Updates From Southeast Asia

Recently I've been quite busy with work and as such the frequent posts here have slowed down a bit. For those wondering, yes I'm okay and on top of things, I've just been extremely busy and at the moment Adsense and the small donations I receive from time to time just ain't enough to pay the bills. Remember that your support makes "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" better. Hopefully the day will come when I can afford to dedicate much more time to something that has become not only a labor of love, but one that I consider to be a duty.

I've got several drafts of items to be posted soon and hope to get them up in the near future including the continuation of how Islamic Extremism can be defeated once and for all and how we are, at the moment, heading in the absolute opposite direction in achieving that. A bit cocky sounding on my part you might think. How can someone actually claim to hold the answer on how to defeat Islamic Extremism, but what you will read in the days ahead is how that was actually achieved on a small scale right here. There really is no secret to it and sometimes the answer is right there just waiting to be discovered. Maybe you've noticed the recent absense of people like Adam Yahiye Gadahn. You might be wondering where he is and what happened to him, why his sudden silence, the clues have all been posted here at "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" my friends.

What inspired me to take a break from work and update was the subject of Benazhir Bhutto and Pakistan. The other night I received a call that Bhutto was assassinated. I can't really say that I was shocked or surprised, it was something that was expected, also expected was the blame being placed on Al Qaeda. Interestingly enough at the time I was mulling over how to word a post regarding the recent New York Times article on the billions of US dollars in aid that have been completely wasted in Pakistan. American tax dollars that has been diverted to extremist groups in Pakistan by our "friend" Pervez Musharraf and his pack of Islamist thugs who masquerade themselves as a legitimate government. You might have read the original story here entitled "All Musharraf All The Time" back in June. Unfortunately I don't have the circulation that the New York Times does.

Andrew McCarthy is on the right path when he said that - "Jihadists are not going to be wished away, rule-of-lawed into submission, or democratized out of existence. If you really want democracy and the rule of law in places like Pakistan, you need to kill the jihadists first. Or they’ll kill you, just like, today, they killed Benazir Bhutto."

What Andrew McCarthy left out is that often in our self-perceived vocation as the torch-bearers of freedom and democracy, we tend to lose sight not only of the limited power of politically engineered change in an Islamic country such as Pakistan, but of that simple truism that no society can ever live outside the parameters of its basic ideology. The foremost condition required for democracy to ever take root in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan or any Islamic country for that matter is the acceptance by all of the sovereignty of the people, a concept that runs contrary to the basic ideology of Islam and effectively denies the fundamental Islamic affirmation of the sovereignty of God.

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Defeating Islamic Extremism 101 - Part 1

Imagine for just a moment that there was a real solution to defeating Islamic extremism once and for all, one that was not only within our grasp, but one that has been proven to work. What you will read is the true account of coming face to face with an Al Qaeda member prior to 9/11 and how his efforts to recruit were thwarted. Imagine for a moment that the so-called extremists could be revealed for who they truly are. Not the messengers of objective truth that they claim to be, but rather the pharisaical hypocrites that they truly are.

In a recent editorial in the New York Times entitled "Islam's Silent Moderates" , Ayaan Hirsi Ali asks the question "Where are the moderates?" as she laments on the silence from the so-called contingent of moderate Muslims around the globe in response to the recent case of the "girl from Qatif". As much as I admire Ayaan Hirsi Ali for her outspoken courage, I'm disappointed that she consistently misses the mark on defining a solution for effectively dealing with Islamic extremism. I'm also disappointed that someone like Ayaan Hirsi Ali fails to see that the issues we face and not so much with "moderation" and "extremism" but rather with what I believe to be the real issue of moderninity.

In dealing with Islamic extremism, the first thing we need to do is skip through the endless mind-numbing musings on Islamic jurisprudence peddled by a plethora of self-proclaimed Muslim pundits and scholars around the globe, the harsh reality is the there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim. What we do have though is the modern Muslim. The modern muslim versus the anachronism.

I had first met Hassan many years ago while I was having my lunch at a small restaurant in Singapore on Jalan Pisang called Hajah Maimunah. The restaurant is a bit off the beaten track from Orchard road and so, few tourists will ever visit it, but it serves perhaps the best Indonesian and Malay food in all of Singapore and at lunchtime during the week the restaurant can be quite packed. Hassan, with his tray in hand saw me sitting alone at a table as asked if he could join me. I looked up at this poor sob decked out in his full Islamist regalia complete with the androgynous black eyeliner and turban and nodded my head for him to sit down.

