THE POINT RIDER REPUBLICAN

SWAT Corners Florida Park Gunman

A police SWAT team in Dunedin,Florida cornered a man in his car who had been seen walking in a park with a firearm:

"Dunedin, Florida -- Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies are talking with  a man caught carrying a gun into Honeymoon Island State Park.

Investigators say the man may only be a danger to himself, but are continuing to investigate.

The man is sitting in his own vehicle, but talking to deputies. A SWAT vehicle and the Incident Command Vehicle have been called to the scene.

The Dunedin Causeway remains closed at this time."

Why would a guy carry a gun to a public place in broad daylight to commit suicide?

No Big Deal Just A Church Shooting

Five people were shot on church property in Richmond, California while waiting for breakfast yesterday.

Police are minimizing the entire situation saying those shot around the church were "caught in a crossfire":

"Richmond police believe at least three of the five men shot outside a Richmond church weren't the intended targets, but were hit in a crossfire.

Authorities say a homeless man they've identified as Jimmy Carter of Richmond died at the scene Sunday morning after being shot outside the Church of the Living God.

Police say Carter and two other homeless men were hit by gunfire when they showed up for breakfast and Bible study at the church.

Richmond investigators believe the shooting of the three men was probably connected to a shooting that took place one block away minutes earlier.

Two men were wounded in that shooting. Police say one of those men appeared to be the intended victim, but IT'S UNCLEAR WHY THE LATER FIRED ON THE MEN OUTSIDE THE CHURCH.

Two of the four men wounded in the shootings have been treated and released.

The two others were hospitalized in stable condition."

Give me a f&ckin' break!

How dim do authorities think people are?

They refer to a shooting on the next block, yet only one person shoots at people at a church doorway and cops are calling it "crossfire"

Then in the next breath police say they "don't know why people at the chuch were TARGETED"??

HELLO!

Being caught in crossfire is quite different than being targeted.

Can you image the press coverage this would get if Muslims were shot at outside a mosque and one of them KILLED?

Obviously, this gunman shot at two people heading to the church and then 3 at the church AND GOT AWAY.

Al Qaeda's New Anglo-Pawns

The CIA has finally announced something we already knew. In addition to changing war tactics, Al Qaeda is training psychologically disturbed anglo pawns who may well be American citizens:

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"The nation's spymaster said the United States faces an imminent threat of attack from al Qaeda fighters training today along Pakistan's mountainous frontier with Afghanistan.

And the attackers, he says, will look like many of us."

"It's very clear to us that al Qaeda has been able, over the past 18 months or so, to establish a safe haven along the Afghan/Pakistan border area that they have not enjoyed before," CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said on NBC's "Meet the Press" program.

"That they are bringing operatives into that region for training, operatives that ... wouldn't attract your attention if they were going through the customs line at Dulles with you when you're coming back from overseas," he said.

U.S. intelligence analysts say al Qaeda knows it can't return again with an attack by 19 Arabs, as they did during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Instead, former senior U.S. officials say, these days they favor blond-haired, blue-eyed recruits.

Former senior U-S officials say the Bush administration is particularly concerned that attackers bearing European passports would breeze through U.S. airports.

"The use of Europeans and Americans makes travel much easier, the passports they carry make entry much easier," said Michael Sheuer, former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit and author of "Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam after Iraq."

"And I think the fact that their current rhetoric is much more aggressive and confident, than it had been over the past year or two suggests they have the operatives they want to attack the United States," Sheuer said."

These Al Qaeda anglo-pawns could look like a guy in your college chemistry class, or the new attendant at your gas station, the delinquent dude that shot the window out of your car on the freeway, or the European lunatic that sprayed gunfire into a crowd at your local mall.

They could look like ANY American or European and the CIA is implying that these Al Qaeda Anglo-pawns are already in place.

This is obviously an official warning to expect the unexpected.

Recall:

"The al Qaeda operatives who will launch this attack are awaiting final orders. They remain in place in cities throughout the country. Many are masquerading as Christians and have adopted Christian names."

