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    Exclamation From Terrorist Bagman to Homeland Security Overlord: The Curious Career of Peter King

    From Terrorist Bagman to Homeland Security Overlord: The Curious Career of Peter King




    "There's only two things wrong with him -- his face": Congressman Peter "Janus" King

    http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com...-homeland.html

    In the person of Congressman Peter King (R-New York), the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, the abstraction called "hypocrisy" has acquired tangible human form. After spending decades canvassing his fellow Irish-American Catholics to raise money for terrorists in Northern Ireland, King has promised to conduct a wide-ranging investigation of American Muslim congregations and cultural organizations in search of people providing "material support" for Islamic terrorism.

    "We have to break through this politically correct nonsense which keeps us from debating and discussing what I think is one of the most vitally important issues in this country," King insists. "We are under siege by Muslim terrorists and yet there are Muslim leaders in this country who do not cooperate with law enforcement."
    King has also demanded that the WikiLeaks whistleblower organization be designated a terrorist organization. He insists that the group provided "material support" to terrorism by publishing hundreds of thousands of pages' worth of previously classified documents, many of them describing criminal acts and institutionalized corruption on the part of policy-makers in the U.S. government. It's reasonable to suspect that King's antipathy toward WikiLeaks is inspired, at least in part, by personal concerns.

    Among the documents made public by WikiLeaks is one that could be of particular interest to King -- a February 2010 CIA "Red Cell Special Memorandum" -- an "out-of-the-box" analysis examining "what it would mean for the US to be seen ... as an incubator and `exporter of terrorism.'" For example: "Some Irish-Americans have long provided financial aid and material support for violent efforts to compel the United Kingdom to relinquish control of Northern Ireland.... The US-based Irish Northern Aid Committee (NORAID), founded in the late 1960s, provided the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) with money that was frequently used for arms purchases."

    NORAID was designated by the Justice Department as an arm of the IRA more than thirty years ago. King, whose Long Island district has a large and well-organized Irish-American constituency, was one of the group's most effective fundraisers and one of the IRA's staunchest supporters.

    "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," King declared during a 1982 rally on behalf of the IRA in Nassau County. The "Provos" heartily reciprocated King's affection.

    "During his visits to Ireland, Mr. King would often stay with well-known leaders of the IRA, and he socialized in IRA drinking haunts," recalled Irish journalist Ed Moloney, author of the definitive work A Secret History of the IRA, in a 2005 New York Sun profile written after King's tardy and reluctant break with the group. "At one of such clubs, the Felons, membership was limited to IRA veterans who had served time in jail."

    Granted, many honorable and decent men -- both from Northern Ireland and elsewhere -- have become familiar with the inside of a prison cell. But the ex-convicts with whom King socialized during his visits to Ireland generally weren't innocent political prisoners.

    King (center) meets with supporters of a Malachy McAllister, a convicted Irish terrorist.
    King served as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee from 2005 until the Republicans lost their majority in the 2006 mid-term election. During his last stint in that post, King used his influence to intervene on behalf of Malachy McAllister.

    In 1981, McAllister served as an armed lookout during an ambush of a policeman outside a pub in Northern Ireland. The victim, it must be said, was a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, a paramilitary force that became notorious for beating and otherwise mistreating innocent people. McAllister served three years in a British prison for his role in the ambush.

    In 1988, after McAllister was released from prison, he narrowly escaped being killed by a Loyalist paramilitary gang that opened fire on his family's home in Belfast. The McAllisters fled to Canada, and in 1996 and settled in Wallington, New York. Seven years later the McAllisters' home came under armed siege once again -- this time by agents of the Department of Homeland Security, who carried out a 5 a.m. raid to enforce a deportation order. The family was to be expelled on account of what the agency called McAllister's "terrorist activities" a quarter-century ago.

    A stay was issued while the deportation order was examined in the courts. King used the interval to lobby Homeland Security Commissar Michael Chertoff. In a letter to Chertoff, King insisted that McAllister's family would likely be murdered if they were sent back to Northern Ireland.

    McAllister, like many Catholics in Ulster, endured inexcusable treatment at the hands of British occupation forces and Loyalist thugs. He admits to committing the acts for which he was incarcerated, but describes himself as a combatant in a civil war, rather than a terrorist. That distinction is difficult to defend in light of the fact that McAllister was a member of the Irish National Republican Army (INLA) -- the military wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP).

    Whatever the merits of the Irish Republican cause, the INLA was not created merely to obtain independence for Northern Ireland, or to defend the rights of an abused minority. The group, which budded off from the "official" IRA in 1974, was a tiny, ultra-violent Leninist cell within the IRSP. While the Party specialized in political agitation, the INLA carried out bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, extortion, and other forms of "direct action" that frequently targeted helpless civilians.

