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A Western team of Christian medical volunteers that provided eye care to poor villagers in remote northeast Afghanistan was lined up, stripped, and shot to death by the Taliban.

Monsters. Evil monsters.

Via the Christian Science Monitor:

The execution-style killings of 10 people working for a Christian medical team in a remote region of northern Afghanistan fit into Taliban insurgents’ stated shift in tactics: Target Western civilians, especially Christians, as “foreign invaders.”

The Taliban took credit for one of the deadliest attacks yet on aid workers in Afghanistan, saying the Christian charity workers were proselytizing to poor villagers – a charge that the International Assistance Mission, which dispatched the team, denies.

The bodies of six Americans, a Briton, a German, and two Afghan interpreters were discovered Friday in a forested part of Badakhshan Province in remote northern Afghanistan – until now considered a relatively peaceful region known mostly to adventure travelers. The only person in the party not killed was a local translator who offered proof he was a Muslim by quoting the Koran, according to the Associated Press.

The attack represents the largest single toll of American civilian deaths in Afghanistan since December, when a suicide bomber killed seven members of a CIA team. It also points to the operational viability of Taliban insurgents’ stated intent to target foreign aid workers as combatants.

Via BBC, the Taliban spokesman crowed: “They were Christian missionaries and we killed them all.”

Via the NYT, more on the murder victims, including the six American doctors:

Tom Little raised three daughters with his wife in Afghanistan, avoided kidnappings during the Russian occupation, hid in his basement for months during the Taliban rule in the 1990s, survived rocket attacks and endured arrests for one reason, friends and family members said: to provide eye care for indigent Afghans.

After four decades in the country he came to call home, Mr. Little, a 61-year-old optometrist originally from upstate New York, was returning from treating people in a remote valley in Nuristan Province when he was among the 10 aid workers ambushed in the woods and killed.

Another was Dr. Karen Woo, a 36-year-old surgeon from Hertfordshire, England, who specialized in women’s health. She had blogged about being a tomboy who loved “sexy dresses and high heels,” as well as her passion to help Afghan people.

And even more on Dr. Little’s mission:

Tom Little never sugar-coated the outreach work he and wife, Libby, did in Afghanistan.

When he spoke to friends from the Capital Region churches who supported the efforts of the NOOR Eye Project, he talked about how his three daughters grew up being able to tell the difference between incoming and outgoing missiles by listening from the basement of their Kabul home.

And he talked about once having the doors of an eye clinic he supervised locked by government officials. He had to creep into the clinic at night to retrieve some of the expensive medical equipment, placing it at a new site so he could continue to provide desperately needed care, just as he had done for more than 30 years.

My column blasts the desperate, Tea Party-bashing demagogues of the NAACP. In new developments, the Sacramento chapter of the NAACP is crusading to turn Michael Jackson’s Neverland into a state park. The St. Louis NAACP official who called SEIU beating victim Kenneth Gladney an “Uncle Tom” reiterated and defended the slur last night on Fox News. And the NAACP and all the other old, usual suspects of the far Left are trying to recreate the Tea Party movement with a top-down coalition called “One Nation.”

Imitation is the best form of flattery…

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The National Association for the Advancement of Coddled People
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010

Before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People decided to ride the anti-tea party wave back to political relevancy, its most recent activist crusade involved a silly space-themed Hallmark graduation card. Yes, the NAACP has been lost in space for quite some time now. And blaming whitey will no longer cut it.

In June, the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP demanded that the greeting card be pulled because it used the term “black holes” (which the bionically equipped ears of the p.c. police insisted sounded like “black whores”). “It sounds like a group of children laughing and joking about blackness,” one NAACP official complained.

It was a group of hipster cartoon characters chattering about the universe and galaxies and wide-open possibilities to new high school and college grads. Alas, this is what has become of the once-inspired drive against racial discrimination.

In just a few short decades, the stalwart strivers for equality have turned into coddled whiners for hypersensitivity. The NAACP is a laughingstock. The group no longer represents the best interests of oppressed minorities, but the thin-skinned whims of the black elite and the ravenous appetite of the Nanny State. Establishment civil rights leaders now use their once-compelling moral authority to hector, bully and shake down corporate and political targets.

As Ward Connerly, the truly maverick opponent of government racial preferences who is black, wrote, “the NAACP is not so much a civil-rights organization as it is a trade association with clear links to the Democratic Party, despite the claim of its chairman that ‘the NAACP has always been non-partisan.’ Such a statement doesn’t pass the giggle test. The NAACP uses the plight of poor black people as a fig leaf to hide its true agenda of promoting policies that benefit their dues-paying members, not black people in general or poor black people in particular.”

To compensate for squandering the proud history of the civil rights organization on innocent greeting cards, NAACP leaders introduced a much-hyped resolution at their annual convention this week attacking the nation’s biggest racial bogeyman: the tea party movement. It’s a tried and true tactic of worn-out grievance-mongers: When you can’t find evil enough enemies to blame for your problems, manufacture them. (Just ask hate crimes huckster Al Sharpton.) This is why one of the most popular signs spotted at tea party protests across the country remains the one that reads: “It doesn’t matter what this sign says.

Tom WHPC

‘Reporter Tom’, WHPC member, describes for Gibbs how he was at a ‘ Tea Party Rally’ last Thursday and heard someone singing a song about a “Communist in the White House”, I am pretty sure it was this one.  He also mentions about all the other “Socialist rhetoric” he heard.  He wants to  know if the president has plans to address the disconnect between the Tea Party, considering the fact Obama claimed the Tea Party should be thanking him.  But as it always seems to be the best way for the White House to handle these matters is to use old campaign style talking points about the tax cuts for 95% of Americans and how Obama saved the economy of America from collapse. Both are lies and America is tired of hearing this. Gibbs then simply goes on to dismiss the actual content of the question.

‘Reporter Tom’ attempts to get a real answer one more time from Gibbs but is shut down as Gibbs goes on and responds to the second question with more progressive strategy and calls Tom Tencredo a lunatic for suggesting Obama should perhaps consider going back home to Kenya. A sentiment shared by many Americans it would seem.

The way Gibbs handles this is classic Cloward and Piven, Saul Alinsky strategy, as described in the books by these three socialist.  It involves demeaning the opposition, beat them down until they no longer appear important or even human.  Make them irrelevant by ignoring them and the real issue, dismissiveness on a grand scale.

I have slightly edited the transcript shown above from that found on the CSPAN page featuring this video.

The whole thing about this is how can Robert Gibbs and the White House be so dismissive of the questions when being asked directly about the Tea Party movement.

Thank you Congressman McClintock!  It’s about time someone in Congress stands up for the United States instead of making excuses.  It’s about time someone in Congress understands the Arizona immigration law and supports legal immigration.  It’s about time someone finally took up to the Mexican government who is trying to tell the United States how to run our government when they can’t even run their own!  We need more people like you in Congress and in California.  THANK YOU!

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