And the outsourcing of warfare continues......

Intellectual vigilantes, eh?

I'm not sure I like the sound of this, given the erosion of our rights and the Government's new habit of locking people up on the mere suspicion that they may be planning a crime, with no right to a trial.

Perhaps we should be careful how we air our Thoughts of Minor Destruction.

Stick with the Union and you will see more and more of your freedoms taken away in the name of Imperialism..

Sounds just dandy to me. Geeze a job.

Some of the extreme comments from posters could keep Vigil & his crew busy for a while...think its good they are going to target the extreme Groups in the UK...they are way over the top,it all starts with an Idea, then the Retoric, then the Bombs...

There's a reason most of the world refers to the UK capital as "Londonistan". For many good reasons, and some very bad ones, the UK has harbored, nurtured, funded and protected a plethora of hatefilled, violence-planning extremists.

What is both sad and worrying is the degree to which kneejerk reactions (against, for instance, the US and Israel) have led so many to turn a willfully blind eye to what the UK has fostered and exported out of the extremist Islmacist subculture. Islamacist threats, bullying, violence and subversion could be dealt with, if there was a will to do so.

Where there is no such will, the culture commits slow suicide -- and that is exactly the path that much of Europe has embraced. It would seem that many take the attitude that so long as they get to retire with posh benefits who cares about the situation 15-20 years out, especially if you can cock a snoot at the Yanks in the process.

Very very dangerous -- but each country and society will choose its path and then live with the consequences, as will we all.

This is a bullsh1t story. It's just more propaganda; Vigil, if it exists is probably just looking for a government contract.

Pete #7

Yes thats right. They just want to get paid. Of course it has nothing to do with caring about our country and wanting to protect our citizens. Being made up of anti-terrorism experts and ex spies they natually only care about money. End of sarcasm.

It does seem so, Axel. However, this gentleman forgets that quite a few extremists have been 'nurtured' and given all the 'unlimited opportunities' they needed across the great main--flight instructions, the chance of parking vans loaded with explosives in the WTC parking garage etc. Those who are without failure may throw the first stone (or rock in US jargon). The rest, i.e. those 'meaning well' should stop complaining. They better do something about those 'asymmetric' problems we are faced with.

"..they are way over the top, it all starts with an Idea, then the Retoric, then the Bombs..." Cool said.

Idea was "get the Iraqi and Iranian oil or keep in the ground until we run out (or else prices drop and we don't want that. ) Make big war profits."

Then the Rhetoric - 45 mins. dodgy dossier, Niger Uranium etc..

Then the Bombs and kill 655,000 civilians and call all the resistance fighters terrorists and make more arms profits etc. etc.

Any Saga Holidays groups to Pyongyang will be monitored very carefully - you have been warned!

Axel, #9,

The British Government is not just involved in supporting terrorism, elements within it carry out attacks.

This film released a couple of months lays out the facts better than I could. http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230

verite #11

".....and call all the resistance fighters terrorists and make more arms profits etc. etc."

Why dont you ask the relatives of the 160 people killed by car bombs yesterday in baghdad if the people planting the bombs were "freedom fighters" or terrorists?

bill-alba, #3,

"Stick with the Union and you will see more and more of your freedoms taken away in the name of Imperialism.."

Is that the European Union?

This sounds like a great idea. There are several discussion boards in the US, such as Democratic Underground, People For Change, Progressive Independent, etc., where posters constantly espouse overthrow of the US, Israel, the West, etc. Meanwhile, many posters on these boards seem to see nothing wrong with Islamofascists calling for jihad against the West and suicide bombers.

Congresswoman Sherri Davis, R-CA, Calls for Forced Integration of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Announces Reversal of Previous Opposition to Minimum Wage Hike

2006-11-28 10:00:33 - Congressional watchdogs cheer the not-unexpected news; Minimum Wage Hike Will Come with New Minimum Wage Robe

New York, NY (PRINSIDE) November 28, 2006 -- Congresswoman Sherri Davis, R-CA, known as the "Ann Coulter of Anaheim" for her fierce opposition to flag-burning and illegal immigrants and her unyielding support of the American family, issued a statement today calling for the “forced integration” of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," and announcing her support for a Congressional increase in the minimum wage -- the first such increase in almost 10 years.

Congressional watchdogs cheered the announcements, which were not unexpected given Davis’ recent move to the center in a possible bid for higher elected office.

“As Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘A revolution can never go backwards,’ and it is in this spirit that I move today to bring equality to the largest remaining 'men’s-only club' in the nation,” said Davis in her statement.

Davis is a former star of stage and screen who was appointed to her husband’s Congressional seat after his untimely Astor Place Cube death late last year; she has since been re-elected. She comes to Congress with a substantial civil rights background, having played the part of Penny Pingleton in no less than four regional productions of the hit musical "Hairspray."

"’Hairspray’ was a similar experience in that it involved the integration of a local whites-only televised teen dance show, 'The Corny Collins Show,' by plus-size heroineTracy Turnblad -- and so I had a lot of background on this kind of forced integration and the reasons it needs to be done in the entertainment industry,” Davis said. “And The Daily Show reaches even more viewers than ‘The

have won nine Emmy awards and two Peabodys.

“Nevertheless, this whole area of 'fake news' is one that deserves much closer Congressional scrutiny,” says Davis. “Fake news was first invented in Germany in the 1930s by he-who-shall-not-be-named, quickly spread to Mussolini’s Italy and Stalinist Russia, and from there in modern times to Tom Cruise in our own country. Couple this seamy past with its modern-day practice of discriminatory hiring and you have to ask: ‘Do we really need fake news in our country?”

In addition to gaining women and blacks equal representation in the ranks of “The Daily Show,” Davis' bill would mainstream two new groups that presently have had no representation whatsoever in the staffing of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:” illegal aliens, and individuals with diplomas from online universities.

In other anticipated news, Congresswoman Davis announced that she would cross party lines in defiance of party leaders and cast her vote to increase the minimum wage, which currently stands at $5.15 an hour.

"Dick (Cheney) had told me that the increased wages would probably just go to frivolous spending on items such as food or clothing," Davis says. "But I know myself the pain that I feel in my heart as a single-mother when my monthly statement from Finkleton’s arrives, and on this issue I am voting with my heart instead of with my head.”

Notably, Davis says she plans to attach a rider to the legislation -- "I like to add a little something that makes every legislative piece at least a little bit my own" – that will adapt a famous Broadway tradition called “the gypsy robe” to the new national minimum wage legislation.

"Each week, Nancy (Pelosi) and I will choose a lucky individual who most exemplifies the nation's minimum wage workers, and parallel to a tradition first started on Broadway by Bill Bradley, award the equivalent of Broadway’s ‘gypsy robe’ to one ver