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Representative Peter King wants the New York Times “prosecuted” for revealing that  the Bush White House uses a Brussels-based firm to track terrorist money around the globe. If you haven’t seen King on cable (then you haven’t been watching), he’s a big-haired Milosevic look-alike who shouts like a lawyer with no case. Which – now that I think of it – is what he is.
In 2004, King told Newsday:
“Most of the Muslim community is cooperating with police and local authorities. But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country.”
Really? That’s 1,027 mosques. Is King claiming that there are more than 1000 radical imams preaching holy war inside the United States? Has he told the FBI? Because their best leads take them to the Gang who Couldn’t Jihad Straight in Miami.
King is a product of the same corrupt Long Island cesspool that gave us Al D’Amato, but I’d never say 85 percent of them are corrupt unless I could back it up. And since I don’t swim with the sharks in Long Island, I can’t.
I’m guessing King hasn’t been to 1, 207 mosques in America, and has no hard intelligence otherwise to prove his assertions. Speculation is, of course, best left to fiction, and fortunately for King he writes novels. His latest, Vale of Tears, is about Muslim extremists attacking the United States with the help of some IRA dead enders. The book didn’t make the NYT bestsellers list. Nor was it reviewed by the Times. It was, however, reviewed on Amazon. Here’s my favorite:
“I was astonished and utterly disgusted, abhorred, appalled, displeased, grossed out, and nauseated…outraged, repelled, repulsed…and totally turned off by this book. …Peter King should be ashamed (he) epitomizes those who have no honor and dignity and would sink as low as possible to attain publicity. I can only begin to imagine how much hate and racism is kindling in his heart. His views and attempts to create a division amongst American citizen's is vile and very dangerous…”
Perhaps as Chair of the Fatherland Security Committee, King feels it’s his responsibility to inform us that extremism (racism, authoritarianism, McCarthyism) in the pursuit of liberty (votes) is no vice – so long as you’re a Republican in good standing.
Long and short – the Bush Administration has repeatedly lied about the legality, scope, and focus of its domestic intelligence operations. All that stands between us and unbridled Total Information Awareness are the professionals in government who know right from wrong, and the media outlets with the stones to publish it.
~Jack McEnany
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