Time to organize an Ahmadinejad welcoming party?
Update 9:30pm Eastern 9/20. Dogging Mahmoud, via WCBS:
For some people, the thought of the Iranian President going to ground zero wasn’t just controversial, it was a personal insult. Roman Kent is a holocaust survivor. Jim Riches’ son, a firefighter, was killed on 9/11. “We feel what happened at 9/11or in the concentration camps all days of our life it does not leave me for a day,” Kent said. On Thursday, CBS 2 HD followed both men as they tried to get someone from the Iranian Mission to the United Nations to talk to them about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit. At the building’s front desk, the men were told by an official, “I’ve given the info to the Iranian Mission and they’ll call you in a few moments.” Someone from the mission called back, saying she would try to set up an appointment.
“They told me they would call me back,” Riches said.
Still waiting.
Update: 7:35pm Eastern 9/20. Columbia goes back and forth and back and forth on whether to cancel the Iranian nutjob’s appearance. Get me a Dramamine.
Update 5:20pm Eastern 9/20. The nutjob tells his friends at 60 Minutes that he is shocked, shocked at the uproar over his now-shelved Ground Zero visit.
Update 3:55pm Eastern 9/20. Audio - McCain speaks, says the Iranian nutjob should be “physically restrained” from visiting Ground Zero.
Update 3:20pm Eastern 9/20. Ken Timmerman sends word that his organization, Foundation for Democracy in Iran, is organizing with David Bossie of Citizens United, to counter-protest at Ground Zero. They are chartering buses from Washington, D.C.:
Dear Friends of Freedom,
The Foundation for Democracy in Iran, in coordination with Citizens United and other groups, is calling on all Americans, regardless of their origin or political believes to come to New York on Monday to defend Ground Zero from desecration by the terrorist president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
We will be chartering buses from the Washington, DC area. Please watch our website, www.iran.org, for more details and for rendezvous points.
Update 2:45pm Eastern 9/20. Columbia U. urged to cancel Ahmadinejad speech.
Columbia University was urged on Thursday to withdraw a speaking invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will be in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
New York City Council speaker Christine Quinn wrote to the university urging them to cancel Ahmadinejad’s planned speech
on Monday, which is part of Columbia’s World Leaders Forum. “Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier,” she wrote.
On Wednesday New York police said Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, had been denied a request to visit the World Trade Center site of the September 11 attacks during his visit.
Quinn said universities should be a forum for a healthy exchange of differing ideas, but that there were limits.
Update 11:50am Eastern 9/20. A reader tips me to Columbia University students organizing a counter-protest over at this Facebook page. 200 of them and counting.
Update 10:50am Eastern 9/20. Michael Ledeen blasts our self-delusion about the Iranian regime and awards Columbia U. “the Chamberlain Award for Exceptional Appeasement.”
Update 5:50am Eastern 9/20. New Yorker Pamela at Atlas Shrugs is rallying and puts out a call to readers to join her across from the U.N. next Monday:
Join the National Rally to End the Threat Now Monday, September 24
12:00 noon, rain or shine
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
2nd Avenue at 47th Street
(across from the United Nations) New York City
Are you coming?
Sgt. Tim Sumner, 9/11 family member and blogger, e-mails that he has asked his congressman if he’ll join him in protesting Ahmadinejad: “I have a direct contact to my Congressman, Bill Shuster, and I just emailed him asking him that if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comes to Ground Zero, that I’d like him to be there with me blocking the way. I think every Senator and Representative ought to be asked to state they will stand in his way as well.”
More: Take your wreath and shove it, Mahmoud.
The NYPost: “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shouldn’t be received with respect anywhere in New York City. The notion of him standing at Ground Zero simply is repulsive.”
The terror kowtowers at Columbia University disagree. Why anyone would consider sending their kid there is beyond me.
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Despite the NYPD’s rejection, the Iranian nutjob still plans to visit Ground Zero. And he’ll have Secret Service protection! WABC reports:
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad requested to visit Ground Zero during an upcoming trip to New York. That request was rejected Wednesday. But a source tells Eyewitness News that the decision may not stop him.
A law enforcement source says the Iranian mission to the United Nations has informed the Secret Service that the Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero Monday at 10 a.m.
The source says regardless of the NYPD’s rejection of the request for a Ground Zero tour, Iran’s president and his entourage will be accompanied by a Secret Service protective detail, a detail provided to all heads of state when they visit the United States.
Anyone in NYC know how to apply for a permit to organize a counter-protest to defend Ground Zero? Is it too late?
Looks like a job for a freedom/anti-jihad coalition. Shout out to the Eagles, Jewish groups, the Free Muslims Coalition, 9/11 Families, the United America Commitee, American Congress For Truth, and more.
