NY Congressman Helped ‘Jihad Flier’ After Airport Interrogation

Depending on who you ask, Anwar Hajjaj is either a distinguished scholar, or a close ally of Osama bin Laden.  Non-profit groups connected to Hajjaj have been accused of funneling cash to terrorist.

A few years ago Hajjaj was stopped by immigration officials at JFK Airport as he returned from a trip to the Middle East.  This apparently bothered Hajjaj. And not just him.

NY Congressman Helped Jihad Flier After Airport Interrogation The New York Post is reporting today that US Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) intervened on Hajjaj’s behalf:

The Queens Democrat contacted federal agencies — finally appealing to then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff – asking why Anwar Hajjaj faced “unwarranted scrutiny” when he returned to the United States from trips abroad through JFK Airport.

Meeks described Hajjaj as a “highly regarded” professor of Islamic studies who leads Friday Muslim prayers at the Capitol.

Meeks said Hajjaj was “a pioneer in distance-based learning of Islam” through the American Open University in Virginia, according to a copy of the Sept. 30, 2006, letter to Chertoff, which was obtained by The Post under a Freedom of Information Act request.

Weasel Zippers calls this another sign that,  “The leftist-Islamist alliance continues to be as strong as ever.”

The Post report details some of the allegations Hajjaj-related groups:

The Post has learned Hajjaj also headed the Taibah International Aid Association, a charity that has been accused of funding Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. The group was co-founded by Abdullah A. bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s nephew, who has been investigated for his ties to groups that have funded al Qaeda and Hamas.

Hajjaj is also director of another Virginia-based nonprofit, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth International, or WAMY. It was also founded by bin Laden’s nephew and said to support al Qaeda. The group’s 2005 federal tax form, the most recent available, is signed by Hajjaj, who is listed as director.

Read the full Post report here.

Further, YidWithLid is now asking why Rep. Meeks seems to have a pattern of hiring “terrorist-linked” staffers:
What the NY Post isn‘t telling you is Meek’s has this nasty habit of hiring staffers with terrorist ties, Specifically Jihad F. Saleh (who just left his job with Meeks two weeks ago)  and Jameel Aalim- Johnson (former Chief-of Staff)
The Lid report in full can be found here.

To the Post report, Rep. Meeks is reponsding this way:

“As a member of Congress and a proud New Yorker who deeply feels the loss of all families afflicted by the 9/11 attacks, my No. 1 priority is to do everything in my power to ensure the safety and security of all Americans.

“At the same time, I also adamantly believe that securing our homeland must be done without risking the unfair or discriminatory treatment of any in our society as is our constitutional duty. To that end, several years ago it was brought to my attention that several Muslim American citizens faced what they felt was undue scrutiny from Department of Homeland Security officials at many US airports, including JFK.

“I sent letters to inquire about the treatment of two Muslim American citizens in particular that felt they were treated unfairly at US ports of entry.”

Comments (98)

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  • dteam270
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:56pm

    People deserve what they elect.

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  • Diamond Girl
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:54pm

    Another reason I pray we keep the momentum going for us to take the House, I bet Issa will be looking into this as well, you can be sure the msm won’t be.

    So much corruption, so many enemies within we have to expose and fight with all we have…or we as a country are sunk…and I believe we will take our country back, as long as we remain vigil, the Sleeping Giant stays wide awake and we make sure our children/grandchildren do as well.

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  • Devil in Arkansas
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:52pm

    From the top on down, WE THE PEOPLE need to express our extreme displeasure, and VOTE the bastards out of office. If we must, we can start early with an impeachment. It’s high time these elected morons got a taste of what the average Joe in this country wants. Any SANE citizen in this country doesn’t want to see our freedoms restricted, ESPECIALLY for ignorant PC crap that dumbs us down. If ANY elected official doesn’t possess the INTELLIGENCE or BALLS to stand up for the Constitution, then they MUST GO! SCREW the ISLAMIC takeover. SCREW the delicate feelings of some Islamic ********.

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    • Navyveteran
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 8:14pm

      Devil that won’t happen, first only the Senate can carry out an impeachment. And if every progressive up for reelection loses their seat the people will not have 2/3 rds of the Senate to make an impeachment stick.

