Gay Conservative

Today, while the media snored, Ali Hamza al-Bahlul was convicted during his trial at Guantanamo Bay.  Soliciting murder and providing material support to terrorists were the charges, and he was found guilty.  He was Osama bin Laden’s media secretary.  What gets under my skin is that Amnesty International, along with a host of other organizations, were on hand for the entire trial to support al-Bahlul, yet there was only one lone man there supporting the victims who had died at the hands of the terrorists he’d supported.  The father of one of the 17 sailors killed during the bombing of the USS Cole on October 12, 2000 (corrected from 1996…not sure where I got that!), was the single soul who sat in solidarity with the victims.

We’ve heard about waterboarding.  We’ve heard that the prisoners complain about the food.  We’ve heard the tales of supposed disrespect, of Marine guards tearing copies of the Qur’an to shreds or dropping them in toilets.  But what of the victims of these monsters?  Don’t you think they know exactly what to say and do to get what they want?  Are we that naive that we honestly believe they don’t know how to play us?  They’re playin’ us like fiddles, folks, and we’re buyin’ it.  So much so that when one is found guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt due to overwhelming evidence, nobody’s listening.

Tomorrow, we’ll vote to decide who will steer this country next.  If we elect Barack Obama, we’ll have a Democrat in the White House as well as a Democrat-controlled House and Senate.  If that happens the first two things we can automatically kiss goodbye are our safety (guaranteed by Bush’s willingness to stomp the hell out of anyone who so much as looks at us cross-eyed) and our Second Amendment rights (the right to keep and bear arms, the same right that Hitler took away when he came to power).  And the bastards at Gitmo who, if released, will go right back to killing Americans?  Well…’nuff said.

I’m not going to tell you outright who you should vote for, but I’m voting for Sarah Palin as our next VP.  To those of my friends who have a hard time thinking past their own little worlds I say this one last time: THINK.  Think before you cast that ballot.  Think about all of the issues involved, not just the ones that you think are important to you and you alone.  Think about the enormous impact you have with the stroke of that pen before you contribute, because if you don’t, we might well end up kissing our freedom goodbye.