Anyone else interested/involved in such an effort, let us know.
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Reader S.M. e-mails: “I say the hell with permits … Lower Manhattan should empty out about 9:00am and surround the WTC site about 20 people deep. Let’s see the Secret Service try to ‘make a hole’ for this POS.”
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Via 9/11 family member Sgt. Tim Sumner, Mark Levin and Debra Burlingame, now working on Divest Terror, weigh in on the nutjob’s itinerary.
Michael Rubin at The Corner has your daily Iran news round-up.
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Boomer,
I was thinking about somewhere over the Atlantic. It wouldn’t have to be the E model, even an F-16 would work.
The F-15 is my favorite. I’m hoping that the Lord will issue either the F-15 or the F-22 to everyone in Heaven.
That brings a whole new meaning to Gathering of Eagles, huh?
Oh well, I gave it a shot. He just signed off with no mention. I suppose my little e-mail did not penetrate the thousands of others. Sigh.
Trinitytim,
Rats! We just lost our F-16 squadron this year due to BRAC, but I still have an F-15C Eagle squadron for a couple of years before they move on. See what I can do, I still know a couple of guys in the Tanker world wouldn’t be that hard to workout the logistics on. One KC-10 and a flight of 4 F-15Cs be better than going to Combat Archer for live fire exercises and a lot more fun for the pilots.
Brian72,
One thing I like about being at the AFB in the middle of nowhere Idaho, I get to see Eagles fly everyday I come to work.
In work and lurk mode, checking off headset for now will come back on when I get home.
Where I live, in West Tennessee, I frequently have a formation of Blackhawk or Apache choppers fly right over the house, low enough for window shaking. Just yesterday, an Apache executed a long, sweeping bank turn right on top of me, no higher than 5-600ft. I love seeing that! I’m not sure if they are from Ft.Campbell (101st Screaming Eagles) or an Army National Guard airstation nearby. Maybe both. That is the sound of freedom. Take that San Fran Nan.
Sometimes I get my own U.S. Army airshow right at home. This is what I get to see from my yard:
AH-64 Apache
UH-60 Blackhawk
CH-47D Chinook
These are in various combinations. A couple of months ago, 3 Chinooks, 2 Blackhawks and 2 Apaches went right over the house, in formation, 500ft. SW to NE. That rumbled the whole neighborhood!
I’m glad I don’t live in Naggin’ Nancy’s district or there would have been stinky hippie types protesting it.
Hey Michelle,
Just wondering, has Columbia overtaken us (Berkeley) in your doghouse?
You know, I get so sick of hearing in the news “Islam’s most holy site …” with nearly every stretched inch of dusty land in the Middle East.
I say the WTC is America’s /freedom’s Most Holy site, and terrorist/fascist infidels should NOT be allowed to defile it.
I have a question. Do you think he is here to give us all a speech and a powerpoint presentation on how the most deadly IEDs used against US and Coalition soldiers are manufactured and sent by his Country over into the hands of our enemies in Iraq? Wow, that kind of makes him sound like… and enemy, doesn’t it? Isn’t that special?
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Ahmadinejad is now saying he’s “surprised” at the outrage his visit has caused.
You mean, like America’s surprised each and every time Muslims riot over something like cartoons, the Pope, the war on terror, Muslims who convert to Christianity, theatre, etc.?
Oh, wait, that’s right - THOSE riots don’t surprise anyone here.
I’m so angry about this jerk setting foot on American soil that I can’t even write how I REALLY feel because I’d be arrested.
&*%^@*!)%*&%&%!!!
Before I alert some Hebrew Minions and set them all a tizzy right before Yom Kippur, what is the latest? Is Armageddonijad still going to Ground Zero?
eric http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
If this hollocaust-denying animal sets one foot out of the UN and is not immediately arrested and tried as an enemy combatant and war criminal, you can begin the official countdown for the end of our country as we knew it. We’re going to bomb Iran because of his behavior, but we’re powerless and HAVE to provide him protection if he chooses to roam our streets??
hold him for , say …444 days?
its a start.
Oh my God!
How many faces does this creature have?
John Bolton says the US government can stop this man from travel outside the UN and his hotel. Here is what he said to National Review:
I still think this vile man should not be allowed in our airspace.
Also, even though he hints he won’t go to the site, his 60 Minutes interview’s arrogance tells me he will try. I hope he never gets a glimpse of Ground Zero. He is pure evil, but he knows how to use the media to suit himself and his agenda–which is to humiliate our country.
Ahmadinejad can come and spew his “America bad, Israel bad” rhetoric,but ROTC is not allowed on campus at Columbia.????