Typical of many of these living anachronisms who often meander the streets and loiter around the mosques in modern-day Singapore, Hassan epitomized many of these psychically enslaved individuals who are hopelessly and perpetually trapped in some sort of cosmic Manichaean struggle between good and evil, where they find even the simple use of cutlery confounding. Showing his complete and utter disdain for modernity, Hassan sat down and proceeded to stick the fingers of his right hand into his food. Amused and yet disgusted at the same time I watched this individual make a spectacle of himself as well as a mess at the table with his curry-covered hand. Sitting there in my shirt and tie watching Hassan, I almost felt pity and couldn't help but think, not only how comical he looked but how he simply did not fit in with modern society. Attempting to hide my disgust at his table manners and with perhaps a bit of feigned congeniality I reached over and passed Hassan a napkin and asked him politely in Indonesian if he would mind cleaning the mess that he made on the table.

At this point you're probably thinking that this is quite condescending of me and that perhaps this individual's disdain for cutlery is nothing but a "cultural thing", and in some respects you are correct, but Hassan's disdain for not only cutlery but modernity as well, is equally if not more, founded in, and influenced by his own ethnic and religious chauvinism and the "us versus them" dichotomy that permeates each and every aspect of his life.

As I look around the restaurant I noticed many other Indonesians and Malays who found no problems adapting to the implements of a modern-day society. Individuals who did not feel threatened by cultural progression, individuals who did not feel compelled to repudiate all aspects of what they perceived to be in any possible way linked to Western civilization, individuals who, above all, were not hopelessly enslaved by the same brutal dualistic worldview that Hassan was.

By this time Hassan had finished his meal and then looked over at me and said. "I see you can speak Indonesian".

to be continued...

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Barack Obama and The Truth

I've come to the conclusion that only the convoluted pathology of moonbatism could ever possibly account for the incognizance suffered by Obama's rabid contingent of fanbois and supporters. As to be expected, Digby at Digby's Hullabaloo and Steve Benen at The Carpetbagger Report have once again worked themselves into a frenzy over the mainstream media's mention of "rumors" concerning Obama's Islamic heritage, what Benen instinctively refers to as "lies" and "slander". Exacerbating their agony was an article in the Washington Post that would allege that Obama's opponents are using his Muslim ties to fuel rumors about him, rumors which happen to be true.

No, I'm not talking about the madrassa rumor, but of the fact that Obama is an apostate who now claims to have embraced Christianity. For Obama the acknowledgment of his religious upbringing has not been forthcoming and despite all the evidence to the contrary Obama continues to deny the fact that he was ever a Muslim. In the alternative, Obama would apparently have us to believe that one can somehow embrace Christianity without having to renounce Islam first. Of course admitting that you are an apostate who has since embraced Christianity might just invalidate those foreign policy credentials in dealing with the Muslim world. So instead of renouncing Islam which might anger the Muslim world Obama leaves his religious leanings open to an ambiguous interpretation by riding the fence so to speak, kind of like a bizarre black and white religious chameleon. Needless to say, it is not the "right-wing hate machine" that is fueling the rumors, but rather Obama himself with his refusal to be forthright with not just the American people but with himself. And therein lies the entire crux of the matter.

Despite what they say though, the reality is that for Obama and many of his supporters the veracity of the rumors is not really an issue, what is an issue is the audacity of their opponents to dare tread into what they consider to be an illegitimate area of inquiry. We've all heard this same story before with Bill Clinton who never was able to wrap his head around the fact that it was his character that was called into question rather than his conduct.

There is only one person who can dispel the alleged rumors and that is Barack Obama himself and yet instead Obama prefers to be nothing more than a poseur playing the role of the perpetually victimized black man with a Muslim name.

So is Barack Obama really a stealth Muslim masquerading as a Christian? That all depends on what your definition of "is" is.

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Clinton's Real Legacy Abroad

"Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst..." ~ The Republic - Plato

At the height of Bill Clinton's tribulations in the late 90's, I was sitting with a small group of Asian and Chinese businessmen in Singapore who were mendaciously gloating over how much they adored America's president and how he will be remembered as one of America's greatest leaders. For American businessmen like myself, who were living and working in Asia at the time, the incessant ribbing had become pretty much commonplace. For the most part, the average Asian on the street couldn't have cared less about Bill Clinton, his domestic problems didn't affect Asia and his relentless pursuit to make a virtue out of hedonism and self-indulgence would thankfully spare most of Asia and remain stateside.

