By Debbie Schlussel

It’s foolishness not to use profiles when you know that most terrorists come from certain ethnic groups and certain age groups. A bomber on a plane is likely to be Muslim and young, not an elderly Holocaust survivor. We’re talking about preventing a lot of casualties, and that justifies inconveniencing a certain ethnic group.

—Ariel Merari, an Israeli terrorism expert who has written about aviation security.
Sadly, the only country in the world that knows how it’s done and does it right is being subject to a lawsuit challenge profiling of Arabs and Muslims in the Israeli Supreme Court, notoriously liberal and idiotic for its suicidal decisions.
Yup, time to start doing what we do here and frisking the little old lady who survived Auschwitz, right? That’ll make us safer. Uh-huh.

By Debbie Schlussel
**** UPDATE, 03/20/08: Read More Media Accounts on this Muslim attack on Jewish Rabbi ****
Yesterday, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, four to five Muslims viciously attacked Rabbi Uria Ohana in Brooklyn, New York, while shouting, “Allahu Akbar.”
Rabbi Ohana, assistant head rabbi of Chabad-Lubavitch of Massachusetts, was about to get on the F-Train at Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street in Brooklyn.
The young Muslim assailants grabbed rabbi Ohana’s yarmulke (skullcap), and when he went to them to get it back, they beat him and shouted, “Allahu Akbar.” One of the Muslim attackers ran away into the street and was hit by a car (G-d works in mysterious ways). He was arrested by police. But three to four other Muslim assailants–whom you can bet will attack other Jews–escaped and are free.
That Was Then . . .

This Is Now . . .

I just got off the phone with Rabbi Shimon Hecht, President of the Rabbinical Committee of Brownstone, Brooklyn, and corresponded with Rabbi Shea Hecht, Chairman of the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education, both of whom gave me the details. They are about to hold a press conference, this evening, to urge New York City Police Department to find and apprehend the other attackers.
Tomorrow night, the Jewish holiday of Purim begins at sundown. As Rabbi Shea Hecht said:

On the heels of the Holiday of Purim, in which we celebrate the downfall of all anti-Semitism and hatred, we are calling on the police to beef up security in our neighborhoods to end such anti-Semitic attacks.

Hmmm . . . Where is CAIR et al. on this? Looking the other way.
Remember, it’s too late to be saying, “If we don’t fight them over there, we’ll have to fight them here.”
They’re here. And they’re in fighting form.
Now I know why a Muslim titled his movie, “West Bank Brooklyn.” Writer/Director Ghazi Albuliwi said, “It’s not a state. It’s a state of mind.”
Yup, a barbaric state of mind that spans all state borders.

By Debbie Schlussel
. . . Reagan“?! Huh?
No, You Di’int
Ronald Wilson Reagan is turning over in his grave. So, is his minister.

By Debbie Schlussel
This item is yet another “Pets–The New People” alert. . .
So you’re a battered wife (or husband–yes, it does happen that way) and you’ve been beaten and abused until you can’t take it anymore.
But you don’t leave because you’re also a cat lady and you can’t bear to leave the cat–whose life is apparently infinitely far more important than your own.
Enter one of the most ridiculous ideas I’ve heard of yet–PAWS–the Pets and Women’s Shelters. Note which noun–Pets–comes first. And there are many others like it:

The New Priorities:
Better to Endure Spousal Abuse Than Give Up Cat Lady Status

When Rose Terry finally resolved to leave her abusive boyfriend, she knew she’d have to live in a shelter for a few weeks before she could start life anew. She had no reservations about that.
But she anguished over Byron, the cat who had seen her through the awful times. None of her friends could take the female feline (the family was first told she was male, hence the name), and she couldn’t bear the thought of placing her in an animal shelter until she got back on her feet. “I was desperate, weeping,” Terry says. “She’s my family.”
When Terry learned one Las Vegas domestic violence safe haven, Shade Tree Shelter, had just built a pet-boarding facility on its grounds for residents’ animals, “I was in such relief.” . . .
Domestic abuse shelters have long recognized that abused families, often kept so isolated that pets are their only friends, won’t leave the abuser. . . . So shelters have worked with animal-welfare groups that provide temporary pet care to ensure that everyone gets out of the situation.
Today, the emerging alternative is for domestic abuse shelters to provide on-site pet boarding. So far, fewer than a half-dozen such shelters exist, says Allie Phillips, director of public policy for the non-profit American Humane Association. But the numbers are certain to increase, as efforts are afoot on two fronts.
American Humane has just compiled and distributed a how-to guide, and Phillips’ goal is that by year’s end, at least 15 shelters will offer or will soon offer on-site pet boarding. Doorways for Women and Families Safehouse in Arlington, Va., will be the first to use American Humane’s Pets and Women’s Shelters (PAWS) Program start-up guide – officials there are in final planning to provide pet housing later this year. . . .
“We had the experience with several women who would arrive with a garbage bag full of possessions and a pet in tow and refuse to check in when they learned that we would find a safe place for the animal, but it couldn’t stay here with them,” Columbo says. “We’ve known of women who lived in their cars so they could keep their pets with them and women who stayed in a shelter but kept their pet in the car parked on the street, and, of course, women who wouldn’t leave their abuser because of concern for the safety of their animals. . . .”