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  • hiramsmaxim
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:49pm

    I guess I dont get the double standard with liberals how they side with the muslims which are anti AMERICAN and Muslims hate gays but liberals give gays all the rights etc. Kinda like buying the rope to hang yourself.

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:36pm

    How do these knuckleheads keep getting elected? It boggles the mind.

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    • Buckaroo
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:38pm

      the local big shot tells them to “vote for him!” they do. rinse, repeat.
      :-(

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:43pm

      RICK FROM ILLINOIS asks, “How do these knuckleheads keep getting elected?”

      I have a hunch this is related to skin color.

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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    • plunderpower
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 8:31pm

      Actually Obama and friends have smeared the egg on their faces in layers, and they’ve worn it for so long…that when Obama told them it was a beauty treatment…They all felt so proud and so pleased with themselves…they walk around proud of it. Some of them are now trying to wash and scrape it off just so they look like the rest of America…but that rotten egg smell just won’t go away. Toilette de Michelle just makes it worse too.

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    • plunderpower
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 8:41pm

      To Okpulot TaHa: No. It has to do with the egg smeared all over Meek’s face and how he wears it with pride. Don‘t tell me you can’t see it or even smell it? Or are you one of those that think it makes you special? Meek’s belongs to a group in Washington called Congress…it‘s the group your wonderful President says doesn’t like by appointing Staffers and Czars. How’s your Beaver? or was that the racoon? Still giving you all that Liberal Advice you take to the internet?

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    • Sweet Sister
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 8:55pm

      Don’t you know dead people vote in NY? Just ask your ACORN worker-even cartoon people vote.

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    • red penny
      Posted on September 20, 2010 at 5:52am

      These “KNUCKLEHEADS are elected by the ‘KNUCKLEHEADS’ of his/her district!! It’s a shame that individuals of such little character and moral fortitude ever occupy a seat in The Congress!!! It’s even a greater shame they stay there after once being elected!

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  • usualsuspect
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:35pm

    In The Words of Bob Grant it’s sick and getting sicker Lord help Us

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  • Okpulot Taha
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:35pm

    Little reported by our left liberal lamestream news media, Gregory Meeks is currently under investigation by various law enforcement offices including a federal grand jury. Meeks is being investigated for tax evasion, fraud and embezzlement effected through several false charity outfits.

    A rather repugnant activity of Meeks is he started up a charity to benefit hurricane Katrina victims. Instead of helping those victims with this donated money, Meeks simply pocketed the money.

    Check news sources about Meeks. You will be interested in his posh estate down in the Caribbean.

    Meeks is a hardcore criminal using criminal front charities.

    Meeks, Rangel, Waters, Johnson, others, all peas in pod; criminal members of the Congressional Black Caucus victimizing Americans with crime.

    Okpulot Taha
    Choctaw Nation

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 8:29pm

      The village square will be very active in the future.

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    • Contrarianthinker
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 8:35pm

      Actually Meeks has INCREASED the liklihood of his reelection. Great move on his part. (sarcasm)

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on September 20, 2010 at 1:51am

      PA PATRIOT comments, “The village square will be very active in the future.”

      Challenge will be to sort out a village idiot from village idiots.

      CONTRARIAN THINKER comments, “…Meeks has INCREASED the liklihood of his reelection.”

      Most certainly. Meeks is drawing in campaign contributions like crazy. I know those contributions as bribes. You will be surprised by who is giving to Meeks despite his pending indictments for various financial crimes:

      Top Ten Donors 2010:

      AFLAC Inc
      CME Group
      Credit Suisse Group
      FedEx Corp
      Sheet Metal Workers Union
      Four M Corp
      Citigroup Inc
      AT&T Inc
      Credit Union National Assn
      Goldman Sachs

      Within the top twenty donors is none other than Bill Gates of Microsoft along with Bank of America.

      Also not well reported by our left liberal mainstream news media is Meeks is directly linked to William Jefferson, former congressman now sitting in prison for a variety of corruption charges.

      Again, readers are encouraged to chase after truth. Do a little research on Meeks then speak truth about him.

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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    • Joseph
      Posted on September 20, 2010 at 9:41am

      The joke is this isn’t the first time he has been investigated for fraud. Does this make # 5 now???

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:35pm

    How many degrees of Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden is US Rep. Gregory Weldon Meeks (D-NY)? e.g. Kevin Bacon.

