

Gee Bill, maybe they Googled you.

Michelle Malkin has some great ideas for the heroic Canadian Border Guards.