Well, as I’ve often remarked on this site, the PETA a/k/a PUTAh (People for the Unethical Treatment of Animals and humans) folks have won. When American women who are being beaten and abused are more worried about the safety of animals than that of themselves, they’ve won.
Just think how many more battered and/or homeless people could be sheltered for the cost of doing so for pets. This is ludicrous.
It’s one thing to be against the abuse of animals. It’s entirely another to put animals’ welfare before that of humans.
And we’ve now surpassed that threshold. Congrats, America!

By Debbie Schlussel
First, she disparaged Jews’ noses to Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show.” And now she’s given her kid an Arabic Muslim first name. Yup, Halle Berry named her illegitimate kiddie, Nahla–a Muslim name, which, depending on transliteration from Arabic, means either a drink/sip of water or a bee. Nahla, incidentally, is also the first name of Mrs. Sami Al-Arian, wife to the founder and worldwide chief of Islamic Jihad, now in federal prison. And it’s the name of a champion race horse in Saudi Arabia.
All things Arabic and Muslim . . . it’s the new black. (And, no, by that, I don’t mean skin color.)

By Debbie Schlussel
The maker of this very well done video must have been reading when I wrote that Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality” should be the Barack Hussein Obama theme song–actually it was reader “samurai’s” idea in the comments section of another post on this site. He redoes this fave classic of mine with excellent footage and quotes. Try to bear the two gratuitous shots of the ever annoying seismic ego of Sean “The Plagiarist” Vannity. Love this guy’s quick clip of Eddie Murphy in “The Distinguished Gentleman,” the movie in which he ran for office and delivered empty, phony promise-filled speeches. That’s Obama in a nutshell:

I exploit you, still you love me;
I tell you one and one makes three;
I’m the Cult of Personality.

By Debbie Schlussel
If a modern-day Alfred Hitchcock directed the Democrats, this is what we’d see (thanks to the Great Jaz McKay–on whose show I appear every Thursday at 1:00 p.m. Pacific/4:00 p.m. Eastern):

By Debbie Schlussel
Recently, I told you about how more than half the illegal aliens rounded up in a raid on a New Bedford, Massachusetts factory were not only still here, but that many were still working . . . illegally.
Well, there’s even more to the story. The man who bailed many of them out of detention is an open borders multi-millionaire, Bob Hildreth. This man–unappreciative of the laws and law enforcement of the country that gave him so much–is now the ultimate enabler for illegal aliens.
Talk about a spoiled boomer. This 57-year-old liberal former history teacher takes the cake:

