No (t) Surrender

The IRA’s announcement yesterday had the whole issue of religious intolerance buzzing round our heads like free wine at a Jesus Party. Calvin White asks a simple question:

How do our current religious leaders think Jesus would react to the concept of collateral damage?

“Now that imams in Britain and Canada are standing up and publicly condemning terrorist acts as anti-Muslim and against the teachings in the Qur'an, I wonder if pressure might be put on Christian leaders to take a similar stand?" Full article here.

Our good friends over at Tiny Little Dots sent us this snippet about the Irish Patriot Act which also had us reaching for a bottle of the black stuff. Strangely timely new legislation appears to give the CIA power over Irish Citizens. Seen this anywhere?

Under an agreement signed last week, CIA agents, will be allowed interrogate Irish citizens on Irish soil in total secrecy. Suspects will also have to give testimony and allow property to be searched and seized - even if what the suspect is accused of is not a crime in Ireland.

Full story at the Irish Examiner here...

Meanwhile, thanks to Digby for this next piece. I was hesitant to include this as I’m wary of fuelling conspiracy-mania that seems to have replaced political analysis but hey, it’s Friday, so provided you’ve got the Saxa handy:

“Lyndon LaRouche, on this Wednesday afternoon, issued an international alert, covering the period of August 2005, which is the likely timeframe for Vice President Dick Cheney, with the full collusion of the circles of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to unleash the recently exposed plans to stage a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against Iran. The danger of such a mad, Hitler-in-the-bunker action from the Cheney circles would be even further heightened, were the United States Congress to stick with its present schedule, and go into recess on July 30 until September 4. With Congress out of Washington, the Cheney-led White House would almost certainly unleash a "Guns of August" attack on Iran.

LaRouche based this assessment on a series of factors, reported to him over the recent days, beginning with the qualified report, from a former U.S. intelligence official, published in the American Conservative magazine, that Dick Cheney ordered the Strategic Command (STRATCOM) to prepare contingency plans for a conventional and tactical nuclear strike against hundreds of targets in Iran, in the event of a "new 9/11-style attack" on the United States. As EIR reported several months ago, the Bush Administration, under CONPLAN 8022, had already placed the relevant "mini-nukes" under the control of theater military commanders, as part of a new Global Strike doctrine, a doctrine originally conceived when Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush in the early 1990s.”

More here.