On September 20th, 2007 at 6:12 pm, Marshall Russ said:
Ahmadinejad can come and spew his “America bad, Israel bad” rhetoric,but ROTC is not allowed on campus at Columbia.????
Yup. Welcome to the end of the country. I’m not sure if we deserve to go on. Imagine Hitler walking our streets during WWII? This is what decades of PC does…
One headline says The stupid jerk cannot believe anyone was offended — that means he doesn’t believe America has the SELF-DEFENSE instincts of a stupid jack rabbit - no, wait, jack rabbits do have self-defense instincts - they KNOW when to RUN — a BRIGHT CONCLUSION on HIS part since some politicians had to “THINK” ABOUT IT a while, and NOBODY is “ALLOWED” to seriously think about pushing him off into the BAY, the second his foot touches the ground.
Still, it would be very nice to see a few million people simply press forward until the necessaries have fallen off the edge of New York City - including the UN building.
YEA! PAUL REVERE!!!
I agree with JWS about PC gone crazy ,but I am seeing a lot of people standing up on these issues. Let’s keep it up.
This is who works for Ahmadinejad, and the UN welcomes this murdering piece of bat guano who is his boss.
The Simian in Chief of Iran is not welcome here.
Unfortunately, he is doing a damn bloody fine job of it.
Thanks to America’s idiot politicians.
I really do wish Michelle would run a poll on how many real Americans think we should withdraw from the UN and make the UN withdraw from AMERICA! AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE!
If Ahmadinejad is allowed to have an event at ground zero it will be broadcast all around the globe and every single enemy of America will sing and dance with delight.
The victory of radical Islam over the US will be complete, there can be no difference whatsoever between the President of Iran laying a wreath at ground zero and the US flag raising at Iwo Jima.
Ahmadinejad the terror sponsor will trample sacred ground, claim success and raise his standing in the Muslim world all at the same time.
If America has any courage at all Ahmadinejad should know that the only reason he would be allowed on American soil would be so the 82nd airborne could arrest his sorry a$$ and let him wear his wreath around his neck all the way to jail in the back of a HUMMV where he could rot for the rest of his US hating life.
Maybe we can use Pelosi as bait, she nows how to attract terror sponsors favor.
William Kristol wrote a great article about the inviting of Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia. It’s a good read. The following quote from the article really sums it all up:
“A perfect synecdoche for too much of American higher education: they are friendlier to Ahmadinejad than to the U.S. military.”
And how appalling is that?
Here’s the entire article:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/131yhgvn.asp
Maybe Pelosi can invite him over for dinner instead.
Why now? Why not any other time he’s spoken in the UN.
He’s looking to cause an upheaval because he knew with the current videos of OBL he would create more hate in the ME because we don’t want him here. He’s using it as a media ploy to show the west hates Islam.
PSY-OPS. PSY-OPS. PSY-OPS.
Iran is using this to distract the American public from the Iranian effort to target Israel with WMD’s out of Syria that went awry.
If he is allowed to go to GZero then it will be a propaganda coup. If he ends up not going, then it still allows him to smokescreen the MSM from covering the emerging story about mustard gas rockets being armed in Syria.
Nuke this chimp. And do it soon. Our butts are hanging out in the wind on this Blackwater debacle in Iraq. We are in deep doo-doo over it.
Don’t get distracted too much over this chimp. It’s what he wants.
Bush needs to get Maliki pinned againt the wall in a Ranger choke hold and get him to toss out his “Finance Minister” today- and let the CIA and Blackwater get back to work. That is another NutJob ploy which needs to be addressed while he foils with this bizarre WTC GZ visit.
I will not only not submit- I refuse to be bamboozled by this chimp.
PS: Whatever happened to Dartagnan’s Blade? I thought for sure he’d be weighing in on this.
Tripped and fell on his own sword or his own troops killed him.
Bear, couldnt resist, Perseus got banned and I dont know about dart.
Angel fan we will kill the Yanks in playoffs…er ah …again! lol.
Cubs are going to take it all the way this year.
Well dang katie! not now you just jinxed em, lol
At least we know that no idiot is going to catch a ball that is playable and screw the entire thing up for the Cubs. That play still breaks my heart!
I’m ok with the Cubs winning three games in the World Series. Then have the team bus run over Irans Prez. to make them feel better.
aj, you made a slight error….4 games for the Cubs. I know that wasn’t intentional.
The bus idea is great, but I think it will be an American League team running over Ahmadinejad, with all our blessings.
aj, I don’t suppose you are a cheesehead?