Multi-Millionaire Bob Hildreth Hearts Illegal Aliens

One frigid March morning last year, federal agents raided a factory in this old whaling town, arresting hundreds of illegal immigrants as they sewed vests and backpacks for U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Most were shackled and sent to a detention center in Texas, where they faced rapid deportation unless they could post thousands of dollars in bail — money they didn’t have — to buy time to mount a defense.
Then, a mystery benefactor appeared. The anonymous donor ponied up more than $200,000 to spring 40 people from detention.
The payments, which until now haven’t become public despite extensive news coverage of the raid itself, came from Bob Hildreth, a Boston financier who made his millions trading Latin American debt. He was “infuriated” at the televised images of workers being shipped to Texas, he says. Helping them make bail is “payback.” [DS: Take note, ICE agents: A lefty multi-millionaire is at war with you. And he’s giving you “payback” because you enforced the law.]
The raid broke families apart,” says the diminutive 57-year-old, who once taught high-school history. “This was extremely un-American.” [DS: Yup, enforcing the law and our borders is now “un-American.”] . . .
The factory raid has been a hot topic around New Bedford, where prominent local talk-radio host Ken Pittman has taken a strong stance against illegal immigration. Upon hearing of Mr. Hildreth’s payments, Mr. Pittman said: “I would ask him to show the same compassion for American workers displaced by these illegal aliens.”
A spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency that staged the raid, declined to say whether it knew who posted the bail. She said any person is free to post bond for anyone. [DS: Well, of course, ICE won’t condemn this guy. Julie L. Myers a/k/a “The ICE Princess” already praised the fact that his freed illegal aliens are tying up Immigration Court with their phony asylum claims.]
Mr. Hildreth is a multimillionaire who built his fortune trading in Latin American bonds during the 1980s debt crisis that gripped the region. “I love making money,” says Mr. Hildreth, who recently traded in his 20-year-old Volvo for an orange Mini Cooper.
He also professes a lifelong love affair with Latin America. As an economist with the International Monetary Fund, he lived in Bolivia in the 1980s. Later, after returning to the U.S., he began trading in Latin American loans at Wall Street giants including Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. He now runs his own small firm, International Bank Services, which buys and sells corporate debt.
The descendant of Irish immigrants and of Puritans who settled in Boston in 1632, he twice tried his hand teaching, following in the footsteps of his parents, both of whom were teachers. Both times, however, he returned to finance.
A key moment, he says, was a verbal spat with a student over abuse of bathroom-pass privileges. [DS: Hmmm . . . he’s a Nazi with high school bathroom passes, but our borders and American jobs, not so much. Glad he’s got the right priorities.] . . .
Instead, he decided to use his money to improve education for immigrants. Over the past two decades, he says, he has given several million dollars to fund literacy and citizenship classes in Lynn, Mass., to build a preschool in an immigrant-heavy Boston neighborhood, and to set up an endowed chair in Latin American studies at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. . . .
Images of shackled prisoners stumbling as they boarded a plane for Texas are what spurred Mr. Hildreth to call Greater Boston Legal Services, a nonprofit group coordinating a legal response to the raid. “I told them to contact me if they had some bonds that needed to be paid,” he recalls. [DS: Let’s hope he doesn’t see any pics of serial murderers in shackles.] . . .
Mr. Hildreth agreed to help individuals post bail if they or their families would also put up a significant chunk of money. The legal-aid group, GBLS, would email Mr. Hildreth with individual requests. He would then wire the money back to the lawyers.
Last May 3, for example, GBLS attorney John Willshire-Carrera sent Mr. Hildreth an email that read: “Bob, we have two more for tomorrow, if possible….Bond set at 5,000, family is paying 2,500. Bond set at 7,500, family is paying 2,000.”
The following morning, Mr. Hildreth emailed his response: “8k sent.”

If you’re one of the many unemployed, down-and-out American citizens, particularly in New Bedford, Mass., don’t expect Bob Hildreth to help you out.
Unless you’re an illegal alien lawbreaker and job-and-benefits stealer, the answer is “No Mas.”

By Debbie Schlussel
Don’t let the bow-ties fool you. That’s about the only civilized thing about Barack Hussein Obama’s friends at the Nation of Islam.
Yes, that’s right–Obama remains a fan of the Nation of Islam and won’t denounce it (only Farrakhan). As I’ve noted Obama reluctantly distanced himself from NOI leader Louis Farrakhan, but–since he has NOI figures in key, top staffing positions in his U.S. Senate office–he has never condemned the NOI and never will. They’ll be with him at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
But, thankfully, utility workers don’t need to worry about going to the White House to turn off utilities for unpaid bills. Going anywhere near “The Final Call” is hazard duty:

2 Final Call newspaper employees charged in assault on utility worker
Attack alleged after Peoples Gas worker attempted to shut off service
By Jeremy Gorner, Tribune reporter

9:55 PM CDT, March 18, 2008
Two employees of the Final Call newspaper are facing charges after allegedly attacking a utility worker who was shutting off gas service Monday at the paper’s office on the city’s South Side.
Wali Muhammad, 22, and Marc Muhammad, 41, both of Chicago, each were charged with aggravated battery in the alleged assault of a Peoples Gas worker outside the Final Call, the newspaper of the Nation of Islam.
A judge set bail at $25,000 each Tuesday.
Marc Muhammad allegedly grabbed the worker’s jackhammer and pushed him into a wall. Wali Muhammad, who is not related to Marc, also allegedly pushed the worker into a wall and threatened him. The employee was not injured.

