Brigitte Gabriel: This Time She’s Gone Too Far

Brigitte Gabriel is an activist, author, fear–monger and racist. I’ve cut her a lot of slack over the years because I read her book about surviving the Lebanese Civil War of 1975 and couldn’t help but feel sorry for her. I find it hard to believe anyone could live through something like that and not bear emotional scars from it. I wrote an open letter to Gabriel in November of 2010 on this blog in response to a letter she had composed to the 112^th Congress that she wanted me to sign. In that letter (among other things) she expressed opposition to closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility and wanted the Military Tribunals to continue there. I said it then and maintain today that Civilian Criminal Courts are the preferred route for trial and sentencing of terrorists. It’s important to remember that men accused of terrorism are criminals, not soldiers. Elevating them to the level of “enemy combatants” and using military tribunals only lends false credibility to their crime by disguising it as “combat” or actual “warfare.” As opposed to the selfish, shameful, cowardly and criminal acts that they really are. Their activity is funded through illegal drug sales. They have mouth-pieces in the United States trying to subvert our laws to impose their own agendas. They are more like the scum-bags who populate Organized Crime Syndicates than the noble heroes of the Military. Anyway, I expressed my humble opinion and left it at that. As it turns out, she’s like a dog with a bone on the Military Tribunal issue. This time however, she has gone too far. I have received no less three letters from her in the last month asking me to sign a petition regarding Purple Hearts for the victims of the Fort Hood Massacre and the Little Rock Recruitment Center shooting. It appears this time she has teamed up with the sexist, Islamaphobic and racist Congressman Allen West of Florida who introduced legislation (H.R. 1142) called the Global Combat Zone Recognition Act. The purpose of this legislation (on the surface) seems to be to provide Purple Hearts to service members injured or killed by MAJ Nadal Hassan and Carlos Leon Bledsoe (a.k.a. Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammed). But if you read H.R.1142 more closely, you see that in order to qualify for the Purple Heart outside the combat zone, people like MAJ Hassan and Mr. Bledsoe would be inadvertently re-defined as “Enemy Combatants” thus removing them from the Criminal Court system (where these despicable embarrassments to the human race belong) and returning them to the realm of Military Tribunals. So essentially what Gabriel and West are doing is: Dangling Purple Hearts in front of mourning families and wounded soldiers in an effort to advance their Military Tribunal agenda. I urge EVERYONE to ignore these two ignorant hate-mongers. DO NOT let them play you.