As IF Times

link My Way News – Defense, friends say Ore. bomb plot suspect set up.

The only comparison to the response of the idiots in Portland in the animal world are whale beachings.  In the case of whales, it’s believed that they only perform this act of suicide because of illness.  Beachings serve to end their suffering and speeds their death.  In the case of the Portland contingent who are rallying to Mr. Mohamud’s defense, I suppose they would benefit the rest of society if they too were to beach themselves.  Perhaps liberalism is an illness after all.

The only possible explanation for the crowd rallying in defense of Mr. Mohamud is because they have latent suicidal tendencies.  Of course, there are strong hints of this as reflected in their voting proclivities.  Portland is one of the most liberal places in the U.S..  Up to now, they are  the only city in America which does not cooperate with the FBI on homeland security issues. 

If you struck yourself on the head with a ball been hammer a few times, you may be able to see their position.  That is,  Mohamed Osman Mohamud was likely selected from the population by the FBI because Mohamed was a suspicious name.  I mean, outside of the UK, how many people have a name like Mohamed?  They planted the idea of blowing up people in his otherwise innocent brain and framed him for the glory of breaking a huge case.   Let’s face it, given an opportunity, anyone would be willing to arrange for drums of explosives to be delivered to crowded public place to be detonated at the most opportune time….purely for amusement.  They do it in Sylvester Stallone movies all the time.

The gentle citizens of Portland, rather than express outrage and relief that the plan did not go off as expected are instead chastising the FBI for apprehending an innocent kid.  Note to anthropology students; this is as close to beached whale suicide behaviour as it gets, followed closely by electing Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer in California.  This is the equivalent of the fraternity hazing ritual of being paddled on your bare butt, whereupon you say, ‘thank you sir, may I have another?”  We only hope this innocent child recieves a fair hearing and the FBI excoriated for their police state tactics.  Go pick on real criminals; like the ones who don’t recycle.

link Taliban imposter: Senior Taliban leader was a fake, officials say – latimes.com.

Well duh! What was the first clue?  The guy was holding peace talks! Some may recall that the mission statement of the Taliban was to wipe out the Great Satan, kill all non believers etc etc.  The only logical reason to negotiate with the sworn enemy is either you’re out of bullets, out of suicide volunteers or in this case, if you were an impostor. It’s actually amazing no one else has gamed the system up to now, excluding Hamid Karzai of course.

If you are living in Afghanistan,  you likely spend your days watching the landscape transistion from one shade of khaki to another and nothing ever changes.  Why not pretend to represent the locals and get feted and fawned over by all the elite mucky mucks of the West?  It’s a fair bet the food is better and the beds they provide softer than the straw mat in a dusty corner of a cave that you’re accustomed to.  You get to shower and glad hand all the top officials sent to meet you.  It’s not as if it’s easy, even if you had a program, discerning the good guys from the bad over there; I mean come on, all bearded men look the same.  It could have been Cat Stevens for all anyone knew.   But you would think some cursory checks were made to verify that this guy was who he said he was. 

This has been a fairly dependable tactic on dealing with the West, supported by decades of precedence.  The root of this begins from early childhood.  As most public school teachers surely know, average decent and unassuming students don’t cause them any grief.  The really rotten kids, the misbehaving, class disrupting social misfits take up way more of the teacher’s time and attention than the well behaved kids.  It’s not lost on the little darlings that the more they misbehave, the more attention they get.

As they grow older and see that this tactic always brings about the desired response, they become even better at employing it.  In the West, they go on to Hollywood and become actors and entertainers, or they become lawyers, or they go into politics and become Democrats.  Recently there has been a new vocational direction for these folk, the area of environmental activism.  Whatever their chosen vocation, the common denominator is that the public is usually held ransom by their utterances and they themselves believe in the importance of their lives.  But I digress.

On a global scale, this tack is employed again and again by rogue nations looking for some kind of concession by the community at large, principally of course the West.  Think North Korea, think Iran, think Venezuela.  So in this particular case, the Akhtar Mohammad Mansourh impostor figures, why not dance with NATO a bit?  It’s likely that NATO was so keen on getting some discussions going, they didn’t even bother with the usual TSA style security groping.  The tip-off should have been that the impostor was sipping on a 12 year old Glenfiddich and watching Dancing With The Stars in his hotel room. This fiasco is a big red flag that the tactics being employed by our top people there mirrors the competence of  the idiotic TSA regime back here. But you cannot really blame the impostor for taking advantage of the red carpet being deployed for every nut who rattles sabres and wants attention.  The West calls it diplomacy.  The other side calls them Suckers.