Yes, the “Religion of Peace” is so very peaceful in every single one of its manifested factions in America.
Here’s the video:

By Debbie Schlussel
Last week, many ICE agents and other personnel of the agency sent me a hilarious e-mail sent out by the incompetentette-in-chief at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Julie L. Myers, announcing that March is the Fifth Anniversary of the creation of ICE. All of her phony “achievements” in the e-mail were trumped up like nobody’s biz.
I chose to ignore the missive because there’s nothing to celebrate and everything to deplore about this aimless, massive bureaucracy–the largest within Homeland Security–headed by a spoiled child with zero law enforcement experience. The best thing to do on ICE’s Fifth Anniversary would be to disband it and create separate INS and U.S. Customs departments anew, with actual, real cops–not a real-life incarnation of a Willy Wonka contestant with a golden ticket–running each.
Still, I recognize the Fifth Anniversary of ICE today because I got notes from many of my ICE agent friends in Arizona that they’ve now gotten their SIXTH Special Agent in Charge in the Five Years of ICE.

(ICEfeld by Assistant Homeland Security Secretary for PhotoShop David Lunde)
Arizona is one of the most important border states. I’ve documented ranches on the border, which daily have upwards of 500 illegal aliens and drug smugglers overrunning the properties on their way into America. We need a stable, experienced leadership heading up investigations into these things to stop them from happening–to stop the alien and drug smuggling, to stop the criminals from invading Arizona and, later, the rest of us.
But when a kidlette who holds Halloween costume parties with awards for blackface is running the show, look for it to be strictly comedy . . . and horror show. So, now, Myers and her new ICE Prince, John “Costanza” Torres have chosen a man who oversaw such important functions as ICE agents seizing T-shirts at the Superbowl and the Major League Baseball All-Star Game and the many worksite show-raids we’ve all seen on TV, for which Julie Myers poses for the cameras . . . while half the aliens are set free.
Yes, now Matthew Allen comes to Arizona. There’s a new sheriff in town at ICE in Arizona, the sixth in five years of an agency which has zero confidence from its demoralized and beleaguered minions. Now agents have yet another thing to watch out for besides cacti and rattlers–a boss with a lack of institutional memory and a likely eye on the next train out of Dodge, like his predecessors.
Here’s the ICE press release:

Matthew Allen, who currently heads ICE’s Financial, Narcotics and Public Safety Division in Washington, D.C., will be taking over as the new special agent in charge (SAC) of the ICE office of investigations in Arizona. Formerly, Allen served as the Deputy Assistant Director of ICE’s Critical Infrastructure and Fraud Division, providing national oversight of the agency’s human smuggling, worksite, intellectual property rights, and document and benefit fraud enforcement efforts.
As the SAC for ICE in Arizona, Allen will be responsible for heading ICE’s six investigations offices statewide, including locations in Phoenix, Tucson, Douglas, Nogales, Sells and Yuma . . . .
Allen’s appointment comes as the current Arizona ICE SAC, Alonzo Pena, leaves the agency to assume another position. [DS: By most accounts, Pena was a good, experienced guy, but was not treated properly by The ICE Princess and her panoply of court jesters. So now he’s gone.]
As the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE agents in Arizona are responsible for pursuing a wide range of criminal activity, including human smuggling, illegal hiring practices, money laundering, narcotics and weapons trafficking, financial crimes, commercial fraud, and violations relating to intellectual property rights.

Yup, this office is so important that the incompetents at the top of ICE can’t even keep anyone in the leadership, there.
Leave it to The ICE Princess and her Prince to make one of the most important border states a revolving door.
The one part of The ICE Princess’ self-flagellating letter I will share is this fiction:

I ask all of you to join me in celebrating our accomplishments and renewing our commitment to our homeland and the progress we have made toward developing ICE into the model law enforcement agency of the 21st Century.

This is the model?! Hilarious. G-d help us.
On that note, here’s a related video of the original Julie L. Myers:
I Want It Now! . . .