Don’t be confused — the REAL L.N. Smithee is NOT a “[politically] progressive minister” and would never write “My comment was not meant for the small-minded.” If you want to know what the REAL L.N. Smithee believes, visit http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com.

I didn’t think I was significant enough a figure to have an impostor. In the words of Bullwinkle, “Oooh! Don’t know my own strength!”

Get your own nick, pal. Mine is taken.

The point he is making is that torture doesn’t work. We tried it in northern Ireland.

Internment without trial caused hundreds to sign up.
We have to learn from our history.

It might of been different if our closest allie didn’t fund the I.R.A. with money and weapons.

In Boston drinks called,’kill a brit’ and ‘car bomb’ could be drunk.
Giving visa’s to known I.R.A leaders so they could collect money for ‘the cause’ against our governments request.

Refusing to extradite wanted I.R.A terrorist’s didn’t go down very well here.
Senator peter king was/is a cheerleader for these terrorists.

It was the people of northern Ireland that won.
There wasn’t a military answer to the truobles,it was through hearts and minds and intelligence that was more successful.

It took 9/11 for Americans to question their support.
The funding went down,when the politicians in the U.S turned their back on the I.R.A it meant they had no choice ,they had to stop.

Imagine if that was done sooner.

Then you know that the perpetrators at Abu Ghraib were a rouge reserve unit, not regular army.

And you’d know there is no evidence that authorization for their outrageous treatment of prisoners came from the highest levels of the Bush administration and that Janis Karpinski was an especially poor administrator at Abu Ghraib, not just the fall person for the “Bush administration” trying to cover up its own perfidy.

You’d know that Guantanamo and the issue of treatment of prisoners there has morphed into a great big extension of ACLU types/the hate America movement trying to bring American society down to their level and that some individuals inside the current justice department (in the name of furthering their President’s ideology) go so far as to make ignorant allegations like…maybe Khalid Sheikh Mohammed didn’t perpetrate all those horrendous acts after all !

I read the London Timesonline regularly, and note how some “opinionists” get American society quite wrong. I also read the Telegraph & the Guardian, one of whose writers (Tony ?…I can’t recall the name) has amazed me with his astute and spot on insights into American politics & culture.

However, much of the European press seems saddled by predictable and classical assumptions, e.g., that the conservative movement in America is dominated by the religious right, that the right demonizes gays as a matter of course.

I agree that the issue of marriage lies outside the domain of government. However, government at all levels has been inserting itself into areas where it has no business being for a very long time now.

We do look to Thomas Sowell (and other black thinkers & writers) as a very astute observer of process in America. Unfortunately, the bulk of our citizens, right and left, aren’t interested anymore in such lofty principles.

And, as I think mentioned above, we rather do like listening to Mr. Hannan.

As for Andrew Sullivan, his writing, analysis and insights have signigficantly deteriorated over the past few years.

My comments on torture are based on detailed discussions with those with inside knowledge of what actually went on. I do not read liberal blogs (apart from Andrew Sullivan if you consider him a liberal) or media (including the New York Times).

My comment on gays relate to those American conservatives who demonise as them as no better as paedophiles or perverts. I regard marriage as an issue for individuals who want to marry and the Church, not the government.

Finally, I wish to clarify my role as being Campaign Director rather than candidate or Parliamentarian. I no longer seek election or appointment to public office. My interests and career are focused on policy and communications.

She is admirable. She says, among other things, that she’s not going to feed the 2010 census takers (gathering all kinds of extraneous data on behalf of ACORN/community organizin’ agendas) any information they’re not constitutionally entitled to gather, which is, basically, name & number of persons in household.

An extraordinary and bold statement, coming from a member of the federal government itself.

My comment wasn’t meant for the small-minded.

Granted there are aspects of yesteryear that have to be abandoned, racism especially, but the West will not survive command-and-control-socialism. That we are even flirting with it is proof positive we are mentally diseased.

Yes we can bring in new ideas and attitudes. Although conservation is nothing new. It is just good management. Neither is green energy new. We always knew oil was a finite resource. We could have been well on our way toward cleaner forms of energy such as nuclear if not for the ‘monkey wrench’ tactics of the Left.

The newest idea of all given the depth and breadth of human history is the concept of human individualism and individual freedom under a system of law as set forth in our founding documents. The very apex of human societal evolution and it cannot be improved upon. The insanity that this can be bettered by marxism is sick.

That America cannot or will not see that Obama and his minions are blatant marxists is insane. Or perhaps simply evil embraced.

Granted there are aspects of yesteryear that have to be abandoned, racism especially, but the West will not survive command-and-control-socialism. That we are even flirting with it is proof positive we are mentally diseased.

Yes we can bring in new ideas and attitudes. Although conservation is nothing new. It is just good management. Neither is green energy new. We always knew oil was a finite resource. We could have been well on our way toward cleaner forms of energy such as nuclear if not for the ‘monkey wrench’ tactics of the Left.

The newest idea of all given the depth and breadth of human history is the concept of human individualism and individual freedom under a system of law as set forth in our founding documents. The very apex of human societal evolution and it cannot be improved upon. The insanity that this can be bettered by marxism is sick.

That America cannot or will not see that Obama and his minions are blatant marxists is insane. Or perhaps simply evil embraced.