For the Asians and the Chinese, who's sociopolitical beliefs are founded in Confucianism, there is the profound expectation of virtuous and morally exemplary leadership in their elected leaders. In the eyes of the Asians, America's President Bill Clinton was a man completely devoid of the essential attributes of a leader. Clinton's arrogance, immorality, lack of humility and unbridled narcissism would come to epitomise to all Asians the absolute worst characteristics of leadership.

There are a few reasons why this is of importance now, the first being that there seems to be a misconception today on the part of many Americans as to whether or not Clinton was "liked" overseas. Was he liked? Sure he was, he was liked in the same way that Americans like Paris Hilton. The Asian and Chinese leadership on the other hand liked Clinton, but only because they found him to be malleable due to his obvious character flaws. In desperation, Clinton would "reach out" and allow himself to be manipulated foolishly thinking that he was winning or in the alternative that his benevolence would be interpreted as friendship, all the while Clinton never seemed to grasp that simple truism that nation's themselves don't have friends. They have interests.

Interestingly enough, according to an interview last month in the Guardian, if Hillary Clinton wins the US presidency, Bill Clinton claims that he will be given the job of repairing America's damaged international reputation. In the Guardian interview Mr Clinton, 61, reveals that his wife has said she would ask him to "go out and immediately restore America's standing, go out and tell people America was open for business and cooperation again" after eight years marked by unilateralist policies that have "enraged the world".

From the tone of the interview and what we have seen so far from Hillary Clinton, it would seem that the Clintonian solution to challenges in foreign diplomacy would be to do whatever we can to "please the world". For the Clinton's it's quite obvious that America's "unilateralist policies" ie. leadership has "enraged the world". "Pleasing the world" according to the Clinton's wishes would entail placing our nation's interest and security in the hands of a multilateral organization such as the United Nations which of course is what our nation's enemies would like as well. A multilateral organization that can serve as a counterbalance to effectively stymy American resolve and hegemony. The mere suggestion of which in a post 9/11 world is not only naive, but dangerously foolish.

So what can we do to please everyone? The answer is nothing. Regardless of what we do, we are never going to please everyone. There is always going to be someone somewhere who will be enraged at the decisions our country makes. We can do as the Clinton's suggest and somehow willingly cede our position and power to a multilateral organization in the hopes that maybe we will be liked once again or we can stand firm and resolute in moral self-righteousness recognizing the fact that it is America not the United Nations that has always and continues to serve as a beacon of hope for all of those who continue to seek freedom and liberty around the world.

For as much as the Clinton's gave to China, it's a shame they never got anything in return. They might have learned something.

"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." - Confucius

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The Balkanization of America

I just visited Houston, Texas recently and was surprised (or rather shocked) to see that even the menus in restaurants such as IHOP are both in English and Spanish. I was even told that there are several restaurants in Houston where if you don't speak Spanish then you simply won't get any service. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not the least bit xenophobic, it's just that the dramatic changes in my hometown caught me a bit off guard. You see it's been a few years since I was last in the United States and each time I return I find myself amazed at the sociopolitical changes.

On more than one occasion while I was there I didn't recognize what was being said around me and was actually a bit surprised at how many people were speaking Spanish in their dealings instead of English. I went to one store near the downtown area and found myself ignored by the Spanish speaking sales staff as they continued to help the Spanish speaking people around them. I stood there waiting and then eventually just gave up. But what was even more disturbing about the whole thing wasn't the Spanish speaking, it was that there seemed to be a sense of arrogance and what can perhaps best be described as an "ethnic chauvinism" among the Spanish speaking people that was never there before. It was as if they didn't care anymore or were not concerned to assimilate, to learn English or even to speak English, but even then, it was deeper than that, many seemed to harbor a sense of grievance that despite being nurtured by well-meaning federal policies of positive discrimination gave rise to an indescribable feeling of tension that seemed to be omnipresent everywhere I went.