Slumber Party Takes Savage Twist

The party didn't go as planned and took a bloody turn:

"A woman stabbed a teenage girl in the head with a meat cleaver at a slumber party Saturday in Willamina, authorities said.

Amber Weidner turned herself in Saturday evening on charges of second-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon.

Tudie Roberts, who lives in the area, said a group of girls banged on her front door at around 2 a.m.

The girls told Roberts they were down the street at a friend’s house when Weidner, who owns the home where the slumber party took place, became upset with them for making too much noise.

They told Roberts that Weidner left the home, came back a few hours later and took a meat cleaver to a girl’s head.

The group then went running from house to house, leaving a trail of blood while they sought help.

Roberts said the girl who was stabbed was badly hurt.

“She was cut right above her hairline. It went down behind her ear, her hair was matted with blood,” Roberts said. “You could see it was gashed open pretty good.

Yamhill County officials said Weidner turned herself in Saturday. They also said Weidner was drunk when she attacked the girl. Deputies booked Weidner into the Yamhill County Jail on $155,000 bail.

An ambulance took the teen to a McMinnville hospital. She has since been released."

A nightmare of a slumber party, ehh?

Freeway Shooting Attacks

Drivers are going to have to wear helmets and bullet proof vests on U.S. freeways:

"Los Angeles—A man died Sunday after being shot in the head while driving on a San Fernando Valley freeway, while a second non-fatal freeway shooting was being investigated in Long Beach, authorities said.

The incidents were the latest in a string of Southern California freeway shootings stretching back several weeks.

The San Fernando Valley victim is thought to have crashed his car after being shot in the head on the 101 Freeway, Los Angeles police Officer Norma Eisenman said.

He was found early Sunday by rescue crews responding to a report of a rolled-over vehicle on the freeway, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Cecil Manresa said.

The victim's vehicle hit a sound wall before flipping across the freeway lanes, he said. Rescue had crews transported the man to a hospital in critical condition, he said.

A portion of the southbound 101 was closed near Van Nuys Sunday morning as police investigated.

Meanwhile, about 30 miles southwest in Long Beach, police were investigating a second freeway shooting that left a man hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

Someone's also been taking pot shots at cars on the freeway in Connecticut.

Keep an eye on the overpasses, folks.

Next thing you know, they'll be dropping cement blocks off overhead bridges.

We'll all have to drive armored cars.

Iran's Sock Puppet Army Squelched

Al Sadr is sitting on his butt crying in Qom:

"Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his armed followers on Sunday to leave the streets and stop battling government forces in Basra and other southern towns.

"Because of the religious responsibility, and to stop Iraqi blood being shed, and to maintain the unity of Iraq and to put an end to this sedition that the occupiers and their followers want to spread among the Iraqi people, we call for an end to armed appearances in Basra and all other provinces," Sadr said in a statement given to journalists by his aides."

But we know what really happened to the Iranian sock puppet's Mahdi rebellion:

"With the fifth day of fighting in Baghdad, Basrah and the South completed, the Mahdi Army has suffered major losses over the past 36 hours. The Mahdi Army has not faired well over the past five days of fighting, losing an estimated two percent of its combat power, using the best case estimate for the size of the militia.

A look at the open source press reports from the US and Iraqi military and the established newspapers indicates 145 Mahdi Army fighters were killed, 81 were wounded, 98 were captured, and 30 surrendered during the past 36 hours.

Since the fighting began on Tuesday 358 Mahdi Army fighters were killed, 531 were wounded, 343 were captured, and 30 surrendered. The US and Iraqi security forces have killed 125 Mahdi Army fighters in Baghdad alone, while Iraqi security forces have killed 140 Mahdi fighters in Basra.

While the size of the Mahdi Army is a constant source of debate, media accounts often put the Mahdi Army at anywhere from 40,000 to 60,000 fighters. With an estimated 1,000 Mahdi fighters killed, captured, wounded and surrendered, the Mahdi Army has taken an attrition rate of 1.5 to 2.5 percent over the past five days."

