The Spirit of a Python

Director, author and Python, Terry Jones, has died, aged 77.

While he is and will remain best known for his work in comedy, especially Monty Python, I will remember him for his final film, "Boom, Bust, Boom," available on NetFlix.  Here's the trailer:

Crazy Christofascist Bastard Won't Stop

Hillbilly "pastor" Terry Jones has taken his Islamophobia on the road.   Jones and his equally inbred sidekick Wayne 'Gomer' Sapp were locked up for their own safety as they prepared to stage a protest outside the Islamic Center of America in the heavily Muslim Detroit suburb of Dearborn.

A local jury convicted them of attempting to incite violence.   The judge imposed a $1 fine on each man.   Citing their First Amendment "free speech" right the two refused to pay and were sent to jail in protest.   Once they got locked up they thought better of it, paid the two bucks and were released.

Afghanistan Is Dangerous Enough for Canadian Troops

For the amount of actual, lasting good we've done there, Canadian soldiers have paid a steep price.   The number of wounded and dead servicemen and women is testament to their sacrifices.

It's a dangerous place.  We don't have freedom of movement there.   Our troops remain tied to garrisons.   Outside the wire is territory they definitely do not control.  When the bad guys are able to bury roadside IEDs just beyond your gates, you don't control anything.

Thanks to our American friends the job is going to get even more dangerous.  It seems they have laws that protect religious extremism even when it sets places like Afghanistan afire, even when it gives enormous aid and comfort to the very guys who are killing our people, the Taliban and their associated Islamist allies.

Nothing gives the U.S. the right to let its citizens put our soldiers in increased jeopardy, nothing.   There are limits to this notion of free speech.  We've long decided that it's not free speech to stand up in a dark, crowded theatre and yell "fire."  When you cause people to get trampled to death, you're responsible - criminally liable in manslaughter because those deaths were the logical and foreseeable result of your reckless act.

If the Americans won't move against this pathetic pastor Jones, our troops should stay in their garrisons and pack up.

Why Is Bradley Manning in Prison But Not Terry Jones?

Florida's crackpot "pastor" Terry Jones has done more to give aid and comfort to America's enemies and to endanger the lives of his country's soldiers than alleged Wiki leaker Bradley Manning ever could be said to have done.   Terry Jones must be the Taliban's new poster boy.  He's certainly given the Talibs and plenty of devout Muslim Afghans even more proof that those strange talking white boys with all the guns genuinely are Crusaders.

Jones says he's not responsible for the deaths of those UN workers but he is.   When he announced his plan to burn Qurans to mark the 2010 anniversary of 9/11 he received warnings from US Defense Secretary Gates and US Army commander General David Petraeus that the stunt would endanger American lives.  The warnings got the old bugger to back off ...until now.

But he was warned.  He was told, "burn those books, people will die."  With that forewarning this fundamentalist shit went ahead, soaked a Quran in kerosene and set it alight.  He knew what he was doing.   He knew it was entirely likely, almost to the point of certainty, that he was condemning innocents to death.  He went ahead and callously tossed those lives away for the sake of his stunt.

This killer knew exactly what would happen.  He made that clear in numerous interviews last summer.   Here's just one of them:


Now this Christian extremist (there are plenty of them, just like Islamic extremists) says he might just stage a trial of the Muslim prophet Mohammed.

It's likely that we've just seen the first wave of this latter day Jonestown massacre.  This bastard needs to be quarantined, now.  In fact, the Americans have just the place for Taliban supporters like Jones - Guantanamo.