LOL Katie, Well I’m sure not a cheesehead I’m an Angel fan from sunny cal. Good luck I hope they make it!
aj, I thought from your name that you were from Montana, but maybe it’s in reference to a 49′er.
I have relatives in LA. Nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there. Prefer the slower pace of the midwest.
If it got any slower in Palm Springs it would need a tombstone over it. Close guesses on the name though.
The Minute Men were scheduled to speak at Columbia again but were canceled since it would be too controversial. Only in Liberalland are American citizens controversial and Iranian leaders worthy speakers.
Boomer,
That’s okay, we’ve got a whole gaggle of F-16’s based here at Shaw AFB.
I get by there once a month and really enjoy watching the squadron take off right over Rt. 378 in Sumter.
Any chance you could find room for an old soldier with a commercial helicopter rating. Heck, I’d be willing to run them through the car wash and I wouldn’t even charge the AF.
aj- my relatives are down there in PS, sorta. Rancho Mirage. we are comin down in late November, sometime around Thanksgivin. heh-heh. now wouldn’t it be somethin if-
as for them Halos, now how far did they get last year?
(i don’t root for baseball teams since Campy Campaneris retired 
)
Not far enough bear, and if the bear mush doesnt kill you by the time you visit here we can have a caramel thingy down the road.
Campy? sheesh. was there electricity then? lol
the bear mush is happenin on a regular basis- the cause of all things mighty in this life.
i’ll send up the “Bear Shadow” beam into the sky upon my arrival so you’ll know it is show time.
i used to live in a village of 300 folks in Southern Illinois. on drinkin nights, one of my compadres used to stand on the railroad water tower and scream “If I had enough coffins i’d bury all y’all!”
He had social life issues- was from a big city. Never quite adjusted like the rest of us malcontents.
I have a feeling this is going to be huge. And it’s going to send an important message that we are the United States Dont F___ with us to Ahmadinejad.
Did any of you follow that 60 Minutes link and read what he said in the interview? Among all Ahmadinejad’s usual lies, here’s the important quote for us to really think about:
“Usually you go to these sites to pay your respects. And also perhaps to air your views about the root causes of such incidents. I think that when I do that, I will be paying, as I said earlier, my respect to the American nation.”
Oh, yes, he’ll be paying his respects to Americans all right. He’s obviously chomping at the bit for the opportunity to spew filth about “root causes” from his lying piehole right at the site that is the heart of our sorrow and rage toward him and his Muslim hate-faith.
Even on 9/11 itself I was not filled with the desperate urge to come to New York that I feel today. On that sad day that I’ll never be able to forget, I knew that the best I could do to help was kneel where I was and pray. Today I am filled with such revulsion for this personification of evil that I wish with all my heart that I could be in New York to join others like myself to physically prevent him from coming anywhere near Ground Zero with his intent of poisoning the air we breathe and assaulting our ears and our reason with his hell-stench words.
In my heart I cry with the impotence that geographic distance imposes and beg as many of you as possible to stand up for those of us who can’t be there — stand up with an incredible strength of numbers to show this desecrater that we will not take his crap anymore!!
We American citizens may not be able to prevent him from speaking at the UN, but we can and should show him what we think of him by preventing his incursion into any other part of New York and most especially never to come near Ground Zero.
PLEASE , YES.
If I could afford it, $ and time, I would be there with you all.
Is there equal outrage with CU? Are parents and students demanding their tuition back? Are students threatening to transfer? What is the difference between the faculty who sponser this deranged maniacal lunatic, the Duke profs and Ward Churchill?
Folks, I have been SHOCKED to discover today that many folks DO NOT REMEMBER, or possibly NEVER KNEW that this character is PHOTOGRAPHED with our Iranian Embassy hostages in a manner that displays HIS KEY LEADERSHIP POSITION in invading the Embassy and taking our Embassy people hostage, and in murdering some of the people there. That there are photographs and key witnesses that prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
That was 444 DAYS!
Those are the kind of charges with NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS on them, and the charges are common to all nations who have and host Embassies!
There is no excuse for tolerating his presence here - or for tolerating any politicians who do so.
On September 21st, 2007 at 12:57 am, shooter said:
PLEASE, YES.
If I could afford it, $ and time, I would be there with you all.
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YES, PLEASE, YES!!! MAJOR MEGA DITTOS AND THANKS AND BLESSINGS AND PRAYERS GO WITH YOU ALL! ABSOLUTELY OVERABUNDANT MAJOR BLESSINGS FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER!!!
We are with you in Spirit!
All with our whole hearts, AMEN!
-Rose
WHO lets their children GO to those God-awful places????? How GROSS!
So the Axis of Evil is now Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Columbia University. As of Monday all will be guilty of sponsoring and harboring terrorists.