    It's quite likely that some of the money raised by Peter King on behalf of NORAID wound up funding the INLA's rampage. The group also received financial aid and training from Libya and the PLO.

    The group's objective has never been merely to reclaim Ulster from the UK: It is committed to the unification of all 32 counties of Ireland in a socialist "worker's republic" of the kind that has been such an unqualified blessing in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Like other "liberation" movements of a similar vintage, the INLA cynically invested its Leninist political agenda with religious language and symbolism.

    The INLA's cadres and supporters saw the group's terrorist campaign as, literally, a holy war. And Peter King, the once and future chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, gave eager and unapologetic material support to that terrorist jihad.

    Despite King's backstory, his unqualified support for open-ended war abroad and authoritarian measures at home has made him a favorite of Fox News and other elements of the War Party's media apparatus. Commentator Jim Kouri, a vice president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, commends King for his support for "those on the frontline of the war on terrorism," which supposedly offers a favorable contrast to the record of "`useful idiots' ... such as Rep. John Conyers, who actually supports Fifth-Column Islamic groups against his own nation."

    After all, didn't Conyers spend decades raising money for terrorists allied with Libya and the PLO, and then use his political clout on behalf of a would-be cop-killer who belonged to a Leninist criminal gang? No, wait a second: That was King, not Conyers.
    "Liberators"? IRA rep Gerry Adams and Fidel Castro.

    King's opponent in the recent mid-term congressional election tried, without success, to make an issue of the incumbent's support for Irish terrorism. Some of King's supporters attempted to dismiss the matter by pointing out that the IRA and its offshoots have never been a threat to the United States. Of course, the same is true of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Islamic terrorist groups that have long considered themselves to be comrades with the IRA in the struggle for global "liberation."

    As Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, King will be the tribune of a large and growing "anti-Sharia" constituency, which is composed of people who insist that every mosque should be treated as a jihadist recruitment center and weapons depot. From that perspective -- as articulated by Frank Gaffney, its most forceful exponent -- anybody who believes in and practices the religion of Islam should be presumptively regarded as guilty of sedition.

    With Sinn Fein official Martin McGuiness, 2000.
    Historian Sharon Davies points out that the unfolding "anti-Sharia" campaign updates and transposes a very similar crusade from a century ago:

    "In the early 1900s, many Americans were genuinely frightened by the perceived religious threat of the Roman Catholic Church and the suspected imperialistic intentions of its leader, the Pope. He was plotting the overthrow of the United States, warned the feature, to `make America Catholic.' His foot soldiers, tens of thousands of Catholic men who called themselves the Knights of Columbus, were busily stockpiling arms and ammunition in the basements of their churches, all in preparation for the day when their papist leader would give the signal for the violent insurrection to begin."

    Fear of a Papist Holy War was propagated by widely read and hugely influential anti-Catholic publications, promoted by a revived Ku Klux Klan, and coalesced into state "convent inspection laws" permitting warrantless searches of monasteries, chapels, and rectories. Peter King's career almost seems like a perverse attempt to validate the work of those early 20th Century anti-Catholic bigots.

    Between 1971 and 2005, about 1,800 people in Ireland were killed by IRA bombers and gunmen; the equivalent death toll in the United States would be 360,000 people. During that generation-long onslaught, the IRA "made the car-bomb the modern terrorist weapon du jour and perfected the manufacture of fertilizer-based home-made explosives of the sort now routinely used by jihadists," observes historian Moloney.

    Peter King "owes his political career almost entirely to the ties he forged" with the people who carried out that bloody campaign, Moloney concludes. King's very first act after being elected to his congressional seat "was to jump on a plane to Belfast for a rousing celebration in the Felon's Club."

    "Behind every great fortune, there's a crime," wrote Balzac. It's tempting to say the same of political careers, but this isn't strictly true: Crime is integral to politics. After all, politics is the business of managing the State, which as Murray Rothbard pointed out is nothing but organized banditry.

    Peter King apparently isn't equipped with either a conscience or a sense of irony, so he isn't likely to appreciate the fact that his political career perfectly encapsulates the process through which petty thugs are transmuted into "statesmen."
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11



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    Man... this has a really interesting headline, and I'm really trying to learn about it, but the lead sentence of the article is giving me second thoughts.

    In the person of Congressman Peter King (R-New York), the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, the abstraction called "hypocrisy" has acquired tangible human form.
    I just don't think I could write anything more pretentious if I tried.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brandon View Post
    I just don't think I could write anything more pretentious if I tried.
    I found it factual and to the point.

