This past weekend, while I had technical difficulties with my blog, mostly occurring between my chair and the keyboard, a brave young American proudly voiced his opinions of the west and the world, embracing the despotic spew of the jihad few.

Oh wait, I'm sorry. He wasn't very brave, if he was he would be on some street corner in NY City or at the least Berkley, CA, with a megaphone and a couple thousand pamphlets ran on the student union copier during off hours. But instead he made a cameo appreance on a video recorded halfway around the world from his own home, adroitly displaying such open mindedness that I am sure Michael Moore was cast into an jealous fit.

I wish I was also wrong about the other part of my description. No not the young part, I don't espouse the theory that foolishness should be the sole property of any particular age demographic. No, I wish I didn't have to call him an American.

In addition to my national pride, which in itself is enough to send the badly bearded youthful proprietor of wisdom crying wee, wee, wee all the way home and without his roast beef, I truly do not want the legal protections of a lawful member of my nation extended to such empathetic ilk. Notice the quote from an AP story below(The complete story linked at the end of this post)

"The CIA said it had conducted a technical review on the videotape and concluded the voice is al-Zawahri's. A CIA spokeswoman said the agency is not authorized to conduct such analysis on U.S. citizens such as Gadahn."

It is insane that Adam Yehiye Gadahn cannot have his citizenship revoked for serving in Al-Qaida. Unfortunately the provisions that would automatically revoke ones citizenship only apply to those serving a foreign nation. Al-Qaida may have state level capabilities and finances, but she doesn't have the technical status so Adam gets to pick his apple and eat it too and all we can to is blog.

The current US law regarding Expatriating Status is as follows (Full info linked below)

(3) entering or serving in the armed forces of a foreign state engaged in hostilities against the U.S. or serving as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer in the armed forces of a foreign state (Sec. 349 (a) (3) INA);"

Now what I have heard from many people who I have talked to is that our hands our bound by this law. I am one who is in favor of following the law, but I also like to think out of the box. How about we try the novel tactic of...... changing the law.

I am shocked that in all the hundreds of pages of legislation passed about terrorism that "taking an oath, affirmation or other formal declaration to a terrorist organization covered under a congressional authorization to use military force" or "entering or serving in terrorist organization engaged in hostilities against the U.S" has not been added to the law.

I hate to sound ominous, but I feel the focus on an so called Iraqi civil war is completely ignoring the one brewing to our southern border. As opposition members stooped the Mexican equivalent to the state of the union by rushing Vicinte Fox and refusing to have order in their legislative hall. The open disregard for the decision of election judges and the willful distraction of government interaction is nothing less than a soft civil war.

Corruption may be a grievance to democracy, but when a close election goes your way it is not in the interest of a free and elected people to destroy their government institutions. The Mexican leftists are attempting to am.p.u.t.ate their right arm and leg because they think it has a splinter, clearly not justifiable actions.

If Al Gore succeeded in overturning Bush's victory in Florida in 2000 I would have been gravely upset and may have even marched in protest. However I think it would have been completely inappropriate for Republican congressmen and Senators to charge him during the State of the Union and prevent him from speaking. This is anarchy and attempted rule by mob. As the French revolution taught us, mob revolt, even if just, does not leave a free people, it only leaves a mob.

Even worse than this being unjustifiable, it appears from the outside to be incorrect as well. With outside observers calling the election well ordered, even those with drastically different political views from the winning candidate. The sad conclusion is that the Mexican leftists are ready to begin a civil war on false pretexts over a lost election. It seems to be the dominate left wing mindset that they have a divine right to power and that any close election they lose is a demonstration of outright tyranny by their opponents. If they follow down this path they will only destroy their own civilization. I can only pray if Mexico falls to such fools that the disease doesn't cross the border.  The positioning of our leftist doesn't give me much hope.