| As we get ready to witness the ugly spectacle of Peter King, a long time supporter of actual terrorists and first class asshole, conduct a publicly funded witch hunt for terrorist sympathizers right here in the US of A, I think it's important for everyone to re-familiarize ourselves with just who Pete King is. Fortunately, after basically a blackout on the subject of King's past from our legacy media since he assumed the Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, the Times has finally put his terrorist loving past into the Paper Of Record. It also allows us to ask a very simple question; How the hell did a man with such a past become the chief hunter of terrorists for the People's House?
For Lawmaker Examining Terror, a Pro-I.R.A. Past
For Representative Peter T. King, as he seizes the national spotlight this week with a hearing on the radicalization of American Muslims, it is the most awkward of résumé entries. Long before he became an outspoken voice in Congress about the threat from terrorism, he was a fervent supporter of a terrorist group, the Irish Republican Army.
"We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry," Mr. King told a pro-I.R.A. rally on Long Island, where he was serving as Nassau County comptroller, in 1982. Three years later he declared, "If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it."
As Mr. King, a Republican, rose as a Long Island politician in the 1980s, benefiting from strong Irish-American support, the I.R.A. was carrying out a bloody campaign of bombing and sniping, targeting the British Army, Protestant paramilitaries and sometimes pubs and other civilian gathering spots. His statements, along with his close ties to key figures in the military and political wings of the I.R.A., drew the attention of British and American authorities.
A judge in Belfast threw him out of an I.R.A. murder trial, calling him an "obvious collaborator," said Ed Moloney, an Irish journalist and author of "A Secret History of the I.R.A." In 1984, Mr. King complained that the Secret Service had investigated him as a "security risk," Mr. Moloney said.
Think about that for a minute. A man who was deemed an "obvious collaborator" with a known international terrorist group, the IRA, who trained and equipped themselves in places like Libya, the folks who blew up Pan Am 103, were BFFs with murderous cretins like Gaddhafi and played footsie with the PLO, is now not only on the hunt for domestic terrorist sympathizers, but is actually CHAIR OF THE GODDAMN COMMITTEE charged with oversight of such things. Even Tom Clancy wouldn't write something so ridiculous.
We should also note that the man who told us that we should not "morally blame" the IRA for death of civilians unfortunate enough to be at the scene of IRA terror attacks, wants the New York Times tried for treason and wants Wikileaks to be designated a terrorist organization. Really.
But it gets even better. Just a few days ago, King slammed his own party's cuts to homeland security funding for New York and New Jersey's ports.
The Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said budget cuts to port and transit security that the GOP majority approved last month are "wrong" and "dangerous."
"I think that a number of the cuts Republicans have made in the continuing resolution are wrong," Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." They cut port security by two-thirds, they cut transit security by two-thirds."
"We cannot afford those cuts, they are too dangerous," King said. "And one attack on subway train or one attack in one port will cost us more money going into the future years than any amount, any small amount they're saving."
So what did he do about it? He then voted for those cuts, cuts that he publicly stated were "too dangerous" and "wrong."
King voted in favor of the seven-month spending bill that included those cuts, and he did not explain his decision to do so on Sunday.
So, Peter King, a man with a decades long relationship to international terrorist groups and who is now in charge of the House committee charged with monitoring them, first decries cuts that would leave the ports in the nation's largest city and the city with the sad memory of the most devastating terrorist attack in our nation's history, vulnerable to further terrorist attacks. He gets the headlines and then....votes for the cuts anyway.
Hmmm...
In the past, Peter King told noted Islamic Scholar Sean Hannity that he believed that "80-85% of mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists" a number he seemingly pulled straight from his ass.
What we do know for sure, however, is that 100% of House Homeland Security Committees are controlled by de facto terrorist sympathizers.
So, is Peter King a Congressman or...a mole?
Paging Tom Clancy... |