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  • Star Spankled
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:29pm

    Yes , it’s Treason , Obama is just as guilty as Meeks , you don‘t think he didn’t know this was going on ? I think WE THE PEOPLE should demand impeachment and clean house before people like this can do more damage .

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  • Room 101
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:25pm

    Love the way the Islamists and commies dust off the Constitution when it serves their purpose…

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  • Joseph
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:23pm

    Meeks has been pulling off this stuff since day one. If you stand outside at 12 noon and say the sky is blue, he will say your a bigot because it’s black on the other side of the world. He‘s just a Hater of any truth he didn’t think of himself. And what about 9/11, what was his truth about that???

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  • Phil D
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:20pm

    It has already been established that the Muslim faith cannot have Muslim/Americans as that goes against their religion. They must be either or. A Muslim cannot be an American as they all have sworn to eradicate all infidels from the earth. To defend a Muslim is to put to death all nations except Islamic nations.

    Our representatives need to desperately get their act together, and see the Jihad for what it is. The Muslim faith goes against all this country stands for. The Muslims have turned our own laws against us in our own courts…

    Where will it stop? When will America wake up? We need to take example from our fore-fathers, and fight for the simple restoration of Americas government and it’s people. Respect our sovereign borders, and OUR culture. Disallow people to come here who do not respect us and our way of life. Allowing people to move here who do not want to be American is blatantly stupid… if they do not want to speak our language and live in our culture they should not come here.

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    • Freelancer
      Posted on September 20, 2010 at 9:57am

      I was trying to book a vacation to Constantinople but no one knows where it is…. Oh yeah, I forgot that it was renamed Istanbul after the Islamic invasion. If you are looking to visit Washington D.C. in the next few years, you may have to call it Washingtonistan, District of Cordoba….

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  • SevenTrumpets42
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:17pm

    Washington democrats, a terrorist’s (excuse me, man-caused disaster’s) best friend…

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  • p51d007
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:16pm

    If I fly to Central America, or Jamaica, and come back to this country, I‘m asked about where I’ve been, who I was with, and if I am carrying anything ILLEGAL, so, if someone flies to the mid east, ESPECIALLY to a country not too friendly to the USA, why would they not ask them the same thing.
    Political correctness has run amok in this country and will get more citizens KILLED if it doesn’t stop.
    I’m for PROFILING. If you are looking for ducks, does it make sense to stop dogs and question them?
    NO, you look for ducks. If 18 of the 19 muslim idiots that killed thousands were from Saudi Arabia, then would it make sense to stop Chinese when they fly around? Not until they start blowing things up, then you stop them also.

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    • Phil D
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:30pm

      p51d007
      I agree on many fronts here. Most of all I agree with, “I’m for PROFILING. If you are looking for ducks, does it make sense to stop dogs and question them?”

      Well put p5. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a good bet you found yourself a duck. Profiling works, use it!

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    • MESO71
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 8:49pm

      So now the right is a bunch of “duckophobes” as well! LOL!

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    • wingedwolf
      Posted on September 20, 2010 at 12:54pm

      Hey, watch it! I’m one of those duckophobes!

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  • firedragon
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:14pm

    we all live in a yellow submarine is the left’s motto. On a voyage of LSD !!!!!!! HEFTY HEFTY

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  • Sara123
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:13pm

    With democrats, if it’s not the communists, it’s the Islamofascists. It’s like a house hosting termites but no one dare distrub the nest. We have people in this country that hate freedom and as they progress, decade after decade, freedom is disappearing.

    With Republicans we have internationalists. They would sell us out in a heart beat for an ideology that would enslave us to the governance of a global elite. They are like termites who work to destroy the house but no one dare distrub the nest. After decades of these traitors, freedom is disappearing and our culture is being cleased of it’s memory and idenity.

    I don’t mind if the GOP collapses. We need on party that is for American interest, ideals and her constitution to survive the treason of the Democrats. With both parties governed by people who could care less about America, we are headed for a National collapse. This would please the current treasonous GOP and DNC.

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  • broker0101
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:12pm

    Christine O’Connell needs to go on the all-out offensive against this, and all other, rabid Wiccanophobe Haters. Wiccanophobia CANNOT be tolerated in America, if we want to be true to Her (America’s) great tradition of religious tolerance. It has NOTHING to do with the fact that this man may be an Islamic Terrorist Sympathizer.