    But then again, I like Grigg.

    If you haven't noticed, I am a fan of the loud, over the top, pretentious and bombastic style of his and Jones and few others.

    Because, you see, I share that style.

    Keep in mind, this is dated, but I would find that personifies "hypocrisy" to a "t": the fat fascist $#@! that was running the US Stasi Committee in Congress, used to raise money for terrorists.

    Like Eric Holder preaching about gun control and "strawmen" purchases.

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    Peter King is, quite possibly, a caricature of the worst our gov't has to offer. People like him, Lieberman, Graham et al push people like me more and more towards anarchism/secession, etc. as the only viable alternative.
    Those who want liberty must organize as effectively as those who want tyranny. -- Iyad el Baghdadi

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    Quote Originally Posted by amy31416 View Post
    Peter King is, quite possibly, a caricature of the worst our gov't has to offer. People like him, Lieberman, Graham et al push people like me more and more towards anarchism/secession, etc. as the only viable alternative.
    Same boat...
    This post represents only the opinions of Christian Liberty and not the rest of the forum. Use discretion when reading

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    Quote Originally Posted by amy31416 View Post
    Peter King is, quite possibly, a caricature of the worst our gov't has to offer. People like him, Lieberman, Graham et al push people like me more and more towards anarchism/secession, etc. as the only viable alternative.
    Same, really fuels my pure hatred for his type. The absolute epitome of evil.



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    Would you believe this creep has an office right next to Massie at the Cannon building in DC? Oh, and DHS has their creepy ass castle door directly around the corner.

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    Because this fetid bag of $#@! is opening his stupid word hole again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FreedomFanatic View Post
    Same boat...
    This boat is getting crowded.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Because this fetid bag of $#@! is opening his stupid word hole again.
    Come on AF, for the safety of our children you know that Snowden must be brought to justice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John F Kennedy III View Post
    Come on AF, for the safety of our children you know that Snowden must be brought to justice.
    That didn't take long, did it now?

    How long have you been in New Jersey?

    A couple of weeks is all it took to go from a hard core "freedom folk" to groveling statist.

    I swear it is something in NJ water.














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    Haha about 12 days. All this moving has me on a tyranny tour of the US...it must be rubbing off on me.

    Arnold and Jerry Brown in Cali.

    Sheriff Arpaio and Governor Brewer in Arizona

    Rick Perry in Texas

    Now here in NJ it's Mayor Cory Booker and Governor Crispy Creme.

    I'm probably moving to NYC in a few months and it will be Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Cuomo.


    Slowly making my way to NH

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    It is suspicious that the IRA would have anything to do with this ass $#@!ing scum hat. Peter King, because if there were no $#@!s in our world there could be no dicks.

    EDIT, I apologize to the ladies here for my gratuitous use of that disgusting word.
    Last edited by bolil; 06-23-2013 at 07:32 PM.
    Best of luck in life.



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    “There’s been some surprise in the United States but also in Britain that you have a job in looking and investigating into terrorism when your own past quotes about terrorism … seem to [make you] an apologist for terrorism,” Winnick said.

    Winnick went on to recall several remarks King made in the ’80s, including, “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,” and, “If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the IRA for it.”


    http://www.therightperspective.org/2....Ai7sBnsN.dpbs


    Peter King's Terrorism Problem

    The fiery GOPer says WikiLeaks supports terrorism. Legal experts say congressmen who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones—or raise money for the IRA.

    But NorAid's terror ties were hardly a secret. The Justice Department launched numerous probes of group leaders for smuggling weapons into Ulster (their boasts to the press might have been a tip-off), and in 1981, a federal judge ordered the group to list the IRA as its foreign principal, stating that there was "uncontroverted evidence" that NorAid was "providing money and services for other than relief purposes." Throughout all of this, King embraced a role not entirely unlike the one he plays today: a metaphorical bomb-thrower. He raised money for NorAid, spoke at its events, and tirelessly championed the anti-British cause. In 1985, he convened a press conference before the start of New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade (for which he was Grand Marshal), and offered a defiant defense of the IRA: "As we march up the avenue and share all the joy," he declared, "let us never forget the men and women who are suffering and, most of all, the men and women who are fighting." In an interview with the New York Times two years later, King put his role in historical conext: "I'm the Ollie North of Ireland," he declared.

    British censors kept King off the airwaves (no small feat), and frequent newspaper profiles made note of his "militant" rhetoric, fierce support for the IRA, and prolific fundraising. So reviled was King across the pond that when New York's archbishop dared to embrace King at the city's St. Patrick's Day parade, London's Daily Mail dedicated an entire editorial to the affair and called it the "handshake of shame." Exchanging formalities with the then-comptroller of Nassau County, the paper explained, was tantamount to slapping terror on the back.

