An open letter to Jacqui Smith

Dear Ms. Smith,

As Home Secretary I am sure you have many difficult choices to make in life. Your support of the law was displayed earlier this week when you decided to extradite Gary McKinnon. Sensible
people are happy to see him go and face trial in the United States.
However, there are those who are bent on destroying our will. His family has talked about chaining him and themselves to a fence to prevent the due process. Others talk about the possibility of his being harmed in a US prison. That is mere speculation. And even if it occurs, it
is part of a process called punishment. Fellow prisoners may decide to teach him some common sense, for which his mother may be glad. American prisoners are among the best in the world. They police themselves as a matter of fact, keeping an order among the inmates that is as good
as some top international companies. Prisons fall under your command, so I am sure you have taken into consideration all relevant factors, and by sending him to one in the US, you have given him a better lifestyle than what he might expect in a facility over here. But do not expect him or his mother to be grateful at first.
However, in the years to come, they may both come to appreciate you wisdom. The press may choose to ignore it, but much of what happened in Abu Ghraib was for the good; so much so that Moslems from all over Iraq actually signed a petition to thank us for rehabilitating their hardened criminals, and envied our techniques. And Camp X Ray, far from being the little shop of horrors that Robert Fisk and his buddies make it out to be, has been a home away from home for many men whose standard of living in their own homeland was way below what we expect in the West.
Your homeland, like our homeland, needs to put security before misplaced sentiment. Thank you for your sensible approach to a difficult matter that is now under way of being resolved.

Sincerely,

Mike Pasture

Losing your self

Earlier this week the folks at the Independent had a lot of letters sent in from the usual crowd that opposes law and order and ID cards. One guy asked what would happen if your ID card was stolen. Good point, but this does not invalidate the need for identity and security. Has he not been listening to the likes of Tommy Thompson, who spent months working for Applied Digital Solutions, the Florida company which has perfected a microchip that thieves cannot steal. That's right, thieves may break in and take you money, moths may eat your clothes, and rust may corrode your metal, but this product is not for those characters to hurt or steal. Digital Angel it is called, and it can protect your money, your identity and your life. Check it out! This is revolutionary.

Does Sarah Palin read this blog?

Question: What's the difference between Osama and Obama?
One had friends who want to bomb the Pentagon and the US Capitol, the other has friends who want to bomb the Pentagon and the US Capitol. Right, that's sorted out. And Sarah Palin helped the Obama crowd with that very equation on Sunday, two weeks to the day after I wrote about the terrorists who Palin notes Obama "pals around with." Indeed he does.
But true to form, the left wing press is out to avoid the facts. Take Guy Adams in yesterday's Independent for instance, he writes that it appears to have scant basis in fact; perhaps he would like to read the aforementioned post, then rant? Fellow ranter Johann Hari, he or she, hard to tell, claims in the same paper that John McCain is wrong about the job our troops are doing in Iraq. How would Hari know? Has he really spent time there? For those of us with not so short memories, he was caught out lying about his foray into Iraq when he claimed he was there in the outskirts for a month; more like a forthnight in the Green Zone, being protected by the troops he so criticises.
But that's the left wing press for you. Trying to protect terrorists all over the world. We need a President who will out them right and left, especially those who are teaching at left wing universities in the Homeland.