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    • smugsmiley
      Posted on September 20, 2010 at 12:39am

      If you’re so zealous about religious tolerance, why don’t I see you posting more often about the prevalent Islamophobia? I mean, look at this thread. A cursory glance alone reveals 3 people bashing Islam. Besides, I‘ll read your post in the most positive manner insofar that you’re having a problem with Islamic terrorists, not with Islam itself.

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    • Alan
      Posted on September 20, 2010 at 3:32am

      I think where a lot of the Frustration comes from with Islam is that since they do not have any sort of organized leadership as we see in many western churches then the ones that we see on TV are the radicals desperately looking for attention, much like how the average American feels like their voice cannot be heard, I sincerely hope and believe average citizens of the Muslim Faith wish they could tell Western Civilization that they do not want us all dead. But since we don’t hear that very often we tend to stereotype the ones we see as the “average”.

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    • wingedwolf
      Posted on September 20, 2010 at 8:51am

      Tolerance doesn’t equal stupidity. If I forgive you for stealing from me, all that means is that I’m not going to carry the energy of having had my trust betrayed by you around with me. It certainly doesn’t mean I am going to ever let you have an opportunity to betray my trust again, because I am going to watch you like a hawk any time you‘re around anything I don’t want you to steal, because NOW I KNOW YOU WILL DO IT. So, smiley, what is it that you don’t get? I am really curious about that. Is your idea of religious tolerance one wherein, when a group, oh, let’s just say, muslims, throws bombs at your house, you just fix up your house and get it ready for the next attack? Because you’re so freaking tolerant? Then, after they blow up a house down the street, you and your neighbors get together and start a fund to buy them a house next door to you? Then, after they blow up a car at the mall where your kids are shopping, do you and all your tolerant friends get together and build them a mosque so they can “peacefully worship” where your kids were murdered? OR DO YOU BEGIN TO USE CAUTION IN YOUR DEALINGS WITH THEM, YOU DOLT? If by religious tolerance, what you mean is allow yourself to become so eager to show that you’re tolerant you keep setting yourself and your family up as targets for these religious zealots to knock down with explosives and take no action to protect yourself, you’re not tolerant, you’re just plain stupid. You’re the kind of stupid that makes me embarrassed of American schools. Where is it written in any legal document that we don’t have the right to verify that an avowed enemy who has attacked us many times in the past has peaceful intentions toward us before we allow them anywhere near us? What has happened to that thing between your ears called a brain? Have you drunk so much demolibersocialcommie koolaide that the poor thing has rotted? Would you really advise your kid to keep sitting next to a kid in school who keeps hitting him? My kid would annihilate the kid the first time and solve the problem; there wouldn’t BE another attack. But if I wasn’t such a war monger, I may tell my kid to forgive the other kid, but he for damned sure wouldn’t ever be sitting next to a kid who we know will hit him again. I am as tolerant as anyone you know of the beliefs and customs of others. My tolerance doesn’t make me feel like I must trust people who have shown that they will kill me with great satisfaction just because they tell me to.

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  • RealityCheck
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:07pm

    Simple, we have laws and regulations that must be followed by everyone! Exceptions due to status or job is absurd and what is clogging our court system. So much for being equal.

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  • ADMIRAL747
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:04pm

    We need to give him a pass because of his race. Come on people, yes we can!

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  • johnpharvey
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 6:58pm

    seems like meeks should be investigated for treason

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    • redneck
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:14pm

      Thank you Dr Martin Luther King… we shall judge this man by his CHARACTER.

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    • plunderpower
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 8:24pm

      People with an IQ of minus several trillion aren’t tried for treason. They are hauled off in straightjackets as they mutter something stupid like the Liberal rant for the day. This guy is a joke, and one day he’ll realize his stupidity has put him, his family, and the entire Happy Meal right in these guy’s bullseyes marked for future reference.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 6:55pm

    Dear Mr. Meeks,

    Please advise of other friends in need, wherefore we can see to their BEST interest.

    Your’s truely,

    We the People

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  • Buckaroo
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 6:55pm

    ““highly regarded” professor of Islamic studies”

    that is one gonzo oxymoron …
    :-)
    :-)

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  • Whitehouse Mouse
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 6:54pm

    Meeks has got to go. But never going to happen with this administration.

