On Apr 14, 5:18 pm, "Roger Long" wrote:
Believe me Peter, there are plenty of Amricans who are well aware of just
what you are talking about. I want to sail foreign for the lightness of
feeling away from the opressive facisim that is creeping into every aspect
of life in a country that I truely love.

Good lord Roger...Please go. While you're out there spend a bit of
time in Cuba, Cambodia, Haiti, China, El Salvador, N. Korea, Russia,
oh and my favorite Nicaragua,,Timor, and the UAE and several fine
African countries. Spend some time there Roger. Some how I suspect you
will change your tune of what real opression is.

My first though when reading the
original post was, "Oh, my God, the Aussies are acting just just like
American officials!


At some point, sailing to foreign ports probably won't be an option for me
because the government computer robots will hit some key words in my emails
and newsgroup posts and I'll be put on a no-fly no-departure list "just in
case".

"It's our freedons the terrorists hate."

Yeah, right.

Is it Roger?

In nearly all cases, the jihadi terrorists have a patently self-
evident
ambition: to establish a world dominated by Muslims, Islam, and
Islamic law,
the Shari'a. Thier goal is the extension of the Islamic territory
across the globe, and the establishment of a worldwide 'caliphate'
founded on Shari'a law."

Terrorists openly declare this goal. The Islamists who assassinated
Anwar
el-Sadat in 1981 decorated their holding cages with banners
proclaiming the
"caliphate or death." A biography of one of the most influential
Islamist
thinkers of recent times and an influence on Osama bin Laden, Abdullah
Azzam
declares that his life "revolved around a single goal, namely the
establishment of Allah's Rule on earth" and restoring the caliphate.

Bin Laden himself spoke of ensuring that "the pious caliphate will
start
from Afghanistan." His chief deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, also dreamed
of
re-establishing the caliphate, for then, he wrote, "history would make
a new
turn, God willing, in the opposite direction against the empire of
the
United States and the world's Jewish government." Another Al-Qaeda
leader,
Fazlur Rehman Khalil, publishes a magazine that has declared "Due to
the
blessings of jihad, America's countdown has begun. It will declare
defeat
soon," to be followed by the creation of a caliphate.

Or, as Mohammed Bouyeri wrote in the note he attached to the corpse of
Theo
van Gogh, the Dutch filmmaker he had just assassinated, "Islam will
be
victorious through the blood of martyrs who spread its light in every
dark
corner of this earth."

Interestingly, van Gogh's murderer was frustrated by the mistaken
motives
attributed to him, insisting at his trial: "I did what I did purely
out of
my beliefs. I want you to know that I acted out of conviction and not
that I
took his life because he was Dutch or because I was Moroccan and felt
insulted."

Although terrorists state their jihadi motives loudly and clearly,
Westerners and Muslims alike too often fail to hear them. Islamic
organizations, Canadian author Irshad Manji observes, pretend that
"Islam is
an innocent bystander in today's terrorism."

What the terrorists want is abundantly clear. It requires monumental
denial
not to acknowledge it, but you Roger have risen to the challenge.

Joe