Perhaps if Islamic terrorists were not beheading innocent captives, killing American troops with IED...

1. Down on 'Dixie,' Pledge Part II, Township Troubles
Perhaps if Islamic terrorists were not beheading innocent captives, killing American troops with
IED's every day, driving explosive-ridden watercraft into our naval vessels, blowing up our
embassys, flying aircraft into our buildings killing thousands of innocent civilians-- not to mention
the Palestinian "dumb bombs" that explode themselves amongst Israeli civilians-- then CAIR's Rabiah
Ahmed would not have to worry about there being a TV show that allegedly "casts a cloud of
suspicion over every American-Muslim family out there."
Lessons Learned
Some of the defendants claim their actions were necessary because the parade is a form of ethnic
intimidation. They object to celebrating Columbus, whom they condemn as a slave trader
responsible for genocide in the deaths of up to 10 million American Indians.
A parent in Virginia is having a hissy fit because her 9-year-old daughter played the role of a slave
owner during a classroom lesson that involved a mock slave auction, reports the Richmond Times-
Dispatch.
Richard K. writes:
He's Back
The group called the ad on local radio stations "blatantly racist."
State Sen. Spencer Coggs (search) said he was shocked and dismayed by the song. He is demanding
an apology and that all future playlists be submitted for prior approval.
Since I just returned from Asia this past week, I find it going to the ends of multi-culturalism to
revert back to installing pit toilets in a New Zealand University. These things are being eliminated in
Asia, not installed, and I might add, with great fanfare. If the student is at university, and on
international studies, and has not figured out the toilet, (the plane had the same style), then they are
in trouble. Do not waste their families hard earned money!
But a police inspector said the term "township" had "clear connotations" with South Africa's ancient
regime and insisted that it be removed from all official communications.
"With immediate effect this term will no longer be used," Chief Inspector Jeff McMahon said. "The
new term is 'partnership.' ... In all written and verbal communication this should be substituted
where the term township would currently be used. The term partnership suggests the notion of
working together to fight crime and protect people."
'Hate Speech'
Perhaps Mr. Ahmed should concern himself with cleaning up "his own house," which would go much
further towards improving Arab-American relations than trying to bully TV script writers into
waiving their First Amendment rights.

2. The silence from our American/Islamic friends is deafening.
Those responsible for these horrific acts cast a far larger cloud than a meaningless television show.
Defendants in court in Denver charged with unlawfully disrupting a Columbus Day parade are trying
to justify their actions by calling the parade a form of "hate speech," reports the Rocky Mountain
News.
Activists in New Paltz, N.Y., are calling for a boycott of a local movie theater because its owner ran a
radio advertisement critical of filmmaker Michael Moore and praising the values associated with
John Wayne, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart, reports the Poughkeepsie Journal.
"... It is especially offensive that the theaters' management recalls John Wayne movies as the
paragon of 'family film fare,'" it said in a press release.
The Richland Center High School band didn't play the whole song, merely a portion of it as part of
an old Elvis Presley (search) hit called "An American Trilogy." The other two portions of the trilogy
are "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "All My Trials."
Police there adopted the term a year ago to describe new, smaller policing subdivisions around
town.
Bill S. writes:
Fred L. writes:
It should be noted that the pinhead who
labelled Chicago's program for offering
blue recycling bags for Christmas trees as
discriminatory against non-Christians is
not even a resident of Chicago. He lives in
Buffalo Grove, a suburb, so it has no impact on him whatsoever. Some idiots will never leave well
enough alone in order to push their agenda.
Respond to the Writer
Township Trouble

3. The California atheist who unsuccessfully sued to get the phrase "under God" out of the Pledge of
Allegiance is back with a new version of the same suit and another one seeking to prevent members
of the clergy from praying at President Bush's inauguration, reports Religion News Service.
George K. writes:
Geeze, I don't recall anyone from the Council on American-Islamic Relations voicing any opinions
about all the profiling coming out of the Arab news media.
The group also doesn't like the radio station WGHQ either. "WGHQ's programs aggressively promote
racism, religious intolerance and theocratic government, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, torture
and the next wars in Syria and Iran," the group says.
You know -- all the stuff about the American, Christian infidels who are not only responsible for the
Indian Ocean disaster (apparently we exploded a nuclear device or two somewhere in the vicinity)
and all the other troubles in the world because we fornicate too much?
Get a Life and quit offering legitimacy to these persons with personal agendas.
Mailbag:
A state senator in Wisconsin is irate that a high school band playing at the Senate's inaugural
ceremony played a few bars from the Southern anthem "Dixie," reports The Associated Press.
Newdow says he also filed suit in a Washington district court to try to stop clergy from uttering
prayers at Bush's Jan. 20 inauguration. He said in the filing that such prayers make him feel like a
"second-class citizen."
Dr. Michael Newdow refiled the pledge suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
California on Monday. In the new case, Newdow has been joined in the suit by three families who
include atheists and claim they are offended "to have their government and its agents advocating for
a religious view they each specifically decry."
Steve Greenfield co-chairs a group that launched the boycott. He and his brethren have been
passing out fliers reading, "Don't Sponsor Hate: This Theater is Under Boycott" outside the cinemas.
Michelle Wilson says her daughter came home one day from Swift Creek Elementary School in
Chesterfield County saying she had bought a slave as part of a fourth-grade lesson.
Some 230 people are charged with loitering and failure to obey lawful orders for trying to block the
city's annual October parade.
Bill H. writes:
More Nuttiness in New Paltz
Wilson says the role-playing exercise, which has been used to teach students about slavery for
several years, was demeaning and degrading. She is demanding that Chesterfield's teachers be
subjected to diversity training to make up for the transgression.
The Manchester Evening News reports that police in that Northern England city have been banned

4. from using the word "township" to describe sections of the city because it conjures images of
apartheid-era South Africa and might be construed as racist.
For more doses of politically correct nuttiness, head on over to the TongueTied daily edition.
They decried as racists a group of teenage girls on top of one float who threw candy at the
protesters in an "aggressive manner."
"John Wayne starred in over 100 of the most violent films ever made, including dozens in which
Native Americans and Mexicans were portrayed as dangerous savages created specifically for
remorseless sport hunting by white settlers and armies."