The defining moment for Iraqi forces has produced.

The Iraqi government has qwelled the rebellion brought on by the crazy Iranian Qomites....with a little air support from American friends.

Oregon Is Overwhelmed By Illegals

The sanctuary state of Oregon has become a haven for illegal immigrants who KNOW they will receive government assistance with food, housing, schooling, rent, healthcare and an assortment of other freebies offered to them by Oregon Democratic politicians. Illegals are now flocking in here from other states.

It's time for it to STOP, but our politicians are IGNORING THE IMPACT AN INCREASING NUMBER OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS:

"Illegal immigration has been a hot-button issue in many American election races this year. But the leading Democratic contenders for the U.S. Senate in Oregon have spent most of their time talking about the war in Iraq, global warming and the slumping economy.

In their first two debates, Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley and political activist Steve Novick adopted an "on the one hand, but on the other hand" stance over how laws should treat the thousands of undocumented workers in Oregon.

It's likely a reflection of the mixed feelings that Democrats in general have about the immigration issue, one analyst says."

The ambivalent Democratic stance on illegal aliens in this state pure HOGWASH.

Democrats had better pull their heads out if they don't believe that illegal immigration and national security are THE TOP priorities for Oregon CITIZENS.

Oregon politicians are out of touch.

Voters are fed up and they are seeing their paychecks and their lives being taken over by illegal aliens.

Are Oregon politicians driving down the street looking at young Hispanic women walking down the sidewalk with 5 children all under the age of 10 and wondering how your tax money is going to support them all?

Are Oregon politicians having to pick up garbage, including used diapers, discarded tires, matresses and other assorted items of trash off of their land?

Are Oregon politicians watching the children of illegal immigrants via tax money being picked up by buses who drive straight up to the doorsteps of homes containing MULTIPLE FAMILIES while their own children must wait in cold at the bus stop?

Are Oregon politicians watching prices rise in grocery stores wondering how they are going to make ends meet while their taxes are paying for year-round lunches for Children of illegal Mexicans?

WAKE UP!

Even Hispanics who are American citizens have had it.

And I haven't even addressed the Hispanic "criminal element."

Suffice it to say that having to pay for the multitude of children of illegal Mexicans and South Americans and for housing illegal criminals has USURPED Oregon's economy.

Democrats running for office are kidding themselves if they minimize the impact that an unlimited flow of illegal foreigners has had on Oregonians.

Oregon Democrats are going to be dropped-kicked out of office.

Another New Islamist WAR Tactic

~~LASER CLUSTER ATTACKS ON AIRCRAFT~~

"The NSW Government is considering a ban on laser pointers after six planes had to alter their flight paths into Sydney when they were targeted in a "cluster attack" on Friday.

The planes changed their flight paths into Kingsford Smith airport AFTER THE PILOTS WERE TARGETED BY FOUR GREEN LASERS around 10.30pm (AEDT).

Authorities said it was a co-ordinated attack lasting 15 minutes.

The laser beams appeared to have originated from the Bexley area, in southwestern Sydney.
The attack yesterday was described by an Air Services Australia spokesman as "the worst attack in our experience".

NSW Police Minister David Campbell today said he was now considering a ban on the laser pointers.

"There are some penalties that police can impose now, but we're looking to make these items a prohibited weapon in certain circumstances which would lead to substantial fines and possible jail terms," he said on Macquarie Radio."

Blind the pilot.

Crash the plane.

And terrorists will use the SAME tactic on American airports.....perhaps they already have and we just haven't been made privy to LASER CLUSTER ATTACKS blinding U.S. pilots.

Censored By The Eternally Insulted

DON'T SHOW IT OR WE'LL KILL YOU!