For the first time in my life I felt like I was in a foreign country by returning home, but even that is not really accurate... You see if I would have went to Mexico instead of Texas, the Spanish speaking people there would have at least try to communicate with me and serve me. They would have smiled and made an honest effort to speak English and the banks and shops in Mexico would have gladly accepted my US passport as an ID. But in Texas this time things were disturbing different.

But overall, what I've found most disturbing is the Balkanization of the United States or as it is known by is politically correct euphemism "multiculturalism". You'll have to forgive me, but having lived overseas for as many years as I have, I never received the diversity is strength memo, and if I did, I would have promptly thrown it in the trash where it rightly belongs. There is no strength in diversity and I'm confounded at how Americans could have ever willingly bought into that nonsense. What did it take? Was it the the fear of being labeled an intolerant bigot or of being politically incorrect that somehow collectively coerced all of you into this accepting this mind-numbing mantra as gospel?

Take a cue from a country like Singapore who had to learn the hard way about the wondrous glories of diversity and multiculturalism. A country who was forced to adopt Draconian laws limiting freedom of speech just to ensure ethnic and religious harmony and who has spent countless millions over the years on government propaganda directed at their own citizens extolling nationalism and unity over diversity. Funny how there is no mention of how "diversity is strength" in this little ditty penned by Singapore's Ministry of Information, Communication & the Arts entitled "We are Singapore". Is this what we want for the United States?

How long will it be before these ethnic and racial enclaves that are being nurtured like unhatched chickens begin to poke their beaks through the shell? I fear it won't be long now. From having lived in a multicultural society, I can say from personal experience that rising ethnic chauvinism among immigrants both illegal or legal is not only a warning sign, but is is the ultimate destroyer of peace and harmony and when the winds shift it will get bloody. When that happens there will be two paths for Americans to take and both of them will be unpleasant. Either Americans will stand up and fight for liberty and freedom or they will have to accept certain restrictions to liberty and freedom in order to keep the peace.


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America's Image Overseas

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." ~ John Wooden - American Basketball Coach - 1910

In all my years spent overseas, I've never once apologized for being American, nor have I ever felt the need to apologize for America's actions around the world. Like many Americans I have instinctively known that America's benevolence however misguided or naive it might be at times has always stemmed from a noble intent. I've also accepted that simple truism that no matter what you do, you can never please everyone and to add insult to injury, regardless of what good we do or what our intent is, there are always going to be instigators both at home and abroad who simply find themselves compelled to pee in the pool.

Often times it is Americans themselves who either purposely or inadvertently, give rise to the animosity we experience around the world. Americans who are hopelessly consumed with what Pope Benedict has described as a "pathological self-hatred" and who fail to recognize the veracity in the adage that 'you can't expect someone else to love you until you learn to love yourself.'

Needless to say, I found myself taken aback with the recent publication of a report where a "think-tank" commissioned by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) concluded, based on a dozen or so opinion polls from around the world that "America's reputation, standing and influence are at all-time lows, and possibly sinking further".

Reading the report I couldn't help but think how completely off the mark the authors of this report are. It is shameful that a group of Americans can disgrace themselves by publishing a report like only days before the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy gives a speech before Congress professing his nation's deep admiration of the United States and what America stands for. Have the authors of this report forgotten what America stands for in the world or are they just so bitterly blinded by their own partisanship and self-hatred that they can no longer see all the good that America does around the globe.

Predictably the report blames the American led War on Terror for America's low image around the world and then goes on to suggest that "America should be a smarter power by investing once again in the global good and providing things that people and governments in all quarters of the world want but cannot attain in the absence of American leadership".

I'm not quite sure I understand what the hell that means, but I do know one thing, and that is that "providing things" is not what America is about, nor is it the way to foster and spread goodwill around the globe. The authors of this report, and the rest of the Center for Strategic and International Studies might want to spend a little more time in the "think-tank" and emerge only after a little self-reflection until they can finally rediscover what America stands for.

In the words of Nicolas Sarkozy, "From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia but were rather the most realistic policy there is and the most likely to improve the fate of each and every person."

Rather than "providing things", we should concern ourselves with inspiring others overseas and we do that through promoting good will about America and about what we stand for, not by promoting ill will. What good will are we promoting overseas with an endless stream of crap emanating from Hollywood like the recent "Lions for Lambs" or any one of Michael Moore's films? What good will are we promoting when we demonstrate to the world that we have no respect for our own democracy or our nation's duly elected leaders? While there was much I disagreed with in the report cited above, there was one thing that I agreed with, and that is that "every United States citizen serves as a diplomat". Having said that, it should go without saying that perhaps a little introspection should be called for before we start getting our panties in a ruffle about our reputation overseas. Personally I don't care if we are liked. I care more that we are respected.