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  • Lesterp
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 6:52pm

    Does this surprise anyone? The enemy is the Democrats! Can someone please tell me how these people got elected.

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    • Rev. WC
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:16pm

      The enemy is the democrats and half, or more of the republicans! United we can survive!

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    • Navyveteran
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 8:08pm

      The problem is progressivism, they have destroyed the democrat party, and has badly infected the republican party, like hiv infects the immune system of the host it lives in. The only cure is to elect only people that will bring this country back to her roots, and that is the Constitution, and kill every law and regulation that is unconstitutional!

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    • C_Era
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 10:01pm

      You are only half correct. It’s not the letter in front of your name, it’s the ideas in your head. We have progressive D‘s and R’s, but there are also good people on both sides, so we must keep the decent ones, and boot everybody else, regardless of party affiliation.

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    • CatB
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 11:42pm

      Well said NAVYVETERAN! November 2nd take out the trash!

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    • Freedomwatcherguy
      Posted on September 20, 2010 at 1:00am

      It gets worse:
      http://bigpeace.com/pspoole/2010/09/16/al-qaeda-on-capitol-hill-congressional-muslim-staffers-association-embraces-islamic-radicals-and-terrorists/

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    • Buck Bagaw
      Posted on September 20, 2010 at 8:13am

      How they get elected lies in the fact that just about every house member reflects the mindset, intelligence, and attitude of the average voter in his/her district. Smart people don’t vote for stupid candidates. “Nuff said.

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  • ADMIRAL747
    Posted on September 19, 2010 at 6:52pm

    Hey michael moron? Where are you on this one????

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    • Whitehouse Mouse
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:04pm

      And now we present Stupid Windmill/Danglinballs with baseless accusations and leftist lies in 5…4…3…2…1…

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    • broker0101
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:20pm

      Actually WHITEHOUSE, we may have actually successfully littered this site with their, and their imbecile kindred-sptiris’, cyber-corpses. For tonight anyway. I relish their return, though. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, “”The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of online-imbeciles and tyrants.”

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    • ADMIRAL747
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:29pm

      I’m not surprised WHITEHOUSE. When you turn on the lights the cockroaches scatter. They‘ll jump on the next story that doesn’t shed light on their leaders anti-American actions..

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    • Sheepdog911
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:52pm

      This is the perfect example as to why Congress should have no contact with federal agencies outside their official duties. Such actions have long been contrary to the best interests of the U.S. So much for serving and protecting the Constitution. Where do we find these idiots? Oh, that’s right, we are dumb enough to elect them. Don’t be dumb enough to do it again!

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    • plunderpower
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 8:18pm

      This guy still hasn‘t figured out that the agenda he supports belongs to people that circumvent him because they think he’s too stupid to matter to them. He wears the egg on his face with pride.

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    • Michigan Detective
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 8:46pm

      @ BROKER — They [trolls] can’t “work” Sundays because the IBEW, ASCME, UAW, ACORN or whichever progressive front is funding them would have to pay double-time.

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    • broker0101
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 9:45pm

      MICHIGAN, actually both of the aforementioned imbeciles did, in fact “work” earlier today. It didn’t last long, though. Soon, they, in an almost-human response, recoiled from being humiliated and belittled, with no way to defend their feeble, illogical positions.

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    • bgonzalez
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 9:47pm

      So they are having muslin prayers at the capitol? Thats what he said right? Hmmmm…

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    • Firefight
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 9:48pm

      “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” (Arabic proverb by the way) The progressives hate America and so do the muslim extremist.

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    • broker0101
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 10:11pm

      Actually, FIREFIGHT, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” is (correctly) attributed Sun Tzu, circa 550 BCE, China. I have no doubt, though, that Muslims claim it as an “Arabic proverb”.

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    • CatB
      Posted on September 19, 2010 at 11:38pm

      What ever happened to the crime of treason?

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    • BehindBlueEyes
      Posted on September 20, 2010 at 10:29am

      This Meeks moron thinks that because Hajjaj is a – “highly regarded” professor of Islamic studies who leads Friday Muslim prayers at the Capitol.” he gets a free pass and we should forget about all his dubious associations with nefarious organizations.

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    • SureSure
      Posted on September 22, 2010 at 2:48pm

      Danglin must be off the clock this week….

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