"Muslim countries WARNED on Friday of strong reactions to an anti-Islam film posted on the Internet......Geert Wilders posted his film "Fitna", featuring violent imagery of terror attacks in New York and Madrid intertwined with Koranic texts, on the Internet on Thursday.

A handful of Muslim countries had responded early Friday, with Iran saying the short movie showed some Westerners were waging a "vendetta" against Islam, and warning of unspecified repercussions.

Bangladesh also said the film could have "GRAVE CONSEQUENCES"(was a pun intended?), while a coalition of Jordanian media said it would sue Wilders and launch a campaign to boycott Dutch products."

In otherwords, heads will roll if the western media shows ANYTHING that Muslims want CENSORED.

And speaking of heads, we know these Islamists are HEAD-HUNTERS.

Nazrallah and Hezbollah told us so!

They've even got Israeli heads SAVED which they are using to TAUNT the Jews.

"Our mujahideen used to fight these Zionists, killing them and collecting their body parts. I am not talking about regular bodyparts. I tell the Israelis, we have the heads of your soldiers, we have hands, we have legs."

Individuals have had their lives threatened.

They have opted out of "Fitna" for fear that their heads will be severed, shrunken and put on display by insulted Islamites!

Who's running the western world?

It's certainly not the weiner westerners....they are censored, unable to speak....with, or without their heads.

Sometimes folks have to fight fire with fire.

The time is nigh....

"As the time draws nigh glooming a cloud,
A dread beyond of I know not what darkens me.

I shall go forth,
I shall traverse the States awhile, but I cannot tell whither or how
long,
Perhaps soon some day or night while I am singing my voice will
suddenly cease.

O book, O chants! must all then amount to but this?
Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us? - and yet it is
enough, O soul;
O soul, we have positively appear'd - that is enough."

Walt Whitman-Leaves of Grass

Pray for our troops.

If the media and most politicians had a fraction of their bravery, Islamists would fail.

Unfortunately, that's not the case.

FARC Selling Uranium?

Why does FARC want 60+ LBS. of uranium?

"Colombian authorities are investigating what the country's biggest guerrilla group planned to do with 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of depleted uranium seized in a raid on the outskirts of Bogota.

General Freddy Padilla, head of Colombia's armed forces, said in a news conference yesterday that authorities were led to the buried cache by informants linked to an arms dealer named on the computer of slain rebel leader Raul Reyes. The find supports intelligence that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, were trying to get uranium since 2005, Padilla said.

"It's exactly the same material listed on Reyes' computer,'' Padilla said. "Why the FARC were so anxious to obtain this material we still don't know."

The seizure of the uranium underscores the value of intelligence gleaned from a half-dozen laptops the military captured from the FARC this month and shows how the underground operations of the 44-year-old insurgency are crumbling. Colombia used data from Reyes's hard drives, taken after a lethal cross- border raid into Ecuador, to implicate the governments of Venezuela and Ecuador in supporting the rebels."

FARC could have used it for purposes of blackmail, but my guess is that they were going to SELL IT to the highest Hezbollah bidder in South America or MEXICO and that it would have eventually ended up in the U.S. as a dirty bomb attack.

Having the Colombian government as an ALLY has certainly paid off in this case.

Another question would be:

Where did they get it?

There are uranium mines all over South America including in Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and, get this....Guyana.

Islamic radicals are all over in these countries and bringing radioactive material across our southern border would be fairly easy.

Terrorists would pay good money to have dirty bomb materials moved into America by border tunnel.

IF FARC can obtain radioactive material with ease, SO CAN al Qaeda....and it probably has already been moved into America.

Ask yourself another question.

IF Iran had radioactive material, would the Ayatollahs sell it to al Qaeda to attack the United States?

Obviously we will, at some point in the near future, have a dirty bomb attack in a major U.S. city.

New York City is protected by a ring of radiation detectors and so is Washington D.C., so terrorists are going to have to develop target areas that are not quite as populated but unprotected.

That means that the attack, or attacks, aren't far off because the longer terrorists wait, the more difficult it will be to pull it off.