Leadership is not simply doing what is popular or what will get you liked, it is doing what is right, and often times doing what is right is not the popular thing to do. To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

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Alien Nation

It has been three years since I've last traveled back home to the United States. My trip has been a somber one, but also one of great comfort. Despite the circumstances of my trip, I've had the opportunity to meet friends and relatives, many of whom I have not seen for several years.

The comfort and joy of returning home would slowly dissolve upon discovering that I've returned to nation that has become almost unrecognizable. The hope, optimism and pride of a nation seems to have been replaced with a growing sense of despair and hopelessness. Wherever I go there seems to exist a profound and unavoidable sense of malaise. Once proud patriotic citizens have been demoralized by the relentless prolonged siege from the enemy within and from a government that continues to enable those who would seek our demise.

Just how bad have things become? An experience of mine from last week provides an illustration of just how demented things have become.

Last week I went into small Texas bank here in my family's hometown to open a bank account. I took with me my US passport, my birth certificate and my social security card. Glancing over my photo passport, the bank manager of First Bank & Trust East Texas politely told me that they could not accept my US passport as a primary form of identification, and therfore I would be unable to open a bank account. My birth certificate and social security card were equally deemed by the bank to be useless forms of personal identification.

My initial shock and disbelief though would be replaced with outrage when I found out what the bank would accept as a primary form of identification. Among the list of approved primary forms of identification accepted by the bank was the Mexican matricula consular card.

First Bank & Trust East Texas wouldn't accept a US passport issued by the United States Government as a primary form of identification, but they will readily accept a Mexican matricula consular card issued by the Government of Mexico as a primary form of identification!

My telephone call later to the bank's head office in Diboll, Texas expressing my outrage that a form of identification issued by the Government of Mexico would be accepted, and that a passport issued by the United States Government was rejected, was pretty much met with contempt and unconcern. When I explained that my United States passport has been accepted as a form of identification in various other countries around the globe, the response was "I'm sorry sir, but that's our bank's policy, we no longer accept United States passports as a form of identification"

Where is the outrage, and at what point do Americans and Texans take their country back?

In my opinion, a Texas bank that would spit on the United States and on American citizens and then embrace foreign nationals like this deserves to be shut down and have it's banking license revoked out of nothing more than principle. The directors of this bank and anyone who would dare stand in the way or impede justice being delivered deserves to be tarred and feathered.

If you feel this is an outrage and that it is time to fight back, feel free to contact Texas Bank Commissioner Randall S. James.

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Today

Forgive me for not updating the last few days.

I received an email just a short while ago that my father has passed away.

I'd like to write something but I'm going to need a little while to get my thoughts together.

I wasn't able to be there in his last hours - It hurts.

I wasn't prepared for this and need to go home now. The trip from Malaysia to Texas is a long one.

If you feel you want to contribute, it would be much appreciated. You can do so through my blog here or you can email me for other options.

Thank You.

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The Resolution of Infamy

A resolution recognizing the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and expressing the "deepest respect to Muslims in the United States and throughout the world" was adopted in the U.S. House of Representatives on 2 October by a vote of 376-0.

When I first heard of the proposed resolution, I was shocked beyond belief. Completely dumbfounded at how the supposed leaders of our own nation could become so desirous of somehow breaching the cultural chasm that divides the Muslim world and the Western world that they would collectively sacrifice our own nation's convictions and ardent beliefs on the altar of political correctness.

According to Keith Ellison, "The basic idea is to demonstrate not only to the Muslim world but to the whole world that the U.S. Congress is a place where all faiths are respected, all faiths are recognized, where we embrace our diversity and where we believe that the promise of America is that you may seek the Divine as you see fit within your own judgment, and in your own tradition and in your own way."

What you are going to read next might disturb you, because it is going to let you know not only the significance of this resolution to the Muslim world, but even more so, the profound significance of the date when it was passed.

If you are going to pass a resolution recognizing the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, then logic would seem to dictate that you issue and pass the resolution when Ramadan begins. While the resolution was first introduced on the 5th of September, it would not be passed until the 2nd of October. This year, Ramadan started on Thursday, the 13th of September and it ends on Friday, the 12th of October. Why would anyone wait until Ramadan is almost over to pass the resolution?