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...rorism-problem

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    bump
    "Integrity means having to say things that people don't want to hear & especially to say things that the regime doesn't want to hear.” -Ron Paul

    "Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it." -Edward Snowden

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    Quote Originally Posted by sailingaway View Post
    bump
    Bumpity

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shane Harris View Post


    Peter King: Fat Fascist $#@!
    I SOOOOO wish Luke had asked him "So should supporters of the IRA have been put on a kill list?"
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    Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I

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    The only way I see Trump as likely to affect any real change would be through martial law, and that has zero chances of success without strong buy-in by the JCS at the very minimum.

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    And bump yet again.

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    Bump for another thread

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    Move over Freddie Kruger... there's a scarier menace on the loose in America

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    It's makes me want to vomit knowing people like him are actually voted into office over and over again.



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    Bump because this stupid fascist $#@!stick is blowing $#@! out his word hole again.

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    And bump once again.

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    “There’s been some surprise in the United States but also in Britain that you have a job in looking and investigating into terrorism when your own past quotes about terrorism … seem to [make you] an apologist for terrorism,” Winnick said.

    Winnick went on to recall several remarks King made in the ’80s, including, “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,” and, “If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the IRA for it.”


    http://www.therightperspective.org/2....Ai7sBnsN.dpbs


    Peter King's Terrorism Problem

    The fiery GOPer says WikiLeaks supports terrorism. Legal experts say congressmen who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones—or raise money for the IRA.

    But NorAid's terror ties were hardly a secret. The Justice Department launched numerous probes of group leaders for smuggling weapons into Ulster (their boasts to the press might have been a tip-off), and in 1981, a federal judge ordered the group to list the IRA as its foreign principal, stating that there was "uncontroverted evidence" that NorAid was "providing money and services for other than relief purposes." Throughout all of this, King embraced a role not entirely unlike the one he plays today: a metaphorical bomb-thrower. He raised money for NorAid, spoke at its events, and tirelessly championed the anti-British cause. In 1985, he convened a press conference before the start of New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade (for which he was Grand Marshal), and offered a defiant defense of the IRA: "As we march up the avenue and share all the joy," he declared, "let us never forget the men and women who are suffering and, most of all, the men and women who are fighting." In an interview with the New York Times two years later, King put his role in historical conext: "I'm the Ollie North of Ireland," he declared.

    British censors kept King off the airwaves (no small feat), and frequent newspaper profiles made note of his "militant" rhetoric, fierce support for the IRA, and prolific fundraising. So reviled was King across the pond that when New York's archbishop dared to embrace King at the city's St. Patrick's Day parade, London's Daily Mail dedicated an entire editorial to the affair and called it the "handshake of shame." Exchanging formalities with the then-comptroller of Nassau County, the paper explained, was tantamount to slapping terror on the back.

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...rorism-problem





    Has any reporter asked Peter King for his views on the so called mixed-race "IRA shooter" Chris Harper-Mercer who singled out Christians for killing in Oregon?





    Oregon college shooting: What we know about alleged killer Chris Harper-Mercer

    Nine people are reported to have died in the latest school shooting in the US this year


    • Friday 2 October 2015 08:59 BST

    Chris Harper-Mercer in a MySpace photograph linked to his name A man alleged to have shot dead at least nine people in a college in the US appeared to have expressed support for the IRA and mass shootings online.
    Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, reportedly walked into a classroom at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, on Thursday and opened fire. The gunman, who allegedly demanded students’ religious views before shooting them, was killed by local police officers in a shootout.

    Harper-Mercer’s online history also appears to show he disliked organised religion and identified as a conservative Republican.
    A MySpace account in the same name, registered in Torrance, California, is filled with pictures of masked Irish Republican Army (IRA) members and includes two photographs of the alleged shooter posing with a rifle.


    A screengrab from a MySpace account in Chris Harper-Mercer's name


    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a6676421.html


    Oregon Killer: A Self-Described Conservative Republican

    Oregon gunman Chris Harper Mercer discharged from US Army



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    Quote Originally Posted by bolil View Post
    It is suspicious that the IRA would have anything to do with this ass $#@!ing scum hat. Peter King, because if there were no $#@!s in our world there could be no dicks.

    EDIT, I apologize to the ladies here for my gratuitous use of that disgusting word.
    His head is the reason pikes were invented.
    "I shall bring justice to Westeros. Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat. They have made my kingdom bleed, and I do not forget that."
    -Stannis Baratheon

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    Not just the IRA...if you look at King's votes, he has indeed consistently provided material support to a variety of terrorists throughout the years.

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