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Funny, you don’t hear much about the “Patriot Act” anymore.

The big news today is that the FBI announced that it has broken an Al-Queda Cell in Lodi California.

Here are a few of my rough notes on the subject.

1) Absolutely not a single headline anywhere by anyone that said: “ FBI uses patriot act to catch terrorists in Lodi California”. But rest assured, they did.

2) If I were a terrorist, and if I were looking for the perfect base on which to stage my operations, a place like Lodi would make the perfect location in which to hide and to operate within. I am currently about 40 miles north of Lodi, I have lived here most of my life. Everyone is making jokes about Lodi, but I have to tell you something, the central valley small towns are under assault from narcotics smugglers who buy up small houses out on the periphery of town and use them to create meth labs or grow pot. The access to freeways and the complete lack of any sort of police force in small towns makes this very lucrative business these days. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the area, Lodi is a small town on the edge of the Sacramento River Delta. The Sacramento River Delta, like all Deltas in the world are known for one consistent illegal activity, smuggling. In my opinion, Lodi as a location of this cell was not an accident.

3) Apparently, ‘the Son’ was on a “no fly list” and was detained after an attempted flight from Korea and was “detained and interrogated” in Japan. Really? Korea? Come See Sunny Korea on Vacation? What’s the deal?. Can’t he get enough of that good ole Kim Chee at home? How much does a round trip ticket to Korea go for, its not cheap that’s for damn sure, and when you get there, you gotta have somewhere to stay. Korea? Was he ‘routing through’ or did he have business in Korea with agents of the North (most obvious, but puzzling) or was it just a convenient place to meet with some other pals? Why go somewhere where you will stand out in a crowd like a pimple on a prom date?

4) What sits at the mouth of the Sacramento Delta? , Two of the west coasts biggest refineries and their transportation pipelines. One small industrial accident at either of those facilities can hike fuel prices in California by 50 cents a gallon. What sits on the other side? ,the Capitol of California. Within 4 miles of the Capitol building sits the ‘Port of Sacramento’, which is attached to the delta by the deep water channel. This port is capable of holding very large ships. The port is virtually unsecured.

5) In 1973, an ammunition train in Roseville California exploded, causing millions of dollars of damage including damaging the Capitol dome, which is 12 miles to the south of Roseville. Today, train tracks run 3 miles from the Capitol with unrestricted commercial and passenger traffic. These same trains run unprotected and unsecured through the delta for long stretches. For reference material, see the Dutch Moluccan terrorist case.

6) In an odd, make your hair stand up on its end, make you wonder if something’s being said across the quad at the local madrassa, The Richmond California Amtrak and Bay Area Rapid Transit train station was closed due to a man whose suspicious behavior led to the station closure as it was on its way to Martinez. Martinez if you haven’t already guessed, is at the mouth of the Sacramento River Delta. “One Crazy Guy” or someone who knows more than he’s supposed to know getting out of control.

7) School is out for the summer for most districts in California this week. It’s interesting to me that the arrests came this week, although it’s also very clear that the investigation has been going on for some time. A “Premptive” move on the part of the FBI?, perhaps.

8) One local station reported that one of the younger suspects names was actually that of another older man ( age 72) who died recently. Its entirely possible that the names we have seen in relation to the actual suspects have nothing to do with the people caught as they are probably under layer after layer of identity laundering that has gone on for years. Don’t allow yourself to be lured into the “ hes just a boy”. Defense.

9) The seven stages of "Chronic Islamic Criminal Victimhood", goes something like this:

a) Your fellow mosque members are on local video saying: “Yeah, they were arrested, and sure they confessed, but they were harassed by the FBI”.

b) The Imam of the mosque will be invited to a weekend public affairs show, which is hosted by a former college radical, an American Indian activist, and a Democratic strategist. The Imam will say “Of course we don’t believe in terrorism, but if Americans could see how the Jews and the Zionists have destroyed the people of Islam, they might be more sympathetic to our cause”. The rest of the panel will nod in knowing approval.

c) Local news will ask repeatedly if there are any signs of reprisals against Moslems by the country bumpkins who voted for Bush in the last election. The Local news anchors will appear to be praying for a lynching, just so they can get the story in camera. An audible sigh will be heard from the anchor when once again, nothing of the sort happens.

d) Ramsey Clark takes up your case. Proclaims this a prime example of Imperial America and its Injustice.

e) The BBC decides that the ‘Bush Family and Karl Rove “is using your trumped up case to win elections by scaring the dumb back country bumpkins with xenophobic racism.

f) Jimmy Carter says you should be set free in the interest of peace; Nancy Pelosi says you should bet set free so we can have a “Clean Slate” with the Islamic World.

10) Make no mistake, we will be hit again, and its my opinion that it will be the west coast this time, not the east. When that happens, how long will it take for the left to launch into an attack, not on the people who actually committed the crime, but on the people in the government who have been working day and night to stop it. Think about it, the agencies of this government are working as hard as they can to stop something from happening, all the while the left and the media have done literally everything they can to stop any effective action from occurring, and who will be the one that gets the blame for it happening? Not the left who have aided and abetted the very terrorists who are going to carry out their crimes, but the people who have given up their lives in the defense of this country.

Only to the people of the left can the defense of America be considered indefensible and its distruction somehow justifed.

UPDATE: The Lodi Sentinel does an excellent job getting to the known facts. They are to be congratulated in their work.

Posted @ June 09, 2005 12:05 AM | Current Affairs