We often hear of our nation's intelligence experts scouring through the messages and videotapes of Al Qaeda looking for clues that might serve to embolden, radicalize or even signal Islam's extremists. They need to look no further than our own nation's capitol and the passing of this resolution.

The resolution was voted on and ultimately passed on 2 October 2007, an auspicious day that marks not the beginning of the last ten days of Ramadan and of Laylat al-Qadr (The Night of Power) but the anniversary of the Conquest of Mecca which took place on the 20th day of Ramadan in the year 8 AH (630 AD). The resolution signed by the United States Congress on 2 October 2007 (20 Ramadan 1428) holds a profound significance to Muslims around the globe and throughout the Muslim world by commemorating one of the most important events in Islamic history, the Conquest of Mecca, and the acquiescence of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and the inhabitants of Mecca to the superiority of Islam.

"On the eve of the conquest, Abu Sufyan adopted Islam. When asked by Muhammad, he conceded that the Meccan gods had proved powerless and that there were indeed "no god but Allah", the first part of the Islamic affirmation of faith. When asked about the second part, the prophethood of Muhammad, Abu Sufyan still expressed some doubt but eventually yielded."

For Muslims, this seminal event marked the ultimate victory of the Islamic forces in Arabia and the beginning of a new era in the history of mankind. For Muslims, the month of Ramadan is more than just the month of fasting or personal piety. The month recalls the past, taking one to the very foundations of Islam, and prods one to mull over the significance of Islam's historic events. For many Muslims overseas, and especially those with a propensity for extremism the resolution of 2 October 2007 (20 Ramadan 1428) has a profound significance that almost goes beyond description, inspiring and helping to radicalize many into believing that with the help of Allah, Americans like the Meccans before them can be defeated and made to submit to the will of Allah.

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America's Leftists "Persona Non Grata"

The Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs recently confirmed that a secret blacklist existed to prevent people disrupting the December 2006 and July 2007 summits of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Despite the fact that the list alleges that the individuals might have potential links to Al Qaeda or the Taliban, a Philippines senior immigration official who asked not to be identified claimed that the majority of the names on the list were "leftists".

The blacklist which includes the names of 68 Americans deemed to be "persona non grata" is available here.

In response, The US based Human Rights Watch advocacy director, Sophie Richardson, urged the Philippines to stop preventing peaceful critics to enter the country and stated - "Labeling peaceful critics as Al Qaida or Taliban only serves to sap public confidence in counter-terror measures and expose them as a cover for suppressing dissent".

What Ms. Richardson and others fail to understand is that there is a big difference between peaceful critics expressing their dissent and the brazen seditious calls for insurrection by the liberals and leftists of today. For countries that have witnessed firsthand the very evils of collectivism, these calls are not only undemocratic, but are considered to be threats to national security. Perhaps it is high time that Americans themselves buy a clue.

The blacklist however is only just the tip of the iceberg. Other countries who have a stake in the "war on terrorism" have found themselves bewildered by the tone of the ongoing "political debate" in the United States. Congressional enablers emboldened and supported by leftist groups such as Moveon have made it difficult for our foreign allies to determine where the pandering ends and the policy begins.

One might think that the miscommunication is nothing more than a challenge for our nation's diplomatic corps, but often times it is much more complicated than that. Besides the blacklists, a high ranking official of a country here confided that secret dossiers are now compiled on all State Department diplomats and employees that include, among other things, the individual's political leanings which in turn is used not only to correlate the level of cooperation that can be expected, but more importantly the potential threats the individual poses as well.

In April of this year we gave a glimpse into some of those concerns in the following:

"The subject of American's fecklessness and inconsistency is now being quietly debated in diplomatic circles over here in Southeast Asia. Some of our allies are now wondering how a deeply divided America will be able to muster the courage and resolve needed to face the challenges that we collectively face ahead. Some of these countries are now starting to reevaluate their own foreign policy positions now that America's partisan politics has spilled on to the world stage."

Transformed by the language of conflict and coercion, socialism not unlike Islamic totalitarianism has become an ideology of violence to be resisted uncompromisingly by those among us who value property above fraternity and liberty above equality.


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UPDATE: 3 October - The Blacklist has been removed - I have a copy